“It is as if that Rosmah was the individual who bought the handbag,” Rizal told Malaysiakini.
However, Rizal said checks found that the handbag carried by Rosmah was not the same as the Hermes Birkin.
“After checking, I found that the photograph (of Rosmah) circulated was an old photograph taken four years ago at Kompleks Bunga Raya, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, when Najib and Rosmah were leaving for an overseas trip.
“However, a Wall Street Journal report said the Hermes Birkin handbag that was auctioned is a new model made in 2014 and auctioned in June 2015.
Crocodile-skin Hermes
“So, how could Rosmah possibly be carrying the same handbag in the photograph?” he asked.
This spokesman seems pretty dumb.
Just as this story was finally going away he comes back with the outcome of his week of detective work.
It can’t be the actual same bag he has triumphantly told Malaysians. As if two women who find themselves at a party wearing the ‘same dress’ were squeezed into the same outfit.
The point is not whether we are talking about the very same confection of fuchsia crocodile leather with diamond clasps and pink sapphire fastenings. It is whether it is the same model (or at least from the same range) and therefore the same shocking price!
They look identical. Or is Mr Rizal now suggesting that his boss was sporting an illegal counterfeit – the sort of thing you can buy for a joke in Asian markets to the fury of brands like Hermes?
Is Rosmah’s bag really as cheap and plastic as it looks, encrusted with coloured glass beads and only worth two ringgit?
She would go up in the national estimation if she could bring herself to admit to such cheap tat, but she better not take it through Paris customs!
