Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Bruno Manser Fonds: Arrest and Criminally Prosecute Sarawaks Taib Mahmud and Family

Bruno Manser Fonds: Arrest and Criminally Prosecute Sarawaks Taib Mahmud and Family

December 30, 2011

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Bruno Manser Fonds to Malaysian Authorities: Arrest as good as Criminally Prosecute Sarawak's Taib Mahmud as good as Family

In a minute to Malaysia's Attorney General (AG), a Chief Commissioner of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as good as a Inspector General of Police (IGP), an general NGO bloc is requesting which Malaysia's tip prosecutors immediately arrest as good as criminally prosecute long-term Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud ("Taib"), his 4 children, his 8 siblings as good as his first cousin, Abdul Hamed Sepawi ("Sepawi").

According to a NGOs' minute to Malaysia's tip prosecutors, Taib as good as "thirteen of his family members as co-conspirators" have been indicted of "the bootleg allowance of open funds, a abuse of open office, a bootleg allowance of state land, fraud, larceny, corruption, a single after another exploitation of conflicts of interest, suspected money-laundering, as good as conspiracy to form a rapist organization."

The minute is signed by thirteen NGOs from Malaysia, Australia, Germany, Japan, Switzerland as good as a United Kingdom as good as a series of particular signatories from Malaysia. Greenpeace, FERN as good as a Swiss Bruno Manser Fund have been between its many distinguished general signatories. Three NGOS from Sarawak Borneo Resources Institute Sarawak (BRIMAS), The Network for Native Land Rights (TAHABAS) as good as a Sibu-based Institute for Development of Alternative Living (IDEAL) have additionally endorsed a letter.

Foreign governments, corporations ! as good as media informed on Taib's corruption

Copies of a minute have been sent to all major foreign embassies in Malaysia, heads of government, cupboard ministers as good as prosecutors in seven countries, a tip management team of 10 multinational corporations who conduct commercial operation in or with Sarawak as good as a editors of leading media around a globe. The minute is accompanied by sixteen exhibits which request a accusations opposite a Taib family as good as can be downloaded online during http://www.stop-timber-corruption.org/

Research by a Bruno Manser Fund has shown which Taib as good as his evident family members have a interest in 332 Malaysian as good as 85 foreign companies value several billion US dollars. The known Taib family interest in a net resources of 14 vast Malaysian companies alone is over 1.46 billion US dollars.

Taib family indicted of a single after another breach of a law as good as a make use of of bootleg methods

"We lay which usually a a single after another breach of a law as good as a make use of of bootleg methods has enabled Mr. Taib as good as his family members to take such large corporate assets", a NGO minute states. "Mr. Taib has been a state-paid open menial as good as supervision minister ever since 1963 as good as did not retain any poignant independent resources before to receiving up office."

The minute gives 3 examples of Taib family-controlled Malaysian companies which have been systematically, unduly as good as unlawfully favoured by a Sarawak Chief Minister Cahya Mata Sarawak (KLSE 2582), Achi Jaya Holdings as good as Ta Ann Holdings (KLSE 5012). Cahya Mata Sarawak binds a monopoly on concrete prolongation in Sarawak, Achi Jaya Holdings binds a monopoly on timber trade licences a! s good a s Ta Ann Holdings, which is headed by Taib's cousin Sepawi, has been postulated some-more than 675,000 hectares of timber as good as plantation concessions without open tender.

"Pernicious as good as detrimental" collateral moody should be heavily punished

In addition, a NGOs indicate to a Taib family's transfer of illicit resources value "hundreds of millions, if not billions, of US dollars" out of Malaysia to countries such as Canada, a United Kingdom, a United States, Australia as good as Hong Kong. "This is quite attribution as good as detrimental for a manage to buy of Sarawak as good as Malaysia as a total as good as should to illustrate be heavily punished."

The Taib family has been identified as being behind property companies in Canada (Sakto Corporation, City Gate International Corporation as good as others), in a UK (Ridgeford Properties Ltd.), in a US (Wallysons Inc, Sakti International Corporation as good as others) as good as as being closely related to during least 22 companies in Australia. Some of these companies have, according to a NGOs' letter, been given to a Taibs free of assign by a son of Yaw Teck Seng, a founder as good as majority shareholder of Samling, a single of Malaysia's greatest logging conglomerates. Other Taib companies, such as Regent Star as good as Richfold Investments in Hong Kong, have been found to be related to a multi-million-dollar kickback scheme unclosed by Japanese tax investigators.

Malaysia's general credit is during stake

The NGOs come to a conclusion which "the rapist nature of Mr. Taib as good as his family members' 'private' businesses can no longer be denied by anyone who is intellectually honest, desirous of saying a law as good as interested ! in a goo d of a Malaysian people and, in particular, a people of Sarawak".

"We would like to remind we which Malaysia, as a signatory to a UN Convention opposite crime as good as a UN Convention opposite Transnational Organized Crime, has a strong general obligation to quarrel crime as good as orderly crime in an efficient, timely as good as judicious manner", a minute states.

Malaysia's tip prosecutors have been finally asked to fulfil their avocation as good as take evident police action opposite Abdul Taib Mahmud as good as his thirteen co-conspiring family members: "Malaysia's general credit is during interest over a Taib case."