“Since Yunus has said he will send a report to the disciplinary board regarding the claim, we will wait for his report. The report will then go through due process by the disciplinary board,” he told FMT.

Police reports have been lodged by Yunus as well as his former aide, Beh Yong Kean, a member of the Parit Buntar PKR committee.

“Since Beh has lodged a police report, let the police investigate the matter from Beh’s side,” Saifuddin added.

Yunus had denied Beh’s allegation that he had tried to solicit a commission from two companies involved in a bid for state land and that he had revealed secret state executive council meeting documents.

He said the allegation was an attempt to destroy his political career, topple him as an executive councillor and sabotage the Perak menteri besar’s leadership, especially in view of the impending annual swearing-in ceremony for Perak executive councillors.

Perak PKR chief Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak told FMT that party members should not mix party matters with their state government responsibilities.

He said differences in political opinion should not be a defence against accusations of corruption.

“Yunus should respect the legal process and allow the relevant bodies to carry out investigations,” said Farhash, who is also PKR president Anwar Ibrahim’s political secretary.

“He should respond to the allegation instead of claiming a conspiracy,” Farhash had told Malaysiakini earlier.

Yunus, who is chairman of the public facility, infrastructure, agriculture and farming committee, said he will bring the matter up to PKR’s disciplinary board.

He has accused Beh of trying to exact revenge for not approving a land application made a year ago and alleged that Beh had ties with an illegal factory facing action by the authorities.

He believed Beh was being used to tarnish his image. The allegations had surfaced as he was backing the party’s deputy president, Mohamed Azmin Ali, in the party elections, he said.