Who's funding you, Tian Chua?

Why was PKR vice-president so worried about the government's plan to monitor the flow of fund to political parties? I thought he would be among the first to support the move as it enables the rakyat to know 'who and what' have been financing them.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 (Bernama) -- Faced with the problem of setting up a body to monitor political funds because of lack of cooperation from political parties, the National Key Result Area (NKRA) Against Corruption is now planning to study the need for creating an act for the purpose.

The body is of the opinion legal provision was needed to make it mandatory for political parties to declare their sources of political funds to create transparency.
National Key Result Area (NKRA) Against Corruption director Datuk Hisham Nordin said it was looking at the need to create a new act or proposing amendments to existing ones at several government agencies involved in supervising political parties.
"We are also scrutinising several other acts such as the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, Election Commission Act, Registrar of Societies and Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act to look at needs to propose amendments," he told Bernama here.
Hisham said whether it was a new act or amendments to existing ones, NKRA Against Corruption was of the opinion that political funds could only be monitored effectively when the need to report sources of political funds was mandatory to all political parties.
Hisham said political parties might not be prepared to reveal their respective political fund contributors currently to protect the credibility of certain leaders in the party concerned.
"I am of the view that monitoring political funds is crucial to shut of all opportunities and openings for corruptions. As such, every political fund channelled must be audited and recorded to show the transparency of the party," he said.
In February 2012, through the Government Transformation Plan (GTP), Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had announced a new initiative to eradicate corruption to control political financing and investigate abuse of funds under the National Key Result Area (NKRA) Against Corruption.

What were Tian Chua and the opposition afraid of? Wasn't they the ones who questioned the amount of money 'spent' by Barisan Nasional candidates in the past general election?

And I can't help but agree with some allegations that the opposition could have been taking funds from the 'underworld', and for that reasons they are against the enactment of the new law to monitor such assistance.

Even Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi accused the opposition of defending only the criminals, partly because they were funded by the underworld in the last general election.

Pakatan Rakyat only fights for the rights of criminals, partly because it is funded by criminals in the last general election, Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says today.
He was addressing some 200 policemen in Teluk Intan when he said that the opposition pact was not interested in the human rights of the police.
He said this was evident when the late Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh did not visit a policeman from his constituency who had died in the line of duty.
“A police officer died at the hands of a gangster in Malacca and he, coincidentally, was from Bukit Gelugor. When his body was brought back to Penang, the MP did not even see him.
“Who went? The ones who cared went. They, who claim to fight for human rights, did not even go when police are injured or killed. This means they only defend criminals.
“Those people help them, maybe in the previous general election. They did not even visit the fallen policeman, never mind give aid to orphans.”
He added that when debating laws on prevention without trial in Parliament, Karpal had demanded that the rights of criminals be protected.
“I asked him, what about the rights of the police? What happened to that? What if police get shot or are injured? The rights of the police should be prioritised, not the criminals,” said Zahid.

Strange because none of the opposition leaders had tried to rebut or deny such accusations. Could it be true?

Tian Chua, what's your comment?