(Aug 24): The police can show their neutrality by investigating cases lodged by opposition politicians, DAP lawmaker Ramkarpal Singh said today after the party's youth wing (DAPSY) lodged a report against an Umno leader for saying that the party was funded by Jews.

Ramkarpal said DAP wanted Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to probe and act against Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi for making the claim, which the party said was baseless and amounted to false news.

"It's a test on the part of the IGP whether he has the guts to take on Barisan Nasional and a deputy minister who recklessly makes a statement like this, obviously with the intention of creating something which is not there," he told reporters after DAP Youth lodged a police report against Aziz at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

"If the IGP wants to do anything, this is the time he should show that he is a neutral IGP, Ramkarpal, the Bukit Gelugor MP, said.

Aziz on Saturday told an Umno division meeting that the Middle-Eastern donor who gave US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) to Najib made the contribution so that Umno could fight DAP, which he said is funded by the Jews, during the 2013 general election.

The Sri Gading Umno chief had said the donor feared that through DAP, Jewish influences would permeate the country and destroy the "Islamic government" led by Barisan Nasional (BN).

Ramkarpal said the police report was also to put it on record and as proof that the party had no Jewish connection.

"Anybody knows this is an open and shut case and there is absolutely no basis for this accusation of DAP having a connection with the Jews in the context it has been portrayed."

He said, however, that he was not confident police would take up the case based on the force's track record of inaction over several reports lodged by opposition members in the past.

"To be honest I have no confidence at all that police are going to do anything in this case. Because their track record seems to suggest that they don't seem to have any interest in cases in which complaints are made by the opposition, no matter how genuine they are," he said.

Ramkarpal added that the laws applicable to the DAP's complaint against Aziz were criminal defamation under Section 499 of the Penal Code and the Printing Presses and Publication Act 1984 which holds persons making such statements liable to an offence.

DAPSY chief Teo Kok Seong, who lodged the police report, said he would instruct the wing's leaders in other states to lodge a police report on the matter.

"This is a serious defamation and an excuse to scare Muslims away from DAP," the Rasah MP said. – The Malaysian Insider