Najib has still to fully honour his 2015 pledge to 750,000 pensioners that he would be the person of last resort to resolve all their legitimate complaints and grievances re the sudden, unethical and cruel halt of supplies of medicines and equipment by private hospitals and pharmacies

Yesterday, I asked the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to honour his pledge in April 2015 when launching the Government Pensioners’ Foundation that pensioners should “come to me if you need help” by intervening and resolving within 24 hours the sudden, unethical and cruel halt of supplies of medicines and medical equipment to 750,000 pensioners by the private provider, OratisRx Sdn Bhd.

The 750,000 pensioners were caught by complete surprise when private hospitals and  pharmacies were given less than 24-hour notice by OratisRx Sdn. Bhd on 27th February 2017 to stop all medical supplies to the pensioners as “any claims of repayment for supplies after February 27 2017 are invalid and not the responsibility of OratisRx Sdn Bhd”!

My call to the Prime Minister had some effect, for it compelled the PSD to issue a late-night announcement that pensioners can still obtain medication from public hospitals after the termination of the Electronic Medical Automation Supply System (e-MASS) that allowed pensioners to get medication from private hospitals and pharmacies.

The PSD statement said the E-MASS service provided by Oratis RX Sdn Bhd expired in January 2017 and was only extended until Feb 27 on an interim basis.

This is most unsatisfactory and showed that the Prime Minister has still to fully  honour his pledge to the 750,000 pensioners that he will be the person of last resort to resolve the complaints and grievances of the pensioners.

After a life-time of government service, is this the shabby way the government is rewarding the 750,000 pensioners by pushing them from pillar to post, failing to give them satisfactory answers to legitimate questions, such as:

Why they were not informed officially by PSD until late last night ( after three days of pandemonium for the 750,000 pensioners who need supplies of medicine and medical equipment from private hospitals and pharmacies) that the OratisRx contract had been terminated? As the OratisRx contract had expired in January and extended on an interim  basis until Feb. 27, why weren’t the 750,000 pensioners given advance warning of the situation?

Who were the PSD officers responsible for such deplorable treatment of the 750,000 pensioners who had given a lifetime of service to the government and nation?

The call by the DAP MP for Seputeh that “heads must roll” for such shabby treatment of the pensioners find resonance among the 750,000 pensioners and should acted on by the Prime Minister.

Can the 750,000 pensioners expect a full explanation from the PSD?

Furthermore, why was the OratisRx contract terminated – as it is clear that attempts were made until the very last minute on Feb. 27 for its continuation?

Not only the 750,000 pensioners, but all Malaysians, are entitled to know why the OratisRx contract failed to be extended, and why it was installed in the first place, who were the “cronies” who benefited from it, and what is being done to restore the position where the 750,000 pensioners can get supplies of medicines and medical equipment not available at government hospitals, without the hassle, inconvenience and burden of having pay for them in the private sector and which take an inordinately long time before reimbursement by the PSD?

The Prime Minister is currently visiting Sabah.

I suggest that the first thing he should do when he returns to Putrajaya is to summon a meeting of the PSD officers responsible for ther OratisRx mess so that  he could announce a satisfactory solution to the problem, as well as announce what he is doing to teach a lesson to the PSD officials responsible for such shabby treatment of the 750,000 pensioners.

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Puad has confirmed that he is not fit to be Deputy Education Minister or JASA director-general

I always had doubts about the communication skills or language comprehension of Mohd Puad Zarkashi and wondered how he could be a Deputy Education Minister in the first Najib administration and now the director-general of the propaganda outfit in the Communications and Multi-Media Ministry, JASA.

My doubts about Puad’s  intellectual capability has been confirmed from a WhatsApp “JASA Update” message put out this morning, as follows:

“*Fitnah Lim Kit Siang Dan Pembangkang Dipatahkan Lagi* ->

*JPA Tidak Hentikan Kemudahan Bekalan Ubat Kepada Pesara Kerajaan*

1. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) menegaskan bahawa kemudahan bekalan ubat dan alatan perubatan untuk pesara perkhidmatan awam persekutuan dan veteran berpencen *tidak diberhentikan* seperti yang ditularkan.

2. Kemudahan bekalan ubat dan alat perubatan boleh diperoleh melalui preskripsi pegawai perubatan kerajaan di fasiliti-fasiliti Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) dan hospital universiti.

3. Perkhidmatan pembekalan ubat dan alat perubatan kepada pesara kerajaan dan veteran berpencen melalui *sistem Electronic Medical Automation Supply System (e-MASS)*, JPA menjelaskan bahawa kontrak perkhidmatan yang disediakan syarikat Oratis Rx Sdn Bhd sejak 26 Januari 2012 telah tamat tempoh pada 27 Januari tahun ini dan perkhidmatan itu telah dilanjutkan secara interim sehingga 27 Februari 2017.

4. Sekiranya terdapat permasalahan mengenai kemudahan bekalan ubat dan alat perubatan, pesara kerajaan dan veteran berpencen hubungi pihak JPA di talian hotline *03-88854099/4037/4014 (waktu pejabat)* atau emel pada
[email protected]
_ bagi mendapatkan penjelasan lanjut.”

Malaysians cannot be faulted for wondering whether Puad’s language understanding is so dismal that he simply could not understand what DAP MPs, namely MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok, MP for Kulai, Teo Nie Ching and myself, had been saying yesterday, that the 24-hour halt of supplies to 750,000 pensioners of medicines and medical equipment  by private provider OratisRx is burdensome, unethical and cruel although the government will continue to be responsible for the supply of medicines and medical equipment to pensioners.

I invite Puad to study what we had said and challenge Puad to prove that anyone of us, Teresa Kok, Nie Ching or myself, had ever said that the government had stopped providing medical supplies to pensioners?

If Puad  cannot understand simple language which Teresa Kok, Nie Ching and I had used, we cannot but wonder how he could get a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from Universiti Malaya, a  Masters in Sociology from State University of New York and a PhD from Northern California University.

Or is Puad is so immoral, evil and treacherous that he could put words into our mouth and claim that we have said things which we never said?

If Puad has any moral scruples left, he should apologise for the lie which JASA sent out in WhatApps this morning, ““*Fitnah Lim Kit Siang Dan Pembangkang Dipatahkan Lagi”, and give an undertaking that JASA would stop inventing and disseminating downright lies about the DAP, Pakatan Rakyat and Bersatu.

Puad should know his only claim to be appointed Deputy Education Minister in Najib’s first administration was  because he was in the forefront calling for  the resignation of the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi after UMNO’s poor performance in the 2008 general election, allowing Najib to become Prime Minister in April 2009.

But this is no licence for him to use the government machinery to invent and disseminate lies about the Opposition, which he had been doing not only in the country but also among Malaysians students overseas.

When  is Puad going to give an undertaking that JASA will try to berjasa for the people and country for a change, and stop creating and doing mischief?

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Election Commission must revamp its  IT capabilities and facilities to introduce automatic registration of voters or at least  ensure that voters who are registered one month before the elections can vote at the 14GE

Yesterday in Sandakan, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak asked a rhetorical question, that if Malaysia is a failed state, whether King Salman of Saudi Arabia would have come to Malaysia with a large aircraft with a huge entourage?

If  Salman’s entourage is an indication of the success of the countries visited by the Saudi King, it would mean that Indonesia is more than twice successful than Malaysia as Salman came to Malaysia with an entourage of 600 while he visited Indonesia with an entourage more than twice that number, i.e. 1,500!

It is of course silly to use the size of the Salman’s entourage as a yardstick to measure the success of the  countries visited by the Saudi King.

I have never said Malaysia is a failed state. But unless we pull up our socks, we are in the trajectory of hurtling towards a failed and rogue state.

Only yesterday, the former United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillay, in a speech in Penang delivered indictment on Malaysia’s commitment to the rule of law when she said that the key difference between Malaysia and South Africa is that the former does not have an independent judiciary.

We are beginning to show more and more of the signs of a failed state, with one system or institution after  another breaking down.

Late last night, Oratis Rx Sdn Bhd came out with a statement that the Public Services Department (PSD) did not issue a directive to it to stop supplying medicines and medical equipment to 750,000 pensioners and armed forces veterans, as the supply of medicines and medical equipment to pensioners and veterans after Feb. 27 was managed by the government and not by Oratis Rx Sdn. Bhd via the Electronic Medical Automation Supply System (e-MASS).

I see this OratisRx mess as a sign that the system of an efficient and trustworthy public service is breaking down and the country going down the road towards a failed state,

Oratis Rx Sdn Bhd said in a statement today, the supply of medicines and medical equipment to government retirees and veterans after Feb 27 was managed by the government and not via the Electronic Medical Automation Supply System (e-MASS).

The contract for supply of medicines and medical equipment to pensioners  and ATM veterans via e-MASS, which began on Jan 26, 2012, expired on Jan 27, followed by an  interim month-long extension till Feb. 27.

The very fact that it never occurred to anyone in PSD and the Health Ministry to notify pensioners and ATM veterans about the end of the e-MASS system, and to reduce their strain, problems and concerns as a result of  the ending of the e-MASS system, is an indication of breakdown of an efficient public service system putting Malaysia in the trajectory towards a failed state.

What is the use of the Prime Minister’s promise to the 750,000 pensioners when launching the Government Pensioners’ Foundation in April 2015, when he told the pensioners to “come to me if you need help”?

Another example of the breakdown of an efficient public service system in Malaysia is the unheard-of “technical error” resulting in the unamended version of PAS President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion on RUU355 appearing in the Parliament Order Paper for the resumption of Parliament on Monday.

Furthermore, I do not see my private member’s bill motion a bill to establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission in the Parliament Order Paper for the meeting from March 6 – April 6 although I had submitted it to Parliament within the requisite notice – as a result of a spate of police misconduct and abuses of power concerning deaths in custody and police brutalities.

May be MPs should focus on the question whether Malaysia are showing all the signs of getting into the trajectory leading to a failed and rogue state when they take part in the policy debate in Parliament on the Royal Address next week.

Another sign of Malaysia getting into the trajectory of a failed state is the Election Commission, with its Chairman, Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah, complacently admitting that some 4.1 million Malaysians have yet to register as voters as of last month.

What is the Election Commission Chairman doing about such a deplorable state of affairs with regard to voter’s registration?

This is in fact proof that the Election Commission has failed in  discharging its constitutional mandate  to efficiently ensure that all eligible voters are registered on the electoral roll so that they could cast their vote during elections.

It is time that the Election Commission revamp its  IT capabilities and facilities to introduce automatic registration of voters or at least  ensure that voters who are registered one month before the elections can vote at the 14GE.

At present, only voters who are registered at least six months before the elections can only vote at the next GE.

This is most  backward and regressive system when for over a decade, other countries have systems where voters can register today and vote tomorrow. When will the Election Commission in Malaysia catch up with the times as far as the voters’ registration is concerned?

If the Election Commission is incapable of revamping its IT capabilities and facilities to ensure that voters who register a month or even a week before elections can vote at the forthcoming general elections, it should send out a public appeal to the IT mavens in Malaysia for help.

Under the present backward IT system of the Election Commission, there are only 27 days left in March 2017 for eligible voters to register  if they are to vote in the impending 14th General Elections, if it is held in July or more likely in September this year.

The majority of Malaysian voters wanted a change of Federal Government in Putrajaya in the 13th General Elections on May 5, 2013, but they missed the opportunity to bring about the first change of Federal government in Malaysian electoral history because the electoral system was so unfair and undemocratic that with 47% of the popular votes cast, the UMNO/Barisan Nasional coalition was able to win 60 per cent of the parliamentary seats and Datuk Seri Najib Razak could become the first minority Prime Minister (with support only from minority of the popular vote) in the nation’s history.

All Malaysian organisations, not only political parties should assume the national and patriotic duty to launch a voters’ registration drive in the next 27 days so that everyone can take part in the process to determine the nation’s future, including whether to change the Federal Government in Putrajauya – replacing the UMNO/Barisan coalition with Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu coalition – in the 14GE.

In fact, I will even urge every Malaysian individual to take it upon himself or herself to encourage a voters’ registration campaign in the next 27 days, bring about a change in mindset where the first question we ask when we meet friends or even strangers is not “Apa Khabar”,”Are you Well” or “Have you eaten” but “Have you ensured everybody in your family and close to you is registered as a voter?”

It is most shocking that over four million eligible voters have not registered themselves as voters.

This must be regarded as a national emergency, and the 27 days left in March 2017 must be regarded as the most important 27 days  in the nation’s 60-year history to “Save Democracy” and “Save Malaysia” to get over four million unregistered eligible voters to register on the electoral roll so that they could vote in the forthcoming 14GE.

(Speech at the DAP National Leadership Retreat 2017 at the Dorsett Grand Subang Hotel, Subang Jaya on Saturday, 4th March 2017)

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Jho Low, Victim of His Own Success?

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Friday, 3 March 2017

Malaysian financier Jho Low is alleged to be the mastermind behind the convoluted labyrinth of offshore vehicles involved in pilfering billions from 1MBD. Has he done too good a job at hiding the assets?

U.S. prosecutors allege that billions were pilfered from Malaysia’s 1MDB. Instead of financing the country’s development, prosecutors allege that millions were spent on luxury hotels like the Park Lane in New York, fine art by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, a recording catalogue and even financing for the Hollywood blockbuster «The Wolf of Wall Street».

The scandal has engulfed Swiss banks, many of whom acted as a pass-through in Singapore for money to move elsewhere, though the scandal has also reached Zurich itself.

The fate of hundreds millions in luxury assets is currently being duked out in a Los Angeles courtroom, where Jho Low and his family are trying to stop assets being seized by U.S. officials.

Only Himself to Blame

Now, the intricately-constructed spiderweb of money, accounts, assets and offshore havens could prove Low’s undoing, according to court filings reported by legal news outlet «Law360»
(behind paywall) .

Low, who remains AWOL, and his family are to blame for the convoluted legal structures shielding the assets because they themselves designed a fortress-like structure for them, U.S. prosecutors said in legal briefs.

“Movant’s failure to file a timely claim is a direct result of the fact that Jho Low and his family strategically choose to cede control over the defendant property by creating an elaborate labyrinth of trusts and shell corporations”, U.S. prosecutors said.

Movant refers to Low and his family in this case, who filed the objection.

Rothschild Booted

Low and family have asked the court to let them file their objections after a deadline, until they had deposed Rothschild Private Bank and Trust in Zurich as a trustee. Instead, they installed a Cayman Islands-based outfit which is likely to push back far harder on the U.S.’ demands.

The U.S. argued that allowing Low to file late is as good as encouraging criminals to use offshore entities to hide their assets.

The current court case isn’t to decide on the assets themselves; it is merely to decide whether Low and his family can actually file an objection to the seizure by the U.S. after they missed a court deadline to do so.

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DAP pledges if Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu succeed in forming next Federal Government in Putrajaya, FELDA would not be closed down but  will instead be strengthened so that FELDA settlers can get a new deal of justice and prosperity

We are gathered at the ceramah tonight to show our full support and solidarity with a champion of Felda and Felda settlers, Mazlan Aliman, who has become a victim of grave  injustice and oppression in his life-long fight for the rights, interests and future of Felda settlers and future Felda generations.

Recently, the politics of race, hatred and lies have intensified to reach a new crescendo in Malaysian politics and all this polarisation  is  led by none other  than the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, himself.

In his UMNO Presidential Speech on Nov 30 last year, Najib continued his ignoble campaign to demonise the DAP,  telling three Nazi-type Big Lies, that

1. That the 14th General Elections will be a contest between UMNO and DAP.

2. That the DAP is anti-Malay or anti-Islam.

3. The “nightmares” Malay will suffer if UMNO loses power in the next general elections.

Najib went to the extent of warning that “if the country falls into the hands of DAP”, the rights and privileges championed and defended by UMNO through institutions such as FELDA, MARA, RISDA and FELCRA would become “extinct and disappear”.

Just now, Husam Musa in his speech referred to the UMNO lies and specifically asked  whether DAP would shut down FELDA if Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu throw out UMNO/BN coalition from Putrajaya in the 14th General Elections.

In response to Husam, let me declare on behalf of DAP that if UMNO/Barisan Nasional coalition is booted out of Putrajaya in the 14 GE and replaced by a government formed by Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu, DAP will not want FELDA to be closed but on the contrary, we want a special programme to strengthen FELDA so that Felda settlers and the new generation in Felda can get a new deal of justice and prosperity in Malaysia.

Malaysia is now flooded with a sea of scandals – Felda, Tabong Haji, MARA and many others and of course, the mother of all scandals in Malaysia, the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal.

Najib has “achieved” what all his five predecessors, Tunku Abdul Rahman, his father Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir and Tun Abdullah have not  been able to do – to turn Malaysia into a “global kleptocracy” and the infamy and ignominy attached to such an appellation!

I explained the meaning of “kleptocracy” in Parliament last November, that it is a country which is governed by 3Ps – Pencuri, Perompak and Penyamun.

As a result, Malaysians going overseas are ashamed when asked which country they come from.

I do not believe that any decent and self-respecting Malaysian, regardless of race, religion, region, gender or age, want to be a citizen of a kleptocracy, let alone a “global kleptocracy”.

This should be the great battle in the 14GE.

The next General Elections is not a battle between DAP and UMNO, but between the people of Malaysia vs. Najib to save Malaysia from kleptocracy and to  hold  true to the promise of the founders of the nation that Malaysia shall forever be a democracy.

[Speech (2) at the Malam Semarak Kasih Bersama Solidarity Wira Mazlan Aliman  organised by Parti Amanah at Bangi, Selangor on Saturday, 4th February 2017 at 10 .30 pm]

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King Salman could not say  RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal banking account was his donation because Saudi Arabian king knows that the US DOJ legal suit to confiscate US$1 billion 1MDB-linked assets had traced the “to and fro” money trail  of the RM2.6 billion

UMNO Ministers and leaders have been trying to exploit the four-day visit of King Salman of Saudi Arabia to Malaysia as proof that there was nothing hanky-panky about the RM2.6 billion in the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal banking account in 2013, and even claiming that Salman’s silence could only mean confirmation that the RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal banking account had come from Saudi Arab royal circles.

These claims are of course nonsensical and preposterous, and as I said in Johor Baru four days ago, the most significant thing about King Salman’s visit to Malaysia was not what was said or done by the Saudis, including the signing of the US$7 billion (RM31 billion) agreement by Saudi Aramco to take a 50 per cent stake in Petronas’ Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang but what was not said about the RM2.6 billion “donation” in Najib’s personal bank accounts.

I am not surprised that an UMNO leader said that this was my most “dungu” (idiotic) remark to date, for what intellectual capability can one expect from the UMNO leadership when an UMNO Minister could tell ten lies in a short five-paragraph statement while the UMNO Information leader could tell more than eight lies in another short statement, and both of them dared not accept my challenge to  a joint media conference for me to point out their lies one by one?

UMNO leaders who claim the Saudi Arabia’s King Salman’s visit to Malaysia is a sort of vindication of Najib’s innocence in the RM2.6 billion donation scandal have too low an opinion of both King Salman and the  Malaysian public.

There is no way that Salman is unaware of Najib’s RM2.6 billion donation and RM52 billion 1MDB scandal is Najib’s greatest Achilles’ heel. Just google-search “1MDB” and you will get 3.7 million results in 2.8 seconds.

The reason  why Salman could not say  RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal banking account was his donation is very simple –  the Saudi Arabian king knows that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) legal suit to confiscate US$1 billion 1MDB-linked assets,  is a public document in black and white, and it  had traced in detail the “to and fro”  “money trail” of the so-called  RM2.6 billion “donation”, establishing  beyond a shadow of doubt that they could not be a donation from Saudi Arabian royal circles.

For instance, in Page 6 – 8 and Paragraphs 8  – 11 of the 126-page 512-Paragraph US DOJ kleptocratic suits for the seizure of US$1 billion of 1MDB-linked assets in the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland, outlined the three “phases” of  the “criminal conduct” of the international multi-billion dollar  1MDB money-laundering, viz:

“8. The “Good Star” phase – fraudulent diversion of funds from 1MDB began approximately Sept. 2009, soon after 1MDB’S creation.  Between  2009 and 2011, under the pretence of investing in a joint venture between 1MDB and PetroSaudi International (“Petrosaudi” or “PSI”) a private Saudi oil extraction company, officials of 1MDB and others arranged for a fraudulent transfer of more than $1 billion from 1MDB to a Swiss bank account in the name of Good Star Limited.

“9. The “Aabar-BVI” Phase: In 2012, 1MDB officials and others misappropriated and fraudulently diverted a substantial portion of the proceeds that 1MDB raised through two separate bond offerings arranged and underwritten by Goldman Sachs International “Goldman”. …….Beginning almost immediately after 1MDB received the proceeds of each of these two bond issues, 1MDB officials caused a substantial portion of the proceeds – approximately $1.367 billion, a sum equivalent to more than forty per cent of the total net proceeds raised – to be wired transferred to a Swiss bank account belonging to a British Virgin Islands entity called Aabar Investments PJS Limited (“Aabar-BVI”).

“11. The “Tanore” phase: In 2013, several individuals, including 1MDB officials, diverted more than $1.26 billion out of a total of $3 billion in principal that 1MDB raised through a third bond offering arranged by Goldman in March 2013…….However beginning days after the bond sale, a significant portion of the proceeds was instead diverted to a bank account in Singapore held by Tanore Finance Corporation (“Tanore Account”) for which TAN (Eric Tan Kim Loong) was the recorded beneficial owner. Although the Tanore Account had no legitimate connection to 1MDB……..1MDB funds transferred into the Tanore Account were used for the personal benefit of LOW (JHO LOW) and his associates, including officials of 1MDB, rather than for the benefit of 1MDB or ADMIC (Abu Dhabi Malaysian Investment Fund Company).”

Even more interesting is when we come to page 67 of the DOJ lawsuit on “IV. THE TANORE PHASE: MORE THAN $1.26 BILLION IS MISAPPRORIATED FROM 1MDB”,  in “A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE TANORE PHASE”, as follows:

“229. Funds transferred to the Tanore Account were distributed for the benefit of at least one public official associated with 1MDB. More particularly, very shortly after the bond offering closed, between approximately March 21, 2013 and March 25, 2013, $681,000,000 was transferred from the Tanore account to an account belonging to MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1. Of this amount, approximately $620 million was returned to the Tanore Account on or about August 26, 2013.

“230. 1MDB funds diverted to the Tanore Account were also used by LOW and TAN to purchase artwork for their personal benefit and to purchase an interest in the Park Lane Hotel for the personal benefit of LOW. The disposition of these funds was not consistent with the intended use of the 2013 bond proceeds nor was it made for the benefit of 1MDB or ADMIC.”

Then we come to page 75 of the DOJ lawsuit on “D. $681 MILLION WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE TANORE ACCOUNT TO AN ACCOUNT BELONGING TO MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1”, providing the following details:

“259.Shortly after proceeds of the 2013 bond sale were diverted to the Tanore Account, $681,000,000 was sent from the Tanore Account to a bank account belonging to MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1.

“260. On or about March 21, 2013, Tanore transferred $620,000,000 into an account in AmBank in Malaysia, whose beneficiary was listed as “AMPRIVATE BANKING-MR.”. On or about March 25, 2013, an additional $61,000,000 was wired from the Tanore Account to the same account at AmBank, for a total of $681,000,000.

“261. This account belonged to MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 and is the same account that in 2011 received $20 million from the PETROSAUDI CO-FOUNDER that was traceable to the Good Star Account, as set forth in Section II.G.  It is also the same account that in 2012 received at least $30 million from the Blackstone Account that was traceable to the Aabar-BVI Swiss Account and the 2012 bond proceeds, as set forth in Section III.E.3.

“262. On or about August 26, 2013, $620,010,715 was wired from a different account at AmBank to the Tanore Account. This AmBank account also belonged to MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1, and the transfer represented funds from $681 million payments that were being returned to Tanore.”

The ensuing two paragraphs are even more interesting, viz:

“ 263. The Attorney-General of Malaysia publicly stated that he conducted an inquiry into the $681 million in payments.  In a press release issued on January 26, 2016, the Malaysian Attorney-General confirmed that, “the sum of USD681 was transferred into the personal account of MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 between 22.3.2013 and 10.04.2013,” and that, “in August 2013, a sum of USD620 million was returned by MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1…” The Malaysian Attorney-General ultimately characterized the payment of $681 million as a “personal donation to MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 from the Saudi royal family which was given to him without consideration.”

“264. Bank records associated with Tanore Account show that TAN  was the beneficial owner of the Tanore account, from which the $681,000,000 payments to the account of MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 were made, and that 1MDB OFFICER 3 was added as an authorized signor of the Tanore Account roughly one day before the first wire of $620,000,000 was sent from the Tanore Account to the account of MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1.”

“1MBD OFFICER 3” described in the DOJ lawsuit as “a Malaysian national who served as 1MDB’s general counsel and executive director of group strategy during at a minimum, 2012 and 2013” has been identified as Jasmine Loo – like Jho Low, another international fugitive from justice for kleptocracy.

Nothing could be clearer, in black and white!

The US DOJ had called the bluff in Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohd Apandi Ali’s claim that the US$681 million in Najib’s personal banking accounts were “donation from Saudi royal family given without consideration”, as the DOJ had  traced in detail the money trail of the RM2.6 billion ringgit “donation” in Najib’s personal banking accounts in AmBank in Kuala Lumpur, from the orignating accounts  from where US$681 million  in Najib’s accounts came from and to where the US$621 million was returned to.

The US$681 million came from Tanore Account in March 2013 and USD620 million was transferred back to Tanore Account in August 2013, which had nothing whatsoever with any Saudi Arab royalty.

As pointed out in Paragraph 248
(page 73)
 of the DOJ suit, the Tanore Account in Singapore was opened by TAN (ERIC Tan Kim Loong) on or about November 2, 2012 and TAN was originally its sole authorized signatory.

Tanore is one of the multitude of shell companies which Jho Low used for his “heist of the century” in his international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal.

Where has the  USD620 million which Najib’s  account in Ambank in Kuala Lumpur had  returned  to the Tanore Account in August 2013 gone to, as it is as clear as crystal that the money had not gone back to any Saudi Arab royalty as it had never originated from Saudi Arabia in the first place.

Would King Salman be so stupid as to admit that he had donated US$681 million to Najib, who had returned US$620 million to him, when all these are totally fictitious accounts to hide the money trail of the original sum of US$681 and the subsequent transfer to Tanore Account of US$620 million?

No one really believes that King Salman of Saudi Arabia is so stupid as to take the rap for the multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal on behalf of Najib when there is no evidence that the Saudi royal family was  any way involved in the 1MDB kleptocratic scandal.

More than seven months have passed since the US DOJ lawsuit tracing the money-trail of the 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal, including the so-called “donation” to Najib’s personal banking accounts, but neither Najib nor Apandi had been able to challenge the veracity of the DOJ accounts of 1MDB money trails.

Najib and Apandi  cannot continue to run and hide – for there is no place in the whole wide world for them to run and hide. Their only option is  to tell truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the 1MDB global kleptocratic scandal.

(Speech at the Malam Semarak Kasih Bersama Solidarity Wira Mazlan Aliman  organised by Parti Amanah at Bangi, Selangor on Saturday, 4th February 2017 at 10.30 pm)

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The biggest “Ali Baba” partnership in Malaysia is the “Najib-Jho Low” axis which has catapulted the country to a global kleptocracy with the largest worldwide  financial scandal in recent times

I am very intrigued why the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has decided to pull out all the stops and launched into an unrestrained and unjustified attack on me when in Sindumin, Sabah yesterday.

What is the cause?

Has Najib given the “green light” for the holding of sudden Sabah state general elections and he is setting an example of the wild and unrestrained attacks which BN  Sabah leaders should launch against the opposition  in an attempt to preserve UMNO/BN power in Sabah state?

We will know soon enough whether there will be snap polls in Sabah.

However, even the imminence of a snap polls for the Sabah state assembly could be no justification for the unprincipled and baseless attacks which Najib launched against  me in Sabah yesterday.

Najib said that I would be taking up the position of Deputy Prime Minister should UMNO/Barisan Nasional are ousted from Putrajaya and there is a change of Federal power in the 14th General Elections.

Apart from the truth that UMNO/BN may be ousted from Putrajaya and Federal power in the forthcoming general elections by Pakatan Harapan plus Bersatu, the rest of Najib’s attacks on me are a tissue of lies and falsehoods.

Why should a Prime Minister of a country stoop so low as to indulge in such lies and falsehoods in attacking the Opposition?  Is Najib so desperate in his fear of being ousted as Prime Minister and losing the Federal government that he has lost all sense of proportion and moral scruples?

In his speech in  Sabah yesterday, Najib said my appointment as Deputy Prime Minister had already been agreed on between Tun Mahathir Mohamad and myself,  although no decision was made on who should be prime minister.

There are two lies here. I have never discussed with Tun Mahathir on the issues of  DPM and  PM.

Najib’s belief that I had a secret meeting with Tun Mahathir on Dec. 3 last year where an agreement was sealed for Mukhriz Mahathir to be Prime Minister and me as Deputy Prime Minister is a total figment of imagination of Najib’s propanganda handlers – as such a meeting never took place and I had never discussed with Tun Mahathir on  who should be Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister when Najib/UMNO/BN are ousted from Putrajaya in the 14GE.

Najib’s subsequent allegations that with such an “Ali Baba” arrangement, I would be “incredibly powerful” – “the most powerful individual” – as this would be a situation where the Deputy Prime Minister would choose who is to be the Prime Minister, instead of the Prime Minister choosing the Deputy Prime Minister, are equally far-fetched and nonsensical.

I want to ask Najib what medicine is he taking that he could believe in such nonsense arising from the “fevered imaginations” of his propaganda handlers?

If Najib could believe in such out-of-the-world nonsense, what else won’t the Prime Minister believe?

I am wondering whether Najib should see a psychiatrist.

I am utterly shocked that the Prime Minister of the land could utter such gibberish that Pakatan Harapan had only agreed on who will be Deputy Prime Minister, not the Prime Minister, that he could rhetorically ask:

“Who will it (Prime Minister) be? (Dr) Wan Azizah (Wan Ismail)? Anwar (Ibrahim)? Muhyiddin (Yassin)?

“What was strange was that the deputy prime minister will appoint the prime minister. This is ‘ali baba’. The opposition is ‘ali baba’.

“This proved that Pakatan Harapan has failed as a coalition as compared to BN, which has achieved consensus among its 13 components.”

Najib has now achieved a double first as Prime Minister of Malaysia – firstly, for making Malaysia into a “global kleptocracy” in seven short years; and secondly, for uttering such gibberish and garbage which none of the previous five Prime Ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, his father Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir and Tun Abdullah, had ever been guilty of  or even come near.

Has Najib become an inveterate liar that he could utter such gibberish and garbage of lies, or has Najib become a mental case that he could believe in such nonsense?

Najib could not be more wrong when he accused the Opposition as “ali baba” as the Opposition leaders have come together as Malaysian patriots and nationalists to save Malaysia from becoming a global kleptocracy and getting into the trajectory hurtling towards a failed and rogue state.

It is Najib himself who is responsible for creating the biggest and most sinister “Ali Baba” partnership in Malaysia – the “Najib-Jho Low” Ali-Baba axis which catapulted Malaysia to a global kleptocracy with the largest world-wide financial scandal in recent times, the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal.

Jho Low has become an international kleptocratic fugitive from justice.

However, I have been informed that the Prime Minister had a long and extended secret meeting with Jho Low in his last visit to China.

Is Najib prepared to make a Ministerial statement in Parliament on Tuesday of all his dealings with Jho Low, in connection with the 1MDB scandal, his series of meetings  with Jho Low who had described by the foreign media as “the flamboyant Malaysian playboy and “orchestrator”of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal, when and where such meetings took place, and whether it is true that he had long and extended secret meetings with Jho Low in his last official visit to  China.

Najib boasted that the Barisan Nasional had achieved consensus among its 13 components.

This would mean that if PAS President, Hadi Awang’s private member’s motion on the RUU 355 is given priority  to be voted on in the March/April Parliament, followed by the government takeover of Hadi’s private member’s motion, it would have the consensus and agreement of MCA, Gerakan, MIC and the Sabah/Sarawak BN component parties.

I want to thank Najib for such clarification as if Hadi’s private member’s motion is passed in Parliament, MCA, Gerakan, MIC and the Sabah/Sarawak BN component parties cannot claim ignorance or evade responsibility!

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G25: We don’t need divisive PAS bill

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Malaysiakini

COMMENT

We, G25, anxiously appeal for a promise from each honourable Member of Parliament to not support/cancel the debate on PAS’ private motion to amend Act 355, which will now be debated in Parliament.

We hope the honourable MPs would ponder upon and note that any amendment to Islamic laws should be done within the framework of the Federal Constitution.

Specifically, Article 4 provides for the superiority of the federal law and civil courts over state Islamic enactments and syariah courts.

This ensures the existence of only one system of justice governing all Malaysians.

Limitations on powers of syariah courts

Item 1 in the Ninth Schedule of the State List of the Federal Constitution states that the syariah courts ‘shall not have jurisdiction in respect of offences except in so far as conferred by federal law’.

The purpose of this provision is for Parliament to have oversight and control over offences, including the nature of punishments created by state enactments, so that the state legislatures do not have a free hand to create offences or to prescribe sentences.

Increasing status of syariah courts complicates enforcement

The desire to raise the status of the syariah courts to be at par with the civil courts is worrying and very likely will shock our multi-racial community as it will raise questions on the direction of the country’s legal system.

A secular system of justice existing side by side with the Islamic system is not only unconstitutional but will cause considerable confusion and uncertainty in the enforcement of law and order.

A big risk with investors

Economists and international experts who have studied Malaysia’s remarkable economic development over a relatively short period to become one of the most advanced economies in the developing world, have always cited its system of law and administration as a key factor in attracting foreign and local investors to do business here.

It is a system which foreigners are familiar with because it is similar to what they find in their own countries.

Their presence is most important for the transfer of knowledge and technology so that Malaysians can benefit by developing our own skills to compete in the world market.

Our country will be taking a big risk with foreign and local investors if we have a system of law which is moving away from its original character to become more religiously oriented and less tolerant of modern lifestyles and values.

A step towards hudud

Supporters of the PAS bill to amend Act 355 insist that there is no intention to introduce hudud.

Malaysians find this hard to believe as Kelantan, which is ruled by PAS, has already passed the Syariah Criminal Code II (1993) Enactment 2015, prescribing hudud punishments for zina (illicit sex), murder, theft, robbery, sodomy, consumption of liquor and apostasy.

But state law is currently prevented from being enforced because of Act 355.

Prioritising good governance in public institutions

A well-governed country with laws and governing institutions that provide social justice for the poor and the needy should be a priority for the country’s social and economic progression. This would be more Islamic than the implementation of hudud.

We should be proud that our syariah index is higher than other Muslim countries because our children are better educated; health and medical facilities are available in all corners of the country; unemployment and poverty rates are low; and our youth can look forward to a brighter future.

Higher priority should be given towards improving the standards of governance and to strengthen the institutions of law and order so as to promote integrity and clean administration in the country.

These governing qualities are far more important to the country than policing the moral behaviour of Muslims and punishing them like criminals.

The personal sins of Muslims do not hurt others in the society or the economy but the corruption and financial mismanagement among politicians and civil servants and the perception that the institutions of justice favour those in power – these are the social diseases that can cause economies to collapse and the people to rise up against their rulers.

The government and MPs should be careful not to support the PAS bill and instead spend its energy on dealing with the unresolved problems surrounding 1MDB, so that the country can turn its attention to deal with the bigger issues facing the economy, in particular the weak ringgit and the rising costs of living.

We do not need the PAS bill to divide the nation at a time when all races should stand together.

The time now is for the real 1Malaysia.

G25 is a collective of top Malay Muslim professionals and former civil servants.

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Utusan Malaysia a real disgrace to Malaysian journalism – not a word of my reply to Najib’s “Ali Baba” attack on DAP although it devoted almost half a page to Najib’s attack

Utusan Malaysia is a real disgrace to Malaysian journalism.

There is not a word of my reply to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s “Ali Baba” attack on the DAP although it devoted almost half a page in words and pictures to Najib’s attack on me.

Utusan Malaysia virtually carried in full Najib’s speech in Sindumin, Sabah on Saturday repeating the lie that I had reached a secret deal with Tun Mahathir where Mukhriz will be the Prime Minister and I the Deputy Prime Minister, and using that to mount further attacks on me, alleging that  I would be the “most powerful individual”, that the Deputy Prime Minister would be deciding who is to be the Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu succeeds in ousting UMNO/BN from Putrajaya and the Federal Government; and that this is a “ali baba” arrangement.

I have been in Malaysian politics for 51 years, but I had never asked any of the first five Prime Ministers – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir and Tun Abdullah – to see a psychiatrist, until yesterday when I asked Najib to see a psychiatrist.

This is because Najib  is building a monumental structure of arguments  based on a Big Lie  – that Tun Mahathir and I had reached a secret deal where Mukhriz would be Prime Minister and I would be Deputy Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu wins Putrajaya in the 14GE. There is no such agreement, as I had never discussed with Mahathir  the questions as to who would be Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan and Bersatu defeat UMNO/BN in the 14th GE – and the purported secret meeting between Mahathir and myself on 3rd December 2016 never took place.

I challenge Najib to name the place and time of this so-called Dec. 3, 2016 meeting where Mahathir and I struck a secret deal that Mukhriz would be Prime Minister and I the Deputy Prime Minister?

If Najib could not even name the place and time of this alleged Dec. 3, 2016 secret meeting between Mahathir and myself, how could he build a monumental structure of arguments on one Big Lie?

In any event, if the so-called Dec. 3, 2016 meeting between Mahathir and myself is a secret meeting, how did Najib get information about the meeting?  Has he got spies at the “secret” meeting?

In my reply to Najib yesterday, I had said that it was Najib himself who had created the biggest and most sinister “Ali Baba” partnership in Malaysia – the “Najib-Jho Low” Ali-Baba axis which catapulted Malaysia to a global kleptocracy with the largest world-wide financial scandal in recent times, the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal and made Jho Low an international kleptocratic fugitive from justice.

I had specifically asked Najib whether he had met Jho Low in his last visit to China. Why is Najib keeping mum?

Today, when the Yang di Pertuan Agong in his Royal Address said he was “disappointed” at  “misappropriation of funds, leakages and corrupt practices” and advised people to co-operate “by not giving bribes”, I believe many MPs, including UMNO/BN MPs and Ministers, were thinking of Najib’s international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal and Malaysia’s infamy and ignominy in having become a “global kleptocracy”.

Malaysians must unite and mobilize to save Malaysia from being a “global kleptocracy”.  To achieve this goal, the mass media including Utusan Malaysia must play a responsible role to publish news and not fake news and downright lies and falsehoods.

Will Utusan Malaysia publish my reply to Najib telling the Prime Minister that he has created the biggest and most sinister “Ali Baba” partnership and that the Prime Minister had been telling lies about DAP and about me – for instance, the so-called Dec. 3, 2016 secret meeting between Mahathir and myself was total concoction as it never happened.

Will the Utusan Malaysia editors reply and will they run into hiding?

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Call on 15 Non-UMNO Ministers out of the 35-strong Najib Cabinet to submit to Najib their resignation from the Cabinet which is to  take effect  the moment Hadi’s private member’s bill motion is given government priority and comes up in Parliament for debate and vote

UMNO Secretary-General Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has said that he is confident that UMNO’s allies in Barisan Nasional will finally accept UMNO’s explanation and understand the government’s decision to give priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill on RUU 355 and not only to support it, but to take one step further, for the Barisan Nasional government to take over Hadi’s private member’s bill after Hadi’s private member’s bill motion had been passed by Parliament.

Recently, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said that Hadi’s Private Member’s Bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) enabled the government to circumvent the due constitutional process, as requiring consensus from all states, the National Islamic Council and the Rulers’ Conference.

This is what Jamil said: “You can’t bring it to the Rulers Conference if you don’t have consensus from 14 states, but a private member’s bill requires only one state or one person to table it.”

Jamil said that when Hadi’s private member’s bill motion moves to the second reading stage, it would be taken over by the government and read out by him.

Furthermore, the International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said that BN component parties will not be able to object to amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) once the bill is taken over by the Federal Government, as the BN component parties are compelled to support the bill as part of the ruling coalition.

From these statements from the three UMNO leaders, it is crystal clear that the Barisan Nasional Federal government will give priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill motion in the current meeting of Parliament to be debated and voted on after the debate on the Royal Address, although MCA, Gerakan, MIC and Sabah/Sarawak BN parties claim that they oppose  Hadi’s private member’s bill motion as violating the Malaysian Constitution and the Barisan Nasional consensus principle.

But the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, insists as recently as during his visit to Sabah over the weekend that Barisan Nasional is a coalition which operates on the consensus  among the 13 component parties.

How can Najib claims that there is consensus among the 13 Barisan Nasional component parties when MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, Gerakan President Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong, MIC President Datuk Seri S. Subramaniam and leaders of  Sabah/Sarawak BN parties claim that they do not support Hadi’s private member’s bill motion?

Unless the BN “consensus” has now acquired a new meaning under Prime Minister Najib, that it represents UMNO hegemony and BN “consensus” is not arrived from consent, agreement and support of all the 13 BN coalition parties, but solely on what UMNO desires and wants.

As UMNO wants to give priority and  support Hadi’s private member’s bill motion in Parliament, this represents the “consensus” of BN – although individual Ministers and leaders from the other 12 non-UMNO parties can belly-ache as much as they like about continuing to oppose Hadi’s private member’s bill motion on the ground that it violates the Malaysian Constitution and the Barisan Nasional consensus principle.

This really makes nonsense of the meaning of “consensus” as  there is only UMNO hegemony and total subservience and submission from the other 12 BN component parties – representing a Master-Slave relationship between UMNO and the other 12 BN parties.

If this is not the case, then I call on 15 Non-UMNO Ministers out of the 35-strong Najib Cabinet to submit to Najib  their resignation from the Cabinet and their resignation to take effect  the moment Hadi’s private member’s bill motion is given government priority and comes up in Parliament for debate and vote.

This is the least that the Ministers from the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and Sabah/Sarawak BN  parties can do to show that they are men and women of principle, and not in politics just for position, money and power.

In the 13th General Election, Barisan Nasional won 133 parliamentary seats – UMNO 88 and the other BN parties collectively total 45.

If the 15 non-UMNO Ministers resign from Najib Cabinet, and the 45 MPs from the non-UMNO parties in BN withdraw their support from Najib, then the Najib premiership falls precipitating a political and constitutional crisis as the Najib government will have lost  the majority support of the 222 MPs in Parliament.

Let us see whether the nation can form a new government committed to support Hadi’s private member’s bill motion – as I believe not all the 88 UMNO MPs are prepared to vote in support of Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

(Speech at a dialogue with young Malaysians in Bukit Beruang during the launch of the Voters’ Registration campaign on Monday, 6th March 2017 at 6 pm)

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Election Commission one of the most inefficient in the world as I had  been calling for automatic registration of voters as far back as 1971 – some 46 years ago

Malaysia’s Election Commission is one of the most inefficient in the world as I had been calling for automatic registration of voters as far back as 1971 – 46 years ago, when I first entered Parliament.

Today with all the technological advancements of Information Technology, there are still over four million eligible voters who have not been registered as voters on the electoral roll – which means that if these over four million eligible voters do not register in the next three weeks in March, they are unlikely to be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote in the 14th General Elections if held in September this year.

I just cannot understand why our IT expertise and capability is so backward that the Election Commission needs six months to process voters registration so that  an eligible voter could vote in an election.

If other countries can have top-class IT systems which allow voters to register today and cast their vote tomorrow, why is the Election Commission’s IT system so antediluvian that it needs six months before a Malaysian voters can register and have the right to cast their vote in an election.

I hope the Election Commission Chairman can give a satisfactory explanation  for this shocking state of affairs about voters registration, which does not seem to have made any progress since the attainment of Merdeka 60 years ago in 1957!

Is it really beyond the expertise and capability of the Election Commission to ensure that it could process voters’ registration, if not within a week, at least within a month, and not take the inordinately long process of six months – and to implement it immediately, if the Election Commission rejects the option of automatic registration of voters?

The Election Commission Chairman should give a clear and specific answer to this question.

[Speech (2) at a dialogue with young Malaysians in Bukit Beruang during the launch of the Voters’ Registration campaign on Monday, 6th March 2017 at 6 pm]

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Parliament should adopt an all-party emergency motion tomorrow to condemn North Korea’s “hostage terrorism” and to call on North Korea regime to immediately revoke the ban on Malaysians from leaving North Korea

Parliament should adopt an all-party emergency motion tomorrow to condemn North Korea’s “hostage terrorism” and to call on the North Korean regime to immediately revoke the ban on Malaysians from leaving North Korea.

When I issued a statement on 17th February to ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi to explain why security at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was so lax that it could become playground for foreign agents to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, 46,  I had not expected to hit the bull’s eye.

The events of the subsequent  fortnight showed that without the knowledge of the Malaysian authorities,  Malaysia had in fact long been the “playground” of North Korean secret agents and assassins to the extent that they could carry out the  dastardly assassination of Kim Jong Nam by the use of one of the world’s deadliest nerve agents VX, which is among the most dangerous chemicals ever created by man and classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction.

The use of the abhorrent and deadly nerve agent by North Korean secret agents to assassinate Kim Jong Nam at KLIA shows that the North Korean regime has utter contempt for the basic norms of international conduct and relations among nations in international society.

Malaysians  fully support the firmest actions taken by Putrajaya to ensure the safety and security of Malaysians in North Korea and to protest against the North Korean regime’s utter contempt of civilized international relations – including any rupture of diplomatic relations with the North Korean government.

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Let Liow, Wee,  Ong  and Mah declare whether they will resign as Ministers the moment Hadi’s private member’s bill motion is given government priority and come up for debate and vote in Parliament

MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers have been making confusing, contradictory and misleading statements on PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355).

All the three MCA Ministers –  MCA President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, Deputy President Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong and MCA Secretary-General Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chua  – and the Gerakan President Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong have said that they would resign as Ministers if Hadi’s private member’s bill  is passed by Parliament.

This is an empty threat as Hadi’s private member’s bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) will never be passed by Parliament, as after Hadi’s private member’s bill motion (which is equivalent to the first reading of the private member’s bill), the UMNO/BN Government will take over Hadi’s Bill.

This has been clearly announced by the  UMNO Minister in the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom who said that  the Barisan Nasional government will take over Hadi’s bill from there, and it would become a government bill from second reading stage onwards.

As  the International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan has said publicly,  from that stage,  BN component parties will not be able to object to amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) as  the bill has been taken over by the Federal Government, and all  the BN component parties are compelled to support the bill as part of the ruling coalition.

MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has said that Hadi’s private member’s bill motion could only be tabled and debated  on March 27 at the earliest, as Parliament’s debate on the motion of thanks for the Royal Address would take 11 days until Thursday, 23rd March.

Wee and the MCA leaders should stop equivocating on the issue, as the PAS MP for Bukit Gantang Idris Ahmad has admitted that although Hadi’s private member’s bill  motion is listed as item number seven on the Order Paper after four government bills, only the government can fast-track debate on Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

Are the MCA and Gerakan leaders already looking for a face-saving way out of the “impasse” when they threatened to quit as Ministers if Hadi’s private member’s bill is passed by Parliament , as  it would not be any Hadi’s bill which would passed by Parliament after it had been taken over by UMNO/BN Federal Government?

The MCA and Gerakan Minister should stop playing with words.

They should make it clear that they are opposed to two things: firstly, any government priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill motion for it to be debated and voted in the present meeting of Parliament which will end on April 6; and secondly, any UMNO/BN Federal government take-over of Hadi’s bill after the passage of Hadi’s private member’s bill  motion.

I call on  them and all the fifteen  non-UMNO Ministers out of the 35-strong Najib Cabinet to submit to Najib their resignation from the Cabinet and their resignation to take effect the moment Hadi’s private member’s bill motion is given government priority and comes up in Parliament for debate and vote.

This is the least that the Ministers from the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and Sabah/Sarawak BN parties can do to show that they are men and women of principle, and not in politics just for position, money and power.

In the 13th General Election, Barisan Nasional won 133 parliamentary seats – UMNO 88 and the other BN parties collectively a  total of 45.

If the 15 non-UMNO Ministers resign from Najib Cabinet, and the 45 MPs from the non-UMNO parties in BN withdraw their support from Najib, then the Najib premiership falls precipitating a political and constitutional crisis as the Najib government will have lost the majority support of the 222 MPs in Parliament.

Let us see whether the nation can form a new government committed to support Hadi’s private member’s bill motion – as I believe not all the 88 UMNO MPs are prepared to vote in support of Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

(Media Conference Statement  in Parliament on Wednesday, 8th March 2017)

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Call on all patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics to unite in 14 GE to “Write History, Create Miracle” to “Save Malaysia” from kleptocracy and hurtling towards a failed and rogue state

Tonight’s good crowd at the Bersatu Pribumi Ceramah Perdana is a good beginning for a nation-wide movement to “Save Malaysia”  from now to the next General Election expected to be held this year, probably in September.

I call on all patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or even politics, to unite in the 14GE to “Write History, Create Miracle” to “Save Malaysia” from kleptocracy and hurtling towards a failed and rogue state.

I said in Parliament in November that kleptoracy is a government of 3Ps – Pencuri, Perompak and Penyamun.

I do not think any patriotic Malaysian, regardless of race, religion, region or even politics, want Malaysia to become a kleptocracy and they become citizens of 3P kleptocracy.

I had put a question at the current meeting of Parliament asking the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, as to what steps the government has taken to cleanse and restore  the good name and reputation on Malaysia from being regarded as a global kleptocracy.

Unfortunately, instead of answering one of the most important questions confronting Malaysians today, my question was rejected by the Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia as violating Standing Order 23(1)© which states that “a  question shall not contain any argument, interference, opinion, imputation, epithet or misleading, ironical or offensive expression nor shall a question be frivolous or asked seeking information on trivial matters”.

I do not agree with the Speaker as my question as to what steps the government had taken to cleanse and restore Malaysia’s good name and reputation as a result of being regarded world-wide as a “global kleptocracy” is a very valid and pertinent question – as this is the reason why Malaysians going abroad are ashamed of identifying themselves as Malaysians when asked which country they come from.

It is not argumentative, offensive or frivolous, but a question being faced by 31 million Malaysians, whether abroad or within the country.

In fact, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) specifically acted under its Kleptocracy Assets Recovery Initiative when it filed the largest kleptocratic lawsuit to confiscate over US$1 billion 1MDB-linked assets in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

If MPs are not allowed to ask the Prime Minister questions about Malaysia’s infamy and ignominy at  being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy, and if the government is not going to do anything to cleanse and restore Malaysia’s reputation, then the only option left is for patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, to unite in the 14GE to save Malaysia from global kleptocracy.

This is not an easy job. There are many who have written off Opposition efforts to Save Malaysia from global kleptocracy, on the ground that the UMNO/BN government is so strong and the Opposition is so weak and divided, that there is no chance to topple Najib and the UMNO/BN Federal government from power in Putrajaya in the 14GE.

I agree that it is very difficult and uphill to oust Najib and topple the UMNO/BN Federal Government from Putrajaya, especially as Najib has the support of the PAS President, Hadi Awang, who has said that the issue of  Najib, a Muslim, remaining as Prime Minister is more important than the issue of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.

There are those who think that the best chance of change of Federal government in Putrajaya was during the 13th General Election on May 5, 2013 and that it is not possible to change the Federal Government in the 14th General Election as the opposition is too weak and divided.

I do not fully agree.

Let us look back only ten years ago, when the possibility of change of  Federal Government in Putrajaya through the ballot box was universally regarded as unthinkable and impossible.

We have come a long way since 10 years ago.

After the 2008 “political tsunami”, no Malaysian regarded  a change of Federal Government in Putrajaya as an impossible dream as it had become eminently possible, thinkable and do-able.

In fact, we would have achieved a change of Federal government in Putrajaya in the 13th General Election if the electoral system was genuinely fair and democratic.

Unfortunately, although Najib secured 47% of the popular vote, he was able to secure 60 per cent of the parliamentary seats, which enabled him to continue as Prime Minister, although as the first minority Prime Minister in Malaysia.

Many seems to have lost hope that there is a possibility of change in the next 14GE.

I do not agree.  It is difficult, even uphill, but not impossible.

There is in fact no option for patriotic Malaysians but to unite to Save Malaysia from kleptocracy, unless they want to see Malaysia entrenched in trajectory hurtling towards a failed and rogue state.

It may be that it requires as good as a miracle to oust Najib and the UMNO/BN government from Putrajaya in the 14 GE, but it is not an impossible mission.

We must re-ignite hope among Malaysians that we are capable of “Writing History, Creating Miracles” in the 14GE to bring about change in the Federal Government in Putrajaya to Save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy and hurtling towards a failed and rogue state, which can only bring hardships and sufferings to our children and children’s children.

(Speech at the BersatuPribumi  Ceramah Perdana at Nilai Convention Centre at Nilai, Negri Sembilan on Wednesday, 8th March 2017 at 10 pm)

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MCA, Gerakan, MIC and all the other 15 non-UMNO Ministers should force the issue at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow that there is no consensus for the government to give priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill or for government takeover of Hadi’s private member’s bill

Yesterday, I called on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to stop making  confusing, contradictory and misleading statements on PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) and to take a clear-cut and unequivocal stand firstly, that they oppose any government priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill motion for it to be debated and voted in the present meeting of Parliament; and secondly, they oppose any Federal government take-over of Hadi’s bill after the passage of Hadi’s private member’s bill  motion.

All that the MCA Deputy President and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong could say was to make the ridiculous and baseless allegation that I was using “dirty tactics” to trap MCA and the other BN component parties.

I do not know whether to express sympathy or  commiseration with the MCA Deputy President that the MCA and non-UMNO Ministers who feel and are behaving  like mouse caught in a mousetrap of their own making, especially when they dare not even blame the UMNO leadership for putting them in such an  unenviable plight.

MCA leaders like Wee can only blame themselves if they feel “trapped” on Hadi’s private member’s bill motion, all because of their lack of political principles.

MCA, Gerakan, MIC and all the other 15 non-UMNO Ministers should force the issue at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow that there is no consensus for the government to give priority to Hadi’s private member’s bill or for government takeover of Hadi’s private member’s bill, and make it very clear that there is no way that Hadi’s private member’s bill motion would be debated and voted on in the present session of Parliament.

As recently as last weekend during  the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s visit to Sabah, Najib boasted that the Barisan Nasional had achieved consensus among its 13 components.

It was during his visit to Sabah last weekend where Najib made the baseless and ludicrous allegation that Tun Mahathir’s co-operation with me to Save Malaysia from kleptocracy is an “Ali-Baba” arrangement, forgetting that the biggest “Ali Baba” partnership in Malaysia’s 60 year history  is the “Najib-Jho Low” axis which has catapulted the country to a global kleptocracy with the largest international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal with criminal prosecutions and investigations in over a dozen foreign countries except in Malaysia.

But that is a subject for another occasion.

I want to ask MCA, Gerakan, MIC and all the other non-UMNO Ministers whether there is consensus in the Cabinet for the government to give priority in Parliament for Hadi’s private members’ bill motion to be debated and voted on in the current meeting of Parliament, and furthermore, whether there is Cabinet consensus for the UMNO/BN Federal Government to take over Hadi’s private member’s bill after Parliament had adopted Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

If the answers are clear-cut “No Consensus” in both cases, why the MCA, Gerakan. MIC and all other 15 non-UMNO Ministers dare not say so, loud and clear and tell Najib and the UMNO Ministers that there is no Cabinet consensus for both cases and there is no way for Hadi’s private member’s bill to surface in Parliament?

Or have Barisan Nasional consensus finally been replaced by “UMNO hegemony” both in the cabinet and the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council, where what the other 12 non-UMNO BN parties and their leaders say, want and desire just do not matter, as all the other parties have just to kowtow to the wishes and desires of “UMNO hegemony”?

If this is the new situation in BN, then let it be spelt out clearly and specifically – instead of allowing the “fig leaf” of Barisan Nasional consensus to hide the reality of “UMNO hegemony”!

This is why I am asking the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and all the other fifteen  non-UMNO Ministers out of the 35-strong Najib Cabinet to submit to Najib their resignation from the Cabinet and their resignation to take effect the moment Hadi’s private member’s bill motion is given government priority and comes up in Parliament for debate and vote.

This is the least that the Ministers from the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and Sabah/Sarawak BN parties can do to show that they are men and women of principle, and not in politics just for position, money and power.

In the 13th General Election, Barisan Nasional won 133 parliamentary seats – UMNO 88 and the other BN parties collectively a  total of 45. UMNO is left with 86 MPs with the departures of Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal.

If the 15 non-UMNO Ministers resign from Najib Cabinet, and the 45 MPs from the non-UMNO parties in BN withdraw their support from Najib, then the Najib premiership falls precipitating a political and constitutional crisis as the Najib government will have lost the majority support of the 222 MPs in Parliament.

A new Prime Minister and a new government will have to be formed – let us see whether it is possible to have a new Prime Minister and a new government which is committed to support Hadi’s private member’s bill – as I believe not all the 86 UMNO MPs are prepared to vote in support of Hadi’s private member’s bill motion as the Deputy Home Minister has publicly stated his opposition.

(Media Conference Statement  in Parliament on Thursday, 9th March 2017 at 12.15 pm)

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As Abang Johari Openg has instructed the four PBB Muslim Ministers and 25 Sarawak BN MPs to  oppose Hadi’s Bill, is Asyraf Dusuki accusing Nancy Shukri, Fadillah Yusuf, Wan Junaidi and Rohani Abdul Karim as well as the Sarawak Chief Minister  and PBB President as anti-Islam?

The UMNO Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Dr. Asyrah Waijdi Dusuki is up to great mischief yesterday when he made the false and insidious allegations that the DAP is anti-Islam and is  seeking to strike fear among Malaysians, especially non-Muslims, by portraying a Bill to enhance the Shariah courts to be the pathway to hudud implementation.

Let me ask Asyrah a direct question:  Is he seriously suggesting that those who oppose PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 are anti-Islam?

In that case, I want to further ask Asyrah whether he is accusing the PBB President, Datuk Abang Johari Openg, and the four  PBB Muslim Ministers,  Nancy Shukri, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department; Datuk Fadillah Yusuf, Minister for Works; Datuk Wan Junaidi, Minister for Natural Resources and Environment; and Rohani Abdul Rahman, Minister for Women, Family and Community Development as anti-Islam as the Sarawak Chief Minister had last month reaffirmed the directive of his predecessor, the late Adenan Satem, to all the Sarawak BN Federal Ministers and the 25 Sarawak Barisan Nasional MPs to reject Hadi’s private member’s bill motion?

Is Asyrah further accusing the former Sarawak Chief Minister, Adenan Satem for being anti-Islam for having issued such a directive to all the 25 Sarawak BN MPs last November?

Or will Asyrah concede that both Muslims and non-Muslims can oppose Hadi’s private member’s bill motion without in any way being anti-Islam?

I await Asyrah’s answer.

Asyrah has clearly misunderstood my call in Parliament in the past two days directed at  the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and the other 15 non-UMNO Ministers to take a clear-cut stand and  force the issue at the Cabinet today as firstly, there is no Cabinet and Barisan Nasional consensus that Hadi’s private member’s bill motion be given government priority in the present meeting of Parliament; and  secondly, that the Federal Government takes over Hadi’s bill after the passage of Hadi’s private member’s bill motion.

In the past two days in Parliament, I did not discuss the merits or demerits of Hadi’s private member’s bill but the different and very important question whether the Barisan Nasional coalition has totally changed its character – from a coalition of equals which observes the  consensus principle to one practicing “UMNO hegemony” where “what UMNO wants, UMNO gets” in the Barisan Nasional coalition and the other 12 non-UMNO BN parties do not matter at all!

In fact, the admission by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Azalina Othman yesterday that she did not know whether Hadi’s private member’s bill motion would be given priority, as she had yet to receive instructions on the matter from the Prime Minister, indicates that the Barisan Nasional has degenerated from a coalition of equals where the consensus principle for all the 13 BN parties  applies to one where the diktat of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, rules the BN roost!

This is something the first five Prime Ministers have never done or achieved – whether Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir or Tun Abdullah.

This is why the 14th General Election has become the important occasion for all patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or even politics to unite to “Save Malaysia” from kleptocracy in the great battle between democracy vs kleptocracy.

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DAP stands fully united in support of the government to resolve the crisis with North Korea

DAP stands fully united in support of the government to resolve the crisis with North Korea and the safe return of the nine Malaysians who are barred from leaving North Korea amidst the diplomatic row between the two nations.

Both North Korea and South Korea are presenting important lessons for Malaysia.

The lesson we must learn from the diplomatic crisis with North Korea is that Malaysians must stand united in support of the government’s dealings with foreign countries, as we must not give foreign countries any opportunity to exploit any internal differences for their benefit.

The lesson we must learn from the political crisis in South Korea following the impeachment of the South Korean President Park Geun-hye by the unanimous decision of eight judges of the Constitutional Court is quite different – that Malaysia must always uphold the rule of law and the sanctity of the Constitution if the country is not to be plunged into any  political chaos.

In fact, many Malaysians are asking whether the impeachment of the South Korean President by Parliament and unanimous judgment of the Constitutional  Court because of corruption and gross abuses of power could happen in Malaysia, whether  political leaders in Malaysia could be impeached because of corruption and gross abuses of power.

This is only possible if in Malaysia, there is true rule of law, sanctity of the Constitution, separation of powers and independence of the important national institutions like the judiciary.

South Korea was very backward, both economically and politically, sixty years ago when we achieved Merdeka on August 31, 1957.  Today, South Korea has leapt ahead of Malaysia not only in economic progress and development, but in its growth as a democracy from a dictatorship.

This is indeed food for thought for all Malaysians, – why the country has lagged so behind South Korea, both in economic and political terms in the past six decades.

(Speech at Dewan Sri Cheeding after visiting Kg Jenjarom and Kg Sri Cheeding during Jelajah  Desa to Teluk Datuk State Assembly Constituency, Selangor on Saturday, 11th March 2017 at 9.30 am)

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FELDA should welcome  Pakatan Harapan’s FELDA Convention and not be afraid to send its highest officials to the Convention to assure 100,000 FELDA  settlers all is well with FELDA based on the precept “Berani kerana benar”

I am surprised to read the latest Bernama news that FELDA is highly offended by the FELDA Convention organized by Pakatan Harapan in Shah Alam next Sunday, March 19, declaring its objection  and stressing that FELDA is no way involved in the forthcoming FELDA Convention.

In a statement, FELDA director-general Datuk Hanapi Suhada said FELDA had never given any permission to use the FELDA name for the Pakatan Harapan convention

Hanapi said: “Lately there are some quarters who are out to disturb the harmony and wellbeing of Felda settlers. The latest being Pakatan Harapan which plans to hold the ‘Konvensyen Felda, Kelangsungan Felda Melalui Pengupayaan dan Pendidikan’ (Felda Convention: Felda Continuity through Capacity Building and Education) in Shah Alam on March 19.

“The use of the Felda name in the title will confuse the settlers and the public at large.”

Hanapi said Felda viewed the matter seriously as there could be misrepresentation which could affect the harmony and wellbeing of settlers in its land schemes.

Hanapi claimed that since the authority was founded in 1956, Felda had never strayed from its core objective of raising the standard of living of its settler community in the 317 land schemes throughout the country.

This is a most extraordinary and even hysterical statement, reflecting a most petty and small-minded mentality.

I will be most surprised if  Hanapi’s statement had the blessing of the new FELDA Chairman and MP for Johor Baru, Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad, which means that the veteran UMNO politician has changed considerably since becoming FELDA Chairman.

If Hanapi is so confident that FELDA and FELDA settlers have benefitted enormously from able and competent FELDA management and stewardship, why is he chary of sending the highest FELDA officials to the FELDA Convention next Sunday to assure 100,000 FELDA  settlers all is well with FELDA based on the precept “Berani kerana benar”?

If there are voices about weaknesses, mistakes and even scandals in FELDA, surely the FELDA Convention next Sunday will provide an excellent venue for Hanapi and his officials to prove the naysayers wrong – unless there is indeed some basis and truth in the criticisms about FELDA leadership and stewardship especially in the past two decades?

I will urge Shahrir to ensure that good sense prevail in the FELDA leadership and management to adopt a positive and co-operative approach to the FELDA Convention next Sunday and to ensure that FELDA send top representatives to fully participate in the Pakatan Harapan FELDA Convention next Sunday.

[Speech (2) at Dewan Sri Cheeding after visiting Kg Jenjarom and Kg Sri Cheeding during Jelajah  Desa to Teluk Datuk State Assembly Constituency, Selangor on Saturday, 11th March 2017 at 9.30 am]

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The ousting of South Korean President by Parliament and an unanimous decision by eight judges is sober  reminder to Malaysians of the need to   restore rule of law and separation of powers where we can also impeach the Prime Minister if he  runs afoul of  the law and the Constitution

The biggest news today is not North Korea but South Korea, the unanimous decision by eight judges of South Korea’s Constitutional Court endorsing the decision of the South Korean Parliament to impeach and remove President Park Geun-hye from office over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates.

Park becomes South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office, capping months of paralysis and turmoil over the corruption scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung conglomerate in detention and on trial.

As Lee Tae-ho, who leads a movement to oust Park that has held mostly peaceful rallies in downtown involving millions, told a large gathering in Seoul earlier today: “We did it. We the citizens, the sovereign of this country, opened a new chapter in history.”

Park was stripped of her powers after parliament voted to impeach her but has remained in the president’s official compound.

The court’s acting chief judge, Lee Jung-mi, said Park had violated the constitution and law “throughout her term”, and despite the objections of parliament and the media, she had concealed the truth and cracked down on critics.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruling to uphold parliament’s Dec. 9 vote to impeach her marks a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea’s first woman president.

She  no longer has immunity and could now face criminal charges over bribery, extortion and abuse of power in connection with allegations of conspiring with her friend, Choi Soon-sil.

What is significant and remarkable is that the Seoul market’s benchmark KOSPI index .KS11 and the South Korean won currency rose after the ruling by the Constitutional Court.

As a senior economist and analyst explained it, “the hope is that this will allow the country to have a new leader that can address long-standing challenges such as labor market reforms and escalated geopolitical tensions.”

What happened in South Korea – the ousting of South Korean President by Parliament and an unanimous decision by eight judges –  is a sober  reminder to Malaysians of the need to   restore rule of law and separation of powers in Malaysia  where we can also impeach the Prime Minister if he  runs afoul of  the law and the Constitution.

For the past few years,  the  country has  been haunted and hounded by the nation’s largest corruption scandal – the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal.

Although the Prime Minister and the government has put up a great façade pretending that the 1MDB scandal does not exist, not a day passes without the 1MDB scandal making news and headlines in another country in some parts of the world – testifying to the global nature of the 1MDB money-laundering scandal.

As a result, the word “kleptocracy” has entered into ordinary Malaysian vocabulary. Even in English-speaking nations, most people would not understand the meaning of “kleptocracy”, as it is a difficult and rarely-used word,  but for Malaysia, even the non-English speaking people have come to know the meaning of the word “kleptocracy”!

As I said in Parliament in November, “kleptocracy” is a government of 3Ps – Pencuri, Perompak and Penyamun.

I do not believe that there are any people in the world who have no sense of self-respect and self-pride that they want to suffer the infamy and ignominy of being ridiculed world-wide as a global kleptocracy and doing nothing about it to purge the country of such notoriety and odium and to  restore the good name and reputation of their nation.

At present, even in Parliament, MPs cannot ask questions about the 1MDB scandal.

Can we expect our courts to do what Parliament would not do, to clear the ignominy, infamy and notoriety of being ridiculed world-wide as a global kleptocracy?

This is one reason why Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, must unite in the forthcoming 14th General Election to Save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy, because it is only with  a change of government in Putrajaya that the country can take the first step to eradicate Malaysia’s infamy, ignominy and notoriety of being regarded and ridiculed worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

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UMNO propagandists concocting a third demonization campaign against me, alleging that I am stooge of Singapore PAP as they found that two earlier lies about me being “anti-Malay” and “anti-Islam” are not as effective as they had hoped

In the past three months, I had never  in my life been so “famous” in the UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media, as almost every day, my picture would appear and there would be a write-up about me, appearing either in New Straits Times, Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian or TV3 – all trying to put in the worst possible light.

There was for instance a standing instruction for decades in one of the major newspaper groups that my picture was never to appear in their dailies.

Why have I become so “famous” in the past three months when for over 50 years of my political life, I had been mostly blacked out by the UMNO/BN owned or controlled mainstream media, making me into a “non-person” as in Stalinist Soviet Union – with all the concoctions, falsehoods and lies about me?

This is really all not about me, but about the UMNO propagandists, cybertroopers and leadership – their fear that they might be ousted from Putrajaya in the forthcoming 14th General Election expected this year, probably in September.

If UMNO feels strong and invincible, they would not  waste time on their political competitors, whom  until recently they regard as “lightweights” and unable to threaten their political power base.

It is precisely because they had a fright of their lives in the 13th General Election, when they were nearly  sent to the Opposition benches as UMNO/BN had only won 47% of the popular vote but because of the undemocratic and unjust redelineation of  constituencies which gave them control of 60 per cent of the parliamentary seats, that enabled Datuk Seri Najib Razak to continue as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, albeit the first minority Prime Minister in Malaysian history.

In the 14th General Election – which is going to the “mother of all general elections in Malaysia” – UMNO leaders know that despite general public disappointments and disillusionment  with the electoral process, there is nonetheless the great possibility that UMNO/BN may be voted out of power, UMNO/BN leaders are pulling out all the stops to carry out unethical, dishonest, unprincipled and unscrupulous tactics and stratagems against the Opposition, such  as the politics of lies, hate and fear to defame DAP and myself as anti-Malay and anti-Islam so as to frighten the Malay electorate.

The spectre and “nightmare” UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers tried to create among Malay voters is that if UMNO is defeated, the “anti-Malay and anti-Islam” DAP would rule in Malaysia, and that all the other parties, whether PKR, Amanah or Pribumi Bersatu are just stooges of the DAP.

UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers must have found that their politics of lies, hate and fear trying to demonise the DAP as “anti-Malay, anti-Islam” and that Tun Mahathir, Tan Sri Muhyiddin, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Dr. Azizah Wan Ismail and  Mohd Sabu are just stooges and puppets of Lim Kit Siang do not have much credibility and not getting enough  traction that they have decided on a new propaganda attack against DAP and myself.

My “Deep Throat” inside UMNO tells me that the new politics of lies, hate and fear that the UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers are going to launch against me will be the new lie that DAP and I are stooges of Singapore PAP, and that if UMNO loses power, Singapore will lord over Malaysia!

If DAP and I are stooges of Singapore PAP, it is a major failure  of the Malaysian Police, in particular the Special Branch, as  for some five decades of the DAP’s existence, they knew nothing about it and this never became an  issue in the past 50 years.

This would mean that all the past Special Branch Directors, and even Inspectors-General of Police, all the Home Ministers in the past five decades, would have been dismal failures – and who were they?

I think it is most unfair, and a gross defamation, to regard the Special Branch, the Police and the Home Ministry in the past five decades as  total failures in not knowing in the past 50 years that DAP and I were just “puppets” of Singapore, when  in fact, the Special Branch in Malaysia is one of the best in the world – able to ferret out secrets and defeat the nation’s enemies and  is probably the only Special Branch in the world to win the battle for the hearts and minds of the people against the communists.

The real reason is very simple – there is just no basis whatsoever in the lies that DAP and I are stooges of Singapore PAP.

Change is within reach in a matter of months in the run-up to the 14th General Election.  Those who fear the loss of power are capable of resorting to the most despicable of lies and tactics to perpetuate their political power.

We have the unenviable task of exposing the lies of the UMNO leaders, propagandists and cybertroopers and telling the people the truth – that Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or even politics, must unite to Save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy and from getting into a trajectory hurtling towards a failed and rogue state.

(Speech at the Majlis Makan Malam Peduli Rakyat organized by Sepang Parti Amanah Negara at Taman Mas, Sepang on Friday,10th March 2017 at 9.30 pm)

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1MDB issues not discussed with irrelevant parties: Swiss AG

The Independent

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March 10, 2017

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) denied that it discussed confidential matters regarding the 1MDB scandal with any individuals.

The response from the OAG is in reply to The Independent’s request for clarification on a Swiss citizen claiming to have had such discussions with the Swiss AG.

The Independent carried a report yesterday on claims by Sarawak Report that it was duped into taking part in a pro-Malaysian government seminar on 1MDB.

Replying to the inquiry, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland stressed that “at no point did any discussion of criminal proceedings take place between OAG representatives and the said person.”

It further said the claims by the person is not founded.

“The claim that OAG representatives disclosed confidential information to the said person is false and has no foundation whatsoever.”

Sarawak Report, the blog that officially broke the scandalous 1MDB story said on Wednesday that it might have been the victim of a Malaysian government’s ‘Black Ops’ in England.

Along with the blog’s editor Claire Rewcastle Brown, the major opposition parties in Malaysia was also conned believing an event held in Switzerland was an open forum to discuss critical issues related to 1MDB and its harmful impacts.

In a lengthy detail of the what it called the ‘undercover ops’ headed by a PR firm close to the Barisan Nasional (BN) government in Malaysia, the Sarawak Report editor narrates the facts and pins the blame on Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

It said the stint took place at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and was hosted by its ‘Observatory on Security” (OUS), part of the university’s Global Studies Institute and the Vice-President of OUS, Nicolas Giannakopoulos said he was working for the Swiss Attorney General.

Giannakopoulos also said the Swiss AG promised to feed him with updates on the handling of the 1MDB case, and he insisted to the Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown, that he will help in distributing the seized funds from the 1MDB scandal in Switzerland to good use in Malaysia!

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