1. Dato' Seri Mohd Rafizi bin Ramli is a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Economy in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament for Pandan from May 2013 to May 2018 and again since November 2022.
Rafizi Ramli has served as the 5th Deputy President of PKR since July 2022.
Rafizi Ramli served as Vice-President of PKR from August 2014 to July 2022, Secretary-General of PKR from October 2014 to November 2016 and Strategic Director of PKR from December 2010 to October 2014.
Rafizi Ramli is the founder of both the whistleblower organisation, National Oversight and Whistleblowers Centre and the election volunteerism organisation, Invoke Malaysia.
Rafizi Ramli was born in Besut, Terengganu and was raised in Kemaman, an east-coast town.
Rafizi Ramli came from a humble background; his father was a rubber tapper.
Rafizi Ramli has been active in politics since his university days.
Rafizi Ramli dedicates his involvement in politics to Adlan, his close friend who had become his inspiration.
Rafizi Ramli was elected to Parliament in the 2013 general election.
Rafizi Ramli won the seat by a margin of 26,729 votes, more than twice the number received by the MCA candidate.
Rafizi Ramli did not contest the 2018 general election as his eligibility to stand as a candidate was put in doubt due to his pending appeal against a 30-month jail sentence for leaking banking details belonging to the National Feedlot Corporation and its chairman.
Rafizi Ramli is a close ally of the PKR's parliamentary leader Anwar Ibrahim.
In 2014, Rafizi Ramli engineered the failed Kajang Move, which sought to oust Khalid Ibrahim, a PKR member, as Menteri Besar of Selangor and install Anwar as his replacement.
In October 2014, after the Kajang Move reached its conclusion, Rafizi Ramli was appointed as Secretary-General of PKR, replacing Saifuddin Nasution Ismail as the leading administrative officer of the party.
Rafizi Ramli's appointment came two months after his election as one of the party's four vice presidents.
Rafizi Ramli has been a staunch critic of the Barisan Nasional led government.
Rafizi Ramli has revealed many leakages in the government, including corruption and mismanagement.
Rafizi Ramli has revealed malpractices and wastages in the government which includes awarding of over-priced closed tender projects and purchasing of overpriced assets.
Rafizi Ramli's revelation, which liquified Khalid Ibrahim's integrity was a part which culminated in the Kajang Move.
Rafizi Ramli criticised the government's move in 2014 to end petrol subsidies, arguing that it would benefit oil companies and petrol station owners but not the Malaysian people.
Rafizi Ramli had prominently threatened to lead a street protest on 2015 New Year's Eve if the government did not lower the oil prices, following the fall of oil prices worldwide.
Rafizi Ramli had advocated for changes to the way petrol prices are fixed by the government, to protect petrol station owners from the deleterious impacts of fluctuating prices.
Rafizi Ramli was not able to run for reelection in 2018 because he was appealing a 30-month jail sentence from the Shah Alam sessions court for leaking banking details about the National Feedlot Corp and its chairman Salleh Ismail.
Rafizi Ramli's supporters were demanding that he returns to active politics, and he was quoted as saying that he was considering several factors before making a decision.
Rafizi Ramli was an opponent of Azmin in the last party elections in November 2018 for the PKR deputy president position and was defeated by Azmin.
Rafizi Ramli was the Deputy President-elect of PKR following his pending victory in the 2022 PKR leadership election.
Rafizi Ramli was set to officially assume the position on the final day of the PKR National Congress on 17 July 2022.
Rafizi Ramli did so after being officially named as PKR deputy president and after official results were announced by the PKR election committee.
Rafizi Ramli returned to parliament after the 15th general election in the parliamentary seat of Pandan.
Rafizi Ramli managed to win the seat with a landslide 48,000 vote majority.
Rafizi Ramli was appointed as the new Minister of Economy in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's Cabinet.
Rafizi Ramli was charged with exposing confidential Public Bank customers' documents in his pursuit of exposing the NFC scandal.
Rafizi Ramli was charged in August 2012 under Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 for revealing four Public Bank customer-profile documents on the balance summaries of the NFC, National Meat and Livestock Sdn Bhd, Agroscience Industries Sdn Bhd and NFC Chairman, Mohamad Salleh Ismail.
Rafizi Ramli allegedly disclosed the documents to media consultant Yusuf Abdul Alim and The Star reporter Erle Martin Carvalho, at the PKR headquarters in Petaling Jaya on 7 March 2012.
On 7 February 2018, Rafizi Ramli was sentenced by a Sessions Court in Shah Alam to 30 months in jail for exposing confidential banking details relating to the NFC scandal.
The conviction and 18-month jail sentence had prevented Rafizi Ramli from contesting in the GE14.
On 1 June 2018 after the GE14, Rafizi Ramli however was released on a good behaviour bond of RM10,000 bound over for two years in one surety over the OSA conviction by the Court of Appeal.
On 16 November 2019, Rafizi Ramli succeeded in his appeal in the case involving NFC, National Meat and Livestock Sdn Bhd, Agroscience Industries Sdn Bhd and NFC Chairman, Mohamad Salleh Ismail.