Kita kena terus tumpu perhatian kepada 1MDB kerana inilah punca masalah dan dari sinilah bermulanya jejak wang (money trail) yang berpuluh-puluh bilion itu.
Alhamdulillah, nampaknya sejak seminggu dua ini selera dan modus operandi badan-badan penyiasat telah berubah. Daripada mata kasar, nampak mereka lebih serius, bebas, terbuka dan telus menyiasat hal-hal berkaitan 1MDB, termasuk akaun Perdana Menteri (Datuk Seri) Mohd Najib Abdul Razak di AmBank Islamic.
Sampai saat ini pun Mohd Najib tidak menafikan yang akaun itu pernah wujud. Ia dibuka sebelum pilihan raya umum (PRU) 2013 dan ditutup beberapa bulan selepas itu. Beliau hanya berkata, beliau tidak menggunakan tabung negara untuk kepentingan diri beliau sendiri.
Penubuhan Pasukan Petugas mengandungi Pejabat Peguam Negara, Polis Diraja Malaysia, Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia dan Bank Negara Malaysia menambahkan keyakinan bahawa penyiasatan pada peringkat ini adalah lebih bebas, berani dan telus.
Alhamdulillah, Peguam Negara (Tan Sri) Abdul Gani Patail, nampaknya lebih gigih dan berani menyiasat. Namun kita belum boleh lagi mencurahkan air di tempayan kerana mendengar dentuman guruh di langit. Macam orang putih kata, "anything can happen" (apa saja boleh berlaku.)
Pasukan Petugas perlu membongkar dan memperjelaskan modus operandi 1MDB, khususnya yang berkaitan dengan pinjaman-pergi-balik melibatkan PetroSaudi dan pembelian penjana elektrik bebas (IPP) kerana disyaki berlaku penyalahgunaan kuasa, pecah amanah, bayaran bawah kaunter dan rasuah.
Tidak dapat dinafikan lagi iaitu 1MDB membayar harga yang sangat tinggi bagi membeli IPP tua yang hampir tamat tempoh konsesinya. Kalau konsesi mereka tidak disambung, IPP berkenaan akan menjadi harta TNB dengan bayaran RM100 sahaja.
Rakyat jelata tentu ingin tahu bagaimana sebuah syarikat Kementerian Kewangan yang menterinya Mohd Najib sendiri boleh berhutang hingga RM42 bilion dengan modal berbayar hanya RM1 juta tanpa Kabinet mengetahuinya.
Apa yang strategik mengenai perniagaan hartanah dan utiliti (elektrik dan air) sedangkan kita sudah pun ada banyak syarikat dan agensi kerajaan yang berpuluh-puluh tahun menjalankan perniagaan seperti itu - Sime Darby dan UEM dalam hartanah dan TNB dalam bidang tenaga?
Yang nampak strategik dalam erti kata yang mencurigakan ialah kerajaan menjual tanah milik negara kepada 1MDB dengan harga sampah - orang putih kata “dirt cheap” - (sekitar RM60 sekaki persegi) dan menjualnya 40 hingga 50 kali lebih tinggi. Tabung Haji, misalnya, membeli dengan harga RM2,700 sekali persegi. Kalau setakat jual-beli tanah itu bukan strategik namanya.
Kita juga hendak tahu apakah potensi ancaman terhadap kedaulatan negara apabila 1MDB berhutang berbilion-bilion ringgit daripada pihak asing seperti International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), PetroSaudi dan Aabar?
Apakah yang dicagarkan kepada IPIC sehingga mereka sanggup meminjamkan AS$1 bilion (RM2.7 bilion) kepada 1MDB Mei lalu?
Apakah yang dicagarkan kepada IPIC sehingga mereka sanggup meminjamkan AS$1 bilion (RM2.7 bilion) kepada 1MDB Mei lalu?
Kita hendak tahu apakah ancaman terhadap kedaulatan negara kita apabila Singapura tahu rahsia usus niaga 1MDB di republik itu.
Pihak Berkuasa Mata Wang Singapura (MAS) tahu apa sebenarnya berlaku dengan duit 1MDB di Singapura yang pada mulanya tunai, kemudian jadi sijil harta dan lepas itu “unit”.
Kalau penyiasatan MAS tidak menemui apa-apa yang buruk tentulah Bank Negara dan media arus perdana telah mencanangkannya. Sebaliknya apabila MAS menyerahkan laporan siasatannya kepada Bank Negara, Gabenor (Tan Sri) Zeti Akhtar Aziz berkata ia adalah rahsia.
Kita takut maklumat yang ditemui oleh MAS dan pihak-pihak luar yang lain digunakan sebagai “leverage” untuk memeras ugut pemimpin kita.
Kita mahu tahu Pasukan Petugas memberi pencerahan kepada kita mengenai peranan Jho Low yang terbukti sangat akrab dengan Mohd Najib, keluarganya serta ramai lagi pembesar dan pegawai tinggi Kerajaan Malaysia.
Apakah keistimewaan “dealmaker” kelahiran Pulau Pinang ini sehingga beliau begitu bebas dan terlindung? - a.kadir jasin, Baca seterusnya...
1MDB deals with S’pore banks worrying...
Veteran newsman Abdul Kadir Jasin has expressed concern that 1MDB could pose a risk to Malaysia’s sovereignty.
Among other areas of concern, he pointed to 1MDB’s dealings within the Singaporean banking system, which the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is privy to.
“If the MAS had not found anything bad, surely Bank Negara and the mainstream media would have said this. But instead, when MAS submitted its report to Bank Negara, its governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz says it is confidential.
“We
are worried that the information found by MAS and other outside parties
can be used as leverage to blackmail our leaders,” the former New Straits Times (NSTP) editor-in-chief said in a blog posting yesterday.Abdul Kadir (photo) was referring to a 1MDB-linked account at the BSI Bank Ltd Singapore, where US$1.103 billion (RM3.97 billion) in funds from 1MDB’s redemption of its Cayman Islands assets was kept.
There had been confusion over the form of the funds held by the bank – initially the Ministry of Finance said in a parliamentary reply that the funds were held in cash, but issued a correction months later that it was actually “assets in US dollars”.
Finance Minister II Husni Hanadzlah then clarified the assets were in fact in the form of "units" but refused to explain what he meant by that.
'Jho Low must testify'
Meanwhile, Abdul Kadir also hailed the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) decision on Friday to summon the tycoon Low Taek Jho to testify in its probe on 1MDB, questioning his apparent closeness with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and being seemingly ‘untouchable’ by the law.
He suggested that if Low, better known as Jho Low (photo),
refused to cooperate with the investigation, the PAC should lodge a
police report, so that the police can then rope in Interpol to track him
down.“If he is innocent and has nothing to hide, he should be brave enough to return to his homeland to face the PAC and clear his name,” he said.
PAC chief Nur Jazlan Mohamed had said that Low is being summoned to verify some issues in relation to his capacity as the special adviser to the chairperson of the advisory board of 1MDB’s precursor, the Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA).
Asked if the PAC would compel Low to attend the hearing, he replied, "We don't want to reach that stage but it's up to him.” - mk
Reporting On The Prime Minister...
Consider the following. If the task force produces a report, where will it submit it to? To whom will it submit the report? Most likely to the PMO and to the PM.
Let’s not be made silly fools by our PM and the government.
Let’s adopt the Napoleonic Code and hold these people who hold power, in the court of public opinion, guilty until they proved themselves innocent. This is the only way we keep them in check and balance.
Answer this. Will the PM approve a report that wrongs him?
Instead, he will call the 4 individuals and tell then. Mr IGP-here’s a file on you. It’s a thick one. Mr AG you have accumulated so much money. MRS Governor, your husband has been investigated for quite some time and we have these things on him. Mr MACC, these are reports on you and your staff.
These are not necessarily true but are highly possible.
Regulatory capture, the theory that explains the hows and whys any person who has power to regulate, if given a chance, will try to capture some benefits immediately or in future, will do so.
The theory says, it’s possible for the men and women of the highest standard of integrity to do strange things. And these 4 people are of people with the highest integrity in our nation.
When the PM says that, will the 4 people, all with skeletons in the cupboard and beholden to Najib and staying in office at the pleasure of Najib report anything but only that which clears Najib? Make me appear pristine he says.
The PM says he is confident that the task force will clear him. The DPM, who was just a few weeks ago was all fire and brimstone urging investigation into the Accountsgate scandal, has turned into a pussy cat declaring that he too, is confident in the task force.
Let’s not be made silly fools by our PM and the government.
Let’s adopt the Napoleonic Code and hold these people who hold power, in the court of public opinion, guilty until they proved themselves innocent. This is the only way we keep them in check and balance.
Answer this. Will the PM approve a report that wrongs him?
Instead, he will call the 4 individuals and tell then. Mr IGP-here’s a file on you. It’s a thick one. Mr AG you have accumulated so much money. MRS Governor, your husband has been investigated for quite some time and we have these things on him. Mr MACC, these are reports on you and your staff.
These are not necessarily true but are highly possible.
Regulatory capture, the theory that explains the hows and whys any person who has power to regulate, if given a chance, will try to capture some benefits immediately or in future, will do so.
The theory says, it’s possible for the men and women of the highest standard of integrity to do strange things. And these 4 people are of people with the highest integrity in our nation.
When the PM says that, will the 4 people, all with skeletons in the cupboard and beholden to Najib and staying in office at the pleasure of Najib report anything but only that which clears Najib? Make me appear pristine he says.
The PM says he is confident that the task force will clear him. The DPM, who was just a few weeks ago was all fire and brimstone urging investigation into the Accountsgate scandal, has turned into a pussy cat declaring that he too, is confident in the task force.
Do you think, these people will produce a report and meet up Muhyidin first? Muhyidin then summons enough courage to see the PM and say- look here man- this is a most damning Report which gives you no other choice but to leave office. The PM will merely answer- I haven’t seen the report myself so how can I verify what you say is true?
What about you yourself. You seek equity, but you must come with clean hands. I see your hands are as black as mine.
Then Muhyidin will beat a hasty retreat with his tails in between his legs.
We just can’t trust the PM and his cabal of ministers.
How can some improprieties directed at a sitting Prime Minister be met up with an insistence that he remain in office while investigations are carried out? He will impede investigation and will use all resources available to defeat the investigations.
Any self-respecting leader with a higher standard of propriety and probity than the ordinary person ought to take leave and allow investigation to take place. The PM can’t be expected to operate on the standard of probity belonging to that of a fishmonger at Pasar Selayang! He is the PM.
USD700 million is a huge sum of money. RM42 million is a big sum of money. There are issues of possible CBT and money laundering involved here. These are grave wrongs.
A leader with strict moral code will resign on lesser wrongs. Mark Harper the cabinet member in UK resigned when he was discovered to have employed an illegal immigrant.
Another cabinet member, Chris Huhne resigned for dodging speed limits.
Another minister, Denis Macshane resigned for having knowingly submitted numerous false expense claims over a three year period. He was a former Minister for Europe who resigned after the Standards and Privileges Committee concluded he had knowingly submitted 19 false invoices that were “plainly intended to deceive” Parliament's expenses authority.
These non-Muslims are behaving in a more exemplary manner than Najib,the muslim PM of 1Malaysia, whom one former finance minister described as utterly devoid of shame and moral standards.
Here the PM not only refuses to step down and allow investigation but constitute a task force mandating them to probably clean up all evidence linking him with any impropriety.
So we tell the PM and the DPM- unfortunately we shall suspend our judgment on the task force. - Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz@sakmongkol ak47
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diberikan kesihatan dan dilindungi Allah...
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