Muhyiddin: I told PM to sack all 1MDB board

Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today confirmed he had told Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to sack the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) board of directors.

Muhyiddin was commenting on a video, which featured him at a closed-door meeting with several UMNO members which was recently published on a blog.

“I have made a statement during the closed-door meeting … there is nothing new for me to say. I have openly said it before this,” said Muhyiddin, when met at the lobby of Parliament, today.

“I made the statement during a closed-door meeting … I have nothing else to say.... I have openly said it before this,” said Muhyiddin at Parliament today.

In the video, Muhyiddin has also urged the police to probe the debt-stricken company.

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“How in such a short span of time a government-owned company could incur a whopping RM42 billion liabilities?

“If the company belongs to me and I wake up one day to bizarre occurrences ... and the CEO makes a loan worth RM10 billion … I have to fork out between RM100 million and RM200 million every month … I doubt if any companies in the world can afford to carry such a burden, but that’s happening in Malaysia,” Muhyiddin was quoted as saying in the video - which had gone viral, yesterday.