NGO releases a sworn statutory declaration detailing wrongdoing with Prime Minister Najib Razak’s private bank account.
KUALA LUMPUR: Citizens for Accountable Governance Malaysia (CAGM), an NGO, has released a sworn statutory declaration (SD) by email and on its website detailing the operation of a private account at AmBank, purportedly owned and operated by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, and implicating him on alleged wrongdoing including breach of Bank Negara procedures.
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The name of the person who signed the SD, beginning with Mo, was blanked out in the document, the IC number given only as 650908, with no indication of the state and last four digits, and the address given as beginning with No. 47 in the Kuala Lumpur postal district 58000. “I was terminated abruptly on 3 May 2013,” said the person. “My termination is directly linked to my handling of a private account owned and operated by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Hj. Abdul Razak.”
He disclosed that he was asked to go to the meeting room of the bank on Level 46 on 2 May 2013 and was surprised to see AmBank Chairman Azman Hashim present. He was scolded for not following instructions and poking his nose into a very high profile account transfer, and for making unauthorized photocopy of the remittance slips. “The same evening after the meeting, I was given a body search and asked to leave the office premises. I could not take back anything from the office,” he said. “I was asked to come to the HR division the next morning, where I was given the termination latter with immediate effect and without a chance to defend myself.”
He added that at that time, in laying out the immediate circumstances behind his termination, that he was serving as a executive at the premier banking division of the bank in the headquarters at Menara AmBank, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, having been with the bank for 14 years and 9 months.
Briefly, it appears that he was terminated on May 3 because of what transpired a day earlier when he insisted that he had to notify Bank Negara, as per procedures, on incoming remittance being above the threshold level. “My superior, who was on the phone with AmBank Chairman Azman Hashim, slammed the phone and told me to follow instructions because this is a high-profile, VVIP transfer,” he said. “On May 2, my superior Datuk . . . asked me to clear an incoming remittance from UBS Bank Singapore with an amount of $7 million Singapore dollars (SGD).”
“There were three transactions that day. A week earlier $14 million SGD was remitted into Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib’s private account bearing the number …..28.”
He disclosed that his superior yelled at him and claimed that Bank Negara had already given the green light for the transfers and “I just had to follow instructions”.
“The incoming funds from Singapore were to be converted to ringgit and then following the standing instructions, I had to credit them into several current accounts,” he said. “I made a photocopy of the transaction slips at the copier machine and my superior found out about this by checking the copier machine job report with our department’s IT technician. I suspect that they were monitoring my movements via CCTV.”