Forum- Malaysia: Where Do We Go From Here, Kuala Lumpur 06/08/2015 <br /> <br />Prominent lawyer Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan has added to the chorus of voices who are saying that Umno could have broken anti-graft laws when it called the RM2.6 billion in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal accounts a donation. <br /> <br />Ambiga, who is former chairman of the Bar Council, said that under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act (MACC) 2009, the definition of gratification in Section 50 of the act included donations. <br /> <br />The section stated that any form of gratification was presumed to have been corruptly received, unless proven otherwise, she said. <br /> <br />This meant that the burden was on the receiver of the money to disprove any element of corruption. <br /> <br />“They have made it worse for themselves when they used the term donation. This is a real red flag,” Ambiga told the audience at a forum titled “Malaysia: Where do we go from here?” in Kuala Lumpur last night. <br /> <br />The MACC has declared that RM2.6 billion which had been funnelled into Najib’s accounts was a donation and not money from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
