Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad says the freezing of accounts belonging to former premier Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his family had nothing to do with revenge.
He said the same thing had happened to him previously but he did not complain.
Dr Mahathir was responding to allegations by Najib’s daughter Nooryana Najwa that the government was vindictive and wanted to “eliminate our entire family”.
The prime minister firmly stated that there’s no need for the Pakatan Harapan government to behave in a vindictive manner.
“What’s the reason for us to behave vindictively? We never complained before. All my friends were not allowed to be my friends. Some of them had their bank accounts frozen too. We never complained,” he said in a news conference here.
He said her words were mere accusations and that if Nooryana felt she is in the right, she could take it up to a court of law.
Nooryana had also claimed that her personal bank account was frozen after she posted bail for her father.
On Thursday, Najib’s son Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin Najib also hit out at the Pakatan Harapan government, saying that that new administration was not any different from that during Dr Mahathir’s previous tenure as prime minister.
He also described the charges against his father as an example of “selective prosecution” and that it all reeked of “vengeance”.