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.

“Let Gani appear in the public to explain whether there is any basis in the Sarawak Report exclusive about the purported charge sheet against the Prime Minister for corruption as Gani is still in the legal and judicial service.

“Malaysians 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,” the Gelang Patah MP said.

He was responding to an exclusive report by whistleblower website Sarawak Report 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.

Sarawak Report alleged that the charge sheet in its final draft stages was the reason behind Gani’s unceremonious sacking on Monday.

The site said that Gani was abruptly replaced by former Federal Court Judge Mohamed Apandi Ali as Gani was “on the brink” of filing corruption charges against the PM.

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.

The first charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

However, the allegation was then denied by both Apandi and Attorney-General’s Chambers head of prosecution division Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah, who said that the draft was “false” and it was an “indication of an international plot to topple a serving Prime Minister by criminalising him”.

– The Rocket