Get rid of ‘bangsa’, ‘agama’ in MyKad to achieve unity, says critic

1.    Ini adalah tajuk yang digunakan oleh portal Free Malaysia Today pada 2 Disember 2018 yang lalu. Apa yang jadi persoalannya bukan tajuk tu, tetapi isinya. Ia tentang Mariam Mokhtar yang menegaskan perlunya klasifikasi atau identiti kaum termasuk agama ditiadakan di dalam Kad Pengenalan. Anda setuju? Jawapan saya mudah. TIDAK. 

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2018/12/02/get-rid-of-bangsa-agama-in-mykad-to-achieve-unity-says-critic/

Pendakwaan Terpilih? Itu kata Ketua Puteri UMNO

Hari ini umum mengetahui yang Presiden UMNO telah dituduh dengan lebih 30 tuduhan melibatkan penggubahan wang haram, penyelewengan dan penyalahgunaan kuasa.

Ketua Puteri UMNO memilih untuk berkata bahawa Kerajaan sebenarnya mahu mengalihkan perhatian rakyat kepada kegagalan Kerajaan untuk memenuhi janji Manifesto.

Jika kita amati dengan teliti, YAB Perdana Menteri tidak pernah memberi apa-apa kenyataan tentang siasatan ke atas YB Presiden UMNO.

Keadaan ini berbeza dengan Najib dulu yang selalu menyebut tentang rancangan menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja berhubung tragedi Memali dan telah pun melengkapkan siasatan daripada Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja mengenai kes Forex yang berlaku 30 tahun lalu.

Pendakwaan terpilih? Stop it Datuk Zahida, stop it!

PENDEDAHAN TUN DAIM ZAINUDDIN DI TV3

1.    Pendedahan yang dibuat oleh YABhg. Tun Daim Zainuddin  pada 6 September 2018 yang lalu boleh saya katakan sebagai penjelasan yang amat saya nantikan begitu juga rakyat Malaysia yang lain. Penjelasan mudah dan "clear cut" memudahkan pemahaman dan isu-isu yang menjadi tanda tanya selama ini dikupas dengan baik oleh beliau termasuk tentang hubungkait Jho Low dengan skandal 1MDB. 

2.    Ya Allah, semoga Malaysia akan terus dikurniakan dengan orang Melayu yang berkebolehan tinggi seperti Tun Daim bagi meletakkan agenda negara terus kekal cemerlang untuk generasi akan datang. Amin.


https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2018/09/470378/transkrip-penuh-temu-bual-daim

NAJIB, ZETI DAN 2.6 BILLION

1.  Sejak Kerajaan Harapan dilihat mengambil langkah drastik dengan memberikan kuasa kepada PDRM untuk menjalankan siasatan terhadap 1MDB, antara cakap-cakap yang menjadi perbualan adalah dakwaan Najib bahawa Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz yang merupakan Gabenor BNM semasa skandal 1MDB meletus tahu berkenaan kemasukan RM2.6 Billion ke dalam akaun Najib sebagai derma daripada negara Timur Tengah.

2.  Dakwaan ini dimainkan oleh media sosial pro-Najib dan saki baki penyokong yang masih ada antaranya di dalam jabatan-jabatan Kerajaan. Nampaknya ada yang masih belum move on bahawa Barisan Nasional (BN) bukan lagi Kerajaan dan dalam masa 5 tahun ini Kerajaan yang sah adalah Harapan. Pada saya berita ini pastinya tidak benar dan kenapa kakitangan Kerajaan masih ada yang boleh percaya pada Najib yang sebelum ini jelas hidup dalam penafian?

3.  Saya menegaskan bahawa pastinya Tan Sri Zeti dipaksa untuk mengeluarkan kenyataan pengakuan bahawa beliau tahu tentang perkara tersebut. Buktinya, Tan Sri Zeti memilih untuk tidak lagi menyambung khidmat sebagai Gabenor Bank Negara yang mana sebagai seorang yang berada di puncak sebuah badan kewangan tertinggi negara dan berhadapan dengan skandal kewangan terbesar dalam sejarah Negara, adalah tidak masuk akal dengan secara mudah Tan Sri Zeti membuat keputusan untuk meninggalkan BNM.

4.  Akhirnya perkara ini terjawab dengan kenyataan sendiri daripada Tan Sri Zeti...

Najib Minta Saya Kata Dia Tak Lakukan Sebarang Kesalahan - Zeti

21:10  Malaysiakini, Najib Razak, Semasa

Bekas Gabenor Bank Negara, Tan Sri Zeti Akthar Aziz menolak dakwaan bahawa 

beliau menyedari tentang RM2.6 bilion dalam akaun Ambank Najib sebelum pilihan 

raya umum 2013 (PRU13) tetapi tidak mempersoalkan perkara itu.

"Saya ingin menyatakan bahawa dakwaan ini adalah salah. Saya tidak mempunyai 

pengetahuan tentang RM2.6 bilion yang dipindahkan ke akaunnya," katanya dalam 

satu kenyataan yang dikeluarkan beberapa jam selepas penangkapan Najib.

Zeti juga mendakwa bahawa pada 3 Julai 2015, beliau dipanggil ke Pejabat Perdana 

Menteri di Putrajaya apabila skandal itu meletus.

"Dia meminta saya untuk mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa dia tidak melakukan 

sebarang kesalahan berhubung akaunnya itu.

"Saya memaklumkan kepadanya bahawa saya tidak boleh mengeluarkan kenyataan 

seperti itu kerana saya tidak mempunyai sebarang pengetahuan mengenai urusan 

dalam akaunnya," katanya.

Menurut Zeti, seorang menteri kabinet, yang tidak namakan, juga membuat 

permintaan yang sama dan beliau memberitahunya keputusan yang sama.

Bekas gabenor bank pusat itu mengulas dakwaan Najib dalam satu wawancara 

eksklusif dengan Malaysiakini minggu lalu, yang berkata Zeti menyedari mengenai 

transaksi itu tetapi tidak mempersoalkannya. "Jika Bank Negara tahu tentang dana 

ini, dan mereka ada bayangan atau pengetahuan bahawa mungkin akan ada 

keraguan tentang sumbernya, mereka patut beritahu saya."Tetapi ia tidak berlaku. 

Jadi saya menyangka ia tiada masalah," katanya dalam wawancara itu. Ditanya 

sekali lagi sama ada Zeti tidak membangkitkan sebarang amaran, 

Najib menjawab: "Tidak, tiada maklum balas daripada Bank Negara. Saya sangka 

semuanya baik."- Malaysiakini

Kuasa Bukan Untuk Kayakan Diri - Dr Mahathir

Hari ini Astro Awani melaporkan Perdana Menteri menyebut tentang budaya Kerajaan terdahulu yang menjadikan kuasa untuk memperkayakan diri sendiri. Tentu lah apa yang disebutkan oleh Perdana Menteri ini satu perkara yang dialu-alukan oleh semua sesuai dengan misi Kerajaan kini yang ingin mewujudkan imej bebas rasuah dan bermewah-mewah di mata masyarakat.

Sudah agak lama juga saya tidak mengemaskini laman sesawang ini. Kemenangan Perdana Menteri YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad pada PRU14 yang lalu menimbulkan minat untuk saya kembali menulis. Tentunya apa yang ingin saya ketengahkan adalah dasar-dasar mesra rakyat oleh Kerajaan untuk kelestarian pentadbiran yang baik.

Kita tengok apa yang dilaporkan oleh Astro Awani....

PUTRAJAYA: Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad hari ini mengingatkan para pentadbir dan penjawat awam untuk tidak menggunakan kuasa yang diberi demi kepentingan peribadi, keluarga atau sahabat handai.

Berucap ketika perjumpaan bersama warga Jabatan Perdana Menteri di Bangunan Putra, beliau berkata penting untuk setiap penjawat awam mengamalkan nilai murni dalam menjalankan tugas mereka.

"Kuasa yang diberi bukan untuk kita raih kekayaan tetapi kuasa diberi untuk tujuan tertentu bagi mentadbirkan negara tercinta dengan sebaik mungkin dan kita punyai kebolehan yang diperlukan dengan nilai hidup yang mulia," katanya,

Namun, perdana menteri berkata kadang kala apabila mendapat peluang untuk membuat sesuatu untuk diri sendiri, ada pihak yang terpesong dan lupa akan tugas mereka.

"Kita tidak diberi kuasa di peringkat ini untuk mengkayakan diri kita tetapi supaya dapat jalankan tugas tertentu.

"Inilah sebabnya kita berkuasa, apabila sahaja kita menyeleweng, menyalahgunakan kuasa, percayalah kita sendiri akan jadi mangsanya kemudian," katanya.

- Astro Awani

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United States Seeks to Recover More Than $1 Billion Obtained from Corruption Involving Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.  Today’s complaints represent the largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

Attorney General Lynch was joined in the announcement by Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker of the Central District of California, FBI Deputy Director Andrew G. McCabe and Chief Richard Weber of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).

According to the complaints, from 2009 through 2015, more than $3.5 billion in funds belonging to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was allegedly misappropriated by high-level officials of 1MDB and their associates.  With today’s complaints, the United States seeks to recover more than $1 billion laundered through the United States and traceable to the conspiracy.  1MDB was created by the government of Malaysia to promote economic development in Malaysia through global partnerships and foreign direct investment, and its funds were intended to be used for improving the well-being of the Malaysian people.  Instead, as detailed in the complaints, 1MDB officials and their associates allegedly misappropriated more than $3 billion. 

“The Department of Justice will not allow the American financial system to be used as a conduit for corruption,” said Attorney General Lynch.  “With this action, we are seeking to forfeit and recover funds that were intended to grow the Malaysian economy and support the Malaysian people.  Instead, they were stolen, laundered through American financial institutions and used to enrich a few officials and their associates.  Corrupt officials around the world should make no mistake that we will be relentless in our efforts to deny them the proceeds of their crimes. ”

“According to the allegations in the complaints, this is a case where life imitated art,” said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell.  “The associates of these corrupt 1MDB officials are alleged to have used some of the illicit proceeds of their fraud scheme to fund the production of The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie about a corrupt stockbroker who tried to hide his own illicit profits in a perceived foreign safe haven.  But whether corrupt officials try to hide stolen assets across international borders – or behind the silver screen – the Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that there is no safe haven.”

“Stolen money that is subsequently used to purchase interests in music companies, artwork or high-end real estate is subject to forfeiture under U.S. law,” said U.S. Attorney Decker.  “Today’s actions are the result of the tremendous dedication of attorneys in my office and the Department of Justice, as well as law enforcement agents across the country.  All of us are committed to sending a message that we will not allow the United States to become a playground for the corrupt, a platform for money laundering or a place to hide and invest stolen riches.”

“The United States will not be a safe haven for assets stolen by corrupt foreign officials,” said Deputy Director McCabe.  “Public corruption, no matter where it occurs, is a threat to a fair and competitive global economy.  The FBI is committed to working with our foreign and domestic partners to identify and return these stolen assets to their legitimate owners, the Malaysian people.  I want to thank the FBI and IRS investigative team who worked with the prosecutors and our international partners on this case.”

“Today’s announcement underscores the breadth of the alleged corruption and money laundering related to the 1MDB fund,” said Chief Weber.  “We cannot allow the massive, brazen and blatant diversion of billions of dollars to be laundered through U.S. financial institutions without consequences.”

As alleged in the complaints, the members of the conspiracy – which included officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates – allegedly diverted more than $3.5 billion in 1MDB funds.  Using fraudulent documents and representations, the co-conspirators allegedly laundered the funds through a series of complex transactions and fraudulent shell companies with bank accounts located in the Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United States.  These transactions were allegedly intended to conceal the origin, source and ownership of the funds, and were ultimately processed through U.S. financial institutions and were used to acquire and invest in assets located in the United States.

In seeking recovery of more than $1 billion, the complaints detail the alleged misappropriation of 1MDB’s assets as it occurred over the course of at least three schemes.  In 2009, the complaints allege that 1MDB officials and their associates embezzled approximately $1 billion that was intended to be invested to exploit energy concessions purportedly owned by a foreign partner.  Instead, the funds were transferred through shell companies and were used to acquire a number of assets, as set forth in the complaints.  The complaints also allege that the co-conspirators misappropriated more than $1.3 billion in funds raised through two bond offerings in 2012 and $1.2 billion following another bond offering in 2013.  As further detailed in the complaints, the stolen funds were laundered into the United States and used by the co-conspirators to acquire and invest in various assets.  These assets allegedly included high-end real estate and hotel properties in New York and Los Angeles, a $35 million jet aircraft, works of art by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, an interest in the music publishing rights of EMI Music and the production of the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.

The FBI’s International Corruption Unit and the IRS-CI investigated the case.  Deputy Chief Woo S. Lee and Trial Attorney Kyle R. Freeny of the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Kucera and Christen Sproule of the Central District of California prosecuted the case.  The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided additional assistance. 

The Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative is led by a team of dedicated prosecutors in the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, in partnership with federal law enforcement agencies to forfeit the proceeds of foreign official corruption and, where appropriate, to use those recovered asset to benefit the people harmed by these acts of corruption and abuse of office.  Individuals with information about possible proceeds of foreign corruption located in or laundered through the United States should contact federal law enforcement or send an email to kleptocracy@usdoj.gov

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GEMPAR: TULISAN ADIK RIZA AZIZ (ANAK KANDUNG ROSMAH MANSOR)

Azrene Ahmad

Yesterday at 1:33pm · 

|| THE AZIZ CHILDREN'S DOOR ||

One day a boy slept, someone came knocking at his door
He opened it a tad bit and a voice called out from the great outdoors.
It asked him what he wanted in exchange for some shelter and succour
His mind warned him as did his body- do not take what is offered
But his traitorous heart heard what was laid out by the door and it rocked him to the core.
It was all he had ever wanted and so much more.
His hand reached out and he let it in and that was the end of his solace
Because he took the offering laid at his door.

One day a little girl slept and a knock pounded on the door
A voice asked if there was anything in the world she wanted more
She answered peace, justice and all things right
For her children to sleep safe at night
She reached out and let it in, widening the door but never shutting it tight.

Both got what they wanted, but paid so much more.
Because God has determined
You reap what you sow-
You get what is yours and not a penny more.

So... Thank you to all my friends and family for your concern this morning. For those who have been asking how i feel about all that is going on at the moment, here is my official statement:

Riza was and still is someone we all love very much. Unfortunately, our love was not enough for him and those he chose to surround himself with. He chose, like many others before him, to have fame, wealth and adulation. He is now paying the price for it. If Malaysia is not willing to give the justice that the Malaysian people have prayed for and the justice my family have each night prayed for then the US has- in its own way that only they can justify.

Those who know me know that i am the black sheep of the family- but that does not mean i do not love my family. People can call me heartless for what i write today but i have always stood for and done what is right, for truth and for justice even if there is a high price to pay and if it means doing the unpopular thing. I have always maintained that if Riza did indeed use and profit from stolen funds he needs to pay for what he has done. If he stood as proxy or as a trustee for what does not belong to him or any individual who asked him to be the "dutiful son", he needs to pay for it. Nevermind the reasons justified for doing it, if it hurts the country and the people then it is wrong. A wrong must be righted.

I am not a politician and i hope never to have anything to do with politics. If the USAG and the US have decided to cop out by leaving the term "corrupt government officials and 1MDB officials" as an open ended thing, i hope and pray for the sake of this country and what is right that the right individuals be brought to justice.

To his mother, you have forsaken one child at great cost and detriment. You have utilised and mobilised government resources to wreak terror to harass us over the last ten years for standing up for what we believe to be right. Please do not forsake another just so that you and your husband can get off scott-free. It is time for YOU to step to the plate and do what is right. Be. A. Mother.

To the different "officials" who have had a hand in harassing my family to this day because you were ordered to do so at the threat of job safety and the safety of your family members, one day a knock will come at your doorstep asking to collect your soul and debts. Make sure you are prepared to pay them.

To everyone who thinks me heartless on this day, please remember this. My prayers for truth and justice- just like any other Malaysian, has been answered this day and will continue to be answered. If Riza signed his soul to the devil to own what does not rightly belong to him, consider his debt with the devil collected and more due for collection. Similarly, all family members who have signed their soul to the devil... Your time will come. My price to pay to watch the house of cards come tumbling down and to be the voice of encouragement to everyone to never be afraid to stand up for what is right so that my husband, in laws and children can sleep soundly at night in peace and safety is to painfully watch my other family members that i left behind 10 years ago pay the price for their wrongdoings.

Consider their debt as continuing to be paid. Ask yourselves: What about your debts? Have you ALL done the necessary debt payments due to yourselves, your country and its people? I will continue to pay mine so that we can all sleep soundly from tonight.

Much respect, love and encouragement- Azrene

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