STATEMENT ON THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS SECRETARY
Today, for the first time, the Wall Street Journal has been forced to admit that at least
some of the funds donated to the Prime Minister came from Saudi Arabia.
For nearly a year, the WSJ denied that the funds came from Saudi Arabia, and attacked
all those who suggested otherwise.
This included the Attorney General who, after reviewing the exhaustive investigations
and examining all the evidence – including wire transfers and interviews with the Royal
Family – confirmed that the funds were a donation from the Royal Family of Saudi
Arabia.
Neither the confirmation from lawful Malaysian authorities, nor the Foreign Minister of
Saudi Arabia, nor reputable outlets such as the BBC and Daily Telegraph, was enough to
make the WSJ stop their attacks or denials that any of the funds had come from Saudi
Arabia.
This exposed the bias in the WSJ's reporting, and made clear that their coverage was not
driven by an impartial desire to cover the facts. Instead, their reporting was based on
false information they were willingly fed by Tun Mahathir's Anti-Najib Campaign.
Maybe it's their embarrassment that stops them accepting the facts in full. Namely, as
the Prime Minister has always maintained, the funds were a donation from Saudi Arabia
– as the evidence shows.
However, today is a small step towards the WSJ admitting that they have been wrong all along - and that they were wrong to base their reporting on unnamed and anonymous sources who have never been revealed and may not even exist.
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DATUK SERI TENGKU SARIFFUDDIN
PRESS SECRETARY TO THE PRIME MINISTER
31 MARCH 2016
