{"id":13196,"date":"2015-07-07T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2015-07-07T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:43:43","slug":"13196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/13196\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadi defending Najib is &#8220;the joke of the year&#8221;, says MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent statements\u00a0by PAS president, Abdul Hadi Awang, have raised doubts as to whether Hadi intends to protect the recent scandal-wrought Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10664\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/charles-santiago-mp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10664\" class=\"wp-image-10664 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/charles-santiago-mp.jpg\" alt=\"charles santiago mp\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hadi defending Najib is &#8220;the joke of the year&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hadi\u2019s recent call on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to provide four witnesses in order to provide substantiation to the embezzlement claim made against Najib, has been described as the \u201cjoke of the year\u201d by\u00a0Klang MP\u00a0Charles Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we convince him that the Islamic Law has got no jurisdiction in this matter? What would it take for Hadi to finally realise that the newspaper is not bound by the Syariah Law?\u201d asked Charles.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a report on the international newspaper that alleged some RM700 million of funds were transferred from 1Malaysia Development Berhad to Najib&#8217;s personal accounts. The WSJ cited documents which had been seen by local investigators probing the issue, and this was\u00a0later confirmed by Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo instead of defying logic, Hadi should have instead asked the Bank Negara Governor, Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, to explain if such a transaction happened as it would certainly not have missed the central bank&#8217;s radar,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Hadi really interested in preserving the fairness and equity of law or is he trying to insulate Najib at a time when the country is grappling with one of its worst financial scandals involving a political figurehead?\u201d added Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Charles also advised Hadi to request Gani to expose any incriminating documents and freeze the bank accounts of Najib during the process of investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Rocket<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent statements\u00a0by PAS president, Abdul Hadi Awang, have raised doubts as to whether Hadi intends to protect the recent scandal-wrought Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. Hadi\u2019s recent call on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to provide four witnesses in order to provide substantiation to the embezzlement claim made against Najib, has been described as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13199,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions\/13199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}