KUANTAN: Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek (pic) believes there is a motive behind the news report that alleged millions of US dollars have been channelled into the personal bank accounts of the Prime Minister.
"How is it reasonable for someone to take public funds using an account under his own name? The money involved is not even millions of Ringgit but billions.
"This would have been easily traced by the banks. I am worried there is a motive behind all this to destroy our country's economy," the Umno supreme council member said here Saturday.
Ahmad Shabery who is also Communication and Multimedia Minister said the report had come out a day after Fitch Ratings revised Malaysia's credit outlook from negative to stable.
He added that the Cabinet would decide whether to take legal action against the news report.
In its report on Friday, the Wall Street Journal noted from its investigations and documents it sighted that US$700mil (RM2.7bil) was transferred into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's personal bank accounts prior to the 13th general election in 2013.
1MDB and the Prime Minister's Office had denied the allegations, with Najib saying that it was a campaign of political sabotage to topple him.
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