Star: KUALA LUMPUR: The National Council for Cancer (Makna) has its ways of dealing with large donations and has not given up hope on the RM1bil pledged by controversial Lebanese businessman Elie Youssef Najem.
Its president Datuk Mohd Farid Ariffin said Makna would issue a statement in due course.
“We have ways of approaching issues involving huge sums of money,” he said at his office here.
He declined to comment further.
Sources said Makna would continue with its operations while waiting for the money.
They said cases involving large donations were common, thus, even if the pledge failed to materialise, Makna would not be affected.
They said Makna had been diligent in vetting large donations to ensure they were not laundered money or revenue from sales of drugs, tobacco or alcohol.
Sources said due to this process, Makna had spent hours with Najem before allowing the information about the donation to be made public.
“There is no reason to doubt the donor (Najem) because the money is clean and even if he had served a jail term before, having served it means he now has a clean slate,” said a source.
The source added that it would be unethical to check a donor's background to find out if he were a wanted man.
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