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Saturday, August 01, 2015
MR PM, ART THOU KIDDING US?
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From THE STAR: page 2 (PRInt), but I'm copying from STar ONLine, cun!?~~~~
1MDB Welcomes MACC'S findings
We have been honest from the start, says company chief
PETALING JAYA: *****1Malaysia
Development Berhad (1MDB) has welcomed confirmation that no funds from
the company were transferred into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak’s personal account.
“1MDB welcomes the clear statement from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which confirms that no funds from 1MDB were transferred to the Prime Minister,” said 1MDB president and executive director Arul Kanda Kandasamy (pic).
He said the company had always maintained that it never provided any
funds to the Prime Minister and was confident that the “truth will
prevail”.
“To continue to suggest otherwise, as PKR secretary-general Rafizi
Ramli did in his blog yesterday, is highly irresponsible and a
deliberate attempt to undermine the company,” said Arul in a statement
yesterday.
He added that 1MDB had “fully disclosed” what the company’s RM42bil debt had been used for in a summary published on June 3.
Arul said such information could be found in 1MDB’s audited and publicly available accounts from March 31, 2010, to March 31, 2014.
****2MACC released a statement on Monday saying that the RM2.6bil allegedly deposited into Najib’s personal account came from donors and not from 1MDB.
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DESIDERATA: SEE how ball-carrier-appointees like current 1MDB CEO maintaining "elegant silence" for past few months, suddenly sprang to life once his BOSS had spoken. WRT *****the STAR report's opening para, AS Far as I can understand English, the WALL STREET JOURNAL did not report the RM2.6billion came directly from 1MDB; just that money was channelled into two of NAJib's personal accounts was routed through named companies as shown in the CHART BELOW:
Wrt ****2, firstly, the PM reportedly stated the RM2.6billion came from ONE DONOR, not donors! Mr Arul, I don't know where you hailed from before some six months ago, can you not refer back to the original WSJ?
AND EVEN If we are generously giving the PM THe benefit of the doubt the money came from one philantropist donor, BY ACCEPTING SUCH A DONATION AND NOT DECLARING IT THE PAST FEW MONTHS DESPITE CONSTANT Q-ING BY DR MAHATHIR, MR PM, ACCEPTING this BIG SUM is STILL AN OFFENCE!
DR MAhathir thought so too. HE said udring his 22years as PM, not a single sen went into his personal bank account. DOnations were chann elled into official UMNO TRUSTEES" ACOUNT, DR MAHathir reportedly stated.
IMHO, Desi knoweth not much about the banking laws as BANk NEgara governor ZEti AKhtar AZiz should, esteemed member of TASk Force reduced from 4 to 3! MAY I Ask of ZEti: "WHY ART THOU MAINTAINING ELEGANT SILENCE ALL THESe past few months???????" (SEven times because that Q was playing in my mind at least that magic number of times:( Or :)
OK, DESi would do the ARul guy a favour, pro-bono OK, from an olde report sourced from wsj.com!(PATience eh, while I GOogle-Search...)
OK, Here's the WSJ report:~~
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysian investigators scrutinizing a
controversial government investment fund have traced nearly $700 million
of deposits into what they believe are the personal bank accounts of
Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, according to documents from a government probe.
The investigation documents mark the first time Mr. Najib has been directly connected to the probes into state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd., or 1MDB.
Mr. Najib, who founded 1MDB and heads its board of advisors, has been under growing political pressure over the fund, which amassed $11 billion in debt it is struggling to repay.
The government probe documents what investigators believe to be the movement of cash among government agencies, banks and companies linked to 1MDB before it ended up in Mr. Najib’s personal accounts. Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal include bank transfer forms and flow charts put together by government investigators that reflect their understanding of the path of the cash.
The original source of the money is unclear and the government investigation doesn’t detail what happened to the money that went into Mr. Najib’s personal accounts.
“The
prime minister has not taken any funds for personal use,” said a
Malaysian government spokesman. “The prime minister’s political
opponents, unwilling to accept his record or the facts, continue to try
to undermine him with baseless smears and rumours for pure political
gain.”
Mr. Najib has previously denied wrongdoing in relation to 1MDB and
has urged critics to wait for the conclusion of four official
investigations that are ongoing into 1MDB’s activities.
Investigators have identified five separate deposits into Mr. Najib’s accounts that came from two sources, according to the documents viewed by the Journal.
By far the largest transactions were two deposits of $620 million and $61 million in March 2013, during a heated election campaign in Malaysia, the documents show. The cash came from a company registered in the British Virgin Islands via a Swiss bank owned by an Abu Dhabi state fund. The fund, International Petroleum Investment Co., or IPIC, has guaranteed billions of dollars of 1MDB’s bonds and in May injected $1 billion in capital into the fund to help meet looming debt repayments. A spokeswoman for IPIC couldn’t be reached for comment. The British Virgin Islands company, Tanore Finance Corp., couldn’t be reached.
Another set of transfers, totaling 42 million ringgit ($11.1 million), originated within the Malaysian government, according to the investigation. Investigators believe the money came from an entity known as SRC International Sdn. Bhd., an energy company that originally was controlled by 1MDB but was transferred to the Finance Ministry in 2012. Mr. Najib is also the finance minister.
The money moved through another company owned by SRC International and then to a company that works exclusively for 1MDB, and finally to Mr. Najib’s personal accounts in three separate deposits, the government documents show.
Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, a director of SRC International, declined
to comment. Mr. Kamil had power of attorney over Mr. Najib’s accounts,
according to documents that were part of the government investigation.
A 1MDB spokesman said, referring to the transfers into Mr. Najib’s account: “1MDB is not aware of any such transactions, nor has it seen any documents to this effect.” The spokesman cautioned that doctored documents have been used in the past to discredit 1MDB and the government.
For months, concerns about 1MDB’s debt and lack of transparency have dominated political discussion in Malaysia, a close ally of the U.S. and a counterweight to China in Southeast Asia.
When he founded 1MDB in 2009, Mr. Najib promised it would kick-start new industries and turn Kuala Lumpur into a global financial center. Instead, the fund bought power plants overseas and invested in energy joint ventures that failed to get off the ground. The fund this year has rescheduled debt payments.
The Journal last month detailed how 1MDB had been used to indirectly help Mr. Najib’s election campaign in 2013. The fund appeared to overpay for a power plant from a Malaysian company. The company then donated money to a Najib-linked charity that made donations, including to local schools, which Mr. Najib was able to tout as he campaigned.
“We only acquire assets when we are convinced that they represent long-term value, and to suggest that any of our acquisitions were driven by political considerations is simply false,” 1MDB said last month.
The four probes into 1MDB are being conducted by the nation’s central bank, a parliamentary committee, the auditor general and police. A spokeswoman for Bank Negara Malaysia, the central bank, declined to comment. Malaysia’s police chief and a member of the parliamentary committee also had no comment. The auditor general said this week it had completed an interim report on 1MDB’s accounts and would hand it to the parliament on July 9.
The prime minister is facing increasing pressure over 1MDB. The country’s longest-serving prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who left office in 2003, publicly has urged Mr. Najib to resign.
This week, Malaysia’s home minister threatened to withdraw publishing licenses from a local media group, citing what he said were inaccurate reports on 1MDB.
The $11.1 million of transfers to Mr. Najib’s bank account occurred at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, according to the government investigation. Among the companies that investigators say it passed through was Ihsan Perdana Sdn. Bhd., which provides corporate social responsibility programs for 1MDB’s charitable foundation, according to company registration documents. Attempts to reach the managing director of Ihsan Perdana weren’t successful.
Documents tied to the transfer said its purpose was for “CSR,” or corporate social responsibility, programs. The Wall Street Journal examination of the use of funds tied to 1MDB for Mr. Najib’s election campaign showed that the money was slated to be used for corporate social responsibility programs as well.
The government probe documents detail how investigators believe SRC International transferred 40 million ringgit on Dec. 24 last year to a wholly owned subsidiary. This company on the same day wired the money to Ihsan Perdana, according to the documents. Two days after receiving the money, Ihsan Perdana wired 27 million ringgit and five million ringgit in two separate transfers to two different bank accounts owned by Mr. Najib, the government documents show.
In February, 10 million ringgit entered the prime minister’s account, also from SRC International via Ihsan Perdana, the documents show.
The remittance documents don’t name Mr. Najib as the beneficiary but detail account numbers at a branch of AmIslamic Bank Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur. Two flow charts from the government investigation name the owner of these accounts as “Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Hj Abd Razak,” the prime minister’s official name. A spokesman for AmIslamic Bank declined to comment.
In another transaction, Tanore Finance, the British Virgin Islands-based company, transferred $681 million in two tranches to a different account at another Kuala Lumpur branch of AmIslamic Bank. The government probe said the account was owned by Mr. Najib, according to the documents.
The transfers came from an account held by Tanore Finance at a Singapore branch of Falcon Private Bank, a Swiss bank which is owned by IPIC, the Abu Dhabi fund, according to the documents. A spokesman for Falcon Private Bank declined to comment.
The $681 million was transferred to Mr. Najib’s accounts on March 21 and March 25, 2013, the government documents show.
Write to Tom Wright at tom.wright@wsj.com and Simon Clark at simon.clark@wsj.com
DESIDERATA:
MOre sycophantic wisdom from a newly-minted minister:( FROM the star, page 6:
'You can't satisfy the critics'
PETALING JAYA: Critics will never be happy with anything the Prime Minister does, said Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak.
The Communications and Multimedia Minister said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s critics will not be satisfied even if their demands are met.
“The Prime Minister’s critics alleged that Najib stole RM2.6bil of 1MDB’s (1Malaysiad Development Bhd) money and transferred it to his personal bank account. They then demanded to know whether this was true.
“MACC then announced that the money was not from 1MDB but was from a donor. Now some want to know why it took so long to confirm that,” he said in a blog post yesterday. Salleh argued that no amount of explanation by Najib would satisfy those asking for his explanation.
“So what is the issue now? Should they not be happy that the money was not stolen from 1MDB as alleged? That is what they demanded to know and that was what MACC confirmed.
****“If Najib tells them that the donation did not come with strings attached, would they believe him?” he asked.
DESIDERATA: WITH respect to para ****(IN red, highlighted by DESi...), "NO,We don't believe you, SALLEH KERUAK!
and NEITHER YOUR PM BOSS!"
“1MDB welcomes the clear statement from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which confirms that no funds from 1MDB were transferred to the Prime Minister,” said 1MDB president and executive director Arul Kanda Kandasamy (pic).
He added that 1MDB had “fully disclosed” what the company’s RM42bil debt had been used for in a summary published on June 3.
Arul said such information could be found in 1MDB’s audited and publicly available accounts from March 31, 2010, to March 31, 2014.
****2MACC released a statement on Monday saying that the RM2.6bil allegedly deposited into Najib’s personal account came from donors and not from 1MDB.
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DESIDERATA: SEE how ball-carrier-appointees like current 1MDB CEO maintaining "elegant silence" for past few months, suddenly sprang to life once his BOSS had spoken. WRT *****the STAR report's opening para, AS Far as I can understand English, the WALL STREET JOURNAL did not report the RM2.6billion came directly from 1MDB; just that money was channelled into two of NAJib's personal accounts was routed through named companies as shown in the CHART BELOW:
Wrt ****2, firstly, the PM reportedly stated the RM2.6billion came from ONE DONOR, not donors! Mr Arul, I don't know where you hailed from before some six months ago, can you not refer back to the original WSJ?
AND EVEN If we are generously giving the PM THe benefit of the doubt the money came from one philantropist donor, BY ACCEPTING SUCH A DONATION AND NOT DECLARING IT THE PAST FEW MONTHS DESPITE CONSTANT Q-ING BY DR MAHATHIR, MR PM, ACCEPTING this BIG SUM is STILL AN OFFENCE!
DR MAhathir thought so too. HE said udring his 22years as PM, not a single sen went into his personal bank account. DOnations were chann elled into official UMNO TRUSTEES" ACOUNT, DR MAHathir reportedly stated.
IMHO, Desi knoweth not much about the banking laws as BANk NEgara governor ZEti AKhtar AZiz should, esteemed member of TASk Force reduced from 4 to 3! MAY I Ask of ZEti: "WHY ART THOU MAINTAINING ELEGANT SILENCE ALL THESe past few months???????" (SEven times because that Q was playing in my mind at least that magic number of times:( Or :)
OK, DESi would do the ARul guy a favour, pro-bono OK, from an olde report sourced from wsj.com!(PATience eh, while I GOogle-Search...)
OK, Here's the WSJ report:~~
Investigators Believe Money Flowed to Malaysian Leader Najib’s Accounts Amid 1MDB Probe
Prime Minister Najib’s bank accounts are scrutinized during investigation of investment fund 1MDB
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak addressed delegates of the ruling party United Malays National Organization last month.
Photo:
Joshua Paul/Associated Press
The investigation documents mark the first time Mr. Najib has been directly connected to the probes into state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd., or 1MDB.
Mr. Najib, who founded 1MDB and heads its board of advisors, has been under growing political pressure over the fund, which amassed $11 billion in debt it is struggling to repay.
The government probe documents what investigators believe to be the movement of cash among government agencies, banks and companies linked to 1MDB before it ended up in Mr. Najib’s personal accounts. Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal include bank transfer forms and flow charts put together by government investigators that reflect their understanding of the path of the cash.
The original source of the money is unclear and the government investigation doesn’t detail what happened to the money that went into Mr. Najib’s personal accounts.
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Investigators have identified five separate deposits into Mr. Najib’s accounts that came from two sources, according to the documents viewed by the Journal.
By far the largest transactions were two deposits of $620 million and $61 million in March 2013, during a heated election campaign in Malaysia, the documents show. The cash came from a company registered in the British Virgin Islands via a Swiss bank owned by an Abu Dhabi state fund. The fund, International Petroleum Investment Co., or IPIC, has guaranteed billions of dollars of 1MDB’s bonds and in May injected $1 billion in capital into the fund to help meet looming debt repayments. A spokeswoman for IPIC couldn’t be reached for comment. The British Virgin Islands company, Tanore Finance Corp., couldn’t be reached.
Another set of transfers, totaling 42 million ringgit ($11.1 million), originated within the Malaysian government, according to the investigation. Investigators believe the money came from an entity known as SRC International Sdn. Bhd., an energy company that originally was controlled by 1MDB but was transferred to the Finance Ministry in 2012. Mr. Najib is also the finance minister.
The money moved through another company owned by SRC International and then to a company that works exclusively for 1MDB, and finally to Mr. Najib’s personal accounts in three separate deposits, the government documents show.
A 1MDB spokesman said, referring to the transfers into Mr. Najib’s account: “1MDB is not aware of any such transactions, nor has it seen any documents to this effect.” The spokesman cautioned that doctored documents have been used in the past to discredit 1MDB and the government.
For months, concerns about 1MDB’s debt and lack of transparency have dominated political discussion in Malaysia, a close ally of the U.S. and a counterweight to China in Southeast Asia.
When he founded 1MDB in 2009, Mr. Najib promised it would kick-start new industries and turn Kuala Lumpur into a global financial center. Instead, the fund bought power plants overseas and invested in energy joint ventures that failed to get off the ground. The fund this year has rescheduled debt payments.
The Journal last month detailed how 1MDB had been used to indirectly help Mr. Najib’s election campaign in 2013. The fund appeared to overpay for a power plant from a Malaysian company. The company then donated money to a Najib-linked charity that made donations, including to local schools, which Mr. Najib was able to tout as he campaigned.
“We only acquire assets when we are convinced that they represent long-term value, and to suggest that any of our acquisitions were driven by political considerations is simply false,” 1MDB said last month.
The four probes into 1MDB are being conducted by the nation’s central bank, a parliamentary committee, the auditor general and police. A spokeswoman for Bank Negara Malaysia, the central bank, declined to comment. Malaysia’s police chief and a member of the parliamentary committee also had no comment. The auditor general said this week it had completed an interim report on 1MDB’s accounts and would hand it to the parliament on July 9.
The prime minister is facing increasing pressure over 1MDB. The country’s longest-serving prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who left office in 2003, publicly has urged Mr. Najib to resign.
This week, Malaysia’s home minister threatened to withdraw publishing licenses from a local media group, citing what he said were inaccurate reports on 1MDB.
The $11.1 million of transfers to Mr. Najib’s bank account occurred at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, according to the government investigation. Among the companies that investigators say it passed through was Ihsan Perdana Sdn. Bhd., which provides corporate social responsibility programs for 1MDB’s charitable foundation, according to company registration documents. Attempts to reach the managing director of Ihsan Perdana weren’t successful.
Documents tied to the transfer said its purpose was for “CSR,” or corporate social responsibility, programs. The Wall Street Journal examination of the use of funds tied to 1MDB for Mr. Najib’s election campaign showed that the money was slated to be used for corporate social responsibility programs as well.
The government probe documents detail how investigators believe SRC International transferred 40 million ringgit on Dec. 24 last year to a wholly owned subsidiary. This company on the same day wired the money to Ihsan Perdana, according to the documents. Two days after receiving the money, Ihsan Perdana wired 27 million ringgit and five million ringgit in two separate transfers to two different bank accounts owned by Mr. Najib, the government documents show.
In February, 10 million ringgit entered the prime minister’s account, also from SRC International via Ihsan Perdana, the documents show.
The remittance documents don’t name Mr. Najib as the beneficiary but detail account numbers at a branch of AmIslamic Bank Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur. Two flow charts from the government investigation name the owner of these accounts as “Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Hj Abd Razak,” the prime minister’s official name. A spokesman for AmIslamic Bank declined to comment.
In another transaction, Tanore Finance, the British Virgin Islands-based company, transferred $681 million in two tranches to a different account at another Kuala Lumpur branch of AmIslamic Bank. The government probe said the account was owned by Mr. Najib, according to the documents.
The transfers came from an account held by Tanore Finance at a Singapore branch of Falcon Private Bank, a Swiss bank which is owned by IPIC, the Abu Dhabi fund, according to the documents. A spokesman for Falcon Private Bank declined to comment.
The $681 million was transferred to Mr. Najib’s accounts on March 21 and March 25, 2013, the government documents show.
Write to Tom Wright at tom.wright@wsj.com and Simon Clark at simon.clark@wsj.com
DESIDERATA:
QUESTION: THE ABOVE CHART IS SIgnificant showing the MONEY TRAIL naming THREE COMPANIES, SO
how come no spokesmen from SRC INTERnational, GANdingan MEntari and
EHSan PERDana have so far not (KEY WORD 'NOT' OMITTED, corrected AUG 7, 8.37am - yl, desI) come out to REBUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER?
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MOre sycophantic wisdom from a newly-minted minister:( FROM the star, page 6:
'You can't satisfy the critics'
PETALING JAYA: Critics will never be happy with anything the Prime Minister does, said Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak.
The Communications and Multimedia Minister said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s critics will not be satisfied even if their demands are met.
“The Prime Minister’s critics alleged that Najib stole RM2.6bil of 1MDB’s (1Malaysiad Development Bhd) money and transferred it to his personal bank account. They then demanded to know whether this was true.
“MACC then announced that the money was not from 1MDB but was from a donor. Now some want to know why it took so long to confirm that,” he said in a blog post yesterday. Salleh argued that no amount of explanation by Najib would satisfy those asking for his explanation.
“So what is the issue now? Should they not be happy that the money was not stolen from 1MDB as alleged? That is what they demanded to know and that was what MACC confirmed.
****“If Najib tells them that the donation did not come with strings attached, would they believe him?” he asked.
DESIDERATA: WITH respect to para ****(IN red, highlighted by DESi...), "NO,We don't believe you, SALLEH KERUAK!
and NEITHER YOUR PM BOSS!"
THESE UMNO-oh-NO DUMMIES are of MINISTERIAL STATUS, we at primary school had developed HIGHER IQ THAN you, SAlleh, MR PM DAN LAIN_LAIN "YES,MEN" menteri-menteri Kabinet kayu!
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MEAnwhile, DEsi admits that there are also CONTRARIANS TO the sycophants within UMNO, especially those recently SACKED from the wooden cabinet.
From The StAr, page 12:)
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MEAnwhile, DEsi admits that there are also CONTRARIANS TO the sycophants within UMNO, especially those recently SACKED from the wooden cabinet.
From The StAr, page 12:)
Shafie Apdal’s Semporna division withdraws Najib invite
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KOTA KINABALU: Umno vice president Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal (pic)
has withdrawn invitation to Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
to open the Semporna division meeting scheduled for Aug15.
However, Shafie, who is Semporna division chief, was coy when asked whether Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin would be invited instead.
"Could be Muhyiddin or Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad ... let's see ... we have not decided," said Shafie, whose Semporna division was one of Umno Sabah's first when the party spread its wings to the state in 1991.
Shafie also denied that he was leaving Umno to join Sabah-based Usno Baru.
On July 28, Muhyiddin was dropped as Deputy Prime Minister and Shafie as Rural and Regional Development Minister.
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AND AMORE FROm the southern state much influenced by its progressive neighbour, cometh wisdom from the MENTERI BESAR (I BELIeve he's following the footsteps of the PROGRESSIVE SULTAN AND REGENT:):)and :)
FROm STAr, apge 6; below is CUT&PASTRY from STAR ONLine:)~~~
JOHOR BARU: Umno must not remain
silent if corruption becomes a culture within the party, or if the
people’s trust are betrayed, said Johor Umno chief Datuk Mohamed Khaled
Nordin.
The Johor Mentri Besar said members must also speak up if the party failed to uphold its struggle and if it was being used to defend certain groups in the name of party loyalty.
“Umno’s struggle is about the people, never about the interest of certain individuals.
“The party cannot just look from the sideline when the people are struggling with poverty and when the divide between the rich and poor continues to deepen,” he said in his Facebook posting yesterday.
He said grassroots members must also keep reminding leaders of
their duties and responsibilities, about trustworthiness and about the
principles and values upheld by the party since its inception.
“Umno members must never fear telling the truth and leaders must be willing the listen to the voices of the people. This is no longer the time where leaders are treated like demi gods. Umno has never embraced the culture of Feudalism.
“Umno does not belong to any one leader. It belongs to us, the people and posts in the party is not inherited from past leaders,” he added.
He also reminded Umno members that the party was currently faced with a crisis of credibility.
“This is no longer about perception. It has now become a crisis of credibility and cracks to party’s unity is getting more clear,” he said.
***************His son Akmal Saufi, also in his Facebook posting, has posed 15 questions to Umno president and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, centred around his political funding.
(DESI will try to CUT&PASTRy this 15QS ***************for thee, my ER! --buy me dinner, cun? YL<DESi PS: NOT A bribe. it's just RM5to10), KNOT RM5to100billion what!)
BYE, buy! E BABIES!:( ~~~
Updated aUG 7, 8.48am (see HOW i PAMPER MY ER, liKE BABIES?!:)
fROM THE MALAYSIANINSIDER.COM:)
Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled poses 15 questions
over the RM2.67 billion in the prime minister's personal accounts. – Photo
courtesy of YouTube, August 4, 2015.Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled, the son of
Johor's menteri besar, wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to explain the
US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) in his personal accounts, asking for more proof
that they were donations.
Akmal
Saufi Mohamed Khaled poses 15 questions over the RM2.67 billion in the
prime minister's personal accounts. – Photo courtesy of YouTube, August
4, 2015.Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled, the son of Johor's
menteri besar, wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to explain
the US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) in his personal accounts, asking for
more proof that they were donations.
Akmal, who is chairman of the security, law and integrity committee of Malaysia's youth Parliament, asked Najib 15 questions following the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) announcement yesterday that no funds from state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) had been channelled into the prime minister's personal accounts in AmBank and that the US$700 million had come from donors instead.
"What proof is there that the funds are donations and not money related to 1MDB or from any parties which has transaction related to 1MDB?"
Akmal Saufi's questions were posted in the blog Apanama today. The questions follow a statement posted by his father Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin earlier, that Umno must not allow itself to be "used" as a party to protect the "interests of a few".
Allegations of RM2.67 billion in Najib's accounts first surfaced in a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on July 2, citing documents from Malaysian investigators.
The WSJ said the source of the funds were unknown, but had flowed through 1MDB-linked entities in various tranches, the largest of which – US$681 million – was channelled into Najib's accounts in March 2013, ahead of the general election in May that year.
The prime minister had denied taking 1MDB funds for personal use but had not directly addressed the fund transfers.
A few of Najib's Cabinet members had previously said that there is nothing wrong in money being funnelled into Najib's personal accounts as he had the capacity to be a trustee for Umno, of which he is president.
In referring to the MACC's announcement that the funds were from donors, Akmal Saufi asked if Najib was aware that such a large sum of money had been deposited into his personal accounts.
He also asked if the money was donation to the government, for Umno or personal purposes.
"If the money is for Umno, does the Umno leadership, especially the supreme council, knows about the funds?
"If the Umno supreme council does not know about it, does this mean Umno will not know of its existence if Datuk Seri do not inform them?" he said in referring to Najib's honorific title.
"When do you plan to inform the Supreme Council if it was not exposed to them?".
If the money is a personal donation to Najib and not to the party, Akmal Saufi asked if the prime minister accepted it when he was a minister.
"Can a minister or deputy minister or prime minister receive donations when he holds a post in the government?
"Or the donation needs to be declared to the people and other Cabinet members?" he further asked.
He then queried if Bank Negara governor and other officials knew about the movement of the RM2.67 billion into the country.
He also asked if the Inland Revenue Board is aware that such a huge amount of money had been received by Najib.
"If yes, have Datuk Seri paid any taxes based on the amount?
"Can a prime minister get tax exemption?
"If Datuk Seri gets tax exemption, is it from your salary or from any donations received by you?"
He added if the donation is for the government then why is it the finance ministry does not seem to be aware of its existence. – August 4, 2015. -
See more at:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/johor-mbs-son-poses-15-questions-to-najib-on-1mdb#sthash.NqpAHDAU.dpuf
However, Shafie, who is Semporna division chief, was coy when asked whether Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin would be invited instead.
"Could be Muhyiddin or Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad ... let's see ... we have not decided," said Shafie, whose Semporna division was one of Umno Sabah's first when the party spread its wings to the state in 1991.
Shafie also denied that he was leaving Umno to join Sabah-based Usno Baru.
On July 28, Muhyiddin was dropped as Deputy Prime Minister and Shafie as Rural and Regional Development Minister.
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AND AMORE FROm the southern state much influenced by its progressive neighbour, cometh wisdom from the MENTERI BESAR (I BELIeve he's following the footsteps of the PROGRESSIVE SULTAN AND REGENT:):)and :)
FROm STAr, apge 6; below is CUT&PASTRY from STAR ONLine:)~~~
Published:
Wednesday August 5, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Wednesday August 5, 2015 MYT 10:41:47 AM
Updated: Wednesday August 5, 2015 MYT 10:41:47 AM
Speak up, Umno members told
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The Johor Mentri Besar said members must also speak up if the party failed to uphold its struggle and if it was being used to defend certain groups in the name of party loyalty.
“Umno’s struggle is about the people, never about the interest of certain individuals.
“The party cannot just look from the sideline when the people are struggling with poverty and when the divide between the rich and poor continues to deepen,” he said in his Facebook posting yesterday.
“Umno members must never fear telling the truth and leaders must be willing the listen to the voices of the people. This is no longer the time where leaders are treated like demi gods. Umno has never embraced the culture of Feudalism.
“Umno does not belong to any one leader. It belongs to us, the people and posts in the party is not inherited from past leaders,” he added.
He also reminded Umno members that the party was currently faced with a crisis of credibility.
“This is no longer about perception. It has now become a crisis of credibility and cracks to party’s unity is getting more clear,” he said.
***************His son Akmal Saufi, also in his Facebook posting, has posed 15 questions to Umno president and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, centred around his political funding.
(DESI will try to CUT&PASTRy this 15QS ***************for thee, my ER! --buy me dinner, cun? YL<DESi PS: NOT A bribe. it's just RM5to10), KNOT RM5to100billion what!)
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Johor MB’s son poses 15 questions to Najib on 1MDB
Published: 4 August 2015 3:39 PM
Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled poses 15 questions
over the RM2.67 billion in the prime minister's personal accounts. – Photo
courtesy of YouTube, August 4, 2015.Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled, the son of
Johor's menteri besar, wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to explain the
US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) in his personal accounts, asking for more proof
that they were donations.
Akmal, who is chairman of the security, law and integrity committee of
Malaysia's youth Parliament, asked Najib 15 questions following the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) announcement yesterday that no funds from
state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) had been channelled into the
prime minister's personal accounts in AmBank and that the US$700 million had
come from donors instead.
"What proof is there that the funds are donations and not money
related to 1MDB or from any parties which has transaction related to
1MDB?"
Akmal Saufi's questions were posted in the blog Apanama
today.
The questions follow a statement posted by his father Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin
earlier, that Umno must not allow itself to be "used" as a party to
protect the "interests of a few".
Allegations of RM2.67 billion in Najib's accounts first surfaced in a
report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on July 2, citing documents from
Malaysian investigators.
The WSJ said the source of the funds were unknown, but had flowed through
1MDB-linked entities in various tranches, the largest of which – US$681 million
– was channelled into Najib's accounts in March 2013, ahead of the general
election in May that year.
The prime minister had denied taking 1MDB funds for personal use but had
not directly addressed the fund transfers.
A few of Najib's Cabinet members had previously said that there is nothing
wrong in money being funnelled into Najib's personal accounts as he had the
capacity to be a trustee for Umno, of which he is president.
In referring to the MACC's announcement that the funds were from donors,
Akmal Saufi asked if Najib was aware that such a large sum of money had been
deposited into his personal accounts.
He also asked if the money was donation to the government, for Umno or personal
purposes.
"If the money is for Umno, does the Umno leadership, especially the
supreme council, knows about the funds?
"If the Umno supreme council does not know about it, does this mean
Umno will not know of its existence if Datuk Seri do not inform them?" he
said in referring to Najib's honorific title.
"When do you plan to inform the Supreme Council if it was not exposed
to them?".
If the money is a personal donation to Najib and not to the party, Akmal
Saufi asked if the prime minister accepted it when he was a minister.
"Can a minister or deputy minister or prime minister receive
donations when he holds a post in the government?
"Or the donation needs to be declared to the people and other Cabinet
members?" he further asked.
He then queried if Bank Negara governor and other officials knew about the
movement of the RM2.67 billion into the country.
He also asked if the Inland Revenue Board is aware that such a huge amount
of money had been received by Najib.
"If yes, have Datuk Seri paid any taxes based on the amount?
"Can a prime minister get tax exemption?
"If Datuk Seri gets tax exemption, is it from your salary or from any
donations received by you?"
He added if the donation is for the government then why is it the finance
ministry does not seem to be aware of its existence. – August 4, 2015.
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Johor MB’s son poses 15 questions to Najib on 1MDB
Akmal
Saufi Mohamed Khaled poses 15 questions over the RM2.67 billion in the
prime minister's personal accounts. – Photo courtesy of YouTube, August
4, 2015.Akmal Saufi Mohamed Khaled, the son of Johor's
menteri besar, wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to explain
the US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) in his personal accounts, asking for
more proof that they were donations.Akmal, who is chairman of the security, law and integrity committee of Malaysia's youth Parliament, asked Najib 15 questions following the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) announcement yesterday that no funds from state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) had been channelled into the prime minister's personal accounts in AmBank and that the US$700 million had come from donors instead.
"What proof is there that the funds are donations and not money related to 1MDB or from any parties which has transaction related to 1MDB?"
Akmal Saufi's questions were posted in the blog Apanama today. The questions follow a statement posted by his father Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin earlier, that Umno must not allow itself to be "used" as a party to protect the "interests of a few".
Allegations of RM2.67 billion in Najib's accounts first surfaced in a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on July 2, citing documents from Malaysian investigators.
The WSJ said the source of the funds were unknown, but had flowed through 1MDB-linked entities in various tranches, the largest of which – US$681 million – was channelled into Najib's accounts in March 2013, ahead of the general election in May that year.
The prime minister had denied taking 1MDB funds for personal use but had not directly addressed the fund transfers.
A few of Najib's Cabinet members had previously said that there is nothing wrong in money being funnelled into Najib's personal accounts as he had the capacity to be a trustee for Umno, of which he is president.
In referring to the MACC's announcement that the funds were from donors, Akmal Saufi asked if Najib was aware that such a large sum of money had been deposited into his personal accounts.
He also asked if the money was donation to the government, for Umno or personal purposes.
"If the money is for Umno, does the Umno leadership, especially the supreme council, knows about the funds?
"If the Umno supreme council does not know about it, does this mean Umno will not know of its existence if Datuk Seri do not inform them?" he said in referring to Najib's honorific title.
"When do you plan to inform the Supreme Council if it was not exposed to them?".
If the money is a personal donation to Najib and not to the party, Akmal Saufi asked if the prime minister accepted it when he was a minister.
"Can a minister or deputy minister or prime minister receive donations when he holds a post in the government?
"Or the donation needs to be declared to the people and other Cabinet members?" he further asked.
He then queried if Bank Negara governor and other officials knew about the movement of the RM2.67 billion into the country.
He also asked if the Inland Revenue Board is aware that such a huge amount of money had been received by Najib.
"If yes, have Datuk Seri paid any taxes based on the amount?
"Can a prime minister get tax exemption?
"If Datuk Seri gets tax exemption, is it from your salary or from any donations received by you?"
He added if the donation is for the government then why is it the finance ministry does not seem to be aware of its existence. – August 4, 2015.
