The sons of Malaysia’s second Prime Minister, Abdul Razak Hussein, and brothers of current PM Najib Razak, have put out a statement insisting that their father was a highly-principled and frugal man, who could not have bestowed a large inhenritance to his children.
PM Najib’s younger brothers, Johari Razak, Nizam Razak, Nazim Razak and Nazir Razak, stated they were “extremely concerned” about reports implying that their father had vast amounts of wealth, and bequeathed a fortune to his children.
“We wish to put on record that Tun Abdul Razak was a highly principled man, well known to all who knew him for his frugality and utmost integrity and any statement or inference to the contrary would be totally false and misleading to his memory and to his service and sacrifices for the nation. We take issue with anyone who taints his memory, whatever the motive,” the four said in the statement, as quoted by The Malay Mail Online.
“We would also like to add that our whole family is united on this issue.”
The statement was released following the publication of an exposé on American luxury real estate corruption in the New York Times, which alleges that PM Najib defended his vast personal wealth by claiming it was inherited.
Najib is the oldest of Abdul Razak’s children.
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