KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 27): Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali has "dug the grave" for Datuk Seri Najib Razak by inadvertently revealing other fund transfers to private accounts at AmBank, DAP lawmaker Tony Pua said.

The DAP national publicity secretary said the A-G had exposed transfers amounting to RM27 million by Finance Ministry-owned company SRC International to these accounts, when he held up several documents during his press conference yesterday announcing the lack of evidence to charge the prime minister for criminal wrongdoing over financial scandals.

"By zooming in on a particular chart, it disclosed that SRC International transferred that money earlier on July 6, 2014 via Putrajaya Perdana Bhd’s subsidiaries – Putra Perdana Construction Sdn Bhd and Permai Binaraya Sdn Bhd.

"SRC International transferred RM35 million to Putra Perdana Construction, which then transferred RM34.99 million to Permai Binaraya, which then transferred RM27 million to Najib’s private bank account ending '880'," Pua, the Petaling Jaya Utara MP, said in a statement today.

The chart held by Apandi yesterday, does not name the accounts as belonging to Najib but identifies them by their last three numbers.

From the "880" account, Pua said RM20 million was moved on the very same day to two other  accounts in AmBank, with the amount split evenly between accounts ending with "898" and "906".

The "880" account subsequently received RM10 million and RM27 million in December 2014 and February 2015 respectively, via Gandingan Mentari and Ihsan Perdana.

The "906" account was also previously disclosed to have received RM5 million through the same source in December 2014.

This meant a total of RM69 million had been transferred to these private accounts between July 2014 and February 2015, Pua said.

The chart held by Apandi also showed that the funds transferred to the "880" account were used to pay for Najib’s Visa and Mastercard bills amounting to a total of RM3.2 million.

"The A-G’s document has now validated the credit card transactions earlier exposed by (whistleblower site) The Sarawak Report," said Pua.

Pua (pic) said given the number of transactions involved, and the instant utilisation of the funds upon receipt, it was "incredible" for the A-G to accept at face value Najib’s claim that he did not know that the money originated from SRC International.

"In fact, Apandi dug the grave for the prime minister by claiming that the latter thought the funds were from the mysterious Arab donor, who gifted him with US$681 million.

"However, Najib would have contradicted himself because the unutilised Arab donation was purportedly returned to donor in August 2013, long before the SRC International transfers took place.

"Based on this evidence alone, there is now a clear cut prima facie case to charge the Prime Minister for corrupt practices or criminal breach of trust, and it is for Najib to prove his innocence in the court of law," he said.

Pua said Apandi would be grossly abusing his discretionary powers to accept Najib’s unconvincing and contradictory excuses by not allowing the court to determine the truth.

"We call upon the A-G to explain his inadvertent 'expose' and reconsider his 'satisfaction' that there was no case against Najib to ensure that Malaysia, which is already suffering from a political and economic crisis of confidence, do not become further humiliated in the eyes of the world."

In July last year, The Wall Street Journal and the Sarawak Report reported that SRC International had transferred RM42 million into Najib’s personal bank accounts.

The sums were transferred between December 2014 and February 2015 through SRC International's subsidiaries, Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd and a separate company, Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd, a private company set up to manage 1MDB’s corporate social responsibility contributions.

Apandi yesterday said Najib was “not aware” that the Finance Ministry-owned subsidiary had transferred the funds into his personal account.

He declared Najib free of criminal wrongdoing in receiving funds to his private bank accounts.