Najib beri jawapan sebaris soalan pinjaman 1MDB...

Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak enggan melayan soalan di Dewan Rakyat berhubung butiran mengenai pinjaman 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) dari bank-bank tempatan.

Soalan dari Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan) menuntut butiran, sehingga Januari 2015, serta hasil penemuan audit pematuhan Bank Negara bagi setiap bank.

Bagaimanapun, Najib memberi jawapan bertulis sebaris mengenainya, iaitu sehingga Januari 2015, hutang 1MDB kepada bank-bank tempatan adalah RM5.037 bilion.

Merupakan 12 peratus daripada jumlah hutang 1MDB, ia membayangkan bahawa ia bukan satu risiko sistemik kepada sistem perbankan Malaysia.

Sebelum itu, Gabenor Bank Negara Malaysia, Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz (kanan) telah berkata bahawa ujian tekanan menunjukkan 1MDB tidak akan menjejaskan ekonomi.

Menteri kabinet Khairy Jamaluddin juga pernah dilaporkan berkata walaupun terdapat kebimbangan mengenai risiko sistemik, beliau percaya 1MDB tidak akan menjadi lubang hitam yang menelan bank-bank Malaysia jika ia gagal membayar hutangnya.

Sementara itu, Rafizi memberitahu pemberita bahawa dengan memilih untuk diam mengenai penemuan audit itu, Najib sebenarnya menunjukkan bahawa Bank Negara telah membangkitkan isu-isu serius mengenai proses kelulusan pinjaman itu.

Rafizi (menjelaskan bahawa soalannya bertujuan untuk mencungkil hasil audit pematuhan Bank Negara terhadap pinjaman yang diberikan oleh Maybank, RHB dan Ambank.

Menurutnya lagi, beliau telah diberi maklumat bahawa Bank Negara telah membangkitkan isu-isu serius dengan Ambank berhubung proses kelulusan pinjaman yang diberikan kepada 1MDB.

Katanya, isu terpenting bukanlah sangat mengenai jumlahnya kepada kepada sistem perbankan tetapi dakwaan mengenai kekurangan urus tadbir yang selanjutnya boleh menjejaskan kredibiliti perbankan dan kewangan, ekoran skandal 1MDB setakat ini.

Hakikat bahawa menterinya enggan menjawab, tambah Rafizi, hanya boleh mengesahkan bahawa dakwaan itu mempunyai beberapa kebenaran. - mk

  

Najib gives one-liner to query on 1MDB loans...

Prime Minister and Finance Minister Najib Abdul Razak has refused to entertain a question in Parliament on the details of 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) loans from local banks.

The question by Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan) demanded the details, up to January 2015, as well as the findings of Bank Negara's compliance audit on each bank.

However, Najib's written reply to this was only one sentence long: "Up until January 2015, the 1MDB debts to local banks is RM5.037 billion."

At 12 percent of total debts of 1MDB, this one-liner implies that the state investment fund is not a systemic risk to the Malaysian banking system.

Earlier, Bank Negara Malaysia governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz (right) said stress tests show that 1MDB will not hurt the economy.

Cabinet minister Khairy Jamaluddin also said while there are concerns of systemic risks, he believes 1MDB will not be a black hole swallowing up Malaysian banks if the Finance Ministry firm fails to pay its debts.

However, a livid Rafizi told reporters that Najib's reply lends credence to his earlier claims regarding alleged irregularities in Ambank's loan RM2 billion loan to 1MDB.

"If Bank Negara had cleared Ambank with respect to the loans given to 1MDB, obviously the minister will not hesitate to disclose the audit findings," he said.

Credibility of banking system at stake

By choosing silence on the audit findings, Rafizi said Najib was in fact suggesting that Bank Negara did raise serious issues with the loan approval process.

Rafizi (left) explained that his question was specifically designed to unearth the outcome of Bank Negara's compliance audit on loans given by Maybank, RHB and Ambank.

"I was provided information that Bank Negara raised serious issues with Ambank with regard to the approval process of loans given to 1MDB.

"The issue is of utmost importance not so much of its amount to the banking system but the alleged lack of governance that can further undermine the credibility of our banking and financial system, already rocked by the 1MDB scandal so far.

"The fact that the minister refused to answer can only confirm that the allegation has some truth," Rafizi added.- mk

Menteri 'berlakon', tak jawab isu 1MDB...

Wakil rakyat DAP menyelar Menteri Kewangan II Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah yang didakwa “kecut” daripada menjawab soalan berkaitan 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) dan PetroSaudi semasa ucapan penggulungan di Parlimen semalam.

“Beliau pada mulanya dirujuk dengan isu 'penggelapan' AS700 juta oleh entiti dikawal Jho Low, Good Star, dengan mendakwa isu itu sudah disiasat oleh ketua audit negara dan polis.

"Beliau kemudian kata lebih baik untuk menunggu hasil siasatannya dulu.

“Apabila ditekan oleh anggota Parlimen PKR Sim Tze Tzin, Husni malah buat-buat pegang dan menyelak peraturan tetap parlimen sementara cuba mendapatkan panduan daripada timbalan speaker sama ada perlu menjawab atau tidak soalan itu.

“Timbalan speaker kemudian memberikan kebenaran kepada menteri itu untuk tidak menjawab soalan itu,” dakwa Tony Pua dalam kenyataannya.

Anggota Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara itu justeru berkata Husni layak mendapat Anugerah Oscar untuk tindakan itu.

Katanya, tiada peruntukan dalam peraturan tetap melarang menteri  menjawab soalan melibatkan kes sedang disiasat oleh ketua audit negara atau polis.

Pua berkata wakil pembangkang mahu pengesahan sama ada 1MDB menyalurkan AS$700 ke dalam akaun bank Good Star di Switzerland dan apa sebabnya.

Anugerah Oscar sebuah anugerah berprestij antarabangsa dalam bidang lakonan dan perfileman.- mk

Bila MP Bayan Baru.. Sim Tze Tzin bertanyakan pada Timbalan Menteri Kewangan II Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah mengenai isu penyelewengan RM700 juta yang melibatkan 1MDB dan Good Star Ltd milik Jho Low malam tadi diParlimen...dia jelas tak tahu nak jawab dan akhirnya mengunakan Standing Order meminta kebenaran tidak menjawab soalan itu, Speaker Dewan membenarkan permintaan Timbalan Menteri Kewangan yang 'teraniaya' itu...

Apa itu Standing Order..?? Bermaksud jika ahli Parlimen tidak bersetuju dalam sesautu isu termasuk menjawab soalan, mereka akan gunakan Standing Order utk bangkitkan Point of Order dgn merujuk pada Speaker atau Timbalan Speaker.. diMalaysia ,Speaker berpihak pada Kjaan dan permohonan MP dari UMNO akan diluluskan agar pembangkang tidak bangkitkan isu atau soalan yang sama...f/bk

Minister may face rights panel on 1MDB loan...

PKR has threatened to refer Second Finance Minister Husni Hanadzlah to the parliamentary rights and privileges committee for contradictory answers from the government on billionaire Ananda Krishnan's involvement in a RM2 billion funding for 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Yesterday, Husni told the Dewan Rakyat that Ananda Krishnan's firm helped secure a RM2 billion refinancing loan for 1MDB from private investors.

This is in direct contradiction to a previous parliamentary written answer that Ananda Krishnan did not loan any money to 1MDB and that  it would be using the 1MDB funds repatriated from the Cayman Islands to service the bank interest payments on its debts.

PKR's Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin (right) today demanded that the Finance Ministry explains this "contradiction", failing which the party would refer Husni to the rights committee for misleading the House.

In a written answer to PKR's Batu MP Tian Chua on March 11, the ministry merely said that the report claiming that Ananda Krishnan had extended the loan to 1MDB was not true.

In another written answer to the same MP on March 14, it said that 1MDB's RM2 billion repayments were made using the Cayman Islands money and not using any money loaned by Ananda.

Sim also questioned if the loan was given according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) regulations.

"Normally, only a bank can give a loan. Who are these private investors that had given the loan? Were the rules relaxed for these investors?" Sim asked.

Chua meanwhile urged the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to make it their priority to call in 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy and Ananda Krishnan himself over the matter. - mk

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