Najib maintains it's a donation

He sure can attract donations and gifts!

Najib maintains the US$681 million (that's a whopping RM2.6 billion) is a donation from some mysterious Saudi royalty. He also maintains that the over RM100 million in cash found in his home and all the luxury items including handbags and jewellery were gifts from heads of governments and royalty abroad. Right.

You don't have to be an auditor to debunk all of these silly claims.

Firstly, all banking transactions have a digital trail. The US Department of Justice has determined that the US$681 million is not a donation but from IMDB. How difficult would it be for the Malaysian authorities, with the help of Bank Negara, to trace where that money came from and prove it in court?

As for the more than RM100 million in cash found in his apartment, which is supposedly donations certain quarters made to UMNO for election purposes, all the authorities have to do is ask him to provide the list of donors. Who actually gave the money? The authorities will need their names to interview them and find out if it's true they actually gave all that money in cash.

Surely they didn't just dump wads of cash into a bag and say, "We don't know how much we've actually dumped in there but it's all for UMNO to use for election purposes".

Even if it were true that the cash donations were from corporations and individuals sympathetic to UMNO, surely they would know exactly how much they donated. So let Najib prepare a long list of names so that the authorities can verify it.

As for the luxury items, again, let him make a list of exactly which head of government and which royalty from abroad gave which items. Surely there would be a record somewhere of who gave what. Let him produce that list if that's what he claims it to be. I don't know whose a worse liar, Donald Trump or Najib Razak, but I can't wait for the court case to begin.