Menurut Sanusi ketika sebuah forum ekonomi Melayu semalam, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad dan Tun Daim Zainuddin cuba ‘meniru’ dasar anti-Yahudi Jerman dahulu dengan tidak memberikan lesen perbankan kepada masyarakat bukan Melayu.
Namun Sanusi mendakwa usaha ini digagalkan oleh Anwar yang memberikan lesen perbankan kepada dua kumpulan bukan Melayu – Hong Leong Bank dan Alliance Bank.
Tuduhan Sanusi tidak berasas. Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad merupakan syarikat perbankan di bawah Alliance Financial Group Berhad (AFG) yang dikaitkan dengan Tun Daim Zainudin.
Daim dikatakan memiliki 14.8% AFG menerusi Langkah Bahagia Sdn Bhd.
Langkah Bahagia bersama-sama pihak-pihak berkaitan syarikat pelaburan Singapura, Temasek Holdings Ltd mempunyai kepentingan di dalam AFG menerusi Vertical Theme Sdn Bhd.
Hubungan AFG dan Daim bermula sejak 1982 lagi apabila beliau membeli Malaysian French Bank. Malaysian French Bank kemudian dinamakan Multi-Purpose Bank.
Pada 1997, Langkah Bahagia membeli saham di dalam Hock Hua Bank (Sabah). Salah seorang pemilik saham Langkah Bahagia, Mohd Nasir Ali mengumumkan bahawa beliau bertindak bagi pihak Daim.
Hock Hua Bank kemudian ditukar nama menjadi International Bank Malaysia Berhad dan digabungkan bersama Multi-Purpose Bank serta enam lagi syarikat kewangan untuk menjadi AFG.
Mungkin agenda Melayu yang dimaksudkan Sanusi adalah untuk menjaga kepentingan saham kroni-kroni Umno-BN seperti bagaimana Petronas ditekan untuk menyelamatkan syarikat milik anak Mahathir, Mirzan iaitu Konsortium Perkapalan Berhad sewaktu krisis ekonomi 1997 dengan harga melebihi kadar pasaran.
Namun yang menghalang usaha tersebut ialah Anwar.
Nyata sekali kenyataan Sanusi adalah fitnah semata-mata yang tidak berasas. Ketaksuban beliau di dalam menyerang Anwar dan mempertahankan Mahathir dan Daim membuatkan beliau tidak nampak penyelewengan ekonomi yang telah menjadikan rakyat Malaysia umumnya dan Melayu umumnya sebagai mangsa. - keadilandaily.
Sanusi's Anwar anti-Malay agenda claim 'untrue'...
Claims by former cabinet minister Sanusi Junid that PKR de facto leader and then finance minister Anwar Ibrahim had thwarted the “Malay agenda” in the banking industry is untrue, PKR said.
PKR communications director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said this is evident as Malay leaders, including former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, held large stakes in purported non-Malay banking group Alliance Finance Group Bhd (AFG).
“Maybe
the Malay agenda Sanusi meant was to protect the interests of Umno or
Barisan Nasional cronies, like how Petronas was pressured into bailing
out Konsortium Perkapalan Berhad (KPB)...” he said in a statement today.Referring to the Petronas bailout following KPB's losses of RM2 billion in the 1997 crisis, Nik Nazmi (right) claimed that it was Anwar who tried to block that move.
KPB was owned by Mirzan Mahathir, son of then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
According to the Seri Setia assemblyperson, Daim's relationship with AFG has been long-standing, with Daim-linked Langkah Bahagia Sdn Bhd owning 14.8 percent stake in it.
Nik Nazmi added that the relationship began in 1982, when Daim bought over the Malaysian French Bank, which was later renamed Multi-Purpose Bank.
Multi-Purpose later merged with six other financial institutions, including Langkah Bahagia-owned International Bank Malaysia Bhd to form AFG.
“Sanusi's statement has no basis and is mere slander. He is so intent on attacking Anwar and defending Mahathir and Daim that he could not see the economic abuse which has victimised Malaysians and Malays,” he said.
Silence over Hong Leong Group
Nik Nazmi was, however, silent on the other banking group mentioned by Sanusi—Hong Leong Group.
The former Agriculture Minister (left)
was yesterday quoted by the Malaysian Insider as saying that Anwar had
thwarted Mahathir's Malay agenda in the banking industry by awarding
licences to Hong Leong and AFG.Addressing the Malay Economic Congress, he said that Mahathir had wanted to adapt a German policy of not granting banking licences to Jews in order to control the economy.
Mahathir has, however, denied emulating Nazi Germany policies.
"It may be regarded as (similar to the) anti-Jew (policy), but the purpose was to develop Malaysia. It is not 'anti-non-Malay',” Mahathir had said in response.- malaysiakini
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