Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim today said he was prepared to bare all his bank accounts following allegations that he has RM3 billion worth of assets and cash.
This, he would do, on the condition that Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, too, makes public his accounts.
"I challenge him - I will open up every single one of my accounts and that Muhyiddin must do likewise.
"I am prepared to be investigated fully. I'm prepared to submit everything. If he accepts, then done (deal), but do it quickly," he told journalists after an economic dialogue in Petaling Jaya today.
Anwar was responding to Muhyiddin who today urged the PKR supremo to explain a 13-year-old allegation which has been extensively covered by Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia.
'Despicable and desperate' attempt
Elaborating further, Anwar said this allegation had surfaced in 1998 and he has since been cleared.
"If there is a case, they (then-Anti-Corruption Agency) should have charged me in 1998. I was cleared by the ACA," he said.
He added that reviving the more-than-decade-old issue was a "despicable and desperate" attempt by Muhyiddin.
At the height of the reformasi movement, the then Bank Negara deputy governor Abdul Murad Khalid had alleged that Anwar, during his tenure as deputy prime minister, had some 20 master accounts containing RM3 billion in assets, shares and cash.
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