Former UMNO Supreme Council Member Tan Sri Kadir Sheikh Fadzir has claimed that UMNO members have been using cash handouts to win over voters during elections.

He says that he himself had been offered money to use as cash handouts in the past, and that the "bomb" tactic of vote-buying usually takes place few days before elections, not just in Peninsular Malaysia but "especially in Sabah and Sarawak".

"Yes, you know I've been on record saying that they used to. I used to be leading delegations from Kedah, to go and campaign for various by-elections and so on. And you know, as leader, they gave me lumps of money. Cash. To distribute. I said, oh please, don't give that to me. Go and give it to others to do it; I don't want to do it," he tells BFM in a recent interview.

The ex-minister, who is also currently deputy president of NGO Amanah, says he is choosing to reveal this information now, in line with the Prime Minister’s call for electoral reform.

"It’s Datuk Seri Najib himself, who has, in a way, strongly implied that there's definitely a lot of shortcomings in our electoral system. That's why he appointed this Parliamentary Select Committee for Electoral Reform, and he has even invited the Opposition parties to sit in it. In other words, he really wants a change. So I'm using this opportunity, you know, to help him to ensure that we can really change what we should not have done before... So I'm doing a great, great deed for my party," he says.

In the following interview, Tan Sri Kadir explains how "bomb" tactic works, the honourable "old school" politics of UMNO's founding fathers as well as why he never spoke out during his tenure as UMNO Supreme Council member.

In Part 2 of the interview, we get UMNO Secretary-General Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to respond to the allegations. Click here for the interview podcast.

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