It seems Tony Pua will have company on the ground after finding out yesterday he’s been barred from leaving Malaysia.
Apart from Pua, two more opposition politicians and four civil rights activists have turned out to also be part of the Immigration Department’s list of Malaysians who are barred from leaving the country.
PKR MPs Rafizi Ramli and Tian Chua, and activists Ambiga Sreenevasan, Maria Chin Abdullah, Hishamuddin Rais and Adam Adli Abdul Halim are now required to refer to the nearest Immigration office should the want to go abroad.
The six of them discovered this after running their MyKad numbers through the Immigration Department’s official website, The Malaysian Insider‘s KC Nazari reports.
Yesterday, Pua was barred from boarding a plane to Indonesia in KLIA2, likely due to allegations levelled against him in connection to the ongoing scandal surrounding sovereign development fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Former Sarawak Tribune editor Lester Melanyi claimed in a video confession last week that Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle Brown had colluded with opposition leaders Anwar Ibrahim, Rafizi Ramli, and Pua to doctor and forge incriminating 1MDB documents with the aim of undermining Prime Minister Najib Razak.
On the flipside of this situation, The Star reported that Nik Faisal Kamal Ariff, managing director of SRC International Sdn Bhd and former 1MDB chief investment officer, has also been barred from leaving the country.
Nik Faisal was implicated in the allegation that USD700 million (RM2.6 billion) of 1MDB funds were transferred into Najib’s personal bank accounts in 2013.
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