GEORGE TOWN: DAP will not conduct an internal inquiry into an alleged bribery case by the father of Sungai Pinang assemblyman Lim Siew Khim, who purportedly demanded money to fast-track low-cost housing applications.
State DAP chairman Chow Kon Yeow said there was no need to probe Lim as she had nothing to do with the allegation.
"The party will not carry out any investigation into the allegation. It is imperative for victims to come forward to lodge police reports.
"The incident did not involve Lim and it is linked to her father. No one should disrupt the ongoing investigations by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
"Her father is not even a DAP member," he said at the state National Day parade at the Esplanade today.
Chow was asked to comment on possible internal action against Lim following the allegations.
Asked by a local daily on state Umno liaison committee chairman Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Osman's remarks that DAP was no longer corruption-free following the incident, Chow dismissed the claims.
"How can you prove (Lim is guilty) this as you are neither in the investigation nor from the judiciary body," he said.
Lim has been under the spotlight after a video clip surfaced on social media showing a man, purportedly her 68-year-old father, involved in a dispute over the payment of an alleged bribe to facilitate the application.
Lim had clarified that neither she nor her father had the power to influence the applications as well as decisions for low-cost housing allocations.
She also stressed that she had no knowledge of her father's actions.