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Published: Saturday November 14, 2009 MYT 5:16:00 PM
Updated: Saturday November 14, 2009 MYT 9:12:07 PM

Azmin hits back, claiming he never owned RM8.5mil in shares

By SIRA HABIBU

PETALING JAYA: PKR vice president Azmin Ali has categorically denied owning shares amounting to RM8.5mil in the early 1990s.

Dismissing as baseless the allegations made by former MIC youth chief S. A. Vigneswaran, Azmin said he had declared all his assets to the authorities.

“This is a politically motivated attack aimed at tarnishing my reputation as the Gombak MP and the PKR VP,’’ he said, threatening to take legal action against the person who had made the statements and the media that had carried the statements.

Azmin said this in response to Vigneswaran’s allegations.

“I have not seen the documents, but I believe the documents were manipulated by certain quarters to implicate my wife and I,’’ said Azmin.

Azmin said he did not find it surprising because, since 1998, he and his family had been target of slander aimed at embarrassing them.

“The police, Anti Corruption Agency (now known as Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission) and the Inland Revenue Board had been chasing me to facilitate investigation into my asset acquisitions.

“I have given my fullest co-operation to the authorities, including furnishing them a full list of all our assets,’’ he said.

Azmin claimed that the latest episode showed that Barisan Nasional would continue to launch malicious and libelous attacks against him to deny him and his family peace of mind.

“I view this repulsive and see it as orchestrated to smear my reputation and my wife’s reputation,’’ he said.