ANOTHER prime reason I monitor the Aussie press reports on Malaysia closely is that I earned a salary from the Australian Government for some 13years at its diplomatic mission in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng; if you knoweth knot where this Jalan is, please get the here out of Hell! Secondary reason is many of my fRiends had migrated Down UNder, including a Brother of mine too; and they all report life there is an UPPER!
NOTE: That "800 Words" programme I wrote about just day/s ago is aired over AUSTRALIA PLUS (A+ is also Desi's rating) ASTRO CH 521 where I also viewed the two Aussie preSSmen as ABC report later refers... being stopped by all the UM-oh-No SECURITY MEN because their Boss knew what the Robust newsdogs would be asking of him. No, it's not about the sizzling hot weather...
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fROM STEADYAKU47 BLOG, WRIT BY A mALAYSIAN RESIDING IN THE lUCKY cOUNTRY:~~~
Monday, 28 March 2016
FOUR CORNERS : Why Gani Patail was sacked and other interesting stuff about that wife of Rosmah.
Najid LAME (concerning the MSM)alaysian is TAME anb Razak 1MDB scandal: Former Malaysian attorney-general planned to lay charges against PM
Four Corners By Linton Besser, Elise Worthington and Jaya Balendra
Questions have been raised over money deposited into Najib Razak's accounts
Reuters: Olivia Harris
The former
Malaysian attorney-general had put in place a plan to lay criminal
charges of misappropriation against the Prime Minister Najib Razak
before he was suddenly removed from office last year, Four Corners has
confirmed.
Abdul Gani Patail
informed several senior officials on July 23, 2015 of his plan to
confront Mr Razak at a cabinet meeting scheduled for July 29.
But a high-level
source with direct knowledge of the affair said the plan was leaked and
both Mr Patail and the deputy prime minister of Malaysia, Muhyiddin
Yassin — who would have replaced Mr Razak — were sacked.
A Four Corners
investigation which airs tonight will also broadcast new details
regarding the payment of hundreds of millions of dollars into Mr Razak's
personal bank accounts, which he has not accounted for.
The ABC investigation made global headlines earlier this month when the Four Corners team were arrested trying to question Mr Razak about his extraordinary personal finances.
There are
currently at least four international investigations into billions of
dollars that have allegedly leaked out of Malaysia's sovereign wealth
fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The Malaysian Prime Minister
chairs the fund's advisory board.
The Swiss
Attorney-General has announced that its investigation has uncovered a
"sum suspected to have been misappropriated [which] amounts to around
USD 4 billion".
"The criminal
investigation conducted by the Office of the Attorney-General of
Switzerland (OAG) has revealed serious indications that funds have been
misappropriated from Malaysian state companies," the Swiss
Attorney-General said.
"So far four
cases involving allegations of criminal conduct and covering the period
from 2009 to 2013 have come to light ... each involving a systematic
course of action carried out by means of complex financial structures."
The controversy
engulfed the Malaysian Prime Minister last year when it was revealed
that an unnamed donor from the Middle East had deposited more than
$US680 million into his account.
In January, Mohamed Apandi Ali, the new Malaysian Attorney-General, said $US620 million of this money was a "donation" from Saudi Arabia which was subsequently repaid, and that Mr Razak's account was closed.
He also shut down an investigation by Malaysia's anti-corruption agency into the affair.
But Four Corners
has seen bank records which show other deposits between 2011 and 2014
from mysterious individuals and companies both in Malaysia and overseas
via both wire transfers and in cash.
The records show
that in mid 2013 the bank opened three new accounts in the Prime
Minister's name, as well as regular pledges of money from a Saudi
prince, including a promise of 50 million British pounds ($94 million)
as late as June 2014.
The former
prime minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has recently mounted
legal proceedings against his former protege Mr Razak for abuse of power.
He told Four Corners there was no legitimate reason for a Malaysian political leader to have such large volumes of money.
"This is wrong, this is totally wrong," he said.
"A prime minister
of Malaysia should never have that amount of money in his private
account, if he has ... it must have come through some undesirable
activity."
Government 'pulling charges out of air'
Political observers and human rights groups say the Razak regime has resorted to a crackdown against anti-government voices.
Local newspapers
and television stations rarely carry sceptical coverage of the
Government, while an Al-Jazeera television reporter was deported from
Malaysia last year.
Two weeks ago, a prominent and critical online news portal, Malaysian Insider, suddenly announced its closure.
"They've resorted
to sheer intimidation and threats," said Clare Rewcastle Brown, whose
online Sarawak Report based out of London has led coverage of the
corruption controversies surrounding Mr Razak.
"They're pulling charges out of the air to throw at people, and shoving people in jail."
In July last
year, draft charges against Mr Razak were leaked to Ms Rewcastle Brown
which alleged he did "corruptly receive a bribe in the sum of RM27
million", the equivalent of $9.5 million.
Four Corners has
independently corroborated the authenticity of this document. The
program has also established that in its final iteration, the charge
adopted for action by the former attorney-general was changed to
criminal misappropriation.
'This is unprecedented'
Malaysia's former legal affairs minister, Zaid Ibrahim, told the program Mr Razak had many questions he had yet to answer.
"You sack your
deputy prime minister who just wanted to know what happened, you sack
the attorney-general who I believe was putting a charge against you ...
well, this is unprecedented," he said.
"I don't think we
will ever have, we will ever witness this kind of massive dismantling
of the institutions of government to cover up crime."
Mr Razak's office did not respond to questions from the ABC.
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