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Leaked files show Najib’s Umno used Cambridge Analytica to influence voters in Malaysia’s 2013 polls
- According to the files unveiled by the firm’s ex-employee Britanny Kaiser, Umno requested the company to prepare a proposal to regain 13 seats
- In 2018, Najib claimed that he had never engaged Cambridge Analytica in any way
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Controversial political consultation firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) allegedly pitched a proposal to the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), the party of Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, to influence the voting of 40 parliamentary constituencies in the 14th General Election (GE14) in 2013, according to leaked files.
The files, unveiled by former CA business development director Britanny Kaiser, includes a document on the email correspondence between several people in October 2016, including SCL Southeast Asia’s director Azrin Zizal.
SCL Group was the parent group of CA.
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The correspondence claimed that former Umno secretary general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor assigned an aide, Aminudin Mustafa, to engage with representatives of the SCL Group on October 10, 2016, to discuss the proposal.
Azrin supposedly set up the meeting, according to the email thread.
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