{"id":13309,"date":"2015-07-31T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T05:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2015-07-31T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T05:20:01","slug":"dap-gani-must-confirm-or-deny-charge-sheet-against-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/dap-gani-must-confirm-or-deny-charge-sheet-against-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP: Gani must confirm or deny charge sheet against PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 31: DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang today urged former Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail to affirm or deny the veracity of the charge sheet against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"ROCKET-1\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ROCKET-1.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet Gani appear in the public to explain whether there is any basis in the <i>Sarawak Report<\/i> exclusive about the purported charge sheet against the Prime Minister for corruption as Gani is still in the legal and judicial service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalaysians have a right to see and hear from the previous Attorney-General Gani whether he was in the final drafting stage to charge the Prime Minister for corruption and he was suddenly and summarily sacked as Attorney-General,\u201d the Gelang Patah MP said.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to an exclusive report by whistleblower website <i>Sarawak Report<\/i> yesterday, which released a draft of a charge sheet purportedly drawn up by Gani against Najib and former managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Nik Othman Kamil.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sarawak Report<\/i> alleged that the charge sheet in its final draft stages was the reason behind Gani\u2019s unceremonious sacking on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The site said that Gani was abruptly replaced by former Federal Court Judge Mohamed Apandi Ali as Gani was \u201con the brink\u201d of filing corruption charges against the PM.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet also stated that Najib was charged under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act as well as an alternate charge under Section 409 of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The first charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>However, the allegation was then denied by both Apandi and Attorney-General\u2019s Chambers head of prosecution division Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah, who said that the draft was \u201cfalse\u201d and it was an \u201cindication of an international plot to topple a serving Prime Minister by criminalising him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 31: DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang today urged former Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail to affirm or deny the veracity of the charge sheet against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. \u201cLet Gani appear in the public to explain whether there is any basis in the Sarawak Report exclusive about the purported charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309","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=13309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13310,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions\/13310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}