Pandan MP Mohd Rafizi Ramli wants the government to take action against the lobbyist Healy Baumgardner-Nardone, following Putrajaya’s denial of having engaged her services.

He pointed out that amongst the documents lodged to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) under the country’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara), Baumgardner-Nardone had declared that she was representing the "Office of the Prime Minister", and listed the official she deals with as "Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak".

This is despite Najib’s press aide Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad’s statement yesterday that “Neither the Prime Minister's Office nor government of Malaysia has instructed, appointed or contracted in any form with the Godfrey Group Ltd, the 45 Group or Healy Baumgardner-Nardone.”

In his response today, Rafizi challenged Najib to state whether The 45 Group LLC and its CEO Baumgardner-Nardone had lied in their declaration to the DOJ.

“If Baumgardner-Nardone had lied about her lobbying work to the extent of dragging in Najib’s name, then the government of Malaysia should immediately take legal action against Baumgardner-Nardone and officially notify the US government that the declaration is false,” he said in a statement today...