We’ll return RM50,000 donation linked to 1MDB, says Penang Press Club

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The assurance comes after the finance minister advised journalists' groups to return money linked to 1MDB or risk having their accounts frozen by the MACC. FMTNews 1MDB1 PenangWelfareClub

Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has called on journalists’ groups to voluntarily return money they had received from 1MDB’s charitable arms.

Penang Press Club president Wong Soon Eng said it was willing to return the funds received but would require a formal committee decision to do so. Wong’s comment comes after Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had called on journalists’ groups to voluntarily return money they had received from 1MDB’s charitable arms.

This is the second timethat the former Penang chief minister had raised the donations issue, the first being last October.

 

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