Najib will fix the fixers if that what it to win the coming election

Lets start with the facts. Rosmah is a known fixer. She has been around for two decades now, fixing deals for the rich and the famous. Most of her clients are reputed corporate houses. It now transpires she has politician clients as well. Does she have clients in media? I have no clue. What we do know, however, is that everyone aware of how PUTRA JAYA politics works (including me) knew who ROSMA was, and what she was up toREADMORE

Rosmah Mansor, Malaysias First Lady.to shift societys paradigm towards a dynamic way of thinking,

We all knew where her expertise lay. Yet none of us exposed her. Whats worse, many among us looked upon her with admiration as someone who could get anything done in the Government.Why is that? I dont know Rosma. Yet why did I not write about her? The reasons simple. Much of what we heard about Rosma came to us through the political grapevine, the buzzing gossip network that keeps us all in the know of whats happening. now and if you trawl the net, you will find that the altunya and Radias involvement in it is not a new discovery. Its been around for a while. But till RPK, the matter remained in the realm of private speculation, not public discourse.READMORE Get involved Go Guerilla if you want the public perception of Pakatan Rakyat, rejuvenated Expose the hypocrisy of BARISANS Muslim governmentDoes this mean print journalism has more credibility than TV or the net? Does this suggest that its only after the printed word takes over that speculation ends and people start taking an issue seriously? In recent months I have seen many stories hit the headlines on TV and disappear. The impact is far less when print ignores them. On the other hand, social networking sites like twitter add a sense of urgency that makes it! almost impossible to ignore a story thats desperately seeking to break. In short, you need all media to work in perfect tandem to reach a story where it needs to go. Theres no better example than Wikileaks. Julian Assange, whatever his critics may do to assassinate his reputation, will emerge as the Man of the Year 2010.READMORE Hishammuddin Hussein more beer please ZIONIST APCO first in Bukit Aman then in Malaysian Parliament have penertrated into my brain need to be drankThats where RAISE YATINs wrong. Very wrong. Theres a stage where the laws of privacy, however sacrosanct, need to take a backseat to public interest. RAISE, in trying to stop more TRASH coming out, is only making the public even more curious about what they may contain and whether they could further compromise the MAHATHIRS image. So whoever has advised him to go to the Supreme Court has done him a serious disservice. If the court stops further publication of the LINGAMGATE, it will do his image far more harm than if they were revealed. Insinuation causes far more lasting damage than actual revelation because thats when your business rivals get a free hand to float any rumours they want. And, as we all know, rumours cause greater damage than facts.

READMORE Encounter with an illegitimate UMNO President not elected by the umno at Barisan convention of POLITICAL PROST CITUTES , bastardised mainstream media

Having said that, I know where Mahathir is coming from. We, in MALAYSIA, have created a system so disgustingly corrupt that its impossible for anyone to survive in any business without having to necessarily resort to fixers and middlemen. Thats why people like ROSMA flourish. Not only because there are corrupt business houses eager to grab special favours from politicians and bureaucrats forever ready to offer them but also because there are also honest business houses who have no idea on how to navigate a system as venal as ours.! They ne ed an astute guide through the stormy waters. They need people who can advise them on how to deal with each rascal who tries to extort them at every stage. The system breeds its own who, in turn, approach and compromise people, even good people. Those chucking stones today at Vir and Barkha may well find that the friendly floozy they bumped into at some innocuous party last weekend, who later called back to ask for a few dumb favours was actually a honey trap.

What a disgrace, more so when Anwar is the parliamentary opposition leader. It is best for Anwar to take his impending suspension to the court of public opinion.

readmore When Malaysian opposition tiger walks, the jungle stands in attention, the Barisan MPS wet their pantsSo it may be a good idea if instead of throwing stones from a glass house, we all got together to clean up the house. This must begin with dismantling the corrupt system and exemplarily punishing the guilty, not just booting them out. You and I must also stop subscribing to the belief that corruption in MALAYSIA is a given and cant be fought. In Japan, prime ministers have gone to jail. In China, top Government officers have been executed. So instead of cynically talking about moral codes for lobbyists, lets repair and restore our institutions in a manner such that we can combat corruption. But first lets start by believing its possible.

READMOREDehumanising ANWAR ZIONIST APCO HAS LANDED IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE BARISAN undressed and unveiled.

We all thought P.K.R was beyond redemption. But saudara Anwar did the impossible with just an extra million extra votes. Thats all it takes to upset the status quo, bring in change! . A few tough steps and we can scare the pants off the corrupt. The question is: Will we fix the fixers or will we continue to wallow in self pity?

Theyre sneaky. They lie. Theyre evil. They think everyone else is an animal and therefore without souls. Theyre the most despicable people on the planet to say the least. These evil doers are behind Hollywood, the porn industry, race mixing,the homosexual agenda . you name it and theyre the ones orchestrating it.Before this only 2or 3 countries spoke up. . Now 145. Thousand thanks to the Parliamentarians for the deep concern and firm stand.

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

MB2 Selangor Dari UMNO Kerap Dipalit Skandal??

Sikit pun saya tidak terkejut di atas pendakwaan Khir Toyo.

Semenjak Merdeka, negeri Selangor hanya mempunyai MB dari UMNO sahaja (sehinggalah tahun 2008). Tiada parti lain yang dapat menghantar wakil mereka ke kerusi MB melainkan UMNO.

Sejarah menunjukkan kepada kita, MB2 Selangor dari UMNO ini amat mudah dijangkiti skandal dan rasuah. Sehingga ada seorang MB tu telah terpecat dan terpenjara gara-gara korupsi yang beliau lakukan. Mana ada negeri dalam Malaysia, MB mereka pernah dipenjarakan angkara rasuah dan skandal. Hanya negeri Selangor sahaja yang menikmati seorang MB mereka tersabit kesalahan rasuah dan dipenjarakan.

Mari kita senaraikan MB2 tersebut. Namun, saya tak nak bagitau apa skandal yang pernah terpalit kepada mereka. Tapi, para pembaca sendiri sudah tahu:

1.0 Harun Idris
2.0 Muhammad bin Muhammad Taib
3.0 Abu Hassan Haji Omar
4.0 Mohamed Khir Toyo

Ertinya, rakyat Selangor telah membuat keputusan bijak mengambil MB dari parti lain dari UMNO. Sekiranya tidak, sampai bilalah rakyat Selangor akan terpaksa mengharungi kesah sedih MB mereka terpalit rasuah dan skandal.

Tahniah rakyat Selangor.

Tulang Besi

ps skandal Dato Harun Idris boleh dibaca di bawah ini:

Krisis Harun Idris berkesudahan pemecatan beliau pada awal 1976. Dia hilang jawatan parti dan kerajaan. Antara tuduhan adalah memiliki harta bernilai RM60 juta yang juga dikaitkan dengan pembabitan dalam mengagih kensesi balak di Bangi.

Pada November 24 1975, Harun disabitkan dengan salah guna wang hampir RM8 juta Bank Rakyat kerana membiyai perlawatan tinju Heavyweight Muhamad Ali dan Jeo Bugner. Dia juga menghadapi tuduhan rasuah RM250 ribu dari Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Corporation sehingga membawa hukuman penjara.


Khir Toyo lepaskan jawatan Ketua Pembangkang, mahu kekal Adun
December 06, 2010KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Dis Datuk Ser Dr Mohd Khir Toyo yang hari ini didakwa berhubung pemilikan dua lot tanah dan sebuah banglo di Seks! yen 7, S hah Alam memutuskan untuk melepaskan jawatan Ketua Pembangkang Selangor berkuat kuasa serta-merta.

Saya akan melepaskan jawatan Ketua Pembangkang Selangor berkuat kuasa serta-merta, kata beliau dalam tulisan blognya petang ini.

Berkenaan jawatan dalam parti, kata Dr Khir (gambar), beliau menyerahkan kepada pucuk pimpinan parti.

Jika ia menjadi masalah besar kepada parti, saya rela mengundur diri. Namun sebagai wakil rakyat, saya akan terus berkhidmat walau atas platform mana pun sehingga mahkamah membuat keputusan.

Beliau juga merupakan Ketua Umno Sungai Besar.

Pagi tadi, Dr Khir, 45, mengaku tidak bersalah dan minta dibicarakan selepas pertuduhan dibacakan terhadapnya di hadapan Hakim Azhaniz Teh Azman Teh.

Beliau didakwa telah mendapatkan untuk dirinya dan isteri Datin Seri Zahrah Kechik, 45, suatu barang berharga dengan suatu balasan yang beliau ketahui tidak mencukupi iaitu dua lot tanah dan sebuah rumah yang terletak di alamat no. 8 & 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, daripada Ditamas Sdn Bhd melalui pengarah Ditamas, Shamsuddin Hayroni, dengan harga RM3.5 juta, sedangkan hartanah itu telah dibeli oleh Ditamas pada 23 Disember 2004 dengan harga RM6.5 juta.

Dr Khir didakwa melakukan kesalahan itu di kediaman rasmi Menteri Besar Selangor di Jalan Permata 7/1, Seksyen 7, Shah Alam, pada 29 Mei 2007.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Sungai Panjang merangkap Ketua Pembangkang DUN Selangor itu didakwa mengikut Seksyen 165 Kanun Keseksaan yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga dua tahun atau dengan denda atau kedua-duanya sekali, jika sabit kesalahan.

Beliau merupakan Menteri Besar Selangor ke-13, dan memegang jawatan itu dari

Ogos 2000 hingga Februari 2008 dan dilantik sebagai Ketua Pembangkang Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor.

Dr Khir berkata, beliau mengucapkan terima kasih kepada pihak pendakwa raya yang menghadapkannya ke mahkamah kerana ini memberi peluang kepadanya mmenjelaskan isu ini dalam mahkamah dan membersihk! an dirin ya.

Ini juga bermakna rumah saya bukanlah berharga RM24 juta seperti yang dituduh oleh pembangkang.

Saya membeli rumah saya dengan harga pasaran semasa yang dinilai oleh beberapa penilai hartanah dan melalui pinjaman bank, justeru saya tidak takut untuk ke Mahkamah menjelaskannya, kata beliau.

Kata Dr Khir, apa yang beliau harapkan ialah perbicaraan dilakukan secepat mungkin, bukannya ditangguh-tangguhkan bagi menghalang daripada bergiat dalam politik.

See What Barisan Nasional Gotta Say?

Anwar calls Najib desperate, Kit Siang wants live debates

By Patrick Lee

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is a desperate man struggling to contain the internal strife in Barisan Nasional, said Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim today.

Related story: Najib slams 'evil' Pakatan

He said that Najib's vitriolic attack on Pakatan Rakyat was proof of this.

"He wants to divert attention away from the internal problems and the corruption that is taking place in BN right now," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby.

According to Anwar, Najib's comments showed that there was a tussle in the ruling coalition, and the prime minister was “under siege” since it was not the latter's style to launch such verbal assaults.

Speaking at the BN convention yesterday, Najib had described Pakatan Rakyat as an evil coalition with trecherous and anti-national leaders.

He accused Anwar, the PKR de facto leader, of practicing nepotism since the latter's wife was the party president and the couple's daughter, the newly elected vice president.

The premier called DAP a “father and son dominated” Chinese chauvinist party and berated PAS for sacrificing its Islamic ideals.

'He is PM because of his father'

Meanwhile, Anwar asked if fighting against corruption was considered being anti-national.

“Was yesterday's peaceful protest (against water privatisation) a sign of anti-nationalism?” he asked, referring to the protest which saw the police using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

“If Najib is really a responsible leader, he should give space to the opposition to answer. But he shouts at us and doesn't give us space. But here is a PM who is using the police, the judiciary and the entire media to launch this severe personal attack against me and Pakatan leaders,” he said.

Anwar also found it strange that Najib attacked him over nepotism, and said that the PM and his own family had benefited from their government positions.

"This comes from a person who rose because his father was PM, and has appointed his cousin (Hishammuddin Hussein) as the home minister," he said.

He added that Najib's rise to power was not the same as DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng who had to work up the ranks.

“He (Najib) is there simply because he is the (former) PM's son,” Anwar said.

Anwar also criticised Umno leaders for playing the race card to further their political power, while keeping much of the country's wealth for themselves.

“I detest the idea of using the race card to appeal to the Malays and to make poor workers and rubber tappers feel that they are tuan (masters) when the few very rich Malays squander and amass wealth in the billions,” he said.

Be wary of the 'boomerang' effect

Commenting on Najib's scathing speech, DAP's Lim said such attacks could only “boomerang” on him and BN.

He added that Najib was guilty of three - “delusion, amnesia and arrogance” - of the four political diseases which the premier had warned would crush BN.

Lim said if Najib wanted his 1Malaysia concept to be taken seriously, he should be mindful of Samuel Johnson’s dictum, “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.”

“He should not set the bad example of doubting the sincerity, bonafide or worse the patriotism of his political adversaries,” he added.

The DAP veteran challenged Najib to a series of live television debates between BN and Pakatan leaders on who was really “anti-national”, “evil”, “despicable” and “very dangerous”.

PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar said that Najib's attacks indicated that Malaysians were more supportive of Pakatan than BN.

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Drop defamation suit against me, Ng tells Khir

from Free Malaysia Today - Free and Independent by FMT Team

By Rahmah Ghazali

PETALING JAYA: Sekinchan DAP assemblyman Ng Suee Lim urged former Selangor menteri besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo to drop a defamation suit against him over his exposé on the alleged land fraud that finally saw the state opposition leader being charged by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today.

Ng said that the long-overdue legal action taken by the MACC clearly indicated that his allegation over Khir's extravagance in the construction of his Balinese-themed mansion in Section 7, Shah Alam, and the price paid for the land was not baseless after all.

"His defamation suit against me should be dropped, because his arrest and the charge made against him today have proven that my allegation was not baseless. Although he has every right to proceed with it, I still think he has lost the political authority to take a legal action against me," Ng told FMT.

Ng was slapped with a defamation suit by Khir's legal team last year when the former claimed that Khir had constructed the mansion at a cost of RM20 million and had purchased the land for RM3.8 million during his tenure as menteri besar.

He raised questions as to how Khir could afford it on his menteri besar's salary.

Khir, who vehemently denied all the claims, said that he took a RM3.5 million loan from an international bank to purchase the property and dismissed allegation that the property cost RM24 million.

He also claimed that he could afford the mansion based on his professional business as a dentist.

When asked whether his effort to make Khir face justice was fruitful, Ng said he was still not satisfied with MACC's snail pace approach to prosecute the former menteri besar.

"It took them one year and five months to finally charge him in court. However, I feel relieved and welcome the move despite its slow process," Ng said, adding that MACC should have acted swiftly after he dropped the bombshell in July, last year.

Uncertain political future

Khir was arrested this morning at his office in Shah Alam at 9am and was brought to Shah Alam Sessions Court.

He was charged with committing a land fraud for the purposes of building the mansion, while developer Ditamas Sdn Bhd director Shamsuddin Haryoni was charged with abetting Khir.

Both pleaded not guilty before Sessions Court judge Azhaniz Teh Azman Teh, who set bail at RM750,000 and allowed the prosecution to transfer the case to the High Court.

Khir was charged with obtaining, for himself and his wife Zahrah Kechik, the two plots of land and a house at No 8 & 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, from Ditamas through Shamsuddin at the price of RM3.5 million when in fact the lots were brought by Ditamas on Dec 23, 2004 at RM6.5 million.

The charge against the Sungai Panjang assemblyman and Selangor opposition leader came under Section 165 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum two years' jail and fine, or both.

But if convicted, Khir faces an uncertain political future as he could be disqualified from contesting in the next general election, which political observers said could be held soon, pending an appeal.

Asked whether this was also a sign of the upcoming snap polls, Ng said this has nothing to do with it.

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Khir Toyo arrested, charged and claimed trial for land fraud

DAP's Ng Suee Lin: Khir's arrest proves I was right

Ng helped expose Khir with guided tours to the 'Bali' mansion

KUALA LUMPUR — DAP’s Ng Suee Lim had the final say today in the on-going spat between him and Datuk Seri Dr Khir Toyo, when the former Selangor mentri besar was charged with land fraud by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

“I still remember last year in July 2009 when I highlighted the case and then he sued me for defamation. So today is proof that I was correct,” Ng told The Malaysian Insider.

Earlier, Khir had been charged with land fraud in connection with the purchase of property in Section 7, Shah Alam and could up to two years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both under Section 165 of the Penal Code.

Today, the Sekinchan lawmaker said he was happy with the action on Khir but was still unsatisfied that MACC had dragged its feet.

“Regarding Khir Toyo, I am still unsatisfied with MACC because it took them around one year and five months to charge him in this case compared to other Pakatan (Rakyat) leaders last time which was very quick. So although I also feel good because my allegation of misconduct and corruption was proven correct by MACC but feel that they could have acted faster.

Ng had first highlighted Khir’s Balinese-style mansion in July 2009 at the Selangor state assembly and was later served with a notice of action by the latter’s lawyer.

Kampung Tunku assemblyman Lau Weng San also confirmed that he had received a similar notice of action.

In his letter of demand, Khir sought from both an apology, a public retraction, RM20 million for compensation and injury to his reputation, and an assurance that their statements would not be repeated.

Following today’s charge against Khir, Ng said that he would consider a countersuit.

“I will discuss with my lawyers on any further actions and on we can proceed to throw out this case. This is because Khir Toyo has lost his moral authority to continue his suit against me,” he said.

Ng then expressed hope that the charge against Khir signalled a more even-keeled approach by the country’s graft busters.

“I hope MACC can be more professional and effective in investigating politicians from both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat regardless of position,” he said.

Khir is charged with knowingly purchasing two land lots and bungalow for RM3.5 million in Section 7 here from Ditamas Sdn Bhd in 2007 despite the company buying the property for RM6.5 million on December 23, 2004.

The Sungai Panjang assemblyman is charged with obtaining the two land lots and bungalow, which are located at No. 8 and 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, for himself and his wife Datin Seri Zahrah Kechik, 45.

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APCO - the link between 1 Malaysia and One Israel

Chen Man Hin

Umno is unfortunate because Anwar Ibrahim has exposed a actuality which 1 Malaysia was conceived by APCO, an Israeli public relations organisation. Having no answer, Anwar is likely to be punished by a BN-controlled Parliament.
APCO was a public relations consultant for a supervision of Israel. At initial Apco malaysia denied this as untrue. But Straits Times of Singapore revealed which 'filings with a US Justice Department uncover otherwise. apco, a international public relations organisation entered into an agreement in 1992 to yield services for a Jewish state'

In written queries about a State Department filing, APCO declared which it worked with another asociate association upon a project for a Israel government.'

In 1999, EHUD Barak campaigned upon a 1 Israel height as well as was inaugurated prime minister. APCO WAS THE ADVISER WHO CREATED 1 ISRAEL.

IN MALAYSIA
APCO progressing determined itself in Malaysia, when it shaped a association with a name of MINDTEAM SDN BHD some six months prior to Najib voiced his judgment of 1 Malaysia.

Anwar Ibrahim produced a document to uncover Parliament which Najib sealed an agreeement with Apco Worldwide to uncover there was couple between a supervision as well as APCO.

WITH APCO AS ADVISER, 1 MALAYSIA WAS CONCEIVED, in a same approach which 1 Israel was createdin 1999. Najib presented 1 Malaysia to a people on. The 16th Sep 2008 in a unfortunate try to opposite a feat of a Opposition progressing in March...

UMNO contingency accept this fact. it cannot deny a undeniable. The truth is unacceptable to UMNO. To be told which an Israel association which APCO created 1 Malaysia would be a shock to a Malay Muslims. It will be a big blow to a Malay electorate.

Malaysia has no tactful relations with Israel, as well as had assimilated a ! Arab Lea gue boycott of Israel in a uncover of support for a Palestinian cause. Now a Malaysian supervision has hired an israeli to be a public relations consultant. How is UMNO going to explain to a Muslim Arab world?

Does Najib as well as UMNO think which by having Anwar censured in Parliament would get a devil of their backs? Better think again.

The thing to do is to terminate a services of APCO.


Dr Chen Man Hin is a DAP hold up advisor

Khir resigns as S'gor opposition chief, wants to clear his name

Khir and arch rival Khalid Ibrahim

KUALA LUMPUR - Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo has resigned as Selangor opposition chief with immediate effect after he was charged with land fraud today.

The former Selangor mentri besar also welcomed the charge, saying it gave him an opportunity to defend himself and clear his name.

“I will leave the post of Selangor opposition leader with immediate effect,” he said in a posting at his drkhir.com blog.

Khir also said he would leave it to Umno to decide his position as division leader for the Sungai Besar Umno.

“If it s a big problem for the party, I am willing to step down. But as a lawmaker, I will continue to serve on any platform until the court makes a decision,” he added.

The Sungai Panjang assemblyman is accused of knowingly purchasing two land lots and bungalow for RM3.5 million in Section 7 here from Ditamas Sdn Bhd in 2007 despite the company buying the property for RM6.5 million on December 23, 2004.

On the charge, Khir said it proved that his bungalow is not worth RM24 million as alleged by his political foes.

“I bought the house at market prices which was valued by several land valuers and through bank loans, so I am not afraid to go to court to explain it.

“I hope the trial is conduced as soon as possible to delay me from taking part in politics,” he added.

According to the charge sheet, Khir had allegedly obtained the two land lots and bungalow, which are located at No. 8 and 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, for himself and his wife Datin Seri Zahrah Kechik, 45.

The purchases had purportedly been made through Ditamas director Datuk Shamsuddin Hayroni, 54, at his then official Selangor Mentri Besar residence at Jalan Permata 7/1, Section 7 here on May 29, 2007.

When the charges were read out to him in court today, a calm-looking Khir pleaded not guilty.

If found guilty, the 45-year-old could face up to two years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both under section 165 of the Penal Code.

- Bernama

Home Ministry denies discrepancy in Anwars black-eye case

Hishammuddins ministry looks to be closing the book on the 1998 incident. file picKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 The Home Ministry killed off claims today of discrepancies in the investigation of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahims infamous 1998 black-eye incident, despite the Cabinets directive last month to query Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail on his alleged involvement in the case.

In a letter to DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang dated December 2, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told the Ipoh Timor MP that the Royal Malaysian Police has completed its checks on the 12-year-old investigation and found no reason to suggest that false evidence had been given.

There were no explanations given to show that false testimony had been made during the investigation.

The prosecution of (former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri) Rahim Noor for inflicting injury on Anwar Ibrahim was based on proof that was uncovered during the investigation.

He was charged in court under Section 323 of the Penal Code and he had pleaded guilty to the charge, Hishammuddin wrote in his letter.

The minister was writing in response to Lims questions during debates for his ministrys 2011 budget, which he had failed to address during his winding up in the House recently.

Lim had raised the issue of former KL CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim, the investigating officer in Anwars assault case, who had revealed in an open letter to the new IGP Tan Sri Ismail Omar on October 8 that he had new information on the black-eye incident which implicated Abdul Gani, the current Attorney-General.

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AG: Delays due to thorough probe

Attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail said the lengthy delay in prosecuting former Selangor Menteri Besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo over alleged graft involving his lavish Shah Alam mansion was because a very thorough probe was performed. He said that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had to study very minute details that included, among others, the valuation of the land, house and its interior furnishings. Put it this way, having bought a house for a cheaper price does not immediately create an offence, otherwise everyone of you who goes to buy things on sale will be automatically committing an offence.You have to go back to the basis of it (the case), how the matter was transacted; (getting) witnesses; recording of witnesses statements; getting everything clear... Especially since this happened some time ago... we cannot have a flimsy investigation, he said. Abdul Gani was speaking to reporters after Mohd Khir and Ditamas Sdn Bhd director Shamsuddin Haryoni were bothcharged for graft at the Shah Alam Sessions Court today. Mohd Khir was alleged to have committed graft when he bought two plots of land for the mansion from Shamsuddin Haryoni at a huge discount. Shamsuddin is also charged with abetting Mohd Khir in the alleged act. Witnesses will be protected Abdul Gani also revealed that the prosecution plans to call at least 16 witnesses. The prosecution had also applied for the case to be heard by the High Court. He stressed that the prosecution will apply the the full force of the law to prevent possible witness tampering. Asked why the two accused were not charged under the MACC Act, Abdul Gani said that the offence proper was committed under the Penal Code.But our accusation is by virtue of the MACC Act. If you listened earlier in court, I mentioned that this is a prescribed offence unde the MACC Act, and by virtue of that it beco! mes a se izeable offence.If it is only under the Penal Code, it becomes a summons case and you get a warrant of arrest, but we are using the MACC Act, he said. Source : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/150084
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Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

A desperate Najib....

Najib Abdul Razak's attacks on Anwar Ibrahim and Pakatan Rakyat yesterday smack of 'a desperate bid to restore his image' among voters.Responding to the scathing remarks made during the BN convention, Anwar also said such conduct is unbecoming of Najib, who is the prime minister.

I think Najib is desperate. These are signs of an impending general election (and he feels the need to get) voters' support, Anwar said this morning after his sodomy trial was adjourned. (He) sounded very desperate and angry. Certainly this (outburst) is not prime-ministerial material.

Najib had accused PKR of nepotism, as Anwar is de facto leader, his wife is president and their daughter is a vice-president. He took a similar swipe at DAP for being a 'son and father party', in which Lim Guan Eng (left) holds more power than the chairperson. Najib also told some 2,300 cheering delegates that the general election would be held soon and that BN would not be unseated in Putrajaya. "We will rule for another 50 years. We have to work hard. We have to achieve bigger success. We cannot be complacent, he said.

Najib 'delusional'

DAP's Lim Kit Siang also weighed in on the subject, in a statement today. He said Najib's description of Pakatan as anti-national, evil and despicable will come back to haunt the prime minister and BN. Lim said that, although Najib had warned against the 'four political diseases' that would hamper BN in defending Putrajaya, the prime minister himself is guilty of some of these.

Najib is guilty of being delusion(al) when he spoke of BN's aim of bringing Malaysia to its 'fullest potential', when Malaysia had been losing out to one country after another in economic development and progress for the past five decades, said Lim.

Najib als! o has no t been able to check on the brain drain and domestic capital outflow to the extent that the country was warned recently by a cabinet minister (Idris Jala) that Malaysia is heading towards bankruptcy in 2019. Lim also said Najib also suffers from amnesia as he has forgotten the reasons why BN sustained its worst electoral defeat in the 2008 general election, losing five state governments and also its two-thirds majority in Parliament.

As the prime minister Najib should be a leader for all Malaysians if his 1Malaysia concept is to be taken seriously. He should be mindful of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictum that 'Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels' and should not set the bad example of doubting the sincerity ... of the patriotism of his political adversaries.

If Najib is serious about his charges against Pakatan, let's have a series of televised debates between BN and Pakatan leaders on who is really 'anti-national', 'evil', 'despicable', 'very dangerous'.- Hafiz Yatim

source:malaysiakini

As for the debate, Najib got to consult Bik Mama first....

cheers.
Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Give MCA the boot

My blogger friend Aspan Alias has written a very penetrating article. See here. If we can characterise the speech given by the BN chairman, we can likely say its a speech with all the gegak gempita and goga. With all the pomp and aplomb and browbeating.

The problem here is: the people voting for us are not only those in the dewan. Those in the dewan number a miniscule portion of the voting masses. The voting masses are those who have to incur rising commodity prices and petrol and those who are revolted and repulsed by the cancerous corruption that has permeated all levels of our countrys governance.

If theres value in the speech, it is because it meant more for the mosquito BN parties the parties who have nothing. Theyd better sing to the tune of Shirley Basseys famous hit.

The Gerakan, the PPP, the MIC. For them, the speech may be uplifting. These are hoping for the crumbs for having something is better than nothing. The PPPs Kayveas @ KVS Maniam wants only a ministerial post. That would be his personal fin-de sicle. (End-of-his life chapter, the climax of his climaxes). Koh Tsu Koon will be eternally grateful if he can have a safe seat. His loss of Penang has exposed the emptiness of his rule over Penang those years. These are the people who get wet dreams during the daytime.

Meanwhile, the mother to the Penang Gerakan Youth head in Penang is a fan of Anwar Ibrahim. She never misses the Permatang Pauh feller, sodomy charges notwithstanding. What can we do if some people derive pleasure from pain? What do you call this? Sadomasochism? One person derives pleasure from giving pain to the public; the public gets high from being pained by that person. How can Gerakan even win Penang again?

So Najibs spirited talk can only bring cheers to the mosquito parties.

The MCA would have none of that. They dont want Umno to big-brother them. They want! to deci de equally. Chua Soi Leks MCA flails against anything Umno these days. Decision-making at the Umno supreme council, the 30 per cent wealth owned by the Malays, but never on who owns the 70 per cent wealth. Indeed with everything Umno has accomplished, does and will do.

So why do we keep the MCA around anymore? Send it to pasture and lets see what those MCA ministers without office and governmental power can do. Lets see what Ng Yen Yen can do in Raub or Liow the unhealthy health minister can do. By the way, why hasnt he been given the big stick for allowing dengue fever to reach epidemic levels and he hasnt come out openly about it. What happens to the millions of ringgit purchases for the H1N1 antidote when the disease is under control? Why did he insist H1N1 is still around as if to justify the millions of ringgit spent to purchase the medicine?

Since the MCA cannot deliver anything to the BN, it should be let loose. Probably its time for Umno and BN to cultivate allegiance with other Chinese-centric parties. Or from the Chinese directly. They are a practical and pragmatic lot. Just show and implement what they want and the MCA is irrelevant.

The bigger problem is with Najib himself. Is he made of sterner constitution to have that fortitude to tell the MCA, go and fly kites? He says different things to different audiences. To the Malays there is no one who loves the Malay more than he does. To the nons, he is the quintessential liberal, accommodating and inclusive.

He wants to be all things to all people. I dont know what term people use to describe such a personality. But the term that is widespread now is ihelpyouyouhelpme personality. Maybe they should add this to the psychology lexicon.

The Umno president can remain to be the benevolent father figure. But let him be surrounded by people with sterner stuff who are not afraid to do battle with the likes of Chua Soi Lek.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not endo! rse the view unless specified. Courtesy of sakmongkol AK47

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Malaysian Parliament a den of liars and thieves

Rahim Noor's five-month late confession, made by his lawyer to the Commission of Inquiry, exposes the many lies and cover-ups that have characterised the persecution of Anwar since 2 September, 1998. -- Aliran

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has replied in Parliament to Dato Mat Zain bin Ibrahims allegation (read here) that they fabricated evidence against Anwar Ibrahim back in 1998 plus lied about the black-eye incident. You can read the Ministers statement in Parliament below.

Basically, the Minister denied the entire matter. Maybe Hishammuddin forgot the statement made in September 1998 saying that Anwar beat himself up and later the then IGP admitting in 1999 during a Royal Commission of Inquiry to having committed the deed.

See the BBC and Aliran reports below of 1998-1999. How do you reconcile these reports with Hishammuddins statement in Parliament? It appears to be the tendency of Parliamentarians, even those of the rank of Minister, to lie in Parliament.

Is nothing sacred any more?

(Read more here).

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Anwar accused of beating himself up

(BBC, 30 September 1998) - The Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has suggested that the injuries sustained by his former deputy Anwar Ibrahim - revealed in a court appearance on Tuesday - may have been self-inflicted.

Dr Mahathir told reporters that Mr Anwar might have hurt himself to gain public sympathy.

"It's not impossible because he will get plenty of mileage if he showed he was abused by police," Dr Mahathir was quoted as saying by the national news agency Bernama.

But he said there would be an investigation into the allegation of police brutality, and any offending! officer would be punished.

Mr Anwar made a second court appearance on Wedneday, where he was faced another charge of sodomy, amid growing international concern about his treatment.

He repeatedly took off his glasses to dab the area around his left eye that is still black with blood clots.

He told a court on Tuesday that he was punched and slapped until he fell unconscious on the first night of his captivity on 20 September, when he was arrested under the draconian Internal Security Act.

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Rahim Noor's Confession: Black Eye and Blacker Deeds

Aliran Media Statement (1 March 1999)

Together with the Malaysian nation, Aliran notes that public demands to know the truth behind the infamous 'black eye' that Anwar Ibrahim suffered on the night of 20 September, 1998 has now produced a self-confessed villain.

That villain is none other than the former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor who confessed yesterday to having assaulted Anwar while the latter was defenceless and held in police custody.

The Malaysian public will no doubt be relieved to hear that no low-level police personnel was offered as a scapegoat for the dastardly deed of the then most high-ranking police officer.

But Rahim's confession, which only came after sustained public pressure to have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about this unpardonable incident, must now raise pressing questions about the administration of justice in this country.

Rahim Noor's five-month late confession, made by his lawyer to the Commission of Inquiry, exposes the many lies and cover-ups that have characterised the persecution of Anwar since 2 September, 1998.

Shortly after he had already assaulted Anwar, Rahim had the temerity to lie by publicly 'assuring' the nation that Anwar was safe and sound in police custody. Even after Anwar's 'black eyed' appearance in court, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mo! hamad ha d the audacity to suggest that Anwar's injuries were self-inflicted. Ever since then, the Attorney General has sat upon medical reports and police reports and showed no urgency in ensuring that justice be done.

Aliran considers that more than five months of such delays, lies and cover-ups tantamount to a travesty of justice especially when contrasted with the ongoing prosecution of other people.

Malaysians have been told that the prosecution is no longer interested in Anwar's alleged sexual misconduct. Anwar, as even Justice Augustine Paul has repeatedly reminded Anwar's lawyers, is only being prosecuted for allegedly interfering with police investigations.

By the same token, the Malaysian people are not interested in how mere words, supposedly uttered by a blindfolded and handcuffed Anwar, could have so severely provoked Rahim to beat up Anwar repeatedly in a police cell? What they want to know is, 'How do the lies, insinuations and delays perpetrated by then Home Affairs Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, then IGP Rahim Noor and the present Attorney-General differ from Anwar's alleged interference in police investigations and the administration of justice?'

The nation has also been treated to the deplorable spectacle of the mass trial of 126 people that arose out of the October 1998 demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur. These ordinary people, who were demonstrating peacefully in the interests of justice, have been charged with unlawful assembly.

What the nation wants to know is, 'Has the conduct of any one of those 126 accused persons been anywhere as violent, unlawful or despicable as Rahim's criminal and cowardly beating of a defenceless person held under police custody?'

Aliran welcomes the transparent manner in which the Commission of Inquiry has conducted its hearing thus far that elicited Rahim's confession. Together with the Malaysian people, Aliran demands that Rahim be arrested and charged immediately, prosecuted without delay, and, when found guilty, be subjected to t! he most stringent penalties provided by law. Given his confession, Rahim should also be immediately stripped of his titles, which do not befit a person who has behaved no better than a common and brutal criminal.

Let not the injustice symbolised by Anwar's black eye be allowed to cover up the blacker deeds of high-ranking people who have been only too quick to hound other people. Let not innocent and ordinary people suffer the indignities of persecution and prosecution while high-ranking people go unchallenged.

On 5 January, 1999, the Attorney-General publicly stated: 'I, as Public Prosecutor, will not hesitate to consent to the institution of prosecution against any individual proved to have committed or abetted the commission of such crime.'

Are these words to remain as unmatched in deed as the Attorney General's many previous and equally brave-sounding words? Or will the Public Prosecutor move without delay to prosecute without fear or favour?

In the name of justice for all Malaysians, Aliran urges the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all legal avenues and channels available to bring to trial all others who have, in the Attorney-General's words, 'abetted the commission' of the 'black eye' incident.

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Penjelasan dan Jawapan secara bertulis oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri kepada soalan-soalan yang tidak sempat dijawab semasa sesi penggulungan perbahasan bajet 2011:

PERKARA YANG DIBANGKITKAN OLEH Y.B. TUAN LIM KIT SIANG:

Merujuk kepada surat terbuka bekas pegawai polis kanan, bekas Ketua CID Kuala Lumpur, Dato Mat Zain Ismail yang bertarikh 8 Oktober 2010 yang merupakan bukti kuat bahawa sistem keadilan negara kita terus merosot setelah pembentangan laporan Suruhanjaya Polis Diraja Dzaidin.

Meminta supaya mengkaji semula siasatan kes atas bukti-bukti palsu yang dikemukakan terhadap Dato Seri Anwar dalam kes serangan mata lebamnya dalam tahun 1998 demi melindungi kredibiliti ke! bebasan dan imej PDRM yang telah terjejas serius sejak 2006. Mat Zain telah membuat dakwaan yang serius bahawa bekas Ketua Polls Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan Peguam Negara, Tan Sri Ghani Patail telah mencipta bukti yang palsu dalam serangan mata lebam Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan mestilah bertanggungjawab terhadap sistem keadilan jenayah yang kucar-kacir ini.

Menyeru supaya Yang Berhormat Menteri Dalam Negeri memberikan satu penjelasan yang menyeluruh dan memuaskan mengenai perkara ini di Parlimen.

JAWAPAN DAN PENJELASAN OLEH KDN

Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, pihak PDRM telah membuat semakan ke atas penyiasatan yang melibatkan Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam kes serangan mata lebamnya pada tahun 1998. Tiada apa-apa keterangan yang boleh menunjukkan berlakunya keterangan palsu dalam penyiasatan tersebut. Pendakwaan yang dibuat ke atas Tan Sri Rahim Noor kerana mendatangkan kecederaan ke atas Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim berdasarkan kepada bukti-bukti yang ditemui dalam penyiasatan kes tersebut. Tan Sri Rahim Noor telah didakwa di Mahkamah di bawah Seksyen 323 Kanun Keseksaan dan beliau telah mengaku salah di atas pertuduhan tersebut.

Mahkamah telah menjatuhkan hukuman 2 bulan penjara dan denda RM2,000.00 ke atas Tan Sri Rahim Noor di atas pengakuan bersalah beliau terhadap pertuduhan tersebut. Hukuman penjara tersebut telah selesai dijalankan dan kemudian beliau telah dibebaskan. PDRM berpandangan bahawa pertuduhan yang telah di buat ke atas Tan Sri Rahim Noor tersebut adalah selaras dengan keterangan yang dikumpulkan oleh pihak polis.

Justeru, ingin saya nyatakan bahawa tidak berlaku apa-apa kucar-kacir di dalam sistem keadilan jenayah di negara ini ekoran daripada kejadian tersebut sebagaimana dakwaan Yang Berhormat. Prinsip pengasingan kuasa (separation of power) memperuntukkan polis yang ditugaskan untuk menjalankan tugas siasatan jenayah manakala Jabatan Peguam Negara adalah bertanggungjawab menjalankan pendakwaan jenayah sebagaimana Perkara 145(3) Perlembagaan Pers! ekutuan dan Mahkamah pula berfungsi sebagi tempat untuk mendengar dan membicarakan kes adalah masih utuh.

Oleh kerana itu, ketiga-tiga badan ini masih memainkan peranan yang ditetapkan agar tidak ada campur tangan dalam perkara-perkara yang melibatkan sistem keadilan jenayah di negara ini.

Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat juga, setakat ini tidak ada sebarang laporan polis yang telah dibuat ke atas surat terbuka bekas Ketua Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur seperti yang telah tersebar di dalam internet sebelum ini. Selain itu, kandungan surat tersebut juga tiada mempunyai sebarang unsur hasutan, fitnah, ugutan jenayah mahupun lucah bagi membolehkan PDRM untuk menjalankan siasatan.

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Ketuanan Melayu: A risky experiment

Mariam Mokhtar | Dec 6, 10
Malaysiakini

I was born Malay and was hardly conscious of my race, either at school or at home. Race hardly cropped up in conversation except when we had form-filling to do like applying for an identity card. Religion was something sacred and the only time wed be aware of our racial and religious differences was deciding what to wear for a wedding or whose open house to visit, during the various festivities.

Thus, the recent clamour for ketuanan Melayu is destructive and damaging not just for Malaysia but more so for the Malays, the very people that the ketuanan Melayu concept is supposed to protect. It is wrong because ketuanan Melayu is a dangerous experiment in social engineering.

Our neighbours were both Chinese and Indian. As children, we studied and played with each other, even hitched lifts to school when necessary, whilst the adults shared garden produce, swopped certain special dishes for the various open houses and practiced their own version of neighbourhood watch.

Today, the Wongs are living out their twilight years away from their children, who have now settled overseas. Their children were willing to pay for them to live in a gated community, but they refused. In gated communities, they said, people hardly know one another and lives are conducted behind high walls and electric fences. The Wongs are unwilling to trade their relative freedom for living in secure isolation.

Mrs Pillai is now a widow, living on her own. Both her son and daughter have emigrated and she is loathe to leave Malaysia. She tells me, her children saw no opportunities in Malaysia. Her daughter is particularly bitter at having to leave her mother and especially angry that she was denied a place at a local college, and denied help by a local political organisation who refused to recommend her for a study loan.

Several thousand non-Malays have left, but many Malays have also gone. Families are torn apart or wrec! ked by a false belief in so-called superiority. Our country has not benefited from the wasted talent.

Wheres the sense of equality and justice?

When will Malays understand that the call for ketuanan Melayu creates antagonism at best, and violence at worst? There is open hatred toward non-Malays. The Malays have become arrogant; and non-Malays have been forced to be compliant. But for how long? Perhaps, it is the Malay who has more need of change. Where is their sense of equality and justice?

If ketuanan Melayu is supposed to benefit the Malays, why are the majority of Malays poor? If politicians had genuinely wanted to help Malays, the majority of Malays would now be wealthy, after 53 years of Umno rule. But this is not the case. The majority of Malays are poor.

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned that the Malays will lose their power if Pakatan Rakyat were to come to power. He labeled Pakatan leaders as a bunch of self-serving and racist politicians.

What power is he referring to? Is he referring to Umnos potential loss? Will the loss mean no more abuse of power and enrichment of family, friends and cronies? Is he lamenting the lack of control over the media, police, judiciary and the parliamentary rights and privileges committee? Did he also mean the inability to detain those who dare speak out against injustices?

Malay extremists claim that Pakatans alternative call for ketuanan rakyat goes against the Malay rulers. However, no one objected when Mahathir clipped the wings of the royals.

Mahathir and Najib Abdul Razak have sought to suggest that Umno/BN is a caring party, but despite 1Malaysia, Malaysians probably feel less united today.

Perhaps, the Malay extremist politicians promoting ketuanan Melayu can rightly be called Children of Mahathir.

Why will the extremists not deal with the social ills that beset the Malay youth drug abuse, abandoned babies, under-achievement, and Mat Rempit? They have been fed propa! ganda an d expect instant rewards but soon become disillusioned. They then fall further into the trap that non-Malays are robbing them of their rights. Is it any wonder they are bitter and have little aspiration?

The same group of extremists expects other faiths to respect Islam but they fail to reciprocate this. It is alleged that in some mosques, the sermons preach unbridled hatred.

Many loopholes and obstacles

Last Saturday, a 14-year-old girl and a 23-year-old teacher were married at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, after a religious syariah court approved the union. The teenager said, It has been hard trying to juggle two rles as a student and a wife but I am taking it in my stride.

Can no one else see that this is wrong? How does the state protect children from paedophilia? Has the childs health and maturity been considered? What about her mental and maternal health, when she undergoes repeated childbearing at a young age? What about her education?

Muslim men can remarry easily. So who will support her should her marriage fail? Or if her husband leaves her for a younger woman or fails to support her when he remarries? Our syariah law and welfare system has many loopholes and obstacles. Some women claim it works against them.

Look at how Malay men perceive of their women. Despite equality in Islam, women are given short shrift. Nurul Izzah Anwars request for a debate with Ibrahim Ali was rejected. He called her small fry and told her to contact the head of Wiranita, the Perkasa womens organisation, instead. This demeaning attitude towards women is replicated in many Malay households.

When will the champions of ketuanan Melayu talk about success, progress, innovation, creativity, harmony, sharing and excellence instead of alluding to the only my rights matter mentality?

We Malays must face up to our insecurities so we can live at peace with ourselves. The non-Malay is a convenient scapegoat for our failures. We need to admit we have problems and fac! e up to them.

Our religious leaders must make a clear stand against polygamy, paedophilia, child-snatching and intolerance of other faiths. Our Malay leaders must learn to respect other non-Malay Malaysians and treat them as equals. Only then do we have the right to ask others to respect us. We must stop the hypocrisy and madness that is called ketuanan Melayu.

MARIAM MOKHTAR is a non-conformist traditionalist from Perak, a bucket chemist and an armchair eco-warrior. In real-speak, this translates into that she comes from Ipoh, values change but respects culture, is a petroleum chemist and also an environmental pollution-control scientist.

Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Pakatan: Khir's arrest is just an election gimmick

Malaysia Chronicle

Pakatan Rakyat leaders accused a BN government of selective prosecution, doubt because it was usually ready to press a "smaller" charges opposite a scandal-hit Khir Toyo, while ignoring a string of other, more critical swindle complaints lodged opposite a former Selangor chief minister.

We cant assistance but to think which this is an choosing gimmick. It appears to have been negotiated as well as brokered. After all, because is Khir charged usually for this land deal involving a Balinese-stye luxurious home as well as not a alternative corruption cases he has been accused of, PKR clamp boss Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

Indeed, it has been a normal practise of tip BN leaders together with former premier Abdullah Badawi to have a show of starting after swindle a tip scourge of a republic as well as a many commonly-cited reason for foreign investors withdrawing to alternative countries.

During Badawis time, big-names similar to Perwaja Steels Eric Chia as well as former Land as well as Co-operative Development Minister Kasitah Gaddam were also charged for cheating as well as corruption crimes. Chia, a obvious associate of Mahathirs, was prosecuted for criminal breach of certitude involving RM76.4 million.

But notwithstanding a brouhaha, Eric was clear in Jun 2007 as well as Kasitah was clear in August 2009.

Is this critical or just pre-GE drama, asked DAP confidant Lim Kit Siang.

More to come

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Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE AGAINST TAIB. EXCLUSIVE!

Land from the people - profit to the Chief Minister

Certain people in high places are given to alleging that the facts which have been published in Sarawak Report may not be true. Yet, the allegations we have published have been verifiable and documented.

Likewise, available to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in the governments own register of companies, is the following irrefutable information. The company Mesti Bersatu is a major shareholder in Delta Padi Sdn Bhd, a venture that has caused shocking devastation on the mainly Melanau island of Pulau Bruit.

Also documented and verifiable is the fact that the Sarawak government has handed large tracts of land in Sungai Lengan on Pulau Bruit at minimal cost (RM78,000 for 100 hectares) to Delta Padi Sdn Bhd to develop a rice project, for which laughable levels of compensation have been offered to the Native Customary Landowners of the area. Pristine Mangrove forests have been destroyed over the past four years and the waters of the region have been polluted. Environmentalists are concerned that the development is now illegally encroaching also on the National Park on the island.

The Chief Minister's shareholding is stated in the Register of Companies

Mesti Bersatu, which is such a large shareholder in this enterprise, belongs to the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud and members of his family. His name is printed in black and white as a key shareholder in the Register of Companies for all to see. This means that as the Head of Government he has been handing the land and development opportunities to himself.

Mesti Bersatus two partners ! in Delta Padi are Taibs business crony Hii Yu Peng and the organisation Pelita, which belongs to Sarawaks Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA), of which Chief Minister Taib Mahmud is also the Chairman! This is all in black and white there can be no argument.

It should be observed that the Sarawak Government has given these grants of valuable land to Delta Padi thanks to specific decisions by the Planning & Resources Minister and, of course, the Chairman of the LCDA. These key decision-making positions when it comes to the granting of land are both occupied by the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud. Therefore, Taib has particularly used his position of direct authority over these departments to hand himself cheap land, which he had alienated from the native people. This is a clear case of conflict of interest, abuse of power and corruption.

Not just public land but also public money has been channelled into the Chief Ministers company

However, it has not just land that Taib has been handing to himself through to Delta Padi Sdn Bhd. Both state and federal government money is also evidently being poured into supporting the venture, of which he and his family are such major shareholders. These resources will have been made available thanks, of course, to the decisions of Sarawaks Finance Minister. Sarawaks Finance Minister is also Abdul Taib Mahmud. This is another clear case of conflict of interest, abuse of power and corruption.

In an announcement to the news agency Bernama in 2004, the Minister James Masing explained the Sarawak Governments policy towards the project a policy that is spearheaded by the Chief Minister, Finance Minister, Land & Resources Minister and Chairman of the LCDA, who are all Abdul Taib Mahmud. The report quotes Masing:

Since Sarawak is basically in its early stage of rice production, subsidy must be provided for it to succeed. He [Masing] said his ministry would act as the main co-ordinator ! between the various state and federal agencies and ministries involved in order for it to succeed.

He said under Phase One of its proposed development, a sum of RM19 million was needed for its irrigation system and he hoped the Federal Ministry of Agriculture could make the fund available soon. Masing said it had been estimated that about RM75 million was needed for the granary overall development.

On the Delta Padi Plantation, he said since its inception seven years ago, a sum of RM18 million had been spent in its development. It had also invested RM8 million on its own rice milling facility the biggest in the country . Masing said the state government would assist Delta Padi in dealing with its main rat and bird problems and in looking for more markets for its rice. He urged the national rice board or BERNAS to lend a helping hand. [James Masing, Bernama 18/10/2004]

No proof? The Chief Minister and his family own Mesti Bersatu

Corruption

Progress and Development? - 6 years after Taib took their land and stripped their forest these locals are left destitute.

The above information is all verifyable to the Malaysian Government and the MACC through the Register of Companies, their own official documents and ministerial announcements. The government auditors will be well-placed also to assess just how much Federal and State money has in total been poured into helping Delta Padi develop the project, in which the Chief ! Minister and his family hold a such a major shareholder interest.

In this context they might like to consider how little of those substantial millions have been spent in assisting the desperately poor Melanau and Iban populations of the area who have lost their fishing and hunting grounds and are suffering flooding and pollution as a result of the degradations and plantations on their Native Customary Lands?

So what is not true?

Therefore Sarawak Report would like to enquire on what basis BN commentators care to suggest that our accusations might be untrue and on what basis the MACC is refusing to investigate the State of Sarawaks Chief Minister for abusing his powers to enrich himself and his family?

Former Mangrove Island - stripped by Taib

Perhaps it is because it would appear that the members of the BN party have a highly undeveloped understanding of what forms corrupt practice? In an interview recorded last week, Taibs political ally, YB Karim Hamza, attempted to justify the Sarawak State Governments current White Paper proposals to clamp down on media outlets like Sarawak Report, with a series of statements that have caused hilarity throughout Malaysia and abroad.

While complaining that the reports on Taibs wealth are not proven, Hamzas simultaneously sought to justify it! It would surely be unfair he argued for the Chief Minister not to be able to take up the opportunities provided by his office for example to buy cheap land if someone were to offer it to him?

Hamza further articulated at length how public office is regarded by himself and fellow BN members not as an opportunity to serve the community, but as an opportunity to get into business at the same time and to make money from the connections that arise. Mixing politics and business in such a way is essentially the dictionar! y defini tion of political corruption and Hamza has openly admitted to approving it.

In the interview, which can be heard on Radio Free Sarawak via its websitehttp://www.radiofreesarawak.org/ he frequently declares that it would not be fair if only businessmen and not politicians could be wealthy and fly around in jets and asserts that the families of politicians must of course be advantaged by using their resulting network of connections. He also slanderously implied that Prime Ministers in the UK and USA do the same and are all filthy rich.

Taib took the 'opportunity' to make millions, but what was in it for the Melanau voters of Pulau Bruit?

Since Abdul Taib Mahmud, who receives a modest official salary appropriate to the concept of public service, is clearly wealthy beyond imagination; since he puts endless government contracts the way of his family; since he demands large sums of money and shares from any business that seeks to gain a licence to operate in Sarawak and since he also flies around constantly in private jets, we can only conclude that the Chief Minister agrees one hundred percent with Hamzas justifications of corruption.

Favours to Delta Padi from Taibs government departments

It is clear that Mesti Bersatus involvement in the Delta Padi project forms one of the business opportunities of the sort that YB Karim Hamza was referring to. Crony business tycoon Hii Yu Peng evidently provided the Chief Minister with an opportunity to take a stake in his venture to turn the Native Customary Rights Lands on the pristine island of Bruit into a paddy project.

Mr Hii Yu Peng has of course put in most of the private capital into the venture, true to the pattern of all Taibs dealings with local towkeys in search of land and licences, which he totally controls. Indeed it is extremely unlikely that the Taib! family company Mesti Bersatu has contributed a single penny to Delta Paddy in return for the quarter of all the shares that they have acquired.

A further quarter of the shares are in the hands of the state agency Pelitia, most likely pending a suitable time for their privatisation into the Taib family clutches, after the need for more state funding has passed (keep reading Sarawak Report for further evidence on this practice).

In return for this private investment by Hii, the State Government and in particular the LCDA department of which Taib is Chairman, has granted an eye-watering level of opportunities to Delta Padi. These opportunities also noticeably escalated in the aftermath of the incorporation of Mesti Bersatu in May 2007 and its involvement in the Delta Padi project.

Carving up Pulau Bruit - the map is wrongly labelled as Delta Padi does not belong to Jaya Tiasa, it belongs to Taib

Sarawak Reports researches have now identified the following plots mainly in Pulau Bruit, as having been handed to Delta:

3 plots in Sungai Lengan, Sibu (acquired 2005 2010) amounting to 100 hectares for a bargain basement RM78,000

6 plots in Batang Lebaan, Sibu (acquired 2007) amounting to 2,000 for RM2.5 million

2 plots in Sungai Buloh (acquired 1999) amounting to around 300 hectares for nothing.

4 plots in Serendeng Sarikei (acquired 2009 and 2010) amounting to 1,000 hectares for a give-away RM700,000

2 plots in Tulai Meradong (acquired 2008) amounting to about 400 hectares for RM310,000

4 plots in Paloh (acquired 2000-2005) amounting to around 7,700 hectares between 1998-2008 for roughly RM 2.75 million

1 plot in Mukah (2008) of 5,000 hectares for RM 2.5 million.

Coming ! to court

The recent extension of the lands handed to the Delta Padi venture has now sparked a legal action by 8 Native Iban villages, who will be represented by the human rights lawyer and PKR leader of Sarawak Baru Bian. Mr Bian will most likely be surprised to discover that he is to be challenging the Chief Minister himself in this civil case, as locals were misleadingly informed that the company behind the Delta Padi project was Rimbunam Hijau, presumably in a mishandled attempt to hide Taibs involvement.

Sarawak Report is wondering when such civil cases against the Chief Minister will finally give way to more appropriate criminal cases in the Federal Courts of Malaysia, given the evidence of this and numerous other cases of corruption by BN in Sarawak?

courtesy of Sarawak Report

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Khir pleads not guilty, AG warns against 'messing' with witnesses

Khir - a single of a many unpopular faces in S'gorMalaysia Chronicle

As former Selangor mentri besar Khir Toyo as well as his office worker crony Shamsuddin Haryoni pleaded not guilty to crime over a palatial home allegedly value RM24 million, Malaysia's attorney-general added to a play by earnest witnesses they would be since full protection.

"The full force of law would be used to protect witnesses as well as safeguard no interference in a case," A-G Gani Patail told a press conference. Were putting a couple witnesses, during slightest a few, underneath full protection.

Despite Gani's intentional pronouncements aimed to showcase a government's resolve to weed out autochthonous corruption, pundits were of a opinion that a complete charge was an "election gimmick".

They slammed Gani as well as additionally a Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission for going after Khir's "ikan-bilis cases" whilst closing an eye to a string of large-scale graft cases Khir has been accused of being concerned in via his decade-long tenure as a state's arch minister.

Gani himself dogged by scandalCritics additionally questioned because after Gani as well as a MACC had to take more than a year to "suddenly" press a charges against Khir despite countless reports being lodged by whistle-blowers.

As we pronounced in court, a review was finished thoroughly, were satisfied with a result of a review hence a assign today, he said

Maximum prison term only 2 years

Khir, a dentist prior to being appointed Mentri Besar by former premier Mahathir Mohamad, is alleged to have accepted a dual lots from Shamsuddin in May 29, 2007. The lots were paid for by Shamsuddin in 2004. Shamsuddin is charged with abetting Dr Khir in a deal.

Both ! pleaded not guilty prior to Sessions judge Azhaniz Teh Azman Teh.

According to a assign sheet, a 45-year old Khir is alleged to have obtained for himself as well as his wife Zahrah Kechik a dual plots of land as well as a house during No 8 & 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, from Ditamas through Ditamas director Shamsuddin during a price of RM3.5mil when in actuality a lots were paid for by Ditamas upon December 23, 2004 during a price of RM6.5mil.

He is charged with committing a corruption during a Selangor Mentri Besar's central residence upon May 29, 2007.

The assign underneath Section 165 of a Penal Code carries a two-year prison term, excellent or both.

Khir, who is Sungai Panjang representative as well as Selangor antithesis leader, arrived during a Sessions Court here during about 11.25am accompanied by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officers.

Bail has been set during RM750,000 each. The charge has applied for a box to be eliminated to a High Court.

Discounts for traffic summonses - a case of reverse credibility?

Lim Sue Goan

I could understand the shock received by Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek when he learned about the discounts for traffic summonses offered by traffic police, as the committee of high-ranking officials headed by him had earlier decided not to give any more discount to traffic offenders. With the latest twist of event, the committee's six earlier meetings would have been rendered futile.

I can also understand the dilemma of Mohd Sidek. How is he going to tell the public about the revocation of discounts having fed them with the same for so long?

However, Mohd Sidek and his committee cannot go against the "Malaysian culture" where people would wait until the last minute or for a discount to be offered to them before they would pay their fines. With more than 15 million unpaid traffic tickets and given the merciless onslaught from PAS, can the government afford not to think of the people first? How many votes are those summonses translated into? Mohd Sidek is not a man of politics and he is hardly aware of the possible consequences.

Removing the discounts will invariably invite lots of backlash and grievances. Many low-income earners may have accumulated more than 20 traffic tickets over the years, and if each ticket costs RM300, the total would be a hefty RM6,000. How do we expect them to pay up?

The committee should address the crux of the problem. When the summonses have accumulated to over 15 million pieces and have become a political and national issue, it would not be easy for any government agency to handle the issue.

The heart of the problem lies in the pathetic efficiency of our enforcement personnel and the inaction on the part of the government. If they were a little more efficient, they could have ferreted out the offenders and dealt with the matter immediately, and this is! sue will no longer be present.

The government also lacks a firm stand on the issue of summonses. When the Ministry of Transport submitted the first reading of the 1987 Traffic Amendment Act last year, they proposed to triple the RM300 fine to RM1,000. However, the government had to kill the proposal later in response to widespread public opposition.

On May 14 this year, the traffic police received a directive that there would be no more discounts for traffic offenders. And on August 11, Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha announced that the Cabinet had decided to suspend the measure of blacklisting drivers who did not pay their traffic tickets until February 28 next year.

Discounts have always been offered in the past. How can there be none this year? Many people would start to question the enforcement authorities' credibility.

The objection of PAS is understandable. I have my own personal experience to tell. Not long ago I received a reminder from the traffic police to pay my summonses or I could get blacklisted. I went to their website to check and found that I had been issued one ticket each on January 29, 2008 and June 17 this year. I had not received any ticket by mail (POL170A), which according to the traffic police procedures should be sent to me within four days.

I had not changed my mailing address and I could not say for sure that the traffic police did not send me the notification letters as they could be lost in the mail. But to a driver unaware of such summonses, it would be very unfair for him to get blacklisted.

On the second day after the traffic police announced the discounts, I paid my fines with a 50% discount, saving RM300.

Although the government has said the "promotion" period will be extended to February 28, I am still glad I have paid my fines. However, I wonder if drivers who have paid much earlier would feel that they have been taken a ride by the government.

- Sinchew
Letter & Opinion From Joe Public

Howsszzaat??.. You ‘rubbished’ us everytime we oppose you but how abt this…..

by Dr. Dzul

FDI at risk with vague NEM 2, says Ramon Navaratnam (The Malaysian Insiders)

By Yow Hong Chieh

December 06, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — The Najib administration will face continued investor scepticism until it is more explicit on how to make Malaysia a high-income nation, warned one of those who drafted the New Economic Policy (NEP).

Tan Sri Dr Ramon Navaratnam, who had helped Tun Abdul Razak draft the NEP following the deadly 1969 race riots, said the recently unveiled second New Economic Model (NEM) report was filled with good intentions but “very short” on specific measures.

“And therein lies the problem… Investors, after waiting so long, find they’re back almost to square one in terms of the specifics and policy proposals they can act on,” Navaratnam (picture) told The Malaysian Insider.

“I had expected much more from part two. To that extent, I am disappointed,” the former senior civil servant said about the NEM 2 unveiled last Friday.

The Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (Asli) Centre for Public Policy Studies chairman stressed that more concrete proposals were needed to reassure domestic and foreign investors alike so they would not take their money elsewhere.

Private sector confidence is critical to the success of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s ambitious NEM as the government expects the private sector to fund 92 per cent of the US$444 billion (RM1.37 trillion) needed to sustain the Economic Transformation Plan (ETP) over its 10-year period.

“How can FDI (foreign direct investment) feel comfortable when there are a lot of motherhood statements but no specific proposals that can affect policy?” Navaratnam asked.

The former Finance Ministry deputy secretary-general pointed out that investors had already been made “uncomfortable” be delays to the second half of the NEM, as that suggested Najib’s administration had “misgivings” about some of the reforms proposed by the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC).

“For example, what is the position of Bumiputera equity? Is it on or off? And for how long more?” he asked.

Navaratnam said the government — which rejected an Asli report stating that the 30 per cent Bumiputera equity target had already been achieved and even surpassed — had yet to commission an independent study as recommended by the think-tank.

“This 30 per cent issue, there is doubt as to whether or not it has not been achieved,” he said.

“The Bumiputera share has well exceeded 30 per cent and it’s no longer an issue, unless they’re now bringing about a change in policy and wanting more than 30 per cent.”

The outflow of domestic and foreign investment and capital will continue until the government can convince investors there was enough political certainty in Malaysia, the former Transparency International Malaysia president added.

He stressed that time was critical for investors, who were more than willing to go to Indonesia, China, India, or anywhere else in the world where there was a greater level of certainty.

“My hope and prayer is that, having made the mistake of not coming out with specifics, that these specifics be spelt out as soon as possible in a comprehensive manner and not in dribs and drabs,” he said.

Navaratnam urged Putrajaya to act quickly in this respect, even as the ongoing movement of capital and talent away from Malaysia “erodes” the prospect of Najib’s ambitious transformation plan.

“The sooner the matter is settled, the better for the economy and the prospects for take-off rather than a dive-down,” he said.

DPM post a recipe for endless troubles

By Joe Fernandez

COMMENT Critics kicking up a fuss over the proposal by de facto PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim to appoint DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang as deputy prime minister forget that the post is not mentioned in the Federal Constitution. The appointment, an administrative convenience, would take place if and when Pakatan Rakyat seizes the reins of power in Putrajaya.

The Federal Constitution only mentions the Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers. The critics of the “Lim for DPM” proposal are being misled, again, by the notorious “ketuanan Melayu” ideology which generates much of the rhetoric, polemics and debates these days in the country and continues to fuel the rising level of racial tension.

It was the first Prime Minister, the Malay-Thai Tunku Abdul Rahman, who opted for the administrative practice of appointing a deputy prime minister. His publicly stated reason was that he wanted to ensure that, after him, another Malay would be prime minister. This was in line with the unwritten social contract – misread these days as ketuanan Melayu – that the Malays would lead the politics to compensate for Chinese economic dominance.

The unwritten social contract got much media play during the Tunku administration which had no interest in forcing anyone to take up any skill, task or occupation. The federal government also stayed out of business and left it to the private sector.

Briefly, the unwritten social contract was an agreement among the big three at the time of independence in 1957 in Malaya – Umno, MCA and MIC. The last party, named after the Congress Party of India like many other similar outfits in the Indian diaspora including the African National Congress of South Africa, was set up to fight for the independence of India and not Malaya. It had no qualms about the unwritten social contract. MCA had no choice but to go along besides being motivated more by economic concerns.

The opposition in Peninsular Malaysia was not a party to the unwritten social contract.

After Malaysia, the unwritten social contract was unilaterally extended to Sabah and Sarawak. Kuala Lumpur decided that the two states should be ruled by Muslim proxies, locals and foreigners, and the majority non-Muslim natives kept out of the political mainstream.

A source of conflict

If the critics had any concerns on Anwar’s DPM proposal, they should have instead proposed that the post be “abolished”. A ship cannot have two captains. In the past, the source of conflict in the ruling administration has been the existence of the DPM post.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein, an Indian-Bugis, ousted Tunku in a virtual coup d’ etat in the wake of the searing Sino-Malay riots of May 13, 1969 that accompanied opposition gains in the general election three days earlier.

Razak’s deputy, Ismail Abdul Rahman, an Indian-Malay, died of a heart attack while in office.

Deputy prime minister Hussein Onn, a Turk-Malay, who replaced his brother-in-law Razak after the latter passed away suddenly of leukemia in London, was eased out of office by his deputy, Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Mahathir, an Indian Muslim, even had Hussein’s office cleaned out while the latter was away in London for medical treatment.

Mahathir had trouble with three deputies – Musa Hitam, Ghafar Baba, Anwar Ibrahim – all of whom he ousted in various ways. Musa, a Sino-Malay, was publicly accused time and again of being impatient to replace him until the man resigned on an impulse. Ghaffar was ousted by Anwar with Mahathir’s blessing. Anwar, an Indian-Malay, was sacked by Mahathir as deputy prime minister and finance minister, expelled from Umno and incarcerated on corruption and sodomy charges.

Mahathir’s fourth deputy prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a Sino-Malay, went on to become prime minister. Abdullah let out Anwar shortly after he assumed office. Mahathir rallied key Umno leaders behind him and had Abdullah removed after the 2008 general election.

Razak’s son, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, has an uneasy relationship with his deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin. Fingers are being pointed in Mahathir’s direction. It’s no secret that Mahathir is impatient to see his son, Mukhriz, climb the greasy pole as soon as possible. Mukhriz, the Umno Youth deputy chief, was even appointed a deputy minister in the Najib Cabinet while Khairy Jamaluddin, the Umno Youth chief, was left in the cold at Mahathir’s insistence.

If Najib falters at the next general election, the knives will be out for him and Muhyiddin will replace him. Mahathir is evidently working on this day and night. In return, Muhyiddin will have to appoint Mukhriz as his deputy prime minister, continue to keep Khairy out of the federal Cabinet and ensure that Anwar rots in jail.

Undisguised contempt

The DPM post invites so much intrigue, persistent rumours of the top two not being on good terms, quarrels over the spoils of office if not a share of the loot, and talk of Team A and Team B.

Full Cabinet ministers, if they are aligned to the prime minister, treat his deputy with nothing but undisguised contempt. They don’t have to take any orders from him and don’t hesitate to snub him at every opportunity. This only further fuels the ambition of the DPM to oust his boss as soon as possible and take over in order to get even with his foes in the federal Cabinet.

If Pakatan insists on retaining the DPM post, if and when it assumes the mantle of power in Putrajaya, the party should take a leaf from the defunct Semangat ’46 founded by Kelantan prince and Umno warlord Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Razaleigh had reportedly been cheated out of the Umno presidency and the premiership by Mahathir in 1987.

Razaleigh had pledged that if and when he became prime minister, he would have five deputies –Malay, Chinese, Indian, Dusun and Iban.

It would be a good idea for Pakatan to adopt Razaleigh’s pledge instead of having only one DPM or, as it’s being speculated, two DPMs, that is, Lim and Azmin Ali.

Having five DPMs would be safer than having only one or two in the post.

Suitable candidates for the five DPM posts in a Pakatan federal government would be Nurul Izzah Anwar, Lim Kit Siang, Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chair P Waytha Moorthy, Sabah strongman Jeffrey Kitingan and James Masing from Sarawak.

One further innovation would be the five DPMs deciding among themselves, by secret ballot, which one of them would be prime minister. In this way, all of them stand a chance.

The first Pakatan prime minister cannot be decided by the five DPMs but instead would have to be worked out by consensus among the top coalition leadership. If Anwar is locked away by Najib before the next general election, the choice of prime minister would be a toss between Razaleigh and PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, a Korean-Malay, in that order. Wan Azizah, being disqualified from contesting a general election for five years from the date of her resignation as Permatang Pauh MP, would need to be sworn in as a Senator if appointed as prime minister.

Still, the best option is to abolish the DPM post so that the ship would have only one captain. There would also be less politicking.

A-G: Witnesses in Khir trial will get full protection

SHAH ALAM, Dec 6 — Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail announced today that witnesses in Datuk Seri Dr Khir Toyo’s land fraud trial will get full protection.

“We’re putting a couple witnesses, at least a few, under full protection,” he told reporters.

He stressed that the public should be aware of that so the people would know not to “mess” with the witnesses.

Gani (picture) also said he was satisfied with the outcome of the investigation.

“As I said in court, the investigation was done thoroughly, we’re satisfied with the outcome of the investigation hence the charge today,” he said.

He added that the authorities could not have a “flimsy” investigation, when asked why it took this long for the investigation to be completed.

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Khir Toyo charged with land fraud

SHAH ALAM, Dec 6 — Former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo was charged in the Sessions Court here today with alleged land fraud in connection with the purchase of property in Section 7, Shah Alam.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail leads the prosecution team.

Dr Khir pleaded not guilty to the charge.

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