PUTRAJAYA: MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong will sue the man he accuses of sending out SMSes insinuating he was involved with a student from China.
Wee said he has known the accountant for 15 years.
Wee, who is also deputy education minister, said his friendship with the accountant turned sour in 2002 when the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department exposed him as the person who cheated the student and her parents of more than RM100,000.
Wee had taken up the student's case because he was the party's education bureau chief and also handled public complaints in Johor.
In a press conference at the Education Ministry yesterday, Wee produced documents from his investigations into the case in 2002.
They included a letter from Yayasan Pelajaran Mara (which the accountant had falsely claimed to represent) stating that it had never received money from the student, and newspaper reports of the incident.
"I don't know what his intentions are but this is an attack and attempt to slander me and distract me from the coming party elections.
"If you want to win in the party elections, don't use such dirty tactics.
"I deplore the use of such tricks whether by people in the party or outside, or through conspiracies with others outside the party."
Wee refused to comment on any conspiracy or if it involved other members.
However, he believed the text messages, which have been circulating among party members since July 22, were aimed at derailing his intentions to contest a higher post in the MCA's October elections. He is tipped to run for either Youth chief or vice-president in the main body.
Wee said the messages were political because they were spread just after he won Johor Baru division chief uncontested on Sunday.
One of the messages read: "To whom it may concern: Countdown 90 days. Dr Wee Ka Siong will resign from all the posts by 20 Oct 2008 just as Dr Chua."
Wee said Oct 20 was the day after the party's annual general meeting and polls, and also his birthday.
As for the reference to Dr Chua, he said it was the media's "imagination" that it was former MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
Wee said the media jumped to conclusions that a reference to Chua meant that he (Wee) was involved in a sex scandal. (Chua quit all his posts after his sex tape became public earlier this year.)
