KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Najib Razak took a swipe at DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang following the sudden death of a Penang property developer who was scheduled to testify against Lim Guan Eng.
Najib said that prior to the 2018 general election, Kit Siang had written and given hundreds of statements and speeches linking the former prime minister to the deaths of Mongolian Altantunya Shaariibuu, Teoh Beng Hock, banker Hussain Ahmad Najadi, and deputy public prosecutor Kevin Morais.
“Do I now need to link his son (Guan Eng) to the sudden death of a key witness in his corruption case and ask him to explain in writing or give hundreds of statements, talks, and speeches?” said Najib in a Facebook post today.
“Although police and the court have many times proven that I was not involved at the time, there were those who believed that I tried to cover up those cases as prime minister.
“Because of him (Kit Siang) and the efforts of his propaganda machinery over the years, many have been deceived and I have been slandered over 10 years as a murderer.”
Najib added that he lodged a police report after the election, seeing that Kit Siang “seemed to have information” that he was a murderer.
“After I posted about the report, Kit Siang said he never accused me of being a murderer but just wanted to ask if I was involved (in those cases).”
The recent death of Datuk Ewe Swee Kheng has courted speculation after a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission source confirmed that Ewe offered to be a prosecution witness.
“He was not the main witness. He was the 15th out of 120 prosecution witnesses.
“He offered himself from the beginning, because he refused to be associated with the controversial case.”
Yesterday, Penang police classified his case as sudden death.
State deputy police chief Datuk Fisol Salleh said initial investigations found that the man was in good health and there were no indications of mental illness.
“Preliminary investigations found that the victim was in good health, and the autopsy report found that the cause of death was serious injuries suffered from falling from a tall building.
“Police have classified this case as sudden death.”
Ewe was expected to testify on November 29 and 30 at the Kuala Lumpur sessions court as a prosecution witness in Guan Eng’s graft trial.
On Tuesday, Ewe was found dead at 2am on the ground floor of his Palazzo condominium in Pulau Tikus, Penang. – The Vibes, October 7, 2021
