Not only Rosmah’s son (with her first husband), Riza Aziz, couldn’t return to America temporarily while the US DOJ is hot on his tail, some US$1 billion worth of assets – hotels; luxury real estate in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and London; fine art; a private jet and even the highly successful 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street” – vaporised into thin air.
With thanks to Finance Twitter
JUL28 2016
By
pro-Najib bloggers’ admission, everyone including the Malaysian Prime
Minister Najib Razak was caught off guard with the press conference held
by the U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and US Department of
Justice, exposing that billions of US dollars were indeed “stolen” from
1MDB – a fund set up and chaired by Najib Razak himself since 2009.
As
chaos erupted in the Prime Minister Office, Najib’s advisers were
summoned for meetings and brainstorming on the best damage control money
can buy. They couldn’t find one because the A.G. Lynch was beyond their
control, let alone US DOJ or FBI. Of course, PM Najib was extremely
furious, but nothing beats Rosmah Mansor who almost fainted.
Not
only Rosmah’s son (with her first husband), Riza Aziz, couldn’t return
to America temporarily while the US DOJ is hot on his tail, some US$1
billion worth of assets – hotels; luxury real estate in Manhattan,
Beverly Hills and London; fine art; a private jet and even the highly
successful 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street” – vaporised into thin
air.
Sure,
those were acquired with allegedly stolen money originated from 1MDB.
Still, the “First Family” had put in considerable amount of time and
resources into planning what eventually turned out to be the biggest
theft of the century. Hey, we should give credit where credit is due
(*grin*), right? In haste, the “First Family”, still fabulously mad,
decided to take revenge.
Deputy
UMNO Youth Leader, Khairul Azwan Harun, was sent to make a local police
report against the former Governor of Malaysia’s Central Bank Zeti
Akhtar Aziz, former Attorney-General of Malaysia Abdul Gani Patail and
the outgoing head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Abu
Kassim Mohamed.
Through
the police report, the “First Family” was essentially crying, whining
and bitching about the three individuals of providing confidential
information to foreign agencies, including the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), without authorisation. The report also insists that
the three individuals named were conspiring to topple Najib and the
democratically-elected Malaysian government.
The
primary issue that is causing pro-Najib bloggers, politicians and
supporters beating their chests and screaming until foaming on the mouth
is this – the Government of the United States should have first
checked with the Government of Malaysia (read: Najib Razak) whether the
complaint is legitimate before taking action (of telling all and sundry
about Najib’s involvement).
In
other words, A.G. Lynch and DOJ should have called the Prime Minister
Najib Razak Office and asked – “Hey Mr. Prime Minister, we received
stacks of evidence that your stepson Riza Aziz and your friend Jho Low
have stolen billions of dollars from 1MDB. Can we confiscate their
assets such as the luxury real estate in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and
London, fine art, and a private jet?”
Najib’s
minions are also complaining that 1MDB wasn’t consulted by the US for
information. Well, perhaps they were right. Perhaps the American
government should have had contacted Pablo Escobar and asked nicely
whether he was a drug dealer before conspiring with the Colombian
government to hunt, shoot and kill the Colombian drug lord in 1993.
They’re
also accusing Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Abu
Kassim Mohamed of secretly contacting the US authorities. In short,
Najib Razak, either brilliantly or stupidly, is accusing the United
States of a deadly conspiracy to overthrow his government, the same
way Turkish President Recep Erdogan accuses the US of the recent
failed coup d’état.
More
importantly, by launching the police report locally (they never dare to
do so overseas, for some strange reason); it actually adds
credential to the corruption case – that A.G. Lynch and DOJ were right
to seize the billions of dollars allegedly stolen from 1MDB. After all,
it’s not everyday you see a country’s top-3 heads of enforcement
agencies being accused of conspiracy.
Hey,
wait a minute. Attorney General Lynch and DOJ didn’t name Prime
Minister Najib Razak as one of the people who had stolen money from
1MDB. They only mentioned Riza Aziz and Jho Low. With the police report,
does that mean the Malaysia government now officially admits “Malaysian
Official 1” is indeed Najib Razak (*grin*). If not, why bother with the
DOJ accusations at all?
********To
the United States, it only goes to show that the powerful Najib Razak
has everything to hide if former Governor of Malaysia’s Central Bank
Zeti Akhtar Aziz, former Attorney-General of Malaysia Abdul Gani Patail
and the outgoing head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
Abu Kassim Mohamed are to be arrested, intimidated and persecuted.
Why
does Najib administration need to send a junior Deputy UMNO Youth
Leader to do the dirty work of harassing retired Zeti and Gani and
soon-to-retire-Kassim when they could easily get some American lawyers
to defend their casein the United States, if Mr. Najib Razak, Riza Aziz
and Jho Low were indeed innocent of money laundering and corruption?
It’s
pretty simple. If the Malaysian “First Family” is indeed as clean as a
whistle, no amount of information and documents could be used to
overthrow them. If there was a simple explanation on how Riza Aziz and
Jho Low could become billionaire overnight, there’s no reason and
justification for the Government of the United States to target PM Najib
Razak or his family members.
Relax Najib, Here’s Why The Mighty U.S. Dares Not Shame Or Arrest You
With thanks to Finance Twitter
JUL22 2016
Najib
Razak is in an awkward position. What this means is the Malaysian prime
minister is like Chua Soi Lek, the former President of MCA (Malaysian
Chinese Association) who was forced to admit and subsequently resign
after his sensational sex DVD scandal. Unlike Mr. Chua, however, Mr.
Najib is a man who knew no shame.
Nope,
Mr. Najib wasn’t caught with his pants down bonking another woman;
although he was allegedly did so in a Port Dickson hotel room
with singer and actress Ziana Zain when he was then Malaysian Defence
Minister. But his 1MDB and RM2.6 billion scandals brought so much shame
to the country that Chua Soi Lek looks like Hugh Hefner instead.
Mr.
Najib is in an awkward position because whenever he meets foreign
leaders, he can’t help but notice a smirk on their face. True, he knew
no shame but that doesn’t mean he has no dignity. Unlike North Korean
Kim Jong-un orZimbabwean Robert Mugabe, Najib takes very personal on how
world leaders think of him. After all, Malaysia is still a democracy
country.
When
U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced on Wednesday (July 20,
2016) that the Justice Department filed lawsuits to seize assets that
it said were the result of US$3.5 billion that was misappropriated from
1MDB (1Malaysia Development Bhd), a fund set up by Najib Razak himself
in 2009, the Malaysian prime minister almost fell off his chair.
The
son of Razak had been given the impressions by his No.1 bootlicker –
Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak – and his band
of supposedly top-brain advisers that FBI would drag their feet in the
1MDB investigation. That explains why Mr. Salleh suddenly made
a spectacular U-turnand dismissed his “usual” claims of an international
conspiracy against Malaysia.
Prior
to the unexpected announcement by the U.S. prosecutor, Mr. Salleh has
been consistently rubbished allegations by the Wall Street Journal,
Sarawak Report and every private-owned media about his boss Najib’s
involvement in the embarrassing but damaging twin scandals – calling
them international conspiracy against the country.
Salleh
took it that because President Barack Obama had golfed with PM Najib
Razak, diplomatic calls were exchanged between both leaders for the
investigation to be dropped, or at least halted. After all, A.G. Lynch
was handpicked by Obama and had, together with FBI, carried out the
president’s errands such as the recent cover-up for Hillary Clinton’s
email scandal.
Unfortunately,
Najib’s 1MDB was too explosive and massive to be covered up by Obama
administration. Coincidently, Attorney General Lynch openly declared –
“The Department of Justice will not allow the American financial system
to be used as a conduit for corruption,” – just a day after Donald
Trump officially became the Republican Party’s presidential nominees.
The
fact is, Barack Obama is struggling to ensure Hillary Clinton
successfully become the first woman president, and continue Democrats’
agenda. The last thing they want is for Trump to make bombastic
allegations that Obama and Lynch deliberately cover-up Najib’s
corruption, and Hillary would continue such practice if voted to the
White House.
To
cover-up Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is one thing. But to cover-up
Najib Razak’s 1MDB scandal, involving a whopping US$3.5 billion
allegedly diverted from 1MDB funds, is another “very damaging” thing.
1MDB’s scandal is so hugethat it creates a new record as the U.S.
largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery
Initiative.
Make
no mistake about the exciting announcement from the U.S. Department of
Justice. President Obama and A.G. Lynch weren’t interested in shaming PM
Najib Razak, let alone prosecute him. If one looks hard enough, Lynch
was merely acting based on “complaints”, and the Justice Department was
merely talking about “recovering” money.
The
lawsuit doesn’t name Mr. Najib and no charges were brought against him,
although there are 32 references in the complaint to “Malaysian
Official 1″, a description that fits no one else but Malaysian Prime
Minister Najib Razak himself. The 130-pages lawsuit, however, would be
damaging to Riza Aziz (Najib’s stepson) and Jho Low (confidant of
Najib).
The
way this case is going to develop is pretty predictable. There’s no way
Najib would allow his stepson to be charged, let alone spend some time
in prison. That would break self-proclaimed First Lady Rosmah Mansor’s
heart – badly. Mr. Jho Low and Khadem Al-Qubaisi would be the fall guys
who would gladly admit they had willingly given US$238 million to Riza
as “gift money”.
The
drama requires Riza Aziz to be innocent, so that Najib Razak can be as
clean as a whistle. One should take note that NO criminal charges were
filed by the Justice Department. Therefore, nobody would go to
jail. What the Obama administration can do to scratch Najib’s back is to
put up a drama – a lawsuit to “recover” the illicit money, not sending
people to prison.
As
we had mentioned, if the United States wanted to put Najib on trial,
there’s no escape for the son of Razak. It’s rare but the U.S.
government simply needs to deny PM Najib Razak an A-1 (diplomatic)
Visa as head of state. Without this visa, Najib doesn’t enjoy diplomatic
immunity anymore. However, only President Obama can exercise his
authority to deny the visa to Najib.
The
simple fact that the U.S. Justice Department wasn’t interested in
criminal charges despite overwhelming evidence that Najib and his gang
have insulted and raped the American financial system proves that Obama
and Lynch are willing to close one eye. Now, do you understand why
Minister Salleh Said Keruak’s made a humiliating U-turn?
If
Salleh had sung the same old song like a broken record that the latest
U.S. Justice of Department’s move was an international conspiracy
against Malaysia, essentially he would be starting a provocation against
the Government of the United States. Being challenged, all
pro-conservative American news media would pick up the news and Obama
would be forced to retaliate “seriously”.
Even
if Obama wanted to, of which he doesn’t, the U.S. cannot afford to
start a confrontation with his so-called moderate Muslim Malaysia, who
is supposed to help America in the fight against the terrorism. With
former de-facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in jail and the
opposition in disarray, the U.S. simply hasno candidate for a regime
change.
For
that reason alone, PM Najib Razak is safe because the United States
dares not shame him, let alone arrest or prosecute him. To the U.S.,
Malaysian Najib Razak is no Panamanian Manuel Noriega or Iraqi Saddam
Hussein. Najib is just a super corrupt leader, something which both U.S.
Democrats and Republicanssubscribe, endorse and embrace.
But
do you know what the funniest thing about this U.S. lawsuit is?
Ultimately the billions of dollars of looted assets to be seized by the
U.S. government will be returned to the country affected – Malaysia.
Unless PM Najib resigns, which is highly unlikely, he’s actually getting
back all the money he had allegedly laundered to his stepson Riza Aziz
in the first place!
DESIDERATA2: Thats why many Malaysians are praying for DIVINE INTERVENTION!
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