Probe ongoing, Yapeim DG still suspended
Investigations into alleged misconduct by Islamic Economic Development Foundation (Yapeim) director-general Abibullah Samsudin are still ongoing.
As such, Abibullah is still serving his suspension, according to Yapeim chairperson Mohd Daud Bakar.
“We are still conducting internal investigations and will notify the director-general once the report of the probe is ready within the time frame (of the suspension) of 14 working days or after,” he said during a press conference at the Yapeim office in Kuala Lumpur today...
Investigations into alleged misconduct by Islamic Economic Development Foundation (Yapeim) director-general Abibullah Samsudin (above) are still ongoing.
As such, Abibullah is still serving his suspension, according to Yapeim chairperson Mohd Daud Bakar.
“We are still conducting internal investigations and will notify the director-general once the report of the probe is ready within the time frame (of the suspension) of 14 working days or after,” he said during a press conference at the Yapeim office in Kuala Lumpur today.
Abibullah was suspended on May 21 to facilitate an internal probe into alleged wrongdoing.
This came after the surfacing of a video in which employees of the foundation were heard being warned against voting for Pakatan Harapan ahead of GE14.
In the video, which was found during an internal probe and external audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Malaysia, Abibullah was allegedly heard telling staff that he would check their votes “one by one”.
He was heard saying that those who voted for the then-opposition coalition was “not qualified” to work with Yapeim and should work for the DAP instead.
PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil (above, left) then lodged a police report against Abibullah.
However, Daud later stated that video was not the main reason behind the suspension, but rather, to allow Yapeim to investigate claims of wrongdoing from the audit report findings by PwC.
It was previously reported that RM1 million in aid for orphans entrusted to Yapeim was allegedly misused in 2017 to settle the legal fees of a lawyer who was also an aide to then-prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
Yapeim denied this, saying the legal fees were much lower than the reported RM1 million and was paid using money from Yapeim’s general, not charity, fund.
The foundation was also reported to have suffered losses amounting to RM12 million through a gold pawning scheme involving 1,000 customers from its business wing, Ar-Rahnu.
