Mahathir Muhammad ... This is the story of 681 million dollars that Saudi Arabia gave to Naguib Razak

The veteran politician added, in the seventeenth episode of his testimony on Al-Asr, that Razak initially did not recognize the source of these funds, but he later said that he had received it from a Saudi figure as a personal gift.

Mahathir Muhammad explained that if Razak had actually obtained these funds as a gift, then he should have handed them over to the state immediately, it is not acceptable for the Prime Minister to receive an amount of this magnitude from another country because in this case he exposes Malaysia to be mortgaging to another country.

It is noteworthy that the Western press had quoted Saudi officials confirming that they sent $ 681 million to Najib Razzaq as a personal gift, and according to Mahathir Muhammad, Malaysia has no problem with Saudi Arabia sending such a gift to the prime minister, but its problem is with the prime minister who put the money into his own account without having Inform the state about it.

Regarding the Sovereign Scandal scandal, which was considered by major countries in the world as "theft of the times" and during which Razak looted more than 11 billion dollars, Mahathir said that the United States had a great role in revealing many details of this story, noting the high intelligence and investigative capabilities it possesses through The world, and its ability to track the movement of funds through the world's banks, while the ability of Malaysian investigators to track the movement of funds within local banks.

Mahathir Muhammad, who is described as the builder of modern Malaysia, explained that the government disclosed all the money and jewelry that it found in Naguib Razak’s homes after the “Sovereign Fund” scandal was revealed, as it was found that there are funds, bags and jewelry worth more than 273 million dollars, indicating that this It wasn't surprising to the government because they knew how eager Razzak's family was to shop from Europe and the Western world, and they had doubts that Razak had looted the country’s money, but they didn't have enough evidence to bring him to court.

Regarding the talk about the UAE's involvement in the case of theft of the sovereign fund, Mahathir said that Malaysia had filed cases in London requesting the UAE to return the money it had taken from the sovereign fund, stressing that this is an inalienable right of Malaysia.