Troubling Questions Over Muhyiddin S Graft Charges



Muhyiddin was hauled to court merely days after PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang warned the Prime Minister that the latter’s brittle coalition could fall at any time.
Lim Soo Kiang
We have done it again. After Najib Razak, another Malaysian ex-PM has been hauled to court for corruption charges. This morning, Muhyiddin Yassin was charged in High Court for corruption
But unlike Najib who is tainted by the 1MDB scandal that has gained global notoriety, there are troubling questions over the charges framed against Muhyiddin
First, let’s look at the charges. Muhyiddin was accused of receiving illegal fundings. They could be over the Jana Wibawa programme when he was the PM. The ex-PM had said that the approval of the projects was never under his purview but that of the Ministry of Finance
Another charge is over his government’s decision to grant tax exemption to a charitable foundation run by a tycoon. Again, Muhyiddin had said that the approval was made at the MOF, not him
These logic-defying decisions bring to mind the second, and more troubling question: Is Muhyiddin a victim of selective prosecution? Supporters of the Bersatu president think so and it’s not hard to see why. Muhyiddin was hauled to court merely days after PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang warned the Prime Minister that the latter’s brittle coalition could fall at any time
The Marang MP’s warning is not without basis. Perikatan Nasional has 74 seats in the Dewan Rakyat to 82 from Pakatan Harapan. The Anwar Ibrahim’s administration is only held together with the backing from BN (30 MPs), GPS (23), GRS (six) and a few other smaller parties
Many of the parties in the Federal ruling coalition have been at loggerheads for decades, such as between left-leaning Chinese-dominated DAP and right-wing Malay nationalist Umno. It would not be a stretch to say that the alliance is only glued by myopic self-preservation
On the ground, voters are already put off with the political acrobatics that have become more and more outrageous by the day. For example, Umno voters are stumped that the party’s leaders are now thick as thieves with DAP top guns who were villified before this. The reverse is also true
The voters are no longer ingesting the drivel by the PH-BN apologists to justify propping up this alliance of strange bedfellows. Many are seething with anger, and their stomachs are churning with disgust over such shameless and callous political expediency
On top of that, Anwar’s performance in his first 100 days is at best, dismal. Appointing corruption-tainted Zahid Hamidi as DPM and the short-lived appointment of his daughter as an economic adviser are among the decisions that have tarnished the PM’s so-called reformist credentials
This is why the PH-BN alliance is at risk of a brutal rout when elections are held in six states, expected from June this year
Hence, it is not hard to see why many buy the narrative about Anwar wanting to stem the tide of PN’s rise ahead of the state polls. An embarrassing defeat for PH-BN can herald the breakup of the alliance as component parties jettison their political liabilities and seek new re-alignments to secure their future
Then, Anwar will not only go down in history as the longest PM-in-waiting but possibly PM with the shortest tenure
The argument about Anwar wanting to clip the wings of PN is corroborated by how his administration, even from the start of PMX’s tenure, threw shade at PN about alleged corruption during Muhyiddin’s time. Initially, the allegation about lapses in government funds was to the tune of RM600 billion, before shrinking to RM530 bil, then to RM92.5 bil and finally to RM300 million which allegedly went into Bersatu’s accounts. Why couldn’t the PH-BN government get its figures straight
Before Muhyiddin, Bersatu’s information chief who is also Bukit Gelugor MP Wan Saiful Wan Jan was charged with corruption. Subsequently, its treasurer Mohd Salleh Bajuri was detained by the MACC. The optics reek of political intimidation
On top of that, Bersatu’s accounts were frozen – an act that could derail its preparations for the state elections, which are possibly only weeks away
The prosecution against Muhyiddin reminds one of the MACC’s investigations into Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali who setenced Najib to 12 years in prison and a fine of RM210 million fine for corruption and abuse of power
The Federal Court has found the MACC probe against Nazlan to be improper. The subtext of the investigations is to smear the judge. Is the same MO being applied in Muhyiddin and Bersatu’s case
For someone who had for decades cried foul about selective prosecution, the voters hope Anwar is not resorting to the same, despite the jarring optics to the contrary. If it were, the voters in the six states would waste no time teaching the PH-BN a harsher lesson than it otherwise would have


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