KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday denied abusing his power as a civil servant regarding two government guarantees (GGs) given by the Cabinet to SRC International Sdn Bhd on Aug 17, 2011 and Feb 8, 2012. Before this, he added that he would declare his interests in cabinet meetings as the need to by with the Code of Ethics. “I would declare my interests and would excuse myself from any decision of the Cabinet,” he said. “I am only a minister supervising SRC, under Minister of Finance Inc that is owned by the Malaysian government. “Minister of Finance Inc as a whole owns hundreds of companies and when cabinet meetings come, normally it would not be recorded in the cabinet’s history that the finance minister or the second finance minister has to [be] neutral and leave the meetings.

Source: The Edge Markets December 10, 2019 02:26 UTC