Kuala Lampur, July 15 -- DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang today chastised MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong for supporting Datuk Seri Najib Razak's appointment as the chairman of Barisan Nasional's (BN) advisory board despite facing 42 criminal charges in court.

Lim denounced Wee's remark of not commenting on personal matters, saying that the charges Najib faces are not personal and, in fact, a matter of public interest.

"It is a matter of definite public importance and national strategic significance. For Wee to dismiss Najib's 42 criminal charges as a personal matter proves that MCA remains irresponsible by refusing to account for the tens of billions of ringgit in losses suffered by the Malaysian economy and the rakyat," Lim said in a s...