KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 — Former Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah has said that his resignation from Cabinet earlier this year was due to God’s calling and had nothing to do with state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
According to a Star Online report, Husni said that he had the realisation of leaving the Cabinet while performing his Umrah in Mecca.
He also said that he had stopped talking about 1MDB since December 2015.
"Have you seen me release any statements on 1MDB since then? No. It is because that was when one by one the information was surfacing and I realised that there were discrepancies," he reportedly said.
He said that he had started raising questions about 1MDB now because the firm has not met its objectives.
Now still a BN MP for Tambun, Husni last week raised several pointed questions regarding 1MDB while debating the 2017 federal budget in Parliament.
However, he has come under police investigation for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act (OSA) during his debate.
Dewan Rakyat speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia also suggested that Husni and two other former cabinet colleagues who have gone on to form their own opposition parties, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, had breached OSA in all of their debates, which also questioned the 1MDB scandal.
