KOTA KINABALU : Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin
Mulia said today the Insolvency Department had notified him of the bankruptcy
status of Labuan MP Datuk Yussof Mahal, and he would make a decision soon on
the matter.
He said he would have to
decide whether to allow Yussof to attend the Dewan Rakyat sitting beginning on
September 24. The Dewan Rakyat is scheduled to sit from September 24 to
November 27 for the budget session.
Pandikar said he received
confirmation from the Insolvency Department last month that Yussof had been
declared a bankrupt and would look at the documents he had received from the
department before making a decision.
“I have to go back to the
office and look into all the things. Assuming that finally I decide he’s not
eligible to be an MP, then I will have to communicate with him and ask him not
to attend the final session (of the Dewan Rakyat),” he told reporters at the
Kota Kinabalu Umno Aidilfitri open house here.
On August 7, the Labuan High
Court issued a notice of bankruptcy to Yussof, 56, though the amount owed was
not revealed. The bankruptcy order stemmed from an application filed on May
24.
Yussof has said that efforts
were under way to legally resolve the issue. (Bernama)
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