Shangri-La KL party: Eight 'hard' questions for Najib

Bare denials not good enough, Rafizi tells PM

Prime Minister Najib Razak has been told either to confirm or deny the veracity of the document produced yesterday, which allegedly showed the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had underwritten his daughter's engagement party bill.

In a statement today, PKR strategies director Rafizi Ramli, said, "While the PMO had swiftly denied the allegation, it did not address the Banquet Event Order (BEO) from Shangri La Hotel which showed the booking and payment instructions were dealt with by the PM's office. PMO's demand for my instant apology is premature at this juncture as the two paragraphs statement consists of only mere denials without any hard evidence or facts that can support the denial. Nor did the PMO dispute the veracity of the BEO document produced against the prime minister," he said in a statement today."

Rafizi said if premier wants to clear his name, he has to do the following:

• Confirm or deny: Engagement party cost as much as specified in the BEO document;

• Confirm or deny: Veracity and authenticity of the document that the PMO had footed the bill;

• Instruct the PMO to produce:
• the original copy of the purchase order sent to Shangrila Hotel to ascertain which party was responsible for the order;

• a snapshot of the accounting transaction to ascertain if the order was recorded in the government's accounting system;

•  the original invoice sent to Shangri La Hotel to determine if the whole expense was charged personally to Najib as claimed;

• the original snapshot of the accounting transaction from the government's accounting system which recorded the invoice sent by Shangri La Hotel, to ascertain whether the liability to pay the invoice was ever recorded;

• the original payment voucher made to Shangri La Hotel to ascertain the party which first settled the bill; and,

• his personal cheque used to pay, or his bank statements, or any third party records of his financial transactions as proof of payments to substantiate his claim that the bill was footed by him.