Najib dan Jho Low – sapa tikam sapa dulu...

Malaysia tidak pernah menjadi terkenal atau tidak terkenal di dunia sejak seminggu lalu selepas dua buku tentang skandal rasuah dan pengubahan wang haram 1MDB diterbitkan – semuanya atas alasan yang salah.

Saya berasa malu apabila mendapati buku “The Billion Dollar Whale” karangan Tom Wright dan Bradley Hope dipamerkan di kedai-kedai buku di Australia, sama ada di lapangan terbang atau di bandar-bandar Australia yang saya lawati. Saya tertanya-tanya bagaimana agaknya reaksi dua watak protagonis 1MDB, bekas Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan hartawan Pulau Pinang, Jho Low.

Adakah Najib bangga bahawa buku yang mengisahkan mengenai skandal membabitkan dirinya itu sedang bersaing untuk mendapatkan ruang di kedai-kedai buku dengan buku “Fear” yang menghuraikan malapetaka pentadbiran Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Donald Trump, di White House oleh Pemenang Hadiah Pulitzer, Bob Woodward.

Adakah Jho Low merasa bahawa dia telah mencapai kemuncak kemasyuran global sebagai subjek buku terlaris di dunia tentang bagaimana seorang lelaki muda berusia 20-an berjaya membolosi sistem kewangan antarabangsa untuk mendapatkan puluhan bilion ringgit, walaupun ia milik 30 juta rakyat Malaysia dan generasi seterusnya yang perlu membayar wang yang dirompak secara kreatif itu?

Tetapi satu soalan menarik timbul ketika saya membaca laporan terbaru dari Editor Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown, bahawa Jho Low sedang mencari penyelesaian dengan Jabatan Keadilan AS mengenai litigasi kleptokratik terbesar dalam sejarah Amerika Syarikat untuk merampas kira-kira AS$1.7 bilion yang berkaitan dengan aset 1MDB di Amerika Syarikat.

Persoalan yang menarik itu adalah daripada kedua-dua mereka, Najib dan Jho Low, siapa yang akan mula menikam satu sama lain dalam “kes kleptokrasi terburuk” 1MDB. Percubaan Jho Low untuk mencari penyelesaian berhubung saman DOJ AS itu bukan menjadi kes pertama seumpamanya. Malah anak tiri Najib, Riza Aziz, juga sudah melakukan perkara sama.

Pada Mac tahun ini, Red Granite Pictures – syarikat pengeluaran filem yang dikaitkan dengan skandal 1MDB – mencapai penyelesaian dengan kerajaan AS berhubung tuntutan berjumlah AS$60 juta (RM234 juta). Bayaran itu sebagai ganti kepada aset Red Granite yang mahu dirampas oleh DOJ, sebagai sebahagian daripada saman pelucutan sivil yang melibatkan 1MDB.

Mengikut penyelesaian itu, ketua pegawai eksekutif Red Granite, Riza Aziz – anak tiri Najib – hanya akan menerima gaji terhad untuk melayakkannya menerima insurans kesihatannya sehingga jumlah pembayaran penuh dibayar. Riza – ‘pemegang saham majoriti’ – tidak akan terus mengambil gaji, selain daripada jumlah minimum yang diperlukan untuk memastikan kesinambungan perlindungan insurans kesihatan di bawah pelan Red Granite, sehingga jumlah pelucuthakan telah dibayar sepenuhnya.

DOJ mendakwa bahawa AS$64 juta yang didakwa merupakan dana 1MDB yang diselewengkan telah disalurkan kepada Red Granite, dan digunakan untuk membiayai penerbitan filem, termasuk filem “The Wolf of Wall Street” oleh Martin Scorsese pada 2013. Menurut dokumen mahkamah, Red Granite tidak mengakui sebarang liabiliti atau salah laku di bawah penyelesaian tersebut.

Pembayaran akan dibuat melalui tiga fasa, yang akan melihat keuntungan daripada filem “Daddy’s Home” pada tahun 2015 dipindahkan daripada pengedar Paramount Pictures ke akaun yang dikawal oleh kerajaan AS dan disalur semula ke Red Granite sebaik jumlah penyelesaian dibayar sepenuhnya.

Dalam satu kenyataan, Red Granite berkata pihaknya gembira kerana akhirnya perkara itu telah diselesaikan dan berharap “dapat memfokuskan semula semua perhatian kami kepada perniagaan filem kami”. Red Granite menegaskan bahawa ia tidak sengaja menggunakan wang yang dicuri untuk membiayai filemnya.

Riza dituduh menggunakan dana itu untuk membeli hartanah mewah dari ahli perniagaan Jho Low, serta poster filem. DOJ mendakwa bahawa anak tiri Perdana Menteri itu juga mendakwa bahawa AS$94 juta daripada dana 1MDB yang diterimanya adalah “hadiah”.

Dalam laporan terbaru di portal Sarawak Report, dikatakan bahawa pasukan undang-undang Low yang baru, yang diketuai oleh bekas pendakwa raya persekutuan dan Gabenor New Jersey, Chris Christie, bakal mengadakan pertemuan di peringkat atasan dengan pegawai DOJ.

Menurutnya, percubaan untuk mencari penyelesaian itu adalah pengakuan dari Low yang dia tidak mungkin dapat menyakinkan mahkamah AS untuk mengembalikan aset bernilai sekitar AS$1.2 bilion yang telah dirampas oleh pihak berkuasa atas alasan bahawa ia didakwa diperolehi menggunakan dana yang dicuri dari 1MDB.

“Bagaimanapun, dengan membuat perjanjian itu, hartawan yang menghadapi tuduhan jenayah di Malaysia, Singapura, Switzerland dan di tempat lain, termasuk Amerika Syarikat, berharap untuk mengekalkan beberapa nilai aset tersebut,” kata laporan itu.

Menurut laporan itu, perkara ini berlaku di tengah-tengah kebimbangan bahawa pasukan undang-undang itu sendiri telah dibayar oleh Low menggunakan dana yang didakwa dicuri dari 1MDB.

Kata laporan itu lagi, kesediaan AS untuk berbincang mengenai penyelesaian tersebut adalah supaya ia boleh memberi tumpuan kepada aspek lain dalam skandal 1MDB, seperti peranan gergasi kewangan Goldman Sachs dalam mengatur bon bernilai berbilion ringgit untuk 1MDB yang kemudiannya disalahgunakan.

“Bank itu telah menimbulkan kemarahan dan perasaan tidak senang orang Amerika ekoran peranannya dalam menyebabkan kejatuhan pasaran saham pada tahun 2008 dan belum ada pengurus bank yang telah diarahkan untuk memberi penjelasan setakat ini.

“Kecuaian yang ketara dan jumlah wang yang besar yang diperoleh melalui 1MDB telah memberikan para penyiasat AS bukti yang paling menarik terhadap apa yang dikatakan oleh ramai sebagai tingkah laku penyangak oleh bank besar itu,” katanya.

Bagaimanapun, laporan itu berkata penyelesaian berkenaan pasti tidak akan dipersetujui pihak berkuasa Malaysia.

Ia menambah bahawa Amerika Syarikat baru-baru ini juga enggan memberikan jaminan kepada Malaysia bahawa semua aset yang disita yang telah diperoleh dari dana 1MDB yang dicuri akan dikembalikan secara keseluruhannya.

“Ini tidak bermakna AS tidak akan mengembalikan wang itu ke Malaysia, tetapi ia bermakna Amerika Syarikat bertegas untuk mengawal proses itu dan termasuk kemungkinan menyelesaikan kes itu kurang daripada jumlah keseluruhan,” kata sumber seperti dipetik laporan itu.

Adalah sesuai untuk mendapatkan penjelasan dari pihak berkuasa mengenai perkembangan skandal 1MDB ini. – Roketkini.com

No one can save UMNO...

Umno grassroots have wrongly elected Ahmad Zahid as their new chief because he has all this while been a good follower but lacks what it takes to be a leader. He does not have macroscopic views and big ambitions, and is no match for Mahathir or Anwar.

When he was Umno Youth chairman in the 1990s, he was a supporter of Anwar. He criticized Mahathir's cronyism, and was once detained under ISA after Anwar was sacked. After Mahathir stepped down from office, he followed Abdullah and Najib, and made steady progress in the party by means of rightist gestures.

He went to see Mahathir after the 14th general elections, and it was said that he was seeking advice on managing Umno. He even allowed Najib to forward his question on the KL-Singapore high speed rail project at Dewan Rakyat, as if he had no idea how to be lead the country's largest opposition party. Four months after GE14, he has yet to come up with a plan to reform Umno but has instead opted to walk down Najib's old path of collaborating with PAS, albeit openly this time.

Meanwhile, he still hopes to tie up with PPBM and PKR in hope of securing a short-cut approach to Putrajaya. His appearance at PAS general assembly sparked protest among the party's moderates, and hence a new wave of exodus from party. Former international trade and industry minister Mustapa Mohamed has been working very hard for the past two decades to fight PAS in Kelantan, but his party now decides to forge a closer relationship with the Islamist party.

Hailing from the state of Sabah, former foreign minister Anifah Aman has also found himself unable to betray his people who are strongly against PAS. Prior to this, there were already three Umno MPs quitting the party, namely Bagan Serai MP Noor Azmi Ghazali, Bukit Gantang MP Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz and Masjid Tanah MP Mas Ermieyati. Former Puteri Umno chief Mas Ermieyati left Umno after the party elections, claiming that she was utterly disappointed with the party for lack of willpower to change.

As a matter of fact, the seed of Umno's crisis was sowed long ago during Mahathir's time, when a leader was found bribing the grassroots to get elected as divisional chief. It became worse during Najib's time, when cash was openly distributed. It is money politics that eats into the party's fighting spirit.

The poor showing in GE13 prompted Najib to tilt towards the right, expediting the departure of more liberal leaders within the party, including former deputy higher education minister Saifuddin Abdullah who left Umno in 2015 over 1MDB and RM2.6 billion donation scandals and joined PKR. Saifuddin was appointed foreign minister after winning the Indera Mahkota parliamentary seat in the May 9 elections.

Umno should have moved back to centrism after losing the elections, but unfortunately Ahmad Zahid does not seem to see this, While Najib made use of Jamal Yunus to create havoc, Zahid is now making use of supreme council member Lokman Adam to stage street protests. Lokman has earlier suggested to transform BN into a Malay-centric coalition that should include also PAS.

Ahmad Zahid has alleged that Mustapa and Anifah left the party out of their own agendas without reflecting on himself what he has done to revive the party. He says Umno members must be sincere, and must have noble fighting spirit. The thing is: does Umno still have any fighting spirit at all? Secretary-general Annuar Musa has predicted that PH can only rule for two and a half years at most, but has failed to foresee the crisis right within his own party.

Judging from the current developments, Umno's elected reps and support base will eventually drift towards PH. Wresting back Putrajaya in GE15? Fat hope! Thanks to a whole string of negativities, including 25 new charges slapped on Najib, Umno's decline is almost an irreversible fact now. Umno reps and members will abandon their party even if PH does nothing to sabotage it.

Following the crisis encountered by Umno, opposition parties have no choice but to institute painful reforms and restructuring leading to a brand new opposition alliance to compete with PH. A weak opposition may not be a good thing for PH. If the ruling coalition is relieved of the sense of crisis, it may slow down its reform process, and may even kickstart the dangerous power game. - mysinchew

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Hipokrit lebai serban dan jubah...

Seorang pemilik pusat tahfiz di Kepong ditahan polis selepas disyaki melakukan gangguan seksual selain meliwat penuntut berusia belasan tahun sejak beberapa bulan lalu

Difahamkan sembilan mangsa berusia seawal 12 tahun dipaksa secara seksual melakukan perbuatan jijik oleh suspek berusia awal 30-an.

Sumber berkata, kejadian didedahkan beberapa tenaga pengajar di pusat tahfiz itu selepas mereka menerima aduan daripada penuntut.

Menurutnya, semua pelajar terbabit sudah dibawa ke Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen Kuala Lumpur (IPKKL) untuk diambil keterangan sebelum dihantar ke Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) untuk pemeriksaan lanjut.

“Perbuatan keji itu mula terbongkar selepas beberapa mangsa mengadu kepada tenaga pengajar di pusat itu.

“Selepas yakin dengan bukti dikumpulkan, seramai tiga tenaga pengajar di pusat tahfiz itu sepakat membawa semua mangsa ke IPKKL untuk membuat laporan polis minggu lalu sebelum kes disiasat oleh Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Seksual, Penderaan dan Kanak-Kanak ( D11) ,” katanya.

“Hasil laporan perubatan oleh pihak HKL mengesahkan seorang mangsa diliwat hingga mengalami kecederaan usus manakala selebihnya berdepan gangguan emosi yang teruk.

“Mangsa lain mendakwa dipaksa melakukan onani , mandi bersama, diraba selain pelbagai perbuatan tidak masuk akal oleh suspek yang juga mudir pusat tahfiz itu,” katanya.

Ada antara mangsa bawah umur ini mendakwa dibawa suspek ke beberapa penginapan di Bukit Bintang dan Chow Kit untuk melakukan perbuatan keji itu.

Susulan laporan itu, polis menahan suspek sebelum direman untuk siasatan lanjut mengikut Seksyen 377 Kanun Keseksaan atas jenayah liwat dan Seksyen 354 Kanun Keseksaan kerana cabul.

“Suspek bagaimanapun sudah dibebaskan dengan jaminan polis. Kertas siasatan sudah diserahkan kepada Timbalan Pendakwa Raya dan menunggu masa untuk pendakwaan,” katanya.

Pihak polis yang dihubungi mengesahkan menerima laporan berhubung kejadian itu, namun enggan mengulas lanjut.

Difahamkan suspek akan dibicarakan bulan depan. - BH

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Mujahid kata orang yang lakukan liwat tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja. 

Jika mereka bekerja, mereka hendaklah dibuang dan diambil tindakan....

Sekolah Tahfiz dan kes liwat...

Kebelakangan ini macam2 kes belaku di sekolah TAHFIZ. Dulu pasal banggunan rumah kediaman yang di ubahsuai menjadi sekolah asrama tahfiz. Satu demi satu kes asrama tahfiz terbakar kerana banggunan tidak sesuai.

Kerajaan negeri tidak ada piawaian khas untuk sekolah tahfiz ini. Orang Melayu bila dengar sekolah tahfiz sahaja, buat tak tahu je kerana mereka kata itu urusan Allah. Kesian kat ustaz.

Ramai orang tidak tahu yang ustad2 ini kaya raya dengan mendapat bayarkan yuran dari ibubapa Dan penderma2. Selain dari itu bila kita berhenti di R&R di seluruh negara kita akan jumpa budak2 tahfiz ini menjual produk2 ustaz mereka. Ramai yang tidak membeli tapi memberi sedekah sahaja.

Saya faham, sekolah agama dan sekolah tahfiz adalah dalam kuasa negeri dan sultan2 masing2. Tetapi Jabatan agama Islam negeri tidak ada dasar Pendidikan Agama dan piawaian khas untuk sekolah tahfiz ke? Bagi mendirikan hostel, kita ada piawaian tertentu. Bagi menguruskan makan pun ada piawaian tertentu. 

Terdapat tahfiz membuatkan bilik besar kandang kuda dengan 10 orang. Makanan yang tak berzat dan berkongsi dalam talam tanpa kira kebersihan. Alasan mereka adalah mengikut Sunnah. Ustaz Yang mengendalikan sekolah mampu Beli banglo dan kereta besar. Ada yang beli motorsikal besar. Kemana kesusahan ya pelajar2 tahfiz ini? Bila masuk bulan Ramadan, saya lihat masjid2 dan surau2 sibuk import qari dan imam dari negeri Arab dan tidak gunakan anak2 muda yang kelulusan tahfiz ini.

Tajuk utama saya dalam tulisan ini ialah mengenai kes liwat di sekolah tahfiz. Apa sudah jadi dengan negara kita? Dulu kita kata sekolah asrama penuh seperti Maktab Melayu Kuala Kangsar dan setaraf dengannya yang banyak kes2 liwat. Sekarang gejala ini sudah merebak kepada sekolah tahfiz. Dulu Kita juga Ada dengar tok imam, guru alquran merogol pelajar kanak2. Sekarang kes liwat oleh ustaz dan pembantu ustaz.

Pada tahun 2016 kita digemparkan dengan kes pendedahan mengenai jenayah cabul yang berlaku di sebuah sekolah Maahad Tahfiz. Isu itu didedahkan oleh dua individu yang dikenali ramai iaitu Wardina Safiyyah dan Syed Azmi. Wardina dan Syed Azmi mendedahkan kisah cabul tersebut di laman Facebook masing-masing dengan tujuan sebagai wakil kepada pengadu yang menjumpai jalan buntu bagaimana mahu menyelesaikan kes terbabit. Namun, sekalipun tidak mendedahkan nama Maahad Tahfiz berkenaan apatah lagi pemiliknya.

Semuanya bermula apabila salah seorang pelajar berusia 9 tahun memberitahu ustaz gantian bahawa dia membenci sekolah tersebut kerana dicabul kehormatan. “Dua minggu kemudian, tiga orang budak lari dari sekolah. Salah seorang mengadu kepada ibu bapa, ibu bapa ini memberitahu ibu bapa lain. Bermula dari sini, kisah ini terungkai,” jelas Syed Azmi.

Setelah ibu bapa pelajar tersebut membuat laporan polis, nama dan pemilik Maahad Tahfiz berkenaan terus tersebar. Ia dipercayai dimiliki oleh pendakwah terkenal, Dato’ Ustaz Kazim Elias.

Masyarakat Islam dan melayu apakah ini? Ustaz ini masih di sanjung tinggi dan bebas berceramah di TV. Gejala seks terhadap kanak-kanak semakin meruncing dalam masyarakat kita. Kenapa Kerajaan tidak ambil tindakan serious?

Semalam, NSTP melaporkan seorang pemilik pusat tahfiz di Kepong Kuala Lumpur, ditahan pihak polis selepas disyaki melakukan gangguan seksual selain meliwat penuntut berusia belasan tahun sejak beberapa bulan lalu. Timbalan Ketua Polis Kuala Lumpur, Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob, berkata suspek dituduh di Mahkamah Seksyen Putrajaya mengikut Seksyen 14 Akta Kesalahan-Kesalahan Seksual Terhadap Kanak-Kanak 2017. Laporan polis dibuat oleh seorang guru di pusat tahfiz berkenaan yang tampil bersama kesemua mangsa pada 13 September lalu. Sembilan pelajar pusat tahfiz itu berusia 11 hingga 16 tahun memaklumkan kepada guru berkenaan mengenai perbuatan suspek, 30-an, yang juga pengetua pusat tahfiz terbabit yang mencabul dan meliwat mangsa.

Saya harap semoga insiden seperti ini akan mengerakkan pihak kerajaan menggubal undang-undang atau menyediakan seliaan, garis panduan dan piawaian bagi semua Maahad Tahfiz dan sekolah berasrama bagi mengelakkan insiden-insiden yang tidak diingini berlaku di masa akan datang. Kita perlu membersihkan semua asrama dan sekolah dari gejala buli dan seumpamanya. Sungguh memalukan cara orang berugama tidak tahup pengurusan dan mentadbir. Pejabat agama di negara ini perlu di rombak dan urustadbir pejabat tidak boleh di kendalikan oleh ustaz dan ustazah yang tidak mahir.

Pada saya jika mana2 ustaz yang tidak mampu mengikut syarat2 piawaian yang ketat dan memakan kos yang tinggi tak payah lah buka tahfiz. Jika masih mahu jadi ustaz, makan gaji sahaja. Bagi Kerajaan negeri, hentikan sekolah pondok yang tidak ikut piawaian hostel. Bina sekolah asrama yang betul dengan guru dan pengurusan yang mempunyai taraf antarabangsa. Jangan malukan negara dan agama Islam. - Mior Rosli TUDM Bersara

UMNO tak sepatutnya merangkak cari PAS

Najib faces life in jail,but is Jho Low 

the real 1MDB mastermind?

Malaysian prosecutors on Thursday slapped an additional 25 charges on the former prime minister Najib Razak over his alleged links to the multibillion-dollar scandal at state investment fund 1MDB, leaving the 64-year-old facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind prison walls.

The new charges piled pressure on the former leader as he reeled from a tumultuous fortnight in which unrelated money-laundering charges were laid against his lawyer Shafee Abdullah and key allies left his United Malays National Organisation (Umno) political party, which was the key player in the Barisan Nasional coalition that had run Malaysia for 60 years.

And things for Najib could be about to get worse – according to local media reports, attorney general Tommy Thomas is preparing charges against one of his family members, widely believed to be his wife Rosmah Mansor.

Of the 25 new charges, four are for corruption, nine are for money laundering, seven for transferring illicitly obtained funds, and five for the use of ill-gotten gains. Najib pleaded not guilty.

The new charges are linked directly to the 1MDB scandal. Investigators have claimed that some US$700 million of 1MDB funds were wired into Najib’s bank accounts. 1MDB was 42 billion ringgit (US$10 billion) in debt at the time of the scandal.

The most serious of the 25 charges carry a maximum 20-year jail term. Najib is already facing up to 20 years in jail regarding four earlier charges levelled against him for alleged money laundering at SRC International, a former subsidiary of 1MDB.

Shafee, who posted the remainder of his 1 million ringgit bail yesterday, remains Najib’s lead counsel.

The latest set of charges come in the same week as the international release of a highly anticipated book on the scandal, seen as Malaysia’s biggest-ever corruption case.

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, which is already sold out in Malaysia, alleges that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho – also known as Jho Low – engineered the 1MDB scandal with Najib’s assistance.

In an interview with an online news portal, author Tom Wright said although initially it seemed as if Najib was at the centre of the corruption, “Jho Low was really the only character who had a 360 [degree] view of what was going on” – although Najib was, he added, far from blameless.

The book details Jho Low’s extravagant expenditure, including the purchase of superyacht the Equanimity, Cristal-fuelled parties in Las Vegas and Saint-Tropez, expensive jewellery gifted to models, and a birthday party that saw Britney Spears jump out of a cake to serenade Jho Low and his guests, who included the likes of Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Paris Hilton and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Arrest warrants for Jho Low have been issued in Singapore and Malaysia; the book’s authors believe he is hiding in China.

Najib’s spiralling fortunes are in stark contrast with those of his former opponent, democracy icon Anwar Ibrahim.

After the Pakatan Harapan coalition formed a government following its shock election win over Barisan Nasional in May, Anwar was granted a royal pardon and charges of sodomy and corruption that had seen him jailed were expunged. Anwar has always contested that the charges were trumped up by his political rivals to discredit him.

Anwar is now seen as the country’s prime minister in waiting. Prior to the election he had made a pact with Mahathir Mohamad – the current prime minister – that if their coalition were to win power Mahathir would hand over power to Anwar within two years.

Anwar has since taken steps to realising that agreement, announcing his intention to re-enter active politics and engineering a by-election in Port Dickson after the sitting MP, one of Anwar’s party members, resigned.

The Port Dickson by-election was officially announced by the Electoral Commission on Thursday – 20 years to the day Anwar was first arrested following his sacking as Mahathir’s deputy during Mahathir’s first stint as prime minister. Anwar must win this by-election, to be held on October 13, to gain a seat in parliament, a prerequisite for becoming prime minister. - scmp

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E-Voting atau E-Boxing?

2014 tika pembangkang pecah kepala baling kerusi.

2018 jadi kerajaan parti paling byk kerusi dlm PH.

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Tidak seperti tanggapan orang, hubungan PAS dan Umno setakat ini masih di peringkat awal, kata salah seorang naib presidennya.

Malah dari perspektif Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah, hubungan kedua-dua parti itu belum diikuti dengan sebarang ikatan.

"Tiada apa-apa hubungan lagi antara PAS dan Umno, cuma baru duduk sekali, minum air sekali, mengorat pun belum, bertunang jauh sekali," katanya kepada media seperti dipetik harakahdaily hari ini.

Beliau yang juga timbalan menteri besar Kelantan berkata dalam keadaan begitu sepatutnya tiada masalah timbul.

Katanya belum ada kepastian mengenai masa depan hubungan antara PAS dan Umno.

Terdahulu Mohd Amar ditanya mengenai kemungkinan hubungan dekat kedua-dua parti mendorong bekas menteri kanan BN, Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed meninggalkan Umno pada 18 Sept lalu.

Ia suatu perkembangan yang mengejutkan kerana Mustapa dianggap antara tokoh paling dihormati dalam Umno dan bebas daripada sebarang dakwaan penyelewengan atau salah guna kuasa.

Tak biasa susah

Pengunduran bekas menteri perdagangan antarabangsa dan industri itu dibuat selang sehari selepas muktamar PAS di Kuala Terengganu berakhir.

Muktamar berkenaan mencatat sejarah tersendiri apabila turut dimeriahkan dengan kehadiran Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi serta pemimpin kanan lain parti berkenaan.

PAS pula menyatakan kesediaan mereka untuk menghantar wakil bagi merancakkan Perhimpunan Agung Umno (PAU) yang adakan diadakan selama dua hari mulai 29 Sept ini. 

Untuk rekod kedua-dua parti itu mempunyai sejarah permusuhan yang panjang sehinggalah ia mengendur setahun dua ini dengan pelaksanaan dasar politik matang dan sejahtera PAS.

Hubungan akrab PAS dan Umno sering dipersenda pengkritik seperti hubungan sepasang kekasih yang melalui proses percintaan, merisik, memindang dan bersanding.

Mohd Amar berkata tanpa sebarang ikatan rasmi tuduhan musuh PAS bahawa parti itu sudah bergabung dengan Umno adalah meleset sama sekali.

Sebaliknya kata Mohd Amar pemimpin Umno bertindak meninggalkan parti itu kerana mereka tidak pernah berasa susah dan perit menjadi pembangkang.

"Sebab mereka ini sudah biasa hidup senang (sebagai) kerajaan, dia tiada pengalaman jadi pembangkang.

"Apabila jadi pembangkang, ini sudah perit sebagaimana dirasai PAS," katanya.- mk

Dah 3 pilihanraya kecil di selangor, pas & umno bukan lagi mengorat, tapi dah berkongsi ranjang. Saya setuju dgn nik amar yg sijil nikah memang belum ada. Dan kerana itulah juga org panggil pas umno bermukah. - Abu Fazli

Pemimpin Pas ni takde kerja lain cakap pasal politik, mengorat la, konar baring la seolah2 negeri yg perintah byk duit bukan nya fikir dan bincang pasal rakyat nak cari makan mcm mana, negeri nak Maju mcm mana... takde duit nak bayar gaji pergi minta sedekah dgn org lain. otak penjual Ubat betul la.. sedar lah rakyat skrg susah nak hidup .. kau org sibuk pasal politik2 .. puak ahli pas yg sokong pemimpin mcm ini memang bahlul dan tolol - Abu Talib

Amar sudah kecut telur , bila ahli pas sudah berpaling tadah , Tok Pa dan Anifah Aman sudah keluar umno Cuba buat penafian terang lagi bersuluh , nasi sudah jadi bubur - Shahrul Azwan

Bila pas melihat umno sudah goyang dia mulalah pusing cerita. Inilah falsafah putaralam parti ajaran sesat. - Zulkifli Aziz

Masing2 dah tua kerepot. Baru saling mencintai. Belum bertunangpun, tapi dah berkesedudukan. - Bijan Jakar

Anwar on Al-Jazeera

Najib – Your Admission To RM2.6 Billion “Contingency Fund” Has Expedited 25 New Charges...

World’s biggest crook – Malaysia former Prime Minister Najib Razak – has finally been arrested and charged (after spending a night in detention) for the infamous US$681 million 1MDB scandal. Popularly known amongst Malaysians as the RM2.6 billion theft, Mr. Najib has been slapped with 21 counts of money laundering and a separate 4 counts of power abuse.

Today’s charges are the latest on top of Najib’s other existing charges over a sum of RM42 million belonging to 1MDB’s former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd. Interestingly, he gets to walk away free as the Sessions Court has allowed him to pay his RM3.5 million bail in instalments, a decision which has invited displeasure from netizens who think the ex-premier is given special privilege.

Ever since the collapse of Najib regime in the May 9th polls, his highly-paid cybertroopers, propagandists and bloggers have been crying and screaming until foaming at the mouth that the ex-premier was innocent because the authorities have failed to charge him for the misappropriation of US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) found in his personal bank account.

Even after he was charged in July for criminal breach of trust (CBT) and abuse of power in connection with the transfer of RM42 million to his private bank account from former 1MDB subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd, Najib’s band of propagandists ignorantly argued that it had nothing to do with 1MDB. They tried to twist and spin that SRC and 1MDB are two different animals.

In reality, the four charges (three CBT charges and one charge of abuse of power) were just the beginning – the appetiser. The CBT involving SRC International Sdn Bhd was the easiest part of the entire multi-billion-dollar theft concerning 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Bhd). That’s because all the transactions of transferring the RM42 million to Najib’s private bank account were done locally.

 

The next phase would involve charging the ex-Thief-in-Chief over the US681 million (RM2.6 billion) transferred to his private bank account in March 2013. Today, that phase has kicked in. This second phase, slightly complicated but nevertheless a clear cut case, involved transactions that require assistance from foreign government as it involved Tanore Finance Corp account in Singapore.

The most complex of all – the coming soon “third phase” – would involve the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits filed to seize assets that it said were the result of US$4.5 billion that was misappropriated from 1MDB. Mahathir administration is working with U.S.-DOJ on what appears to be the largest action brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

Now that the authorities have finally moved to the second phase of US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) found stashed in his private bank account, what does Najib’s band of supporters have to say? Ahh, they would argue that the money wasn’t from 1MDB but donations from the generous Saudi Arabia royal house. Yes, that was what serial liar Najib has tried to convince the public recently.

About a week ago, Mr. Najib claimed that he had requested for cash from Saudi King Raja Abdullah when analysis conducted prior to the 2013 General Election had shown a bleak outlook – that his government could lose. Using his Facebook, he explained how the generous Saudi royal charity house deposited into his personal AmBank account over two transactions in 2013.

Calling it a “contingency fund”, Najib spiced up his donation story – claiming that the King Abdullah had actually wanted to give him US$800 million instead, but the son of Razak only took US$681 million from the King. Najib also claimed that the money was needed to counter opposition’s plan to form a new government by buying over up to 40 Barisan Nasional Member of Parliament.

Najib talked as if King Abdullah was his own father, willingly to splash close to a billion US dollar to help a Sunni-Muslim leader (Najib Razak) from being dethroned by another Sunni-Muslim leader (Anwar Ibrahim). He might have had committed an act of treasonous and treacherous by asking for money from a foreign power to interfere in the sovereignty of Malaysia.

From the beginning, Najib’s fairy tales about the US$681 million discovered in his private bank accounts were full of contradictions. At first, he denied the existence of the money. After months of denial, he claimed it was a “donation” given to him by a Saudi royal. He had even threatened to sue (only to chicken out) the Wall Street Journal who published that the money was from 1MDB funds.

His counsel, Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin, justified the U-turn not to file a defamation suit against the WSJ – “He (Najib) is not likely to get higher damages in the U.S. because he is not well known there.” And now, Najib said the money was borrowed and he had returned a huge bulk of it, proving that he wasn’t a crook who had stolen the money after all.

Najib has to make up his mind and get his story right. Was the US$681 million a donation or a loan from King Abdullah? If it was a donation, why was there a need to return it, let alone call it a “contingency fund”? Sure, the US$681 million deposited from Tanore Finance Corp account in Singapore subsequently saw the return of US$620 million back to the account in August 2013.

It’s worth to note that Najib was huffing and puffing about the so-called “contingency fund” only after Malaysia’s Deputy Police Chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim revealed that a jaw-dropping US$972 million went into Najib’s account, after moving through accounts linked to several companies (Good Star Limited, Aabar and Tanore) which had dealings with 1MDB.

But thanks to Najib’s admission (he had even released documents he claims are proof of Saudi donation) that he is indeed aware of the US$681 million flowed into his private bank account back in 2013, it makes prosecuting him for money laundering even easier. He should have kept his mouth shut and let the prosecutors prove everything.

Perhaps Najib has forgotten how he had claimed ignorance in 2015 – that he was “not aware” – of the transfers of the money to his accounts. He had even claimed that document showing the movement of cash from 1MDB through government agencies, banks and companies, before it landed at Najib’s accounts were doctored documents used to “discredit” his government.

Unfortunately for Najib, one of his important witnesses, former Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi, has changed his story about the Saudi donation. Back in August 2015, Mr. Zahid declared that he had met the wealthy Arab family who had donated the US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) that was channelled into then Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal account.

Widely reported by foreign news, Mr. Zahid said the “king and prince”, whom he did not name, had donated the money because of Malaysia’s commitment in fighting terrorism, and being a moderate Muslim country with a plural society. He also claimed that the Arab family was impressed by how Malaysia, with its plural society, still managed to remain moderate without sidelining any other religions.

Zahid also proudly told all and sundry at a meeting with Kepong UMNO division that the donors were “Arab king and prince”, and that the royal family had decided to make the huge donation due to Najib’s anti-Jewish stance. More importantly, he said – “I saw the documents myself – the original documents, not photostated ones, and I also saw the money trail.”

However, by July 2018, after emerged from his 8-hour grilling by the anti-corruption commission, Zahid sang a different tune. In a short press conference, he told reporters about “wakil” (representative)” of the Arab family – not “Arab king and prince” – as he had claimed 3 years ago. He didn’t brag about the documents or cheque of the so-called donations.

Regardless of Najib’s twists and spins, the money trail which we at Finance Twitter had pieced together clearly shows that even the so-called donation from King Abdullah was originated from 1MDB funds. Looking at the chart, 1MDB was flushed with funds primarily from bonds sales (US$11.5 billion) and Deutsche Bank (US$1.225 billion).

Tanore Finance Corp, from where Najib said Prince Abdulaziz Al-Saud from Saudi Arabia had sent him the RM2.6 billion donation, had actually received US$1.26 billion from 1MDB in 2013. Flushed with the money, the Tanore Finance Corp then sent US$681 million to Najib’s private account. Even the SRC International Sdn Bhd received a huge chunk of US$232.9 million indirectly from Tanore Finance Corp.

The returned US$620 million to Tanore Finance Corp was later used to purchase a 22-K pink diamond necklace worth a staggering US$27.3 million, after US$32.76 million was transferred from Midhurst to a DBS Singapore bank account for Blackrock, one of many accounts held nominally by fugitive Jho Low under the alias of Eric Tan.

Therefore, it’s not an exaggeration to say that from the beginning Tanore Finance Corp was being used by Najib Razak (and the so-called Saudi royal family) together with his partner-in-crime Jho Low to launder money from 1MDB funds. The US-DOJ investigation shows no proof that the Saudi Prince Abdulaziz Al-Saud had funded Najib’s account from the royal house’s own money. - ft

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Tok Pa buat U-turn...

Jangan malu tinggalkan UMNO, parti Melayu yg hilang roh perjuangan, ditunggangi para kaldai status koruptor, pimpinan bomoh Ponorogo yang hilang mantra kesaktiannya. Tidak hairan bin terkejut kalau banyak ahli UMNO yang benci terhadap Najib, bininya Rosmah dan pimpinan parti yang punya kudis buta, tokak politik, akan bye-bye kelak.

Tok Pa dianggap salah seorang paling sedikit dari marhum kabinet Najib yg dianggap bersih. Dia sedar UMNO bukan lagi memperjuangkan kepentingan Melayu, rakyat, agama dan negara tetapi menjaga tembolok dan perut buncit para elit pimpinan Melayu yg super korup, lupa daratan, tidak berpegang pada tali Allah. Welcome Tok Pa mencari jalan lurus dalam perjuangan membentuk sejarah gemilang melalui PH.hendaknya.

Saya kenal baik Tok Pa. Kami sama-sama belajar di Australia. Dia di Melbourne U, saya Monash U. Saya jadi Presiden Persatuan Melayu Victoria, dia jadi setiausaha agungnya. Kami merancang mengadakan seminar politik tiga hari di Monash dimana Dr Mahathir Mohamad (sekarang Tun dan PM) menjadi salah seorang penceramahnya. Kali pertama dlm sejarah persatuan mahasiswa Malaysia mengadakan seminar politik antarabangsa di Australia dimana para penceramah dari Malaysia dan professor bidang politik Asia mengambil bahagian.

PH wajar menerima bekas ahli UMNO dan PAS menyertainya. Saringan mesti ada supaya tidak menerima para koruptor, oportunis,. kelas jerung dan naga bunting menyertainya. Bekas menteri dan pemimpin BN yg super korup dan punya kes jenayah berat jangan sekali-kali diterima sebagai ahli PH. Tempat mereka di Sg Buloh.

Besar kemungkinan banyak ahli UMNO akan mengikuti jejak langkah Tok Pa. Tahniah. UMNO tak akan kembali berkuasa lagi. Bala dan sial timpa menimpa parti itu apalagi ia dipimpin oleh kabilah yang banyak tokah dan kudis buta politik yg menjijikkan.

Biarlah UMNO dipim;pin bomoh Ponorogo dengan mantra politiknya yg hilang kesaktian. Biarlah dia merhaban , berpelukan dengan Hj Hadi Awang, yg putih mata melihat Mat Sabu jadi menteri pertahanan, dan dia masih meroyan dan bimbang menunggu keputusan hakim di London April tahun depan kes saman malunya terhadap Clare RewCastle Brown, editor Sarawak Report. Kalau nasib tak baik, dan dia kalah besar kemungkinan akan menghadapi tindakan undang-undang pula dari editor tersebut. Mungkinkah Hj Hadi gadai serban dan jubah kelak? Allah saja yang maha tahu.

Wahai ahli-ahli UMNO dan PAS, mari-mari-mari tinggalkan parti kalian dan sertai PH kalau hendak berjuang melalui perjuangan 'Malaysia Baru'. - Yahaya Ismail

Najib mengaku tak bersalah 4 tuduhan 

rasuah, 21 pengubahan wang haram...

Bekas perdana menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengaku tidak bersalah dan mohon dibicarakan atas empat tuduhan rasuah berjumlah RM2.3 bilion melibatkan dana 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) yang dimasukkan ke akaun peribadi beliau.

Empat pertuduhan tersebut dibuat mengikut Seksyen 23 (1) dan 24 (1) Akta Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) 2009.

Najib, 65 turut mengaku tidak bersalah atas 21 pertuduhan mengikut Seksyen 4 (1) (a) - Akta Pencegahan Pengubahan Wang Haram dan Pencegahan Pembiayaan Keganasan 2001 (AMLATFA) melibatkan jumlah lebih RM3.5 bilion.

Beliau membuat pengakuan itu selepas kesemua pertuduhan itu dibacakan secara berasingan di hadapan Hakim Azura Alwi.

Pendakwaan diketuai bekas Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram manakala peguam Tan sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah mengetuai barisan pembelaan.


Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen Kuala Lumpur Azura Alwi menetapkan ikat jamin terhadap bekas perdana menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebanyak RM3.5 juta berhubung 25 pertuduhan yang dihadapinya.

Songlap 2.6billion dapat keistimewaan? Why?

Hakim Azura juga mengarahkan wang ikat jamin itu mesti dibayar secara penuh pada 28 Sept.

Peguam Najib, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah memberi jaminan sebanyak RM1 juta akan dibayar esok, manakala RM500,000 akan dibayar setiap hari sehingga tarikh itu.

Dua individu dinamakan sebagai penjamin iaitu Mohd Nizar Najib dan Mohd Shahrir Arifin.

Keputusan ini bermakna Najib terlepas daripada bermalam di penjara pada malam ini.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengalu-alukan perbicaraan terhadapnya berhubung dana RM2.6 bilion dan menyifatkannya sebagai peluang untuk membersihkan namanya.

"Isu RM2.6 bilion telah diguna habis-habisan untuk mengutuk, memburuk dan mencaci saya selama ini. Dengan pertuduhan hari ini, ia akan beri peluang kepada saya untuk membersihkan nama.

"Saya bukan seorang pencuri. Dan mudah-mudahan perjalanan (perbicaraan) akan berkesudahan dengan kebenaran ditegakkan," katanya kepada pemberita di Mahkamah Sesyen Kuala Lumpur hari ini. - mk

A star-studded, scandal: Jho Low's $5 bil.heist

20 September 1998 - Anwar Ibrahim

20 September 2018 - Najib Razak

From the same mastermind...

Antara penyokong Najib dan Anwar...

Penyokong Najib sudah merungut dan marah hanya dihalang daripada masuk ke mahkamah ramai ramai.

Halangan itu kecil berbanding dengan apa dihadapi oleh para penyokong Anwar diera reformasi dulu. 

Ada penyokong Anwar diketuk dengan cota, disembur dengan air berkimia, digari dan sebagainya. Kalau penyokong Najib setakat dihalang itu belum ada apa apalah.

Kata orang itu hanya permulaan sahaja. Saya akan iktiraf kegigihan penyokong Najib apabila memberi sokongan Najib sehingga dialami oleh penyokong Anwar dulu. 

Dengar khabar 3 juta ahli UMNO turun... kah!!! 5x - MSO

UMNO digging its own grave...

In under 24 hours, two senior Umno leaders -- former international trade and industry minister Mustapa Mohamed and former foreign minister Anifah Aman -- have left the party.

The close contacts between Umno and PAS in recent weeks, including Umno top leaders showing up at PAS muktamar, have prompted these two relatively moderate Umno leaders to finalize their exit plans.

Both Mustapa and Anifah are members of parliament, and their departure has brought the number of MPs quitting Umno after GE14 to five, and further slashed the number of Umno MPs to 49.

Will there be more in the days to come? How will the Umno leadership view the current wave of exodus? Any new development henceforth is bound to impact the country's political landscape.

In his statement, Mustapa said he made up his mind seeing that Umno's current direction is no longer consistent with what he has always believed, and that there are few signs the leaders are putting sufficient effort to revive the party.

Meanwhile, Anifah said he left because he wanted to defend the rights of Sabahans, and he has earlier expressed his support for PM Mahathir's statement on equal partner status for Sabah and Sarawak.

As a matter of fact, many Umno leaders hold the same views as Mustapa. Despite a change in leadership post-GE14, Umno has so far not set a goal for its future.

Having failed in its bid to form an alliance with PAS, Umno is now looking at other parties in hope of seeking a shortcut to return to the core of power, without making an attempt to restore the lost public confidence.

Umno should at least show to the grassroots that the party is putting some effort to reform itself. Lacking of this gesture has no doubt frustrated many party members.

Mustapa has as early as May openly criticized the existence of warlords in the party. These people are arrogant, brazenly practicing money politics and boosting their own support through racist politics.

Former Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has said party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi should take full responsibility for the exodus. Unfortunately his predecessor Najib has come to his defence.

Certain supreme council leaders have also accused Pakatan Harapan of spreading rumors to hurt Umno's morale. And Lokman Adam says this provides an opportunity for Umno to clean up the house so that the party can start afresh after the departure of those unhappy with Umno-PAS cooperation.

What he says is putting more chill in the moderate leaders in Umno.

Umno has deflected from the path of moderation as it makes no effort to woo back the lost support from Muslim Malays and other ethnic communities. The party leadership even condones the acts of some grassroots leaders playing the racist religious cards.

This will only make Umno and BN increasingly irrelevant in this country and remotely likely to return to Putrajaya in near future. - mysinchew

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