31 January 2016

Switzerland kata, US$4b dibalun daripada 1MDB...


Pihak berkuasa di Switzerland yang menyiasat 1MDB mendapati kira2 AS$4 bilion (RM16.8 bilion) daripada syarikat Malaysia disalahgunakan, dengan sebahagiannya dipindahkan ke beberapa bank Swiss oleh pegawai dari Malaysia dan UAE, lapor The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)..

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Tunai permintaan Switzerland, jangan jadi negara ‘pariah’...

Kerajaan Malaysia harus berkerjasama dengan pendakwa raya Switzerland yang melakukan siasatan terhadap 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) apabila mendapati kira-kira AS$4 bilion (RM16.8 bilion) daripada syarikat itu didakwa disalahguna, dengan sebahagiannya dipindahkan ke beberapa akaun bank Swiss oleh pegawai dari Malaysia dan Emiriyah Arab Bersatu.

Gesaan itu dibuat oleh bekas Menteri Kabinet Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, kerana kegagalan Malaysia memberi kerjasama berhubung permintaan tersebut, akan menyebabkan negara dilabel sebagai negara ‘pariah’ kerana membiarkan aktiviti jenayah.

“Jika mereka (Malaysia) mahu jadi sebahagian komuniti dunia bertamadun, menghormati undang-undang, mereka mestilah patuh kepada kepada arahan yang diberi dengan memberi kesemua maklumat yang diminta pihak berkuasa Switzerland,” katanya.

Zahid yang juga bekas menteri undang-undang berkata, tugas tersebut bukannya tugas muktlak Peguam Negara semata-mata, sebaliknya ia juga menjadi tanggungjawab Kabinet untuk mengeluarkan arahan kerana mereka mempunyai kuasa.

SWISS GO NUCLEAR - AG SAYS "US$4 BILLION WAS MISAPPROPRIATED FROM 1MDB"

Katanya, anggapan rakyat bahawa kuasa undang-undang ini terletak kepada Peguam Negara adalah tidak tepat kerana Kabinet berhak mengarahkan Peguam Negara untuk bertindak.

“Rakyat selalu fikir peguam negara ada banyak kuasa, beliau tidak, beliau mungkin nampak begitu, tetapi sebenarnya tidak berkuasa. Beliau (Peguam Negara) tidak ada kuasa menutup pasukan petugas khas, beliau tidak berkuasa menghentikan siasatan terhadap SPRM, beliau tidak ada semua itu,” katanya.

Zaid juga berkata, rakyat negara ini sepatutnya malu sekiranya pemerintah negara ini tidak bertindak di atas permintaan pihak berkuasa Switzerland.

Terdahulu pihak berkuasa Switzerland mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa kira-kira AS$4 bilion (RM16.8 bilion) daripada syarikat Malaysia disalahgunakan, dengan sebahagiannya dipindahkan ke beberapa bank Swiss oleh pegawai dari Malaysia. - fmt 

The Kedah Saga continues...

The fiasco was created by none other than Najib Razak’s own stooges, in the hopes to seize whatever power they perceive to gain before the run up of 2018 general election.

The comment is as below:

To deflect scorns heaped on them for the move to topple Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir, the mutineers and their ilk have “moralised” the plot on grounds that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, when he was Prime Minister had removed a Kedah Mentri Besar despite opposition from the majority of the State Assemblymen.

To them, if Dr Mahathir, the father of Mukhriz, can remove Tan Sri Osman Aroff, why can’t the current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak support their demand for the removal of Mukhriz?

Superficially, their ground sounds acceptable.

But a little scratching on the surface reveals there are numerous fundamental flaws to their justification and in fact, is hypocritical and of course, self-serving.

Firstly, Osman Aroff was removed in 1996, more than 11 years in office and by the time he resigned; he was already saddled with allegations of corruption, including a very public disclosure by one Syed Mansor Syed Salim.

Osman Aroff’s earlier threat of suing Syed Mansor and later reneging from pursuing it had scandalised the Mentri Besar, his office and Umno as well.

Lest people forget, two high-profiled scandals that dogged Osman Aroff were the Jerai International Park and the Kerpan tiger prawn-rearing project.

Secondly, the removal of Osman Aroff was pursued by Dr Mahathir, who himself is a Kedahan and the State Umno leader meaning that he would have the pulse of the state in his hand and his decision would have taken into consideration the impact of such move to the people in the State.

Thirdly, the push to remove Osman Aroff was not initiated by “unsuccessful” or failed politicians but rather by those who had successfully ensured a sound victory for Umno and Barisan Nasional in the 1995 general elections.


Tun Dr Mahathir and Osman Aroff
Mahathir and Osman Aroff

If fact, there was popular belief among Kedahans that Osman Aroff’s continued leadership would lead to Kedah falling to the Opposition in the subsequent election in particular because of the scandalous Kerpan project.

Juxtapose this to the move to remove Mukhriz.

He is only in his third year in office and not scandalised whatsoever. In fact, he is highly regarded among Kedahans and that cuts across party lines.

Secondly, the move to remove Mukhriz is initiated by those who had lost Kedah in the 2008 general election to the Opposition.

In desperation, the likes of Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanifah, chief mutineer and supported by Datuk Seri Mahadzir Khalid the Mentri Besar who lost the State in 2008, were prepared to turn to Mukhriz and agreed to him being made the Mentri Besar merely to win back the state.

This is not taking into consideration the likes of Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom and he had yet to convincingly clear himself up over the Yapeim foundation scandals regarding the use of public contributions in his overseas trips and purchase of a golf simulator.

In the line up was also Datuk Seri Azeez Rahim who chairs the national Pilgrimage Fund board or Tabung Haji. He too had not been able to convince the public over last year’s move to allegedly attempt to bailout the scandalous 1MDB sovereign fund by using the savings of pilgrims to buy a piece of land at an inflated price.

Being the more senior politicians, it was with their consent that Najib, who was also then desperate to win back Kedah, in the hope to affirm his position as the new Prime Minister, announced during the campaign in the State that Mukhriz would be the Mentri Besar if BN won.


Najib and Bashah
Najib and Bashah

In other words, Mukhriz is an important item in the Kedah BN manifesto in the 2013 general election. By removing Mukhriz, it means that Najib had reneged from a manifesto promise, against his own dictum of “Janji Ditepati (Fulfilling Promises)”.

As far as election manifestoes go, a promise made must be kept until the end of the term, meaning if Najib wants to remove Mukhriz, the least he could have done is to wait until the next election.

Furthermore, an election promise is to the people of Kedah and not merely an Umno/BN affair. To remove Mukhriz merely on the whims of self-serving Umno politicians is an insult to the people of Kedah.

If Najib and his Kedah apparatchiks insist that Mukhriz had lost the popular support, a survey conducted by the Information Department, a Federal agency, on more than 10,000 Kedahans over a period of two days (20 Jan to 21 Jan and adopting the snowball technique) showed 97 per cent of the respondents want Mukhriz to remain their Mentri Besar.

If that is not enough to convince Najib and the apparatchiks, they should get an independent body to conduct such surveys on themselves.

But until and unless they do that, they have to accept the popular sentiment – the rakyat has had enough of them. - jebatmustdie



cheers.

30 January 2016

Orang Sedekah Pasai Apa Bagi Balik...



Kalau emak saya celik huruf dan pandai mengarang, tentu dia tulis cerita derma Raja Arab kepada Perdana Menteri, (Datuk Seri Mappadulung Daeng Mattimung Karaeng Sanrobone) Mohd Najib bin Abdul Razak, lebih kurang macam ini:

“La, awat tak bagi tau awai-awai kata duit (AS$680 juta) tu Raja Arab bagi?

 “Kalu tau kata Raja Arab bagi pasai nak lawan orang jahat (kununnya Ikwanulmuslimin) tentu kita sokong.

“Ni dak, dok dalih sana dalih sini. Lepas tu siasat sana siasat sini. Buang oghang tu buang oghang ini. Buat menyusah dan perabih duit saja.

“Kalu awai-awai mengaku kata Raja Arab bagi pasai nak tulung Najib menang pilihan ghaya (2013) bukan ka baguih? Ni dak, semunyi sana semunyi sini macam kawaq.

“Kalau Raja Arab dah bagi sedekah kat dia, pasai apa nak bagi balik? Buruk siku.

“Kalu Raja Arab bagi pasai nak tulung dia menang pilihan raya, pasai apa tak pakai duit tu? Dok tak dok kata dah bagi balik (AS$620 juta).

“Raja Arab yang bagi sedekah tu dah mati. Macam mana nak tau betoi ka dia bagi? Kalau dia dah mati, macam mana nak bagi balik duit tu? Bagi balik kat sapa? Kat anak cucu dia ka?

“Ni kegheja (kerja) tak masuk akai. Kesian Raja Arab tu. Dia mati tu satu hai la. Tapi yang Najib dok pi bagi balik tu pasai apa? Macam mana nak kira pahala dia?

“Pasai Najib tak guna semua duit sedekah Raja Arab tu la kot dia tak menang besaq dalam pilihan ghaya  (2013)? Habih dia pakai duit sapa? Duit 1MDB kah?

 “Ni yang mak heran. Pasai apa dia tak guna duit Raja Arab tu? Pasai bila orang keghobek (cungkil) baghu dia nak mengaku duit tu duit derma Raja Arab?

“Raja Arab bagi AS$680 juta. Dia bagi balik AS$620 juta. Jadi dia guna AS$60 juta saja la masa pilihan ghaya. Pasai pa dia tak pakai semua atau pakai banyak sikit?

“Yang tok guru mak dulu kata, duit sedekah yang orang amanah kat kita, kita kena istihar dan kena guna untuk oghang ghamai. Bukan masuk poket seniri.

“Yang kata dia pon teghima sedekah RM42 juta daghi SRC International tu macam mana pulak? SRC tu raja negeri Arab jugak ka?

“Tak tau la cik oi. Mak penin kepala. Dulu masa ayah hang jadi ketua Umno kampung kita, dia tak ada duit pun sampai kena gadai barang mas mak.

“La ni depa dok cakap milion milion bilion bilion. Mak sikit pun tak faham parti jaga rakyat atau jaga temolok depa.”

“Malu juga la Perdana Menteri kita dok pi mintak sedekah daghi Raja Arab. Macam kita ni susah sangat. Baik lagi kalu dia mintak Raja Arab tambah kota (kuota) jemaah haji kita.”

Nota kaki: Ikut kisah seribu satu malam, yang bagi duit tu kepada Mohd Najib adalah Almarhum Raja Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Baginda mangkat pada 23 Januari 2015. Kementerian Luar dan Kementerian Dalam Negeri Saudi kata mereka tidak tahu menahu mengenai derma itu dan sama ada ia dikembalikan. Mohd Najib terima gelaran King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit daripada Raja Abdullah pada tahun 2010. - a.kadir jasin

Najib, Apandi ibarat ‘badut dan pak pandir’

Najib could have walloped the lot, but he is noble-hearted...

The debate over the RM2.6 billion donation has been raging for six months, and since Tuesday there has been a new twist, with the disclosure that RM2.03 billion was returned to the donor.

And now both detractors and supporters of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak are locking horns over this issue.

On the pro-Najib portal MyKMU.net, the target is veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin, whom it described as a fan of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The portal argued that the prime minister could have 'rembat' (walloped) the entire sum, but did not do so because he is not a bandit.

"The donation came in before the 13th general election. When the election was over, and the money was not used up, it (the remainder) was returned to the Saudi royal family.

"Najib has a noble heart. Kadir should not equate him with others, who would have pocketed all the money if they had a similar chance.

A noble hearted person would have made sure that the money was properly lodged and that everything would have been above board. The only reason he is 'noble' (as claimed) is that he was found out. If all of these things happened so long ago, then surely he could have come out with all the required evidence and documents to prove that he was noble and that all was accounted for. 

He could have turned up at the Nothing2Hide forum and produced all the evidence that would have shut all of us, me included, up. But he needed time, time to fabricate more lies and stories and documents so that he could be seen to have returned the money (from an apparently frozen account). BTW what's so noble about taking money from 1MDB (RM42 million)? His supporters do not seem to understand the definition of the word noble. To them it just means not to be totally corrupt. For them 95% is considered 'noble'. There is something fundamentally wrong with such reasoning. - GE14NOW!

MyKMU.net also urged Kadir, who has been critical of Najib, to refer to the BBC report on the donation.

In its report, BBC quoted a "well-placed" Saudi source, who wished to remain anonymous, as saying that the donation came from the late King Abdullah.

There are contradictory views on the authenticity of the donation allegedly made by the late Saudi ruler, King Abdullah, to Najib in March-April 2013. According to the BBC, an unnamed Saudi source has confirmed the deposition of US$681 million from the Saudi monarch into Najib's personal account.

A report in the Wall Street Journal however has cast doubts on the claim. It says that "A Saudi government official while declining to comment specifically on the prosecutor's statement said that the Saudi ministries of foreign affairs and finance had no information about such a gift and that a royal donation to the personal bank account of a foreign leader would be unprecedented".  - thesundaily

The money was channelled to Najib in order to win the 2013 general election amid concerns in Riyadh about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali also revealed that the investigations conducted by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) showed there were no elements of corruption.

Apandi said the sum was wired to Najib with no strings attached. - mk

If it is true, as suggested by the BBC story that the donation was to help Najib and the Barisan Nasional to win the 13th General Election in May 2013, it raises a serious ethical question.

How can the leader of a foreign nation – which incidentally does not hold elections – seek to determine the outcome of an election in our country through the use of money?

Wouldn't that be a violation of election rules? Would that be a corrupt act implicating both the giver and the recipient?

How would we have reacted if it was known that the President of Indonesia or the Prime Minister of Singapore had through secret donations, attempted to determine election results in Malaysia? 

Since the AG claims that US$620 million was returned to the sender in August 2013, one wonders why when it became public knowledge that there was a huge sum of money in the prime minister's personal bank account in July 2015, there was no attempt by Najib or anyone around him to inform the people that most of the money had been returned to the sender? It would have been in Najib's interest to do so which is why his silence for the last six months is puzzling.

If it is true that US$620 million was returned to the Saudi monarch in August 2013, was Bank Negara aware of it? When such a huge sum of money exits our banking system, wouldn't it have alerted our central bank? What was Bank Negara's response?

There is also the allegation that the money that was purportedly returned was actually kept frozen in a Singapore bank account. Was it unfrozen and sent back to the Saudi ruler? What is the role of the Singapore authorities in all this? 

The truth about the donation should be established once and for all.- thesundaily

There is nobody in Malaysia who believes about the Saudis donations  
mukhriz
Mukhriz masih MB, kata Najib
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MTUC,Cuepacs bantah potongan 3% KWSP pekerja
Story kat SINI dan SINI   


Semasa Mexico nak laksanakan North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA ) dengan Amerika, petani2 Mexico diberi keyakinan bahawa "Potato kita akan masuk ke pasaran Amerika. Hidup kita akan berubah.Nasib petani kita juga akan berubah!" Lepas tu rupa2nya Amerika ekspot semua sayurnya,potatonya, soyanya,gandumnya ke Mexico. Sampai lumpuh pertanian Mexico. Berjuta petani hilang pekerjaan. Ramai berhijrah secara haram ke negara lain.Mereka merempat di negeri sendiri. Jagung pun tiada harga. Inilah fakta negara yang pernah join Free Trade dengan Amerika. Kalu ini berlaku kepada TPPA,mai kita ludah di atas muka setiap ekoq MP BN ini...

The Broken Promise of Nafta

cheers.

29 January 2016

Mahathir keluaq UMNO,kalu Mukhriz gugur sebagai MB...



Dr Mahathir Mohamad dilaporkan akan keluar daripada Umno sekiranya pucuk pimpinan parti itu memutuskan untuk menyingkirkan anaknya daripada jawatan Menteri Besar Kedah.

Desas-desas tersebut tersebar sejurus selepas Tun Mahathir mengadakan perjumpaan tertutup bersama Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir di Langkawi lewat petang semalam lapor Suara TV.

Laporan itu turut menyebut, Tun Mahathir dikatakan kecewa dengan tindakan beberapa pimpinan Umno Kedah diketuai Timbalan Pengerusinya, Datuk Ahmad Bashah yang mengisytiharkan hilang kepercayaan terhadap Mukhriz dalam satu sidang media di Alor Setar, Kedah, Rabu lalu.

Mereka antara lainnya mendesak agar Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak melucutkan jawatan Mukhriz sebagai Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan Negeri dan Menteri Besar Kedah.

Menurut desas-desus yang tersebar itu, Tun Mahathir dikatakan marah dan mengugut akan mengumumkan keputusan untuk keluar parti sekiranya Umno bertegas untuk melantik Menteri Besar yang baharu.

Dr Mahathir pernah mengumumkan keluar UMNO pada 19 Mei 2008 kerana tidak yakin dengan kepimpinan penggantinya pada masa itu, Tun Abdullah Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan masuk semula UMNO setahun selepas itu.

Sementara itu portal myKMU.net melaporkan Kedah bakal mendapat Menteri Besar Ke-12 selewat-lewatnya Rabu ini apabila 20 daripada 21 Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun), Barisan Nasional (BN) bersetuju untuk menggantikan Mukhriz.

Menurut sumber portal tersebut, kesemua mereka telah menyatakan taat setia kepada Najib selaku Presiden UMNO.

Mereka juga dikatakan bersedia menghadap DYMM Tuanku Sultan Kedah sekiranya dipanggil untuk menyatakan sokongan mereka terhadap keputusan tersebut. - sozcyili.blogspot

AG 'revealed' additional RM27m transferred to PM...

Attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali may have inadvertently revealed there was an additional RM27 million from SRC International that went to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's personal accounts, claimed a DAP lawmaker.

Tony Pua said the additional transactions were revealed in a chart held up by Apandi during his press conference yesterday.

In a reproduction of the chart based on a photo from the press conference, Pua showed how in July 2014, RM35 million from SRC went to a construction firm and its subsidiary.



Of that amount, RM27 million ended up in what Pua claimed to be Najib's accounts.

"This was used to pay for Najib's credit cards," he alleged during a press conference at the Parliament lobby today.

This brings the total SRC money channeled to Najib to RM69 million, Pua added.

The MACC document waved at the press conference by Attorney General Mohammed Apandi shows a further RM27 million came into Najib’s account via the UBG-linked company Putrajaya Perdana Berhad.

Previously it was alleged by the Wall Street Journal that RM42 million or SRC funds made its way into Najib's accounts in 2014.

Apandi said yesterday Najib was unaware that any SRC money had made its way into his bank accounts.

The attorney-general said evidence showed that at all material times, the prime minister was of the belief that the "payments made by him" were made from the Saudi royal family's RM2.6 billion political donation. - mk

Apandi was appointed to clear his boss’name

Akira Amari Menteri Ekonomi Jepun yg terlibat dlm rundingan TPPA. Rupa2nya dia ni rasuah sejak 2013,didedahkan majalah Shukan Bunshun. Di Jepun sebuah majalah lapur sekali saja kes 'derma' politik. Hari itu juga Menteri terus resign. Tapi di Malaysia satu dunia dah lapur berbulan2 lamanya, tapi tak jadi apa2. Siap pula disekat blog dan portal2 yang buat laporan skandal Najib ambik duit.


Lagi contoh kekejaman gomen Guan Eng. Kesian orang Penang. 
Pergi kaunter nak bayar cukai, mereka tak mahu ambil duit.

cheers.

28 January 2016

Korban cuti raya siasat kes Najib, akhirnya frust juga kami...



Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) menghabiskan tujuh bulan untuk menyiasat kes membabitkan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Namun, Peguam Negara Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali semalam mengarahkan supaya kes itu ditutup kerana tiada alasan bagi memulakan pendakwaan.

Selepas menghadapi pelbagai halangan malah mengorbankan cuti Hari Raya, penyiasat yang bekerja siang malam kini berasa kecewa atas perkembangan terbaru itu, dedah sumber.

"Kami bekerja sepanjang bulan puasa, bahkan berbuka puasa dan bersahur di pejabat untuk jalankan siasatan.

"Kami tak balik ke rumah bertemu keluarga dan ramai antara kami mengorbankan cuti raya pada tahun lepas untuk siasat kes ini," kata sumber itu yang enggan namanya didedahkan.

Sumber itu menegaskan SPRM menyiasat kes itu secara bebas, dengan hanya menumpukan kepada fakta. Bahkan pegawai-pegawai SPRM juga terpaksa berhadapan dengan tekanan pihak polis yang menyiasat mereka berhubung dokumen yang bocor.

Ini termasuk apabila rumah dan pejabat bekas Timbalan Pendakwa Raya SPRM, Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairi diserbu anggota cawangan khas.

Dua pegawai kanan iaitu Pengarah Operasi Khas SPRM Datuk Bahri Mohamad Zin dan Pengarah Komunikasi Strategik SPRM Rohaizad Yaakob Zin turut dipindahkan ke Jabatan Perdana Menteri. Namun keputusan itu dibatalkan selepas mendapat kritikan.

Keadaan itu bertambah buruk hingga SPRM mengadakan solat hajat untuk memohon petunjuk dan perlindungan.

Semalam, Peguam Negara Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali berkata, tiada kesalahan jenayah dilakukan Najib berhubung sumbangan RM2.6 bilion yang dimasukkan ke akaun peribadinya serta siasatan berkaitan SRC International.

Sehubungan itu, beliau berkata pihaknya mengarahkan supaya kertas siasatan kes tersebut ditutup.- mk

Apandi tidak berhak arah SPRM henti siasat Najib

The attorney-general rejected advice to charge PM: source

MACC proposed three charges under Penal Code...

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had purportedly recommended three charges for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak under Section 403 of the Penal Code, according to sources familiar with the investigations.

It is understood that the charges involved the transfer of funds originating from SRC International to Najib's bank accounts.

Section 403 concerns “dishonest misappropriation of property”.

The recommendation, sources claimed, was made to the Attorney-General’s Chambers but Malaysiakini could not obtain an official confirmation.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources indicated there was "circumstantial evidence" to charge the prime minister with possible abuse of power following allegations of funds being deposited into his private bank accounts.

A possible hindrance to this, said the sources, would be the prime minister denying personal knowledge of the matter.

According to the law, to prove abuse of power, the authorities need to show the person having knowledge of the said funds.

Yesterday, attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali said Najib had no knowledge nor was he informed about the SRC transfer.

Therefore, sources familiar with the case, said the commission proposed charges under Section 403 instead, which stated “whoever dishonestly misappropriates, or converts to his own use or causes any other person to dispose of, any property can be punished under this section”.

“We have various strong case laws and Malaysian cases in securing conviction under Section 403.

“This is what was recommended but Apandi did not answer this in his press conference yesterday,” said one of the sources.



The Penal Code provides various illustrations in regard to Section 403 – one of which states that supposedly A takes property belonging to Z out of Z's possession, in good faith, believing at the time when he takes it, that the property belongs to himself, A is not guilty of theft; but if A, after discovering his mistake, dishonestly appropriates the property to his own use, he is guilty of an offence under this section.

Those found guilty are liable for a jail sentence of not less than six months and not more than five years, with whipping and shall also be liable to a fine.

Investigators also claimed that the funds from SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary now under the Finance Ministry, came from the Retirement Fund Inc (KWAP), a pension fund for government servants.

“We monitored the money trail and it came from KWAP,” said one investigator.

Last November, SRC International said the entire RM4 billion loaned to KWAP on normal commercial terms is fully accounted for in its balance sheet, in accordance with standard accounting and governance practices.

The firm expressed disappointment that "fabricated material with malicious intent" was published by certain media to suggest that these funds had been misappropriated.

Najib has always denied abusing public funds for personal gain or committing any wrongdoing, and has blamed such allegations on those attempting to architect his downfall.

Yesterday, Apandi (photo) announced that after having studied the MACC’s investigation papers, he was satisfied Najib did not commit any criminal offence.

He added that he would return the papers to MACC with the instruction for the commission to close the investigation.

This apparently did not go down well with senior MACC officials.

MACC's director of special operations Bahri Mohd Zin today told the Star Online that the commission is likely to appeal, as he described the cases as “straightforward”.

MACC not allowed to probe RM2.6b ‘donation’ overseas

Meanwhile, sources claimed that investigators were prevented from probing the money trail outside of Malaysia.

This is despite reports earlier claiming that MACC recorded statements from SRC International's managing director Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil and director Mohd Suboh Yasin – both of whom are overseas.

It is understood that the MACC officers sought assistance to investigate the RM2.6 billion donation by utilising the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Treaty that Malaysia has inked with several countries.

During the Perwaja Bhd case involving its managing director, Eric Chia, then attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail allowed the probe to be conducted in both Switzerland and Hong Kong under the MLA, where statements were recorded from witnesses in the two countries.


najib-saudi-king

The donation was said to be from the Saudi royal family, which was transferred to Najib in two tranches in 2013 as political donation ahead of the 13th general election.

Yesterday, Apandi said investigations showed the sum was given without strings attached and the prime minister returned RM2.03 billion in August the same year.

However, sources said information about the prime minister returning a substantial sum back to the donor was not from the MACC investigation papers.

Contacted for comment, Bahri remained tightlipped on whether the investigation papers recommended charges against the prime minister.

“I do not wish to comment on that. As I mentioned before, the next step is to work towards appealing the AG’s decision,” he told Malaysiakini.

Despite attempts to call and message, Malaysiakini is still awaiting Apandi’s response. - mk

SPRM cadang 3 pendakwaan pada Najib

MACC can challenge Apandi in court...

A court ruling last year could allow the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to legally challenge attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali.

Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) legal coordinator Michelle Yesudas said a court ruling last year disputes how absolute the AG's powers are.

"In a recent case, High Court judge Vazeer Alam ruled that the decision of the AG can be challenged if it is based on an irrelevant consideration, exercised unlawfully, or if it is an abuse of power," Michelle told Malaysiakini.

She was citing Justice Vazeer's ruling, in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, in dismissing former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail's application to strike out the suits by former Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Ramli Yusuff and his lawyer Rosli Dahlan.

Ramli and Rosli are suing Gani, former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan and ironically, several MACC officers, for abuse of power, malfeasance in the performance of their public duty, malicious prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct, among others.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Azalina Othman Said then told the people not to question Apandi's decision, declaring that Apandi had absolute powers to make such decisions.

However, Michelle said discretionary powers do not make an AG immune from public scrutiny.

"This alone should be a ground for reform, not a ground to prevent the general public from forming opinions about important scandals that involve our prime minister and public funds.

"(Azalina's) statement is a low blow to free speech, democratic participation and an excuse to police the rakyat's opinion and to deter critical thinking," Michelle said.

Article 145(3) of the federal constitution grants the AG absolute discretionary powers on whether or not to pursue prosecution, except in syariah, native or military courts. - mk

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Why return RM2b when we need it to fight extremism?

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Hari Selasa ke-30 sebenarnya bukan nak saman WSJ, tetapi tutup kes...



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27 January 2016

Bagaimana wang 'beku' boleh dipulangkan...





Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mempersoalkan penjelasan peguam negara bahawa Datuk Seri Najib Razak memulangkan kembali sebahagian besar wang sumbangan diterimanya kepada kerabat diraja Saudi.

“Bagaimana dan bila ia dibuat? Kita diberitahu bahawa bakinya dibekukan oleh Singapura.

“Boleh Singapura jelaskan berkaitan unfreezing dan penghantaran balik kepada Saudi?” soalnya dalam tulisan di blognya hari ini.

Dalam posting blognya,beliau juga membangkitkan persoalan sama ada Singapura yang merupakan sebuah pusat kewangan akan begitu mudah tertipu.

Peguam Negara Tan Sri Apandi Ali semalam berkata US$620 (RM2.03) daripada AS$681 yang diterima dipulangkan semula kerana tidak diguna pakai.

Pada 22 Julai tahun lalu, Reuters melaporkan bahawa pihak polis Singapura telah membekukan dua akaun bank susulan siasatan terhadap dakwaan salah urus kewangan dan rasuah berkaitan 1MDB.

Selain itu, Mahathir juga mengakui terkejut dengan keputusan peguam negara yang memutuskan bahawa perdana menteri tidak melakukan apa-apa perbuatan jenayah apabila wang RM2.6 bilion dimasukkan ke akaun peribadi Najib.

"Mempunyai sejumlah wang seperti itu di dalam akaun perdana menteri pun sudah menjadi kesalahan walaupun ia mungkin bukan jenayah.

"Tetapi peguam negara sekarang mengumumkan wang tersebut merupakan hadiah daripada Arab Saudi.

"Dan peguam negara membuat kesimpulan bahawa tiada kes untuk Najib menjawab. Beliau juga mengarahkan SPRM untuk menutup kes itu dan hentikan siasatan," katanya lagi.

Bekas pemimpin negara itu juga secara sinis mempersoalkan SPRM yang sepatutnya menjadi sebuah badan bebas tetapi dilihat seolah-olah menerima arahan daripada Apandi.

"Saya fikir SPRM adalah sebuah badan yang bebas. Tetapi kini ia seolah-olah berada di bawah peguam negara dan mengambil arahan daripada dia.

"Tidak hairanlah Malaysia termasuk di kalangan sepuluh negara yang paling korup di dunia. Badan pencegahan rasuahnya tidak bebas," kata Mahathir lagi. - mk

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RM2.6b case: Dr M ropes in S’pore, wants explanation...

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has roped in Singapore into the RM2.6 billion donation issue after the attorney-general cleared Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak of any wrongdoing.

In a blog posting, the former premier noted how attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali said that Najib had returned RM2.03 billion back to the Saudi royal family in August 2013.

“How and when was this done?

“We are told the balance is frozen by Singapore. Can Singapore explain the unfreezing and the delivery back to the Saudis?

“Or does Singapore also believe in the free gift story, the letter and the Saudi admission?

“Singapore is a financial centre. Can it be so gullible?” he asked.

On July 22 last year, Reuters reported that Singaporean police had frozen two bank accounts in connection with an investigation into alleged financial mismanagement and graft at 1MDB.

"On July 15, 2015, we issued orders under the Criminal Procedure Code to prohibit any dealings in respect of money in two bank accounts that are relevant to the investigation," Singapore police had said in a statement.

However, the police did not identify the banks or the accounts in question because the investigation was still ongoing.

Malaysian authorities had claimed that the sum had originated from a Middle Eastern source and not from 1MDB as some had alleged.

Yesterday, Apandi said investigations revealed that the RM2.6 billion was a donation from the Saudi royal family ahead of the general election in May 2013 and was given without strings attached.

'A letter from a deceased person not enough'

Meanwhile, Mahathir said there appeared to be a letter stating that the sum was for the prime minister to fight against terrorism.

“Who is this Arab? How does he have huge sum of money to give away? What is his business, what is his bank? How was the money transferred, what documents prove these?

“Just a letter from a deceased person or some nonentity is not enough...,” he said.

International news organisations have published conflicting versions of this donation issue, where an unnamed source told BBC the money came from the late Saudi monarch, King Abdullah. The Wall Street Journal, however, claimed that Saudi ministries were in the dark. - mk

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cheers.

26 January 2016

Hooooray... kawaq dah pulangkan duit...



Sorry guys, I am out of words today, begitu juga jutaan rakyat Malaysia... Maaf, pasai terlalu lama ketawa, aku nak pi tidoq sat...

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TAKE NOTE: Apandi Ali merupakan bekas calon UMNO pada PRU 1990 dan bekas Ketua Pemuda UMNO di bahagian Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan.

Tiada PM semulia & paling zuhud di dunia Najib Razak dah dapat derma pulang balik derma tersebut. Pasti Rosmah Mansor tak dapat tidur lena gara2 derma bilion2 ringgit tu dah dipulangkan balik...

Hangpa percayakah...


Pak Lebai ni marah pasai...
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Tabung Haji sahkan amaran Bank Negara...
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Tak cukup kah orang2 Najib diletakkan 
secara berjemaah dalam Tabung Haji...



UMNO, nak hina pun tak boleh la ni...

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