Anwar sudah diam kerana tak berani bersumpah dan ditalanya budak jambu air nya Rafizi Ramle untuk bercakap bagi pihaknya. Memang bangang lah Rafizi, jawapan kepada ayat-ayat ini semua ada dalam posting pagi tadi dari facebook Tun Dr Mahathir.
PKR today pointed to government records which show that Malaysia had indeed taken loans from the World Bank in 1999 to weather the impact of the financial crisis.
Referring to the appendixes of the 2010 Budget, PKR chief of strategy Rafizi Ramli said that this clearly shows former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had lied and is continuing to lie by denying his government had ever obtained loans from the World Bank.
"He can question the veracity of the World Bank documents (we produced) and I have written to the World Bank to verify the authenticity of the documents uploaded on its website.
“But (Mahathir) cannot deny official financial documents produced by the Malaysian government," he said.
According to the 2010 Budget presented by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak on Oct 23, 2009 in Parliament, the government had obtained a social sector loan from the global institution in 1999.
"The interest rate noted is 7.4 percent in 2008 and as of Dec 31, 2008, Malaysia still owes RM701,040.14 of the RM60 million borrowed in 1999," he said.
'Just apologise for the big lie’
Rafizi was answering Mahathir, who yesterday insisted that no such loans were made and that it would have been ridiculous for him to authorise such a thing after railing against the global body.
The former PM had in the past decade painted his then deputy and finance minister Anwar Ibrahim as being a “foreign agent” for supporting a bailout package drawn by the International Monetary Fund.
Mahathir had taken over as finance minister upon Anwar's sacking and imprisonment in 1998, resulting in a 12-year public spat between the two.
Anwar had last week revealed that Mahathir’s government had in fact obtained several loans from the World Bank despite saying that this “enslaved” Malaysia to foreign funders.
The former PM yesterday also questioned why PKR is raising the issue now, alluding that the party was merely trying to score political points ahead of the general election.
“Things are different today compared to in 1999. Now, all official documents are publicly available on the internet... you can easily corroborate (facts). He lied, we checked and found these documents,” Rafizi (above) said.
Rafizi added that instead of prolonging the political ping pong, the octogenarian should “accept the fact that he is wrong and apologise” for the “big lie” that he told the people of Malaysia.
PKR today pointed to government records which show that Malaysia had indeed taken loans from the World Bank in 1999 to weather the impact of the financial crisis.
Referring to the appendixes of the 2010 Budget, PKR chief of strategy Rafizi Ramli said that this clearly shows former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had lied and is continuing to lie by denying his government had ever obtained loans from the World Bank.
"He can question the veracity of the World Bank documents (we produced) and I have written to the World Bank to verify the authenticity of the documents uploaded on its website.
“But (Mahathir) cannot deny official financial documents produced by the Malaysian government," he said.
According to the 2010 Budget presented by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak on Oct 23, 2009 in Parliament, the government had obtained a social sector loan from the global institution in 1999.
"The interest rate noted is 7.4 percent in 2008 and as of Dec 31, 2008, Malaysia still owes RM701,040.14 of the RM60 million borrowed in 1999," he said.
'Just apologise for the big lie’
Rafizi was answering Mahathir, who yesterday insisted that no such loans were made and that it would have been ridiculous for him to authorise such a thing after railing against the global body.
The former PM had in the past decade painted his then deputy and finance minister Anwar Ibrahim as being a “foreign agent” for supporting a bailout package drawn by the International Monetary Fund.
Mahathir had taken over as finance minister upon Anwar's sacking and imprisonment in 1998, resulting in a 12-year public spat between the two.
Anwar had last week revealed that Mahathir’s government had in fact obtained several loans from the World Bank despite saying that this “enslaved” Malaysia to foreign funders.
The former PM yesterday also questioned why PKR is raising the issue now, alluding that the party was merely trying to score political points ahead of the general election.
“Things are different today compared to in 1999. Now, all official documents are publicly available on the internet... you can easily corroborate (facts). He lied, we checked and found these documents,” Rafizi (above) said.
Rafizi added that instead of prolonging the political ping pong, the octogenarian should “accept the fact that he is wrong and apologise” for the “big lie” that he told the people of Malaysia.
Bank Dunia tu sama kah dengan IMF?
