PETALING JAYA: The accusation by Sarawak Report that RM2mil of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) funds were deposited into an account of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor is “serious, malicious, baseless and unsubstantiated”.
Denying the accusation via a statement from her lawyer, Rosmah said the account under Affin Bank Bhd was in fact a personal account opened in 1984 while she was still employed at Island & Peninsular Sdn Bhd.
It was a matter of convenience as her workplace was also in the same building as Perwira Habib Bank Bhd (now Affin Bank), said the statement by Noorhajran Mohd Noor Advocates and Solicitors.
“My client has not committed any criminal offence or misappropriation of funds and strongly denies any link to the funds being from 1MDB.
“The report is deemed to be indecent, menacing, false and intended to annoy or harass my client,” it said.
A special task force on the trail of 1MDB funds said it was looking into the Prime Minister’s wife’s account as one aspect of its probe.
It said the account had been highlighted in the media, which alleged that various sums totalling RM2mil was banked into an account with Affin Bank bearing her name between Feb 10 and April 23 this year by a man identified as Roslan Sohari.
The statement also called on Bank Negara to carry out a probe immediately into the leaked documents as it contravened the Financial Services Act 2013, which provided for the protection of information and secrecy of a customer.
“It is hoped that Bank Negara immediately and/or within 72 hours conduct a probe and issue its findings into the offensive unauthorised disclosure on the part of the said bank.
“It is my client’s view that the failure to immediately conduct the said probe will erode the trust of investors and consumer,” it said, urging the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to take action over the content carried by Sarawak Report, which was intended to “discredit and defame” Rosmah as the wife of the Prime Minister.
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On Friday, several social media users posted pictures of their online and cash deposit machine transactions online, noting that the name on the bank account number published by the Sarawak Report belonged to "Rosmah binte Mansor."
Twitter user @kuangkeng said that he had deposited RM1, the minimum amount needed to make a transfer, into the "Rosmah" account and shared a picture of the transaction.
"I just transferred RM1 to confirm the Affin bank account exposed by @sarawak_report belongs to a Rosmah Binte Mansor," he tweeted.
Haziq Asyraf Jr, posting through his Twitter handle @Haziq_Escobar also made a similar transaction, and posted the photo.
"DO YOU KNOW: Testing a RM1 money transfer into Mother Rosmah Mansor's account), he tweeted in Malay.
While many social media users were amused, others lamented that the account was "raking it in" with the number of Malaysians transferring RM1 to her account, reported the Malaysian Insider.
Twitter user Bash Rahman posted: "Account could have an additional RM1 million by the end of the day after all the RM1.00 deposits. - Eric"
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