PUTRAJAYA, July 6 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad rejected that his administration is bent on taking revenge against his predecessor Datuk Seri Najib Razak by freezing the family’s bank accounts.

Dr Mahathir was responding to allegations by Najib’s daughter Nooryana Najwa and 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.

“If she thinks this is wrong, she can take it to court,” said Dr Mahathir.

Yesterday, Nooryana had posted on Facebook that immediately after paying bail for her father, she was informed by the bank that it was under instructions to freeze her personal account, as well as that of her 10-month-old son.

“Is the government so vindictive that they want to eliminate our entire family?

“What does my baby’s savings have to do with 1MDB? Is this the new Malaysia people we were praying for?” Nooryana had asked.

Yesterday, the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission denied freezing her baby's bank account.

But today, an Umno supreme council member Datuk Lokman Adam posted on his Instagram account a picture of what was supposedly a Junior Saver account belonging to Nooryana's boy Adam Razak, claiming it was one of the three accounts frozen.

“Of course the account is under the mother’s name because Adam is still a baby. But don’t they understand the meaning of a Junior Saver account? Which mother uses a junior account?” he asked in his post.