“He called me… he said he knows about my family and complained that my father was creating trouble outside,” she was quoted as saying yesterday.
Lim, state assembly member for Sungai Pinang, made the remarks in a video interview with the China Press newspaper in Penang, according to Malaysiakini.
The phone call was the subject of a video clip made public on Saturday morning implicating her in a purported bribes-for-housing controversy centred on her father, who has been remanded for investigations into whether money was paid by housing applicants to secure a unit.
“It’s obvious this is a conspiracy to get at me. If you really want justice for those people (who were cheated), bring them to the police station and make a report,” she was quoted as saying.
The report said that Siew Khim indicated she had not taken the allegations against her father seriously as they came from a member of a rival party.
Last Sunday, a video clip purported to show negotiations between her father and housing applicants demanding that their money be returned. She had then denied knowledge of her father’s activities.
However, in the media interview yesterday, Siew Khim was reported to have admitted that her adopted brother Ong Hock Hin, who is a cousin, was at the negotiations and knew about her father’s “trouble-making.”
Her father, Lim Keat Seong, has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and remanded for a week. The MACC also took a statement from Siew Khim as a witness.
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