Muhyiddin should return 15 years of salary to govt – Kit Siang

DAP stalwart has threw a challenged to Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, the deputy prime minister to return all his salaries and any other income since beginning his tenure as a minister. This came in the wake of reports where Muhyiddin declared that Muslims in the country would not want to be associated with money derived from gaming companies. Lim said that Muhyiddin should return the money because part of the revenue enjoyed by the government were from taxation through gaming companies. Muhyiddin was commenting on the recent allegations made by Umno Youth that the Penang state government had used money from a gaming company in their efforts to eradicate poverty in the state.

Lim said “In line with Muhyiddin’s declaration that Muslims do not want to be associated with money from ‘a forbidden source’, the deputy prime minister should set an example and declare that he will not only return his salary and allowances to Treasury, but will return all his salaries and allowances as Federal Minister for the past 15 years since 1995. Muhyiddin’s past Cabinet portfolios were Minister of Youth and Sports (1995 1999), Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (1999–2004), Minister of Agriculture (2004–2008) and Minister of International Trade and Industry (2008 2009) before becoming deputy prime minister and education minister in April 2009. In June, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had told Parliament that all government taxation and revenue was credited into a consolidated fund.

At this time, revenue from gambling activities are categorised as government revenue. Based on Article 97 of the Federal Constitution and Financial Procedure Act 1957 (revised in 1972) all taxation or revenue received by the federal government will be credited into the Consolidated Fund. “The Consolidated Fund comprises three main accounts, the Consolidated Account, the Consolidated Trust Account and the Consolidated Loans Account. All revenue from payment of taxes are put into the Consolidated Account like all other government revenue and is used for purposes of management spending and national development,”

He added that “As Muhyiddin said that Muslims do not want to be associated with money from ‘a forbidden source’, and part of the expenditure for national management and development including paying the salaries and allowances of Cabinet Ministers is sourced from gambling revenue, the Deputy Prime Minister must be consistent and return all his salaries and allowances as Cabinet Minister going back to 15 years to the Treasury. The deputy finance minister Senator Awang Adek had also disclosed in Parliament that the government had collected RM2.3 billion in gambling tax last year. It is most unfortunate that instead of advising Penang Umno not to resort to irresponsible politicking, as falsely accusing the Penang government of using gambling money to pay RM100 annually to senior citizens in the state aged above 60 years, Muhyiddin acted in a most irresponsible manner in aiding and abetting Penang Umno’s ‘political desperado’ tactics,”


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Every pieces of the past projects in BolehLand was tinted with haram monies. All the past projects, whether it is highrise to low raise buildings, hospitals, factories, warehouse, air ports, sea ports, ships, submarines, commercial planes, jet fighters, tanks, weapons,trains, LRT, MRT, cars & lorries, bridges, structures, farms, plantations, dams, government loans-business and study loans, commissions & corruptions monies .... etc shall be surrender to the non muslim. From today onwards, the Federal Government will separate 'haram' & 'non haram' monies.

Starting from tomorrow, all Umno malays must start to return all your monies and to return all the above assets back to the government.

Any Umno malays who are now holding non muslim foreign currencies also must return it back to the origin countries.