President of Persatuan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa), Datuk Ibrahim Ali, said that UK police had probed his organization prior to the Malay-Muslim group’s launch of its London chapter.
Ibrahim said that the police probe was instigated by a reader comment on the Malaysiakini news portal, that alleged Perkasa was using the Malaysian government’s money to fund its efforts to establish Perkasa in the UK.
The Malaysian Insider‘s Hasbullah Awang Chik reported that Ibrahim said UK police had turned up to record statements from Perkasa Wiranita’s chief and the UK chapter’s chief sponsor, one day before the official launch of Perkasa UK’s London office.
“One day before we held our event in London, the British police came to see our chief sponsor and Perkasa Wiranita chief to record their statements, maybe because they read a report on the Internet alleging that Perkasa is an extremist gang.
“All the Bumiputera in London know we paid for these ourselves, we took economic class. The tickets were cheap. Everyone paid for themselves,” Ibrahim said during a press conference in Perkasa’s headquarters in KL yesterday.
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