Salleh likens PKR's corruption allegation of Selangor govt to 'crying wolf'

He said barely two years, new allegations of corruption were being made by PKR's new secretary-general, Rafizi Ramli, against the Selangor government or leaders in the state government.

"Let us see whether this time there is any evidence and whether this evidence eventually results in certain leaders getting arrested and sent to jail.

"If not, then this is just one more false allegation in almost 20 years that PKR makes against its political enemies, as well as against its own leaders, that it wants to oust.

"It has come to a stage that if PKR or any of its leaders makes an allegation of corruption against anyone, we can more or less safely brush aside that allegation as one more in so many incidences of crying wolf by people who have nothing better to do," he said in his blog posting at sskeruak.blogspot.my, Thursday.

Salleh noted that the corruption allegations had been spiralling in the party, such as ex-PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Noor challenging his former mentor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to make public the six boxes of documents the latter claimed to have containing evidence of corrupt practices by high-ranking government officials as reported by Malaysiakini on Aug 18, 2008.

He said in 1998, Anwar announced that he had six boxes of evidence regarding corrupt acts committed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Daim Zainuddin and other key people in Dr Mahathir's government.

"For ten years until 2008, however, not a single piece of paper was ever produced, let alone six boxes or even just one box."

Salleh said five years later, PKR brought out allegations of corruption against the then Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim by the party secretary-general, Saifuddin Nasution, who showed to the public one thick file that was supposed to contain the evidence against Khalid.

He said Khalid was forced to resign from his post of Menteri Besar and he then sued Saifuddin, who later withdrew the allegation and apologised to him.