His accusation was based on a report by NST Online which quoted MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Azam Baki as saying that the commission has no authority to investigate or take action against individuals involved in money politics.

Azam said this when commenting on Lim’s recent blog posting which demanded that MACC chief commissioner Dzulkifli Ahmad resign over his failure to discover the RM1 billion bribe that Lim allegedly received from PPBM chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Speaking at a ceramah at the Pandamaran Sports Complex today, Lim questioned how MACC could carry out its functions if it was unable to investigate politicians accused of  corruption.

“I can keep RM1 billlion and it’s no problem,” he said.

“We cannot accept this kind of argument and we cannot accept the fact that the MACC Act 2009 is stopping MACC from carrying out its duties.”

He said it was important to bring this up because the commission’s inability to investigate him meant that it could not investigate the prime minister on allegations of corruption either.

“How can MACC say this is not wrong? That it does not need to be investigated?

“This shows MACC is not independent and it does not have the dignity of an anti-corruption body to even investigate these claims.”

The RM1 billion bribe claim was made by blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin in a recent blog posting.

Raja Petra claimed the money was to ensure Mahathir’s son, Mukhriz, was given a safe parlimentary seat to contest in the next general election.

NST Online said the law on political funding, called the Political Donation and Expenditure Act, was unlikely to be tabled in Parliament anytime soon due to its complexity.

Lim has said he would meet his lawyers next week on a test case to sue the media that printed “lies and defamatory material” about him receiving the bribe from Mahathir.