UMNO and all present and former BN parties (including UMNO, MCA and MIC) should return  RM470 million to public coffers as they had been  misappropriated from 1MDB

I was earlier asked at the 47th ABIM annual congress at Universiti Islam Malaysia in Nilai about the comment of the former MCA President, Datuk Dr. Chua Soi Lek about the linkage between the MCA and the world-infamous  MDB scandal, which caused Malaysians whether inside or the country to hold their heads in shame for the past few years when thinking of the infamy and ignominy of Malaysia being regarded as a global kleptocracy.

I have since seen news report that listed the   RM470 million from former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal banking accounts and which were traceable to 1MDB, which had been diverted to Barisan Nasional parties for the 13th general election, including the following.

UMNO    – RM 417,414,000

MCA     – RM 16,500,000

MIC     – RM 20,550,000

BN      – RM 3,550,000

SUPP    – RM 3,500,000

LDP     – RM 3,500,000

UPKO    – RM 2,000,000

PBRS    – RM 1,000,000

PPP     –  RM 700,000

Gerakan – RM300,000

These are serious  misappropriation of public funds to the Barisan Nasional parties in 2013 as they belonged to MDB.

I call on  UMNO and all present and former BN parties (including UMNO, MCA and MIC) to  return the  RM470 million to public coffers as they had been  misappropriated from 1MDB.

If not, the assets of all these political parties should be sequestered to the extent of their misappropriation of 1MDB funds as revealed in this list.

Chua Soi Lek had said that in 2013, MCA had no way of knowing the source of the funding.

He said:

“I already said there was money (given to MCA). But during that time (2013), there was no 1MDB. (News of) 1MDB had not burst onto the scene yet. (Talk of) 1MDB only emerged in 2014.

“When people give you money … when your father gives you money, will you ask your dad where the money comes from? Did you steal it? Did you borrow it?

“You would just receive it in good faith, don’t you agree?”

I don’t agree.

This is the first time that a MCA President has admitted that UMNO-MCA relationship is likened to a father-son relationship, and that Barisan Nasional is not a political coalition of equals.

It is no wonder that Malaysian politics in the past few decades had been beset with so many problems and difficulties, which have now to be undone  one by one in the “New Malaysia” that is being built after the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.l

But even in a father-son relationship, if the son has reasons to believe that the money that he is being offered is tainted by crime and corruption, even a dutiful son would decline acceptance.

As far back as 2010, the 1MDB scandal had been raised by the DAP.

Now, MCA is a political party tainted with the 1MDB scandal like UMNO, although it not the only political party apart from UMNO which is so tainted.

This brings me back to my question whether MCA as a whole is prepared to exorcise itself of the 1MDB taint, by ensuring that all MCA leaders who had aided and abetted Najib in the 1MDB scandal would retire from office and not soil and sully the MCA reputation any further.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 20th October 2018)

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Pentadbiran awam Malaysia yang bertaraf dunia

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri, YB Lim Kit Siang, semasa merasmikan Majlis Penyerahan Bangunan CEA U-Custom di Kompleks CIQ Sultan Abu Bakar Gelang Patah, Johor pada 10pagi, 21hb Oktober 2018)

1.  Selamat pagi semua. Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada pihak Jabatan Kastam Di Raja Malaysia kerana menjemput saya untuk merasmikan Bangunan Customs Examinations Area (CEA) U-Customs di Kompleks CIQ Sultan Abu Bakar Gelang Patah, Johor pagi ini

2. Ini merupakan kali pertama saya dijemput dan menghadiri acara rasmi Jabatan Kastam Diraja selaku Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri.

3. Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia merupakan sebuah agensi pemungut hasil negara dan juga yang terpenting dalam membantu kerajaan untuk pembangunan negara.

4 Tahniah juga kepada pihak JKDM dan pihak PBLT selaku pelaksana projek serta pihak kontraktor yang telah berjaya menyiapkan projek bangunan CEA ini.

5. Tidak lupa juga saya ucapkan terima kasih kepada pihak BPH, JKR, kontraktor FM dan pihak yg secara langsung dan tidak langsung membantu dalam penyiapan projek CEA.

6. Malaysia mencipa sejarah kebelakangan ini, di mana rakyat Malaysia di dalam dan luar negara semuanya merasa bangga sebagai rakyat negara Malaysia, kerana kita berjaya membawa satu peralihan kuasa pemerintah secara aman dan demokratik menerusi kotak undi, sungguhpun demokrasi di seluruh dunia sedang menghadapi krisis keyakinan.

7. Kita mesti meneruskan misi kita untuk menjadi sebuah negara yang bertaraf-dunia.

8. Perdana Menteri kita dalam ucapannya di Parlimen Khamis yang lepas semasa membentangkan Kajian Separuh Penggal Rancangan Malaysia Ke-11, telah menyeru supaya rakyat Malaysia menyokong usaha Kerajaan untuk mengubah Malaysia dari sebuah kleptokrasi sedunia menjadi sebuah teladan demokrasi yang mengamalkan urus tadbir yang baik dan berakauntabel.

9. Kejayaa kita dalam usaha ini akan merupakan satu kejayaan bertaraf dunia yang tentu membanggakan semua rakyat Malaysia. Maka saya menyeru supaya kesemua 1.7 juta penjawat awam negara kita memberikanlah kerjasama penuh kepada objektif ini dan dalam proses ini menjadikan pentadbiran awam Malaysia suatu pentadbiran yang cekap, kompeten, sopan dan ramah.

10. Harapan saya adalah supaya acara hari ini merupakan langkah ke arah ini.

11. Akhir sekali terima kasih kepada pihak MOF, JKDM kerana sudi menjemput saya ke majlis pagi ini. Dengan ini saya merasmikan bangunan CEA U-CUSTOMS di Kompleks Bangunan Sultan Abu Bakar Gelang Patah, Johor.

12.  Sekian, terima kasih.

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Most important questions for all MCA leaders are not whether MCA leaving BN but whether MCA dare to denounce Najib and 1MDB scandal for the infamy of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy and vow support to Pakatan Harapan to transform Malaysia from  global kleptocracy to a model democracy?

MCA must thank its former MCA President, Datuk Chua Soi Lek for crystallising some of the issues which MCA must confront if it is to survive after being reduced from a 7/11 into a ½ political party from the 2013 to the 2018 General Election, i.e. a party with seven MPs and 11 State Assemblymen to a party with one MP and two Assemblymen!

At its height, MCA had 30 MPs and four federal Ministers, but in the 2018 general election, it secured only 639,165 votes (or the support at most 200,000 Chinese voters although it boasts of a membership of more than a million members).

In his publicity build-up for the launching of his autobiography today, Chua asked “When dad gives you money, do you ask if he stole it?” as his response to questions as why MCA had agreed to receive money from 1MDB from former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, for the 13th General Election campaign.

Chua’s answer helped to highlight three issues confronting MCA today.

Firstly, MCA’s relationship with UMNO likened  to a father-and-son relationship.

When did this happen, as in MCA history, MCA had always been presented as co-equal with UMNO and MIC to achieve independence for the country.

The founder and early MCA Presidents, in particular Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Tan Siew Sin, and even Datuk Lee San Choon would never have agreed to UMNO-MCA relationship to be likened to  a father-son relationship.

It is indeed sad and tragic that by 2013, some 60 years after the founding of MCA, MCA Presidents have already come to accept the UMNO-MCA relationship as that of father-and-son.

Secondly, former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had never denied that RM470 million from his personal banking account had been given to BN parties in the 2013 general election.

Out of this sum, kRM417 million was given to UMNO, RM16.5 million given to MCA, RM20 million to MIC, RM3.5 million to SUPP and RM300,000 to Gerakan.

Why is there such a vast difference between RM417 million to UMNO and RM16.5 million to MCA.

Even more interesting, why was MIC given RM20 million while MCA got only RM16.5 million, when MCA had always boasted that it is the second most important party in Barisan National.

Thirdly, whether MCA leaders agree that these payments were serious  misappropriation of public funds and abuses of power as the entire amount of RM470 million belonged to 1MDB and the government, and that MCA should set the example of returning the RM16.4 million 1MDB funds to public coffers, demanding  UMNO, MIC, Gerakan, SUPP and other receipients of the RM470 million 1MDB funds to the public exchequer?

MCA is holding its party elections two Sunday from today on Nov. 4.

However, all the MCA leaders have missed the most important questions which are  not whether MCA is  leaving BN but whether MCA dare to denounce Najib and the  1MDB scandal for the infamy of Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy and vow support to Pakatan Harapan government to transform Malaysia from  global kleptocracy to a model democracy?

Will all the contestants in the MCA party elections on Nov. 4 dare to make the denunciation of Najib and the 1MDB scandal as well as to vow support to Pakatan Harapan to transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy to a model democracy as a cardinal platform in their MCA election pledges?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 21st October 2018)

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Chua Soi Lek –  I do not like or hate him. I pity him

Former MCA President Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek can deny until the cows come home and  allege that I had twisted his words in claiming that he had likened  UMNO-MCA relationship to father-and-son relationship but just ask the Malaysian  reading public what conclusions  they would draw from Chua’s earlier and subsequent statements.

May be  Chua had not expected the intensity of the fallout of his  “when your father gives you money, will you ask your dad where the money comes from” statement, but it shows that there are things for  even an old hand in politics to learn.

Chua is not stupid or dense, although he is prepared to sound stupid or dense if this will help his cause.

Let me say this of Chua Soi Lek – I do not like him or hate him. I pity him.  And I wish him good luck in his “rise from the political ashes”!

I have therefore nothing more to say about him or what he had said.

But what intrigued me is that not a single contestant for office in the MCA party elections on Nov. 5 had dared to address what I had described as the most important question facing MCA – not whether MCA  is going to leave Barisan Nasional  but whether MCA dare to denounce former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which brought Malaysia to such depths as to be regarded worldwide as a  global kleptocracy.

Further, the thunderous silence on whether all Barisan Nasional parties including MCA, should  return all the illicit 1MDB funds which they had improperly received to public coffers  and to vow support to the  Pakatan Harapan Government to transform Malaysia from  global kleptocracy to a model democracy!

MCA’s leaving BN would not cleanse the MCA of having aided and abetted Najib in the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal, which made Malaysia a laughing stock of the world.

Next month, on Nov. 9, there is going to be world premier in London of a 84-minute film entitled “The Kleptocrats”, and the blurb for the film is as follows:

“WORLD PREMIERE In one of the world’s biggest financial crimes, 3.5 billion dollars were stolen from a Malaysian government fund. Investigative reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Hollywood Reporter follow the money as it travels across the globe, financing everything from luxury real estate and decadent parties to Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Capturing white-collar crime at its greedy best, The Kleptocrats is tale of embezzlement, scams and greed run amok.”

What a terrible shame for Malaysia!

Is every MCA contestant prepared to campaign on the stand that MCA must denounce and repudiate Najib and the 1MDB scandal, and pledge to  return every dirty sen they received, whether directly or indirectly, from 1MDB funds – and to ask UMNO and all present and former  Barisan Nasional parties to do the same?

Will MCA Deputy President, Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong speak on this issue in Parliament?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Monday, October 22nd 2018)

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Hadi has proved himself a disgrace to political Islam as he cannot comply with my 48-hour challenge to substantiate his allegation that DAP discriminates against the East Coast by opposing equal development for Terengganu and Kelantan

PAS President, Datuk Haji Hadi Awang has proved himself a disgrace to political Islam as he cannot comply with my 48-hour challenge to substantiate his allegation that DAP discriminates against the East Coast by opposing equal development for Terengganu and Kelantan.

I am reminded of Saturday’s 47th  ABIM annual congress at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia in Nilai themed “Visi Islam dalam aspirasi Malaysia Baharu”  and the keynote address by Professor Datuk Dr. Siddiq Fadzil on “Malaysia Baharu & Kesinambuangan Reformasi Islahiy”, where Dr. Siddiq stressed  that the prerequisite for the building of a New Malaysia is to undertake a “human and cultural transformation”.

He spoke of “nilai malu” which he described as “nilai teras ajaran Islam”.

He said:

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Sifat malu adalah kekuatan moral yang dapat mengawal seseorang daripada melakukan perbuatan keji.  Sifat malu  juga adalah ciri orang bermaruah. Justeru, orang bermaruah malu berperilaku tidak bermoral, malu melakukan korupsi, malu menganggotai organisasi korup, malu di perintah kerajaan korup, malu dipimpin ketua korup, malu ditipu dan diperbodoh, malu menjadi bangsa yang ketinggalan, malu negaranya desebut ‘kleptocracy at its worst’.”

Dr. Siddique spoke about “moral deficit” and the death of idealism in politics, which have given rise to many modern political ills including the politics of lies, falsehood and fake news.

The greater culprit today in the politics of lies, falsehood and fake news is none other than President Trump of the United States, and Dr. Siddique referred to a Washington Post report which calculated that Trump had made 2,140 false or misleading claims during his first year in office – an average of nearly 5.9 per days.

Dr Siddique concluded: “
Kebenaran harus diselamatkan segera sebelum terkubur dalam politik bohong. Untuk itu Malaysia Baharu harus mengamalkan politik moral yang komited terhadap misi  pendaulatan nilai kebenaran dan kejujuran.”

Dr. Siddique speech struck a chord in me, as for decades, I had been a victim of demonisation and fake news, at the receiving end of an long-time orchestrated campaign to paint me as quite a devil, a puaka, even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; cause of May 13, 1969 riots; a communist; a stooge of foreign powers; multiple agent of foreign powers including CIA, KGB, MI5, Australian Secret Intelligence; received RM1 billion from Mahathir, RM100 million from tycoon Robert Kuok and over RM1.2 billion from Israeli sources to fund the 13th General Election; given RM40 million to a news portal; offered PAS President Hadi Awang RM100 million to defy the Sultan of Selangor; that I dominate and run Pakatan Harapan; made other leaders like Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, Mohamad Sabu and Husam Musa into my stooges and puppets; want to be Prime Minister when Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election; want to disband Malay Regimen and  destroy Malaysia-China relations, and a litany of incredible fake news, false information and downright lies!

It was even alleged that on Dec. 3, 2016, I had a secret meet with Tun Mahathir where we sealed  an agreement that after the 14th General Election, Mukhriz Mahathir would be the Prime Minister and I the Deputy Prime Minister.

In actual fact, there was no such Dec.  3, 2016 meeting with Mahathir at all and in my various meeting with Mahathir before the 14th General Election, we never discussed the subject of Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister!

Some of these purveyors of lies, falsehoods and fake news are inventing new ones against me and the DAP, like the recent “cock-and-bull” story that I had advocated after the May 1969 general election for Peninsular Malaysia to be split into two, East Coast for the Malays and West Coast for the Chinese.

However, my “Jelajah Raya di Pantai Timor” in Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan in July last year had vindicated me and confirmed what I had always believed – that the lies and falsehoods which form the core of the UMNO demonisation campaign against me and DAP leaders, painting us as anti-Malay and anti-Islam, do not have any traction with the majority of Malays and Muslims, as they are not so stupid and irrational as to succumb to the lies, fake news and false information pumped out by the UMNO propaganda mills of lies and falsehoods.

The question is why the PAS President, Datuk Seri Haji Awang, is setting out to be the Trump of Malaysia with his latest lie that the DAP discriminates against the East Coast by opposing equal development for Terengganu and Kelantan?

I am confident that just as the UMNO lies, falsehoods and fake news about the DAP being anti-Malay and anti-Islam have failed, similarly the lies, falsehoods and fake news being churned out by Hadi that the DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam will also fail.

Both UMNO and PAS leaders do not seem to realise that we are in the age of information, where information travels at the speed of light and that they are fighting a losing battle to believe that the Malays are so  gullible as to fall victims to the lies, falsehoods and fake news churned out by  the UMNO and PAS propagandists.

Najib and Hadi must wake up to realise that the Malays are living in the second decade of the 21st century, and not in the first decade of the fifthteen century!

(Media statement in Gelang Patah on 22 October 2018)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada Isnin 22 Oktober 2018 di Gelang Patah:

Hadi Awang memalukan politik Islam apabila gagal menyahut cabaran saya untuk membuktikan tuduhannya bahawa DAP mendiskriminasi negeri-negeri di Pantai Timur dengan menentang pembangunan setara di Terengganu dan Kelantan dalam tempoh 48 jam.

Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang memalukan politik Islam apabila gagal menyahut cabaran saya untuk membuktikan tuduhannya bahawa DAP mendiskriminasi negeri-negeri di Pantai Timur dengan menentang pembangunan setara di Terengganu dan Kelantan dalam tempoh 48 jam.

Saya diingatkan mengenai kongres tahunan ABIM ke-47 di Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia di Nilai yang bertemakan “Visi Islam dalam aspirasi Malaysia Baharu” dan ucaptama oleh Profesor Datuk Dr. Siddiq Fadzil mengenai “Malaysia Baharu & Kesinambuangan Reformasi Islahiy”, di mana Dr. Siddiq menegaskan bahawa prasyarat untuk membina sebuah Malaysia Baru adalah dengan melaksanakan “transformasi budaya dan manusia”.

Beliau bercakap mengenai “nilai malu” yang digambarkannya sebagai “nilai teras pengajaran Islam”.

Beliau berkata:

“Sifat malu adalah kekuatan moral yang dapat mengawal seseorang daripada melakukan perbuatan keji.  Sifat malu  juga adalah ciri orang bermaruah. Justeru, orang bermaruah malu berperilaku tidak bermoral, malu melakukan korupsi, malu menganggotai organisasi korup, malu di perintah kerajaan korup, malu dipimpin ketua korup, malu ditipu dan diperbodoh, malu menjadi bangsa yang ketinggalan, malu negaranya desebut ‘kleptocracy at its worst’.”

Dr. Siddique bercakap tentang “defisit moral” dan kematian idealisme dalam politik, yang menimbulkan banyak masalah politik moden termasuk politik pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu.

Pelaku politik pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu paling besar hari ini tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah Presiden Amerika Syarikat Donald Trump. Dr. Siddique merujuk laporan Washington Post yang mendedahkan bahawa Trump membuat 2,140 tuduhan palsu atau mengelirukan pada tahun pertama pentadbiran – purata hampir 5.9 setiap hari.

Dr Siddique membuat kesimpulan: “Kebenaran harus diselamatkan segera sebelum terkubur dalam politik bohong. Untuk itu Malaysia Baharu harus mengamalkan politik moral yang komited terhadap misi pendaulatan nilai kebenaran dan kejujuran.”

Ucapan Dr. Siddique menyentuh perasaan saya, kerana selama beberapa dekad, saya telah menjadi momokan dan berita palsu, pada akhir kempen yang telah lama dirancang untuk mengambarkan saya sebagai setan, puaka, bahkan jembalang; bahawa saya anti-Melayu, anti-Islam; pencetus rusuhan 13 Mei 1969; komunis; tali barut asing asing; ejen kuasa asing termasuk CIA, KGB, MI5, Perisikan Rahsia Australia; menerima RM1 bilion daripada Mahathir, RM100 juta daripada hartawan Robert Kuok dan lebih RM1.2 bilion daripada sumber Israel untuk membiayai Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13; diberi RM40 juta untuk sebuah portal berita; menawarkan Presiden PAS Hadi Awang RM100 juta untuk menentang Sultan Selangor; bahawa saya menguasai dan mengerakkan Pakatan Harapan; menjadikan pemimpin lain seperti Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, Mohamad Sabu dan Husam Musa sebagai tali barut dan boneka; mahu menjadi Perdana Menteri apabila Pakatan Harapan menang Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-14; mahu membubarkan Regimen Melayu dan memusnahkan hubungan Malaysia-China, dan pelbagai lagi berita palsu, maklumat palsu dan pembohongan.

Ada juga yang mendakwa pada 3 Disember 2016, saya mengadakan pertemuan rahsia dengan Tun Mahathir dan membuat perjanjian bahawa selepas Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-14, Mukhriz Mahathir akan menjadi Perdana Menteri dan saya Timbalan Perdana Menteri.

Hakikatnya, tidak ada sebarang pertemuan berlangsung antara saya dan Mahathir pada 3 Disember 2016 dan dalam pelbagai pertemuan antara saya dan Mahathir sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14, kami tidak pernah berbincang tentang calon Perdana Menteri atau Timbalan Perdana Menteri!

Sebahagian daripada pencetus pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu ini telah mereka cipta kisah baru bagi menyerang saya dan DAP, seperti kisah temberang yang tular baru-baru ini, yang menuduh saya kononnya  ada membuat cadangan supaya Semenanjung Malaysia dibahagikan kepada dua, Pantai Timur untuk orang Melayu dan Pantai Barat untuk orang Cina, selepas Pilihan Raya Umum Mei 1969 .

Bagaimanapun, “Jelajah Raya di Pantai Timur” yang saya sertai di Pahang, Terengganu dan Kelantan pada Julai tahun lepas telah membuktikan dan mengesahkan apa yang saya sering percaya – bahawa pembohongan dan kepalsuan yang menjadi teras kempen jahat UMNO terhadap saya dan pemimpin DAP, yang menggambarkan kami sebagai anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam, tidak mampu menarik minat majoriti orang Melayu dan Islam, kerana mereka berfikiran rasional dan tidak mudah diperbodohkan untuk mempercayai pembohongan, berita palsu dan maklumat palsu yang disebarkan oleh kilang propaganda dusta dan kepalsuan yang digerakkan UMNO.

Persoalannya ialah mengapa Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Haji Awang, mahu menjadi Trump versi Malaysia dengan menuduh bahawa DAP mendiskriminasi negeri-negeri di Pantai Timur dengan menentang pembangunan setara bagi Terengganu dan Kelantan?

Saya yakin, sama seperti kegagalan dakyah pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu yang dilakukan UMNO terhadap DAP dengan tuduhan anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam, begitu juga pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu yang dilemparkan oleh Hadi terhadap DAP dengan tuduhan anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam akan turut menemui nasib yang serupa.

Kedua-dua pemimpin UMNO dan PAS nampaknya tidak menyedari bahawa kita kini berada di era maklumat, era di mana maklumat bergerak pantas dan mereka memperjuangkan sesuatu yang boleh disifatkan sebagai sia-sia apabila menganggap bahawa orang Melayu begitu mudah terpedaya dan seterusnya menjadi mangsa pembohongan, kepalsuan dan berita palsu yang dilemparkan oleh propagandis UMNO dan PAS.

Najib dan Hadi harus berhenti bermimpi dan menyedari bahawa orang Melayu hidup dalam dekad kedua abad ke-21, dan bukan pada dekad pertama abad ke lima belas!

– Lim Kit Siang

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Will Hishammuddin be the first Minister in the last Najib Cabinet to admit  that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal is not fake news, concoction by his political enemies or international conspiracy to topple Najib but “kleptocracy at its worst” which plunged Malaysia into infamy and ignominy  as a global kleptocracy

A Malaysiakini reader asked whether Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein thinks he is a James Bond with a “very particular set of skills” to hunt down 1MDB-linked businessperson Jho Low in China.

Hishammuddin’s offer to track down fugitive financier Jho Low in China to see closure o to the 1MDB case is indeed intriguing.

In the first place, will Jho Low’s return to Malaysia result in the closure of the 1MDB scandal?

What is more intriguing is whether Hishammuddin will be  the first Minister in the last Najib Cabinet to admit that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal is not a fake news, concoction by his political enemies or an international conspiracy to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minster of Malaysia, but was “kleptocracy at its worst” and which plunged Malaysia into infamy and ignominy as a global kleptocracy.

If Hishammuddin wants to see a closure to the 1MDB case, and justice done,  shouldn’t he be offering proper advice to his cousin, Najib?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018)

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Is it divinely ordained that former Prime Minister Najib should speak to an empty chamber in Parliament to underline how low he has fallen and how irrelevant to Malaysians   he has become?

Is it divinely ordained that former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should speak to an empty chamber in Parliament to underline how low he has fallen and how irrelevant he has become to Malaysians?

Such a question would naturally follow from the declaration in Parliament yesterday by  the UMNO President and former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi that the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Indonesia that killed more than 1,900 people  happened  because there were over 1,000 people who were involved in LGBT activities.

Malaysians and in fact the world must thank Najib for posting a photograph on his Facebook page showing him delivering a speech in the Dewan Rakyat to rows of empty seats in front of him – which is indeed a rare sight!

In fact, there were several meetings in Parliament going on at the time Najib spoke, including  the Public Accounts Committee and two Ministerial briefings on forthcoming parliamentary business.

But there could not  be a more eloquent photograph of how low Najib  had fallen from the mighty position of the Prime Minister of the country and how irrelevant he is now to Malaysians who want to rebuild and reset nation-building policies and see the rise  a New Malaysia where all  Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, whether inside the country or in any part of the world, can feel proud as Malaysians and no longer the butt of jokes or snide remarks because Malaysia was a rogue democracy, kakistocracy and a global kleptocracy!

May be Zahid is right, there is divine intervention to send out the clear and unmistakable signal that the time for any explanation by Najib in Parliament on the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal  is long past, and  the place for Najib  to make his defence on the 1MDB scandal is no more in Parliament but  in the court of law.

I shudder to think what would have happened if on May 9, 2018, Malaysians failed to make the peaceful and democratic transition of power, and Najib continued as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, especially if he needed the “kingmaker” role of PAS to continue as Prime Minister.

What would be the status of the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and other 1MDB-like corruption cases?

For nine years, Najib reduced Parliament to an abject status, where Members of Parliament could not ask questions or debate the 1MDB scandal although it  had continued to dominate  international news headlines, and MPs were disciplined for wanting to get to the root of the 1MDB scandal.

I was myself twice suspended from Parliament for six months each, and during the last week of the 13th Parliament, I was treated like a “parliamentary ghost” with the Speaker and Deputy Speakers claiming that they could not see me when I entered the parliamentary chamber.

In his 2016 New Year message on 31st December 2015, Najib told Malaysians that his RM50 billion 1MDB and RM2.6 billion donation twin mega scandals had been resolved and were no more issues.

Najib could not be more wrong.  Nowadays, hardly  a day passes without the 1MDB scandal – described by the United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions as “kleptocracy at its worst” – dominating the news headlines.  In fact, it is commonplace to have multiple news stories on a single day  about the 1MDB scandal.

Today, for instance, the 1MDB scandal is on the front page of New Straits Times, “FIRST CIVIL SERVANT TO BE CHARGED”, about former Treasury Secretary-General Tan Sri Irwan Serigar Abdullah who is expected to be charged together with Najib  tomorrow over debt payments to IPIC, bringing the total of charges of corruption, abuse of power and money-laundering against Naib to 38.

After the publication of three books on the 1MDB scandal last month, the 1MDB scandal is the single most reported issue in October.

In January 2017, I typed “1MDB” into the Google search engine, and I got 4.41 million results in just 0.32 seconds.   I was shocked beyond belief just now when I typed “1MDB” into the Google search engine, and got 6.53 million results in just 0.43 seconds.

Had Najib given any credible, satisfactory and acceptable explanation for the 1MDB “kleptocracy at its wosrst”  scandal in Parliament yesterday?

Najib had not even answered the “10 Questions on MDB for dummies”  which I drafted on 3rd June 2015 meant for Cabinet Ministers but these 10 dummy questions have still to be answered, even by Najib despite his parliamentary appearance yesterday.

Two days ago, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein made an intriguing offer to track down fugitive financier Jho Low in China to see closure of the 1MDB scandal.

Will Hishammuddin will be  the first Minister in the last Najib Cabinet to admit that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal is not a fake news, concoction by his political enemies or an international conspiracy to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minster of Malaysia, but was “kleptocracy at its worst” and which plunged Malaysia into infamy and ignominy as a global kleptocracy.

Has Hishammuddin received Najib’s  endorsement or approval to make such  an offer?

Now, thanks to the historic decision of May 9, 2018, the 1MDB scandal has moved to the “end game” – although Malaysians and future generations will have to pay a heavy price for a long time  for Najib’s “kleptocracy at its worst” caper.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Wednesday, October 24, 2018)

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Malaysians must not waste the second chance to re-set nation building polices to build a New Malaysia with  national unity and  restore democracy, integrity and justice as it is unlikely that there will be a third chance

Malaysians saved Malaysia and made history on May 9, 2018, giving Malaysians a second chance to reset nation-building policies so that Malaysia will not become a failed and rogue state, on top of being a kakistocracy and global kleptocracy.

A New Malaysia cannot be accomplished in a hundred days or in six months, but will take a decade of two. All Malaysians must develop a Big Picture and Long-term Vision perspectives.

An important start for the building of a New Malaysia was made on May 9, 2018 when we showed the world, at a time when democracy as a system of government was facing crisis of confidence worldwide, that parliamentary democracy is  still the best among the worst systems of government.

We must continue the quest to become a top world-class nation by  leveraging on the values and assets of the diverse races, religions, languages, cultures and civilizations which meet in confluence in Malaysia.

Let us show the world that we can:

· Transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity.

· Restore  democracy and doctrine of separation of powers among the Executuive, Parliament and the Judiciary;

· Enact far-reaching law reforms, although the repeal of Anti-Fake Acts was blocked and sabotaged by the Barisan National-controlled Senate.

· Efffect far-reaching parliamentary reforms to end the Malaysian Parliament from becoming the joke of world Parliaments as a 1MDB Parliament which banned discussion of the 1MDB scandal.

· Develop  Malaysia into a “tiger economy” after the massive problems of the “black hole” of a trillion-ringgit government debt and a global kleptocracy had been addressed.

· Restore  primary and secondary schools as well as universities as leading world educational institutions of their kind  to establish Malaysia as among the world’s top-tier nations in education.

· Fulfill the  goal as enunciated by Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia as “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

· Build  a New Malaysia of greater national unity, integrity, democracy, rule of law, excellence, justice and prosperity.

The recent Port Dickson by-election on 13th October 201 is as history-making as the 14th General Election result of May 9, 2018.

Despite a low voter turn-out of 58.3%, Anwar secured 31,016 votes or a 23,560-vote majority, which eclipsed that of the PKR’s Danyal Balagopal Abdullah who won the seat in the 14th general election by a margin of 17,710 votes with a voter turnout of 83%.

In winning 71.3% of 58.3% turnout of 75,770 votes, or 44,136 votes cast in the by-election, Anwar has probably set the record for the highest popular vote for the lowest voter-turn out.

In fact, Anwar’s 71.3% of the popular votes cast is higher than that of the former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who only secured 62% of the popular votes cast in Pekan parliamentary constituency, or PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, who secured only 59.3% of the popular votes cast in Marang, or UMNO President Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi who secured only 51.4% of the popular votes cast in Bagan Datuk or the sole MCA MP and MCA President-aspirant Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, who secured only 43.98% of the votes cast in the Ayer Hitam parliamentary constituency in the 14th General Election.

The Port Dickson by-election results is a very promising signpost for Malaysia’s future as it showed that Pakatan Harapan has been able to maintain two goals which are significant not only to the continued success of Pakatan Harapan but the building of a New Malaysia – the ability to sustain and maintain the support of the non-Malay voters and the ability to win more Malay electoral support with the passage of time.

It is a confirmation of my theory that the political extremists and opportunists in UMNO and PAS who fall back on the toxic and vicious politics of race, religion, hate, fear and lies are fighting a losing battle in an information era in plural Malaysia.

Polls analysis by Merdeka Centre have  estimated that some 95% of the Chinese and 70-75% of the Indian voters voted for Pakatan Harapan and a New Malaysia, while only 25 – 30% of the Malays voted for Pakatan Harapan and a New Malaysia.

I do not believe that the Malay voters who voted for UMNO or PAS in the 14th General Election wanted a global kleptocracy, a sham democracy or a rogue state.

I believe that they would have supported the Vision of a New Malaysia if they realise that Pakatan Harapan stands for an end to corruption, repression and injustices, and not exploitation or marginalisation of any race or religion, in particular Malays as well as Islam.

Last month, I visited  four Australian cities – Perth, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne – and four New Zealand cities – Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland.

It is no exaggeration that never before have Malaysians outside the country have felt so proud as Malaysians as on May 9, 2018 – as proud as their countrymen and women in Malaysia – at the peaceful and democratic transition of power first time in six decades.

Malaysians overseas in the worldwide Malaysian Diaspora cared as much as Malaysians at home whether people’s power will finally prevail to bring about a better Malaysia which is not trapped in the trajectory towards a failed state, rogue democracy, kakistocracy and global kleptocracy.

Malaysians must not waste the “second chance” to fulfill our national destiny to be a great nation and all Malaysians must participate and claim ownerhsip in this great task to build a New Malaysia.

This is because it is unlikely that Malaysia will have a third chance to reset nation-building policies and Save Malaysia,if  this second chance to to build a New Malaysia with national unity and restore democracy, integrity and justice  is wasted and allowed to  fail as a result of the  return and resurgence of the politics of race, religion, hate, fear and lies.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the dinner of Rotary Club Kuala Lumpur Diraja “Modern Malaysia – the Road Ahead” at Kuala Lumpur Tower on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 7 pm)

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Najib Razak – the road from Prime Minister to a troll

I could not believe my eyes when I read that the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was very pleased  that he has become a troll – trolling Ministers and Deputy Ministers.

What is a troll?

Wikipedia said that in  internet slang, a troll is “
a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll’s amusement or a specific gain
”.

It continued: “
Both the noun and the verb form of ‘troll’ is associated with Internet discourse. However, the word has also been used more widely. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. For example, the mass media have used ‘troll’ to mean ‘a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families’. In addition, depictions of trolling have been included in popular fictional works, such as the HBO television program The Newsroom, in which a main character encounters harassing persons online and tries to infiltrate their circles by posting negative sexual comments.”

How sad that a former Prime Minister has become a troll, and even sadder he is quite proud of it!

Of course, Najib has plenty of opportunity of practices  when he was Prime Minister and UMNO President, for he often used his speeches to harass  the DAP by making baseless allegations, for instance, that I wanted to be Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th Genera Election, that the

DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam and Malays and Islam will perish if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election.

Malaysians saved Malaysia in the historic day of May 9, 2018 when they shocked themselves and world by effecting a peaceful and democratic transition of power. I shudder to think what would have happened to Malaysia if Najib had continued as Prime Minister (worse still, if Najib had to depend on PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang as “kingmaker” to continue as Prime Minister).

It is coming to half a year of Pakatan Harapan winning the 14th General Election, and I am not the Prime Minister whether now or in the future; and the Malays and Islam have not perished, as DAP had never been anti-Malay or anti-Islam.

The latest target of Najib’s trolling is the Deputy Education Minister, Teoh Nie Ching, who had said that the  previous administration was partly to blame for the drop in National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) repayments this year.

Najib said that if  helping university graduates by delaying the PTPTN loan repayment is an offence, then he  is willing to take the blame.

Najib is clearly trying to deflect attention from his frequent  to-and-fro trips to the courts and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for his monstrous corruption and money-laundering crimes.

Today, he is expected to be further charged in court together with the first civil servant to be charged in connection with the 1MDB scandal – the former Treasury secretary-general Irwan Serigar Abdulah – and also expected to be charged today is former government spy chief Hasanah Abdul Hamid on several criminal breach of trust charges.

Although Najib lags behind his former deputy prime minister  and the current  UMNO President Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi in  the number of criminal charges he had had to face in court (Najib expected to total 38 today as compared to Zahid’s 45 charges),  it’s a better of time when Najib totes up a new mark as a national political leader  with the most number of criminal charges leveled against him.

Najib is indeed a man of many parts – from a global kleptocrat, to a troll and  soon the record-holder for all political leaders in the number of criminal and corruption charges leveled against him.

Recently, a study by Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) said that despite going to school for an average of 12 years, Malaysian students get only about nine years’ worth of meaningful education.

Citing research done by the World Bank, the KRI report said Malaysian students had 3.1 years of schooling that did not contribute to their educational achievement.

Malaysia was nowhere near Singapore, where the number of schooling years not contributing to educational achievement was zero.

Singapore was used as the base score of zero as the country had the highest test scores for Mathematics in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 2015.

Malaysia did poorly when compared to a number of other countries that were also mentioned in the KRI report.

The KRI report said:
“It indicates a potential deficiency in the Malaysian education system, where students have three years of schooling that do not contribute to their educational achievement.”

Would Najib accept responsibility for this deplorable state of education in Malaysia under his nine years of premiership?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Thursday, 25th October 2018)

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Najib stripped naked by the Saudis

It has finally happened – former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak literally stripped naked by the Saudis.

When it was reported midday yesterday that the Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel Ahmad Al-Jubeir, who had in 2016 said the RM2.6 billion  funds received by then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak was a “genuine donation”, is in Malaysia on a three-day visit and would meet the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad today, thinking Malaysians are expecting a news report today that the Saudis have officially repudiated the story that the RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal banking account in 2013 was a donation from the Saudi Arabia royal family.

In April 2016, Adel, during a meeting with the then foreign minister Anifah Aman in Istanbul, was asked about the multi-billion ringgit in Najib’s bank accounts.

Responding to this, Adel had said: “
We are aware of the donation and it is genuine with nothing expected in return.

“We are also fully aware that the Attorney-General of Malaysia has thoroughly investigated the matter and found no wrongdoing.

“So, as far as we are concerned, the matter is closed”.

For the last 30 months, Najib and his cronies, aides and political allies have referred to Adel’s statement in defending Najib.

The chickens have now come home to roost, five years after the deposit of RM2.6 billion 1MDB monies into Najib’s personal banking accounts to “buy” the 13th General Election.

What more has Najib got to say now?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 26th October 2018)

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When mind games go wrong…

There were three mind games, which had been defined as psychological tactics used to manipulate or intimidate, which went horribly wrong yesterday.

The first was when the UMNO President and former Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi turned up at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to provide moral support for former premier Datuk Seri  Najib Razak , who was slapped with an additional six charges to total 38 charges, just seven short of Zahid’s total of 45 charges on corruption, money-laundering and abuse of power.

He later tweeted a photograph of the two of them seated together and stated that the “relentless attack” against the pair would not break their spirit.

“We will remain steadfast in the struggle.

“This overkill leads to a trust deficit in the government. It greatly benefits the accused. Thank-you for dragging us (to court).”

The second was the attempt by Najib’s lawyer, Tan Sri Mohd Shafee Abdullah to mock six fresh charges against his client as “very foolish”, even saying that “the defence in this case will have fun, and the prosecution will have a nightmare”.

The third was Najib’s claim that he was unfairly prosecuted  in the six new charges as his decisions staved off Malaysia from default on a national debt and that his conscience was clear.

May be Najib expected the nation to be  eternally grateful to him for securing recognition from no less a figure as the United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions for “kleptocracy at its worst” for the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and causing Malaysia to be regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

But the historic May 9, 2018 results of the 14th General Election showed that Najib was very wrong.

It is two weeks since Najib sought public donations to assist him and other “anti-government activists” allegedly being silenced by the Pakatan Harapan government. Why is there no public accountability as to how  much funds had been raised so far?

The mind games by Zahid, Shafee and Najib went horribly wrong when later on the same day, the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said in Bangkok that “One by one, more BN leaders will be hauled to court”.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, October 26, 2018)

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Najib can walk out of an Al Jazeera interview, but he cannot walk out of the dock when tried for 1MDB charges of corruption, abuse of power and money-laundering unless he opts for the right to silence in his trial

Former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, can walk out of an Al Jazeera interview to avoid a slew of allegations against him and questions ranging from the 1MDB scandal, the 22-carat pink diamond necklace for his wife Rosmah Mansor to the murders of  Altantuyaa Shaaribu, Hussain Najadi and Kevin Morais.

However, he cannot walk out of the dock of a court room when he is tried for scores of 1MDB charges of corruption, abuse of power and money-laundering unless Najib opts to exercise his right to silence in his trial.

Is Najib prepared to state whether he will go into the witness box during his trial  not only to state his own case and defence  but to be cross-examined by the Deputy Public Prosecutors.

Najib told Al Jazeera that it was not being fair to him.  But Najib fails to realise that it is him who is unfair to the Malaysia and Malaysians who made him the sixth Prime Minister for the past nine years in spearheading a major national cover-up operation to sweep the 1MDB scandal under the carpet – where even the 13th Parliament was made to aid and abet him in the “kleptocracy at its wost” where Members of Parliament were not allowed to submit questions or to debate the 1MDB scandal!

Can Najib tell Malaysians what would have happened to the 1MDB scandal if on May 9, 2018, Najib had succeeded to continue as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia?

Najib said earlier in the Al Jazeera interview that a “perfect storm”” sank Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election.

Does he realise that if there was a “perfect storm”, this “perfect storm” was solely of his own making?

If Najib had been frank, honest, transparent, trustworthy, democratic, and not used the powers of the Prime Minister’s Office to cow the Cabinet, Parliament, Judiciary,  the national institutions and  agencies as well as the national press to turn  them into key allies and subordinates in aiding and abetting the suppression of the  1MDB scandal, this so-called “perfect storm” in the 14GE would not have come about?

In his Al Jazeera interview, Najib said that investigators should not stop at Jho Low, but should probe others who were allegedly involved in stealing from 1Malaysian Development Bhd.

He said:

“Fine… let them do their work but don’t just stop at Jho Low. Get others who are involved as well because there are other international figures who probably are involved. They must also be investigated.

“We want to know where the money flowed to. And who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue. I would like to know, too”.

An answer is needed from Najib immediately – whether he is finally admitting to the existence of a monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which gave Malaysia the infamy and ignominy of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy?

If so, this will be a new start not only for Najib but for  investigations into the 1MDB scandal.

Najib cannot be silent on this issue now if the country is to move on.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday October 27l, 2018)

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No Honour among 1MDB thieves

October 26, 2018 was the day when former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak came in from the cold to brave nasty questions about the 1MDB scandal which he had been avoiding for more than five  years since the 13th General Election when he accepted the invitation of Al Jazeera for an interview with its 101 East programme.

But it proved to the day when Najib was “hung up to dry” for on this day, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Ahmad Al-Jubeir met the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to deny that Najib Razak’s infamous RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account had come from Riyadh.

There is the idiom of honour among thieves, but it would appear that there is no honor among 1MDB thieves.

This is the season of questions, questions and more questions for Najib on the 1MDB scandal, and I will limit myself to three questions today:

First Question:

Why had Najib taken over five years, and only after he was  toppled from power in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 to answer questions about the infamous RM2.6 billion “donation” in his personal banking account, when as far back as July 2016 and June 2017, the United States kleptocratic litigation on 1MDB had traced in great detail the origin of the RM2.6 billion “donation” to 1MDB funds?

If Najib was innocent of 1MDB corruption, abuse of power and money-laundering, why hadn’t he launched a full and comprehensive investigation to establish his innocence when he was the Prime Minister?

Second Question

This is the first time that Malaysians are told that the infamous 22-carat US$23,7 million pink diamond necklace  linked to Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor was a gift from a prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Prince Sheikh Mansour, the brother of Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, and not from fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low.

Furthermore, Najib said for the first time that Rosmah never received the 22-carat pink diamond necklace.

Why did’n’t Najib say so when I asked this particular question a number of times since June 2017?

Is the 22-carat pink diamond necklace still  missing and is there going to be an Interpol manhunt for it – as the tale of the 22-carat pink diamond necklace should be an interesting one.

The updated and expanded US Department of Justice (DOJ) kleptocratic litigation on 1MDB devoted a special section  to Jho Low’s purchase of the 22-carat pink diamond necklace for Rosmah Mansor from 1MDB funds – covering in great detail in 16 paragraphs covering four pages.

It further set out in great detail the  “purchase of 27 assorted gold necklaces” for the wife of “MO1” – which the former Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, had publicly admitted was none other than Najib, and who  added that only an idiot would not know that “MOI” was Najib!

It is indeed astounding what hubris can do to a person!

Why did Najib wait for more than a year, and after he had been toppled from power and  could not sweep the 1MDB scandal under a carpet, to reveal that his wife never received the 22-carat pink diamond necklace?

Third. Question:

Najib said in his interview with Al Jazeera that investigators should  not stop at Jho Low, but should  probe others who were allegedly involved in stealing from 1Malaysian Development Bhd.

He said all the culprits must be investigated to find out where the money had gone.

“Fine… let them do their work but don’t just stop at Jho Low. Get others who are involved as well because there are other international figures who probably are involved. They must also be investigated.

“We want to know where the money flowed to. And who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue. I would like to know, too”.

Is Najib finally admitting to the existence of a monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering school which rightlyl gave Malaysia the infamy and ignominy of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy?

Mahathir had asked Najib to lodge police reports against persons whom Najib believed were responsible for the 1MDB scandal. Would Najib do so>

I had asked Najib several times to reveal the number of occasions and details of when, where and under what circumstances he had meetings with Jho Low since the 13th General Election, and what he had done to bring Jho Low back to Malaysia to co-operate with 1MDB investigations, instead of being a international  fugitive from justice.

Will Najib respond?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 27th October 2018)

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Malaysians must  thank Najib for the semi-aborted  Al Jazeera interview for it shows why the 14GE decision of May 9, 2018 was right and why we must forge ahead to build a New Malaysia, far away from a rogue democracy, kakistocracy and global kleptocracy

Malaysians must thank Datuk Seri Najib Razak for the semi-aborted Al Jazeera interview for it shows why the historic decision of  the 14th General Election of May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia  was right and why Malaysians must forge ahead to build a New Malaysia which is far away from a  rogue democracy, kakistocracy and global kleptocracy.

Although Najib staged a walk-out after some 20 minutes of  the interview, enough damage had  been done and it is no exaggeration to say that Najib had done  more damage to himself with his  semi-aborted Al Jazeera interview than the  visit of the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Abdel Ahmad Al-Jubeir to publicly confess that Najib’s infamous RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account had not  come from Riyadh.

This is because apart from Najib’s mindless cronies, Ministers in the Najib Cabinet and leaders of former and current Barisan Nasional parties, no Malaysian with a modicum of judgment and wisdom would have believed Najib’s cock-and-bull stories about donations from Saudi Arabian royalty when they are nothing but abuse of power,  misappropriation and embezzlement of 1MDB funds.

But nobody, even Najib’s  most loyal and  mindless cronies, subordinates and political allies would have expected the idiocy which Najib displayed in the semi-aborted Al Jazeera interview in inflicting so many fatal wounds on his own cause.

In my mind, his most fatal self-inflicted wound  was  when he admitted for the first time in nine years  that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal  was not a fake or  figment of imagination concocted by his political enemies to topple him, but a serious scandal whose perpetrators must be brought to justice.

Najib said that 1MDB investigators should not stop at Jho Low, but should  probe others who were allegedly involved in stealing from 1Malaysian Development Bhd.

Saying all the culprits must be investigated to find out where the money had gone, Najib said: “
Fine… let them do their work but don’t just stop at Jho Low. Get others who are involved as well because there are other international figures who probably are involved. They must also be investigated.

“We want to know where the money flowed to. And who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue. I would like to know, too”.

Najib was not only virtually admitting that through the  1MDB scandal, Malaysia under his administration became a global kleptocracy, it also became a kakistocracy.

His government not only have a Cabinet  Minister who could not  tell the difference between a  turtle egg and chicken egg, he as Prime Minister, Finance Minister  and Chairman of the 1MDB Advisory Board which must give  approval for all major decisions in 1MDB, did not know what was happening in 1MDB!

Is this credible and acceptable for a Prime Minister, and when did Malaysia slip into a kakistocracy?

Najib’s answers on the US$27.3 million  22-carat pink diamond necklace  for

Rosmah Mansor was disgraceful.

Najib claimed  that it was a gift from Prince Sheikh Mansour, the brother of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed, and not a gift using 1MDB funds  from fugitive financier Jho Low.

Najib’s maintenance of such a stance is totally untenable after the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)’s updated and enlarged kleptocratic litigation in June 2017 to forfeit some US$S1.7 billion of US$4.5 billion 1MDB-linked assets.

Didn’t Najib read the updated and enlarged US kleptocratic litigation suit                                                                                which carried a new Section  entitled: “”LOW ARRANGED TO PURCHASE A 22-CARAT PINK DIAMOND NECKLACE FOR THE WIFE OF MALAYSIAN OFFICAL 1 USING DIVERTED 2013 BOND PROCEEDS””, from Paragraphs 847 – 863 (4 pages)?

Paragraph 847 said 1MDB funds were used to purchase a 22-carat pink diamond necklace, set in a diamond necklace, and that “the stone and necklace were purchased from New-York based jeweller and jewelry-designer Lorraine Schwartz Inc. which specializes in high-end bespoke diamond jewelry”.

Paragraph 848 said the order for the pink diamond necklace was given on or about 2nd June 2013.  Was this to celebrate Najib’s 13th General Election victory on May 5, 2013?

Paragraph 849 – 850 described that on or about July 5, 2013, Schwartz travelled to Monaco and showed the pink diamond to a group of people which included Jho Low and Rosmah on board one of the largest private yachts in the world, the Topaz. “The group discussed the design of the necklace to hold the 22-carat pink diamond, which itself would be made of smaller diamonds.”

Paragraph 851-852 described Schwartz meeting Rosmah and Jho Low in a hotel suite in the Mandarin Time Warner  in New York on or about September 28, 2013  to show them the layout of the necklace that Schwartz had designed.

Paragraph 863 reads: “The finished 22-CARAT PINK DIAMOND NECKLACE, which included  the 22-carat pink diamond as a pendent, was delivered to the Malaysian Friend in Hong Kong on or about March 7, 2014, so that she could deliver it to the wife of MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1 Kuala Lumpur.  Records reflect that the Malaysian Friend accepted receipt of the necklace.”

Two issues surface. Firstly, after the  enlarged and updated US DOJ litigation suit in June 2017, it was no more open to Najib, as he did yesterday in his Al Jazeera interview, to claim ignorance that the 22-carat pink diamond necklace was bought and paid for by Jho Low.

Secondly, Najib claims that Rosmah had not received  the 22-carat pink diamond necklace.  Has the US$23.7 million pink diamond necklace been stolen?  This should be an interesting story.

Najib was not completely truthful in his answers during the interview.

For instance, he was asked as to his relationship with Jho  Low. Najib said his relationship with Jho Low was on the basis that he was going to promote investment from the middle east as he was particularly close to the royal families in UAE and Saudi.

Why didn’t Najb mention about Jho Low’s failed special assignment in the 2013 General Election pouring tens of millions of ringgit in Penang and even bringing the top South Korean pop star group of “”Opah Gangnam Style” to topple Lim Guan Eng as Penang Chief Minister in the DAP-led Penang State Government?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, October 28, 2018)

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Public Accounts Committee should welcome Najib’s semi-aborted interview with Al Jazeera as Najib had opened up on many new leads on  the  1MDB scandal and he should be asked to elaborate on them

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which has been directed by Parliament in a special motion to re-investigate the 1MDB scandal should welcome former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s semi-aborted interview with Al Jazeera as Najib had opened up on many new leads on  the 1MDB scandal and he should be asked to elaborate on them.

The first issue the PAC should ask Najib to elaborate is his cryptic statement in the interview that 1MDB investigators should not stop at Jho Low, but should probe others who were allegedly involved in stealing from 1Malaysian Development Bhd.

Saying all the culprits must be investigated to find out where the money had gone, Najib said:

“Fine… let them do their work but don’t just stop at Jho Low. Get others who are involved as well because there are other international figures who probably are involved. They must also be investigated.

“We want to know where the money flowed to. And who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue. I would like to know, too”.

Najib should be asked to explain:

(1)  who are these “other international figures who are probably involved” in the 1MDB scandal;

(2)  Why he had not launched investigations into them instead of carrying out an international façade and charade claiming that there was never a 1MDB scandal, that everything was clean, upright  and proper, with Arul Kanda employed with the sole objective to white-wash the 1MDB scandal;

(3)  Whether he would lodge reports with the various authorities with regard to these “other international figures who are probably involved” in the 1MDB scandal;

(4)  Whether he is aware that he shocked not only Malaysians but the world when he said he also wanted to know “where the money flowed to” and who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue”?

(5)  Is Najib aware that as Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Chairman of the 1MDB advisory board which must approve all major 1MDB decisions, his claim of  ignorance and innocence of 1MDB as “kleptocracy at its worst” is totally incredible, most heinous and irresponsible, making him the most irresponsible Prime Minister and Finance Minister in Malaysia?

(6)  In June 2017, the Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa said the government is studying the possibility of using the polygraph – lie detector – test as a mechanism to help curb cases of corruption among civil servants. Is Najib prepared  to take the lie-detector test and answer questions on the 1MDB scandal?

The second major issue of the 1MDB scandal  on the RM2.6 billion donation to Najib’s personal banking accounts and the third one on Rosmah Mansor’s US$27.3 million 22-carat pink diamond necklace and 27 other million-dollar assorted gold necklaces, as well as other major issues, should open up to tons of questions.

Other former UMNO Ministers and leaders who had made various claims about the 1MDB scandal, both inside and outside the country, should also be asked to appear before the PAC to answer relevant questions about their fictitious claims.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Monday, 29th October 2018)

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MACC and other 1MDB scandal investigators should haul up  Najib to question whether, apart from Jho Low and him, there is a third mastermind in  the 1MDB scandal as suggested by Najib in the Al Jazeera interview

It is going remain one of the mysteries of Malaysian politics as to why former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak decided to guillotine himself on the 1MDB scandal before a world media in his semi-aborted interview with Al Jazeera.

Najib had intended to vindicate himself as a great Prime Minister with his nine-year achievements and legacy in his interview with Al Jazeera, but at the end-of-the-day he had only succeeded in raising the question  that apart from fugitive financier Jho Low and himself as the two masterminds of the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal, there may be a third “international mastermind” of the 1MDB scandal.

Is there a third mastermind in the 1MDB scandal as suggested by Najib in his interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday?

Najib is duty-bound to name any other “masterminds” of the 1MDB scandal public, as the monies involved taxpayers’ monies and also because it had brought Malaysia to the abyss of a global kleptocracy or has he manufactured his latest “fake news”?

The least that Najib had expected from his semi-aborted Al Jazeera interview was the avalanche of unfavourable articles and comments about his interview where he as good as committed hara kiri by guilloting himself in public, like Kee Thuan Chye’s “Another MO1 lie to cover up the last one?”, R. Nadeswaran’s “Where Art Thou, Arul Kanda”, Mariam Mokhtar’s “Najib was the best thing for Malaysia” and Bakri Musa’s “Liquidate 1MDB and appoint a special prosecutor to handle the mess”.

Be that as it may, MACC and other 1MDB scandal investigators should haul up Najib to question whether, apart from Jho Low and him, there is a third mastermind of the 1MDB scandal as suggested by Najib in the Al Jazeera interview – as this is completely new and unexpected.

Najib’s answer during the interview to the question why he had not re-opened high-profile murder cases, like Altantunya Shaariibuu in 2006, Hussain Najadi in 2013 and Kevin Morais in 2015, when he was still Prime Minister  is most unsatisfactory.

On Altantunya’s murder, although Najib is right that the  case went through the courts at the  highest level in the Federal Court, Najib studiously avoided information as to why he was not interested in the important matter of motive in  the Altantunya murder.

For this unsatisfactory answer, the authorities should re-open investigations into these high-profile murder cases, as well as the 2009 death of DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock when in the custody of the MACC.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Monday, 29th October 2018)

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Is Najib prepared to spare the country from further pain,  agonies and sufferings and come out with a forthright and straightforward admission of his major role in the 1MDB scandal?

The last five days must have been Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s worst five days in his entire life, which collectively should be worse than his darkest day of May 9, 2018 when he was toppled as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia and sent into the political wilderness.

On Friday,  October 26, 2018, Najib’s house of cards propping up his claim that the international 1MDB corruption and money-launderintg scandal was fake news and a concocted internatuional conspiracy by his political enemie to topple him from power collapsed when Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Ahmad Al-Jubeir met the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and denied that Najib’s infamous RM2.6 billion in his personal bank accounts had come from Riyadh.

But the damage to Najib of this Saudi Arabian denial was nothing compared to Najib’s disgraceful interview with Al Jazeera, where Najib staged a walk-out after he was  unable to answer with credibiility and authority difficult questions which the Al Jazeera interviewer, Mary Ann Joley, had put to Najib, whether on the 1MDB scandal; the RM2.6 billion donation in his personal banking account; Rosmah Mansor’s  22-carat US$27.3 million pink diamond necklace; fugitive financier Jho Low; his 38 criminal charges of corruption, criminal breach of trust and money laundering  or  the murder of Altantunya Shaariibuu,  with the interview  telecast worldwide on Saturday, October 27, 2018.

Najib’s Al Jazeera interview was particularly damaging as it served as  concrete proof  to the two million Malay voters who had voted for UMNO/Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 as to  how wrong they had been in voting for UMNO.

As if these two events were not bad and fatal enough,  worse was to come. Today, at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, there were three blows to the solar plexus, viz:

·       Dismissal by the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad of allegations that Najib’s 38 criminal charges of corruption, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering were politically motivated, as they are based on investigations by enforcement agencies tracing the 1MDB money and where it had gone through.

· Revelation by Tan Sri Abu Kassim, the head of  National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption (GIACC) and former Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) that the MACC had in 2015  found that Najib’s claim that the RM2.6 billion he received was a donation from Saudi Arabian royalty to be false after a meeting with Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and United States Department of Justice in Washington; and

· Announcement by the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas that the Malaysian Government would ask the UK courts to affirm that the country does not have to pay a US$4.32 billion sum to Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company or Aabar Investments PJS as Malaysia’s 1MDB was defrauded by Najib.

Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein reiterated today that his offer to track down fugitive financier Jho Low in China was because he wants to see closure  to the 1MDB case.

He also said that UMNO MPs who have dignity will not leave the party.

Malaysians are bemused. How can UMNO MPs claim to have dignity when they continue to aid and abet in the 1MDB scandal which brought Malaysia the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy?

Is it possible to bring a closure to the 1MDB scandal until and unless Najib is prepared to come clean on the 1MDB scandal?

In his disastrous Al Jazeera interview, Najib had indirectly admitted to the moral, economic and political catastrophes of the 1MDB scandal.

Is he  prepared to spare the country from further pain,  agonies and sufferings and come out with a forthright and straightforward admission of his major role in the 1MDB scandal?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, October 30, 2018)

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The ghost of Altantunya  will continue to haunt  Najib and Malaysia until there is a full and satisfactory investigation as to the motive for  the heinous murder of the Mongolian murder and the real murderers brought to justice

When the heinous  murder and the mysterious disappearance  of Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Kashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul  hit the world headlines early this month, the first person I thought of was Altantnya Shaariibuu, who was  murdered  and whose  remains destroyed with  C4 explosives in Shah Alam on Oct. 16 twelve years ago.

The ghost of Altantunya Shaariibuu will continue to haunt former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Malaysia until there is a full and satisfactory investigation as to the motive for the heinous murder of the Mongolian murder and the real murders brought to justice.

Home Minister Tan Sri Muhytiddin Yassin told Parliament yesterday that the police will take appropriate action against Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor if the couple is implicated in the murder of Altantuya.

He was responding to Monday’s  speech by the DAP MP for Bukit Gelugor Ramkarpal Singh in the debate on the Mid-Term Review of the 11th Malaysia Plan on the revelations made by businessperson Deepak Jaikishan on the Altantunya murder  in a recent recording which was uploaded online.

Although Deepak’s video recording  had since been deleted from the Internet, it should pose no difficulty for the police to locate the video which is making the rounds on the social media in the last few days, and  most important of all, the police can  get confirmation from Deepak himself on the authenticity of the video.

As Ramkarpal told Parliament on Monday,  Deepak had clearly stated that Najib  and Rosmah were involved in the murder of Altantuya.

In fact, at stake is not just the reputation of Najib and Rosmah, but  Malaysia’s international repute and standing  as a developed and civilized society where the rule of law and justice prevail in the country, where people do not disappear for no rhyme or reason or got murdered for no motives.

In view of Deepak’s video recording, accusing Najib and Rosmah of being involved in the murder of Altantunya Shaariibuu, are both of them going to surrender themselves to  the police for a re-opening of  investigation into the motive for the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu?

Instead of submitting to the rule of law and justice, whether on the Altantunya murder or the 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst”, Najib is clearly trying to obstruct the course of justice with his statement yesterday urging the Pakatan Harapan government to stop finding fault with him and his past administration, and focus instead on saving the country’s economy.

Is Najib suggesting that Pakatan Harapan should not re-open investigation into the Altantunya murder to establish its motive, something which the Najib premiership failed to do, or to get to the to the bottom of the 1MDB scandal?

The past five days had been Najib’s worst five days in his public life.

Last Friday,  October 26, 2018, Najib’s house of cards propping up his claim that the international 1MDB corruption and money-launderintg scandal was fake news and a concocted international conspiracy by his political enemie to topple him from power collapsed when Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Ahmad Al-Jubeir met the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and denied that Najib’s infamous RM2.6 billion in his personal bank accounts had come from Riyadh.

But the damage to Najib of this Saudi Arabian denial was nothing compared to Najib’s disgraceful interview with Al Jazeera, where Najib staged a walk-out after he was  unable to answer with credibiility and authority difficult questions which the Al Jazeera interviewer, Mary Ann Joley, had put to Najib, whether on the 1MDB scandal; the RM2.6 billion donation in his personal banking account; Rosmah Mansor’s  22-carat US$27.3 million pink diamond necklace; more than US$200 million transferred into the account of  his stepson Rizal Aziz;  fugitive financier Jho Low; his 38 criminal charges of corruption, criminal breach of trust and money laundering  or  the murder of Altantunya Shaariibuu,  and the interview was telecast worldwide on Saturday, October 27, 2018.

Najib’s Al Jazeera interview was particularly damaging as it served as  concrete proof  as to  why the 4 million  voters who had voted for UMNO/Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 were very wrong in supporting a global kleptocracy, kakistocracy and rogue democraccy and why they should join the 5.6 million voters who voted for Pakatan Harapan to build a New Malaysia which is a leading nation of integrity and world top class nation and   model of an united, progressive and democratic society.

Yesterday,  worse was to come for Najib. At the Anti-Corruption Summit 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, there were three blows to the solar plexus, viz:

· Dismissal by the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad of allegations that Najib’s 38 criminal charges of corruption, criminal breach of trust and money-laundering were politically motivated, as they are based on investigations by enforcement agencies tracing the 1MDB money and where it had gone through.

· Revelation by Tan Sri Abu Kassim, the head of  National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption (GIACC) and former Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) that the MACC had in 2015  found that Najib’s claim that the RM2.6 billion he received was a donation from Saudi Arabian royalty to be false after a meeting with Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and United States Department of Justice in Washington; and

· Announcement by the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas that the Malaysian Government would challenge the  US$5.78 billion consent award granted to Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company or Aabar Investments PJS as Malaysia’s 1MDB was defrauded by Najib and against public policy.

In his disastrous Al Jazeera interview, Najib had indirectly admitted to the moral, economic and political catastrophes of the 1MDB scandal.

Is Najib   prepared to spare the country from further pain,  agonies and sufferings and co-operate with the various investigative agencies by “Telling All”  whether on the 1MDB scandal or the Altantuya murder?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Wednesday, October 31, 2018)

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Did  Najib ever cry for Malaysia?

“When the new coalition under Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad reached 112 seats, we couldn’t help it. Both of us cried.”

This was said by a   foreigner, former  Swiss banker  Xavier Justo when describing in an interview with Star what he and his wife, Laura, felt faraway in Switzerland on the historic night of the 14th Malaysian General Election on  May 9, 2018.

The Swiss couple was not the only ones who cried that night.

Many Malaysians, inside and outside the country, cried that night  – not out  of anger, despair and hopelessness but because of disbelief, relief and hope that there is now a chance to save Malaysia.

These were the true patriots of Malaysia!

May be it is time to ask former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak whether and when he had cried for Malaysia.

Did he cry when Malaysia suffered the infamy and ignominy of being regarded worldwide as a global klepocracy instead of being a “beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”?

Did he cry when the Prime Minister of Malaysia was openly accused of being an kleptocrat and an a thief, both inside Malaysia and worldwide, with the Prime Minister afraid to take any action to redeem not only his honour and integrity, but that of the country?

Did he cry when the Prime Minister of Malaysia was accused of having a hand in the heinous murder of Mongolian model Altantunya Shaariibuu who was murdered in Shah Alam and her remains blown to bits by C4 explosives 12 years ago, and he pretended not to hear or know of these charges and refused to use his powers as Prime Minister for the last nine years to order  a full investigation to clear doubts and mysteries about the Altantunya murder?

Yet Najib could issue statements virtually every day after he was toppled from power on May 9, 2018, with his latest  Facebook posting yesterday calling on the Pakatan Harapan government to  stop finding fault with him and the past administration and to focus instead on saving  the economy!

Is Najib really living in a world of hallucination and unaware that what the Pakatan Harapan government had embarked on in the past six months had been to Save Malaysia and to Save the Malaysian economy, which had been gravely damaged by Najib’s kleptocracy?

The Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad had asked Najib to help the country pay its debts by revealing how to bring out the money he is hiding as a result of the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal – which will be Najib’s contribution to Save Malaysia and Save the Malaysian economy.

I fully agree with Mahathir that this is what Najib should be doing instead of trying to divert attention from his problems.

It is significant that the newly-appointed Barisan Nasional Secretary-General Datuk Seri Abdul Nazri Aziz seems to be in agreement with Mahathir on this issue.

Nazri said that  the probe against, and prosecutions of Umno/BN leaders and several other individuals are the government’s efforts to recover funds misappropriated from 1MDB.

In fact, Najib himself in his disastrous Al Jazeera interview, had as good as acknowledged the problem  of the 1MDB “kleptocracy at its worst” scandal, when he conceded for the first time in nine years that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal was not a fake or figment of imagination concocted by his political enemies to topple him, but a serious scandal whose perpetrators must be brought to justice.

Najib said that 1MDB investigators should not stop at Jho Low, but should probe others who were allegedly involved in stealing from 1Malaysian Development Bhd.

Saying all the culprits must be investigated to find out where the money had gone, Najib said:

“Fine… let them do their work but don’t just stop at Jho Low. Get others who are involved as well because there are other international figures who probably are involved. They must also be investigated.

“We want to know where the money flowed to. And who really benefited from the whole 1MDB issue. I would like to know, too”.

When will Najib volunteer to name these “
other international figures”
 involved in the 1MDB scandal?

While talking to Malaysians in Christchurch on Sept. 24, I posed the intriguing question whether out of the two, Najib and financial fugitive Jho Low, who will be the first to betray the other in the 1MDB “
worst case of kleptocracy
”!

Former Council of Eminent Persons chairperson Tun Daim Zainuddin revealed that Jho Low had contacted him  last week to seek immunity in exchange for finding assets linked to the 1MDB scandal.

But he was unable to pass Daim’s test which, in Daim’s words:
“I tested him. I said I wanted two things. Give me names, and since you say you have power, ask them to return to Malaysia.”

But  Jho Low was unable to deliver both tests.

Would former Defence Minister Datuk Seri  Hishammuddin Hussein be able to succeed to bring Jho Low back to the country when even Daim and Najib had failed?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Thursday, 1st November 2018)

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Can Najib continue to pretend that there is no such thing as the 1MDB scandal after the 1MDB criminal indictments in the US court, with Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner pleading guilty to corruption and money-laundering charges

Can former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak continue to pretend that there is no such thing as the 1MDB scandal after the 1MDB criminal charges by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against fugitive financier Jho Low, with former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner pleading guilty to 1MDB corruption and money-laundering charges?

Jho Low was charged in the federal court at the Eastern District of New York for conspiring to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB.

Low and former Goldman Sachs banker Ng Chong Hwa, also known as Roger Ng, were also charged with conspiring to violate Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) to paying bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials.

Another former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner had pleaded guilty to two charges  of conspiring  to launder money and conspiring to violate the FCPA by paying bribes to various Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials, and forfeited US$43.7 million as a result of the crimes.

My first thought at the news in the United States was what would have happened if UMNO/Barisan Nasional had won the 14th General Election and Najib had not been toppled as Prime Minister on May 9, 2018.

I am reminded of Najib’s reactions when the United States Department of Justice first filed the civil kleptocratic litigation in July 2016 which was later updated and expanded  in June 2017.

With regard to the initial civil litigation in July 2016, Najib said “what was done by the DOJ recently does not involve me, or the Malaysian government, or 1MDB directly….This is not a criminal suit, but a civil suit… but it has been politicised by certain enemies”.

In actual fact, Najib was named as “MALAYSIAN OFFICAL 1”, described in the suit as “a high ranking official in the Malaysian government who also held a position of authority with 1MDB”, which a senior Cabinet Minister  of Najib, Abdul Rahman Dahlan admitted to the whole  world in a BBC interview the following month was none other than Najib.

When the DOJ kleptocratic litigation was enlarged in June 2017, the then Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali expressed  frustration at not being informed by the DoJ of its latest civil lawsuits against 1MDB that appeared to be “a repeat of last year’s suit”.

He said that there was no evidence of misappropriation of 1MDB funds, nor have there been any criminal charges against anyone over the matter.

He said:
 “1MDB is a Malaysian company and has been the subject of multiple investigations within Malaysia, including by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, Auditor-General and the bi-partisan Public Accounts Committee.

“After review, we found that no crime was committed.”

He expressed
 “strong concerns at the insinuations that have been made against the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak) of criminal wrongdoing”
 and said:

“At no point in the civil claims is the Prime Minister named as a defendant or has been alleged to have committed any criminal wrongdoing.”

What would Najib and Apandi say of the latest 1MDB court indictments and proceedings if they had continued as Prime Minister and Attorney-General respectively?

Fortunately, Malaysians had taken the first step to save Malaysia from continuing as a global kleptocracy on May 9, 2018, and the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas must be commended in  ensuring that Malaysia was the first country to indict Jho Low in connection with the 1MDB scandal in August, with the United States as  the second country to indict Jho Low.

Najib had been very vociferous lately. He cannot keep quiet now on the 1MDB developments in the US court. In fact, Najib had answered most unsatisfactorily  about the DOJ proceedings in connection with his stepson, Riza Aziz during his disastrous Al Ajazeera interview.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Friday, 2nd November 2018)

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Most naïve for UMNO leaders to believe they can wash UMNO’s hand of 1MDB scandal when UMNO has not renounced the 1MDB scandal and  over RM400 million 1MDB monies ended up in UMNO hands

It is quite naïve for UMNO leaders to believe that they can wash UMNO’s hand of 1MDB scandal when UMNO has not renounced the 1MDB scandal and over RM400 million 1MDB monies ended up in UMNO hands.

Deputy UMNO President, Mohamad Hasan said it is unfair, inappropriate and illogical to blame and punish Umno over the 1MDB scandal.

Is Mohamad Hassan saying it is fair, appropriate and logical for 32 million Malaysians and future generations should pay for the RM50 billion 1MDB scandal, when it was the sole creation of the UMNO/BN kleptocrats?

Mohamad said UMNO was not involved  in the operation and transactions involving the wealth fund.

The UMNO Deputy President was being dishonest. How else to square with over RM400 million of 1MDB funds disbursed to various UMNO organisations and personalities!

Why didn’t Hassan make such a statement before the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 when UMNO and Barisan Nasional leaders thought that the sun will never set for UMNO/BN?

Is he prepared to be the first UMNO leader post-14GE to denounce Najib and his Cabinet for the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal?

Only yesterday, at the beginning of the presentation of the 2019 Budget, UMNO Members of Parliament  booed and  jeered the Finance Minister, Lim Guan Eng when he thanked Malaysians for saving the nation from a kleptocratic government and commended the rakyat for their courage to replace the old government with a new, clean and democratic administration.

The country, through live telecast, saw Parliament divided between MPs who supported  the new government to fight the infamy and ignominy of Malaysia being regarded worldwide as a  global kleptocracy by introducing a clean, accountable and democratic government and  on the other hand Opposition MPs, led by UMNO Members of Parliament, who defended Najib and the 1MDB scandal, and do not think it was a national shame and disgrace to be regarded by the world as a global kleptocracy.

Many steps have to be taken before UMNO can wash its hands of the 1MDB Scandal – and the steps tha must be taken incldue condemnation of Najib and the 1MDB scandal by UMNO leaders as well as an  UMNO General Assembly resolution to formally condemn and denounce Najib and the 1MDB scandal.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Saturday, 3rd November 2018)

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