Unfair, says Najib of asset declaration as MPs have other sources of income

Unfair, says Najib of asset declaration as MPs have other sources of income

The former prime minister says some MPs earn a salary from other work and it is unfair to lump it all in their MP income declaration account.

Najib Razak.
KUALA LUMPUR:
Former prime minister Najib Razak is against the government move to ask MPs to declare their assets.

The Pekan MP said MPs had other sources of income, noting that some were lawyers or architects and earned salaries from other work.

“If they deposit money from other sources of income into one account to declare assets, that is unfair because they are declaring as an MP,” he said at the Parliament lobby.

The Dewan Rakyat on July 1 approved a special motion to make it mandatory for all MPs to declare their assets.

Tabled under Standing Order 27 (3), it requires MPs to declare their assets to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission within three months. The declarations will then be published on MACC’s website.

De facto law minister Liew Vui Keong had said MPs who made false declarations could be charged under Section 199 of the Penal Code, which allows for offenders to be handed a maximum jail term of three years and a fine upon conviction.

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