August 7, 2012
Arrest underneath BAFIA gives Rafizi Ramli national prominence, says Business Times, Singapore
Putrajaya's pierce to assign Rafizi Ramli has only served to lift the PKR strategy chief's open stature in the run-up to pass national polls as it appears to run counter to the sovereign government's oath to combat corruption, the Singapore paper suggested today.
Rafizi was charged upon Aug 1 with violating the Banking as well as Financial Institutions Act (BAFIA) in exposing trusted banking sum associated to National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp), in the case which has put whistleblower protection laws underneath greater scrutiny.
"Transparency International Malaysia has urged for whistleblowers to be stable as they 'put themselves during great risk to their provision as well as career as well as also to their work, family as well as village relationships'," Singapore's Business Times reported today.
The anti-graft watchdog has stressed which open notice of selective charge would infer damaging to Malaysia's coercion agencies in the quarrel opposite corruption, as well as being unsuitable with the purpose of the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010 notwithstanding Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's denial of double standards, the paper reported.
The paper highlighted the opposite treatment the authorities accorded Rafizi when they handcuffed him during the pre-dawn arrest during his home prior to taking him to justice as well as the male whose company he had! unprote cted for purported crime in the RM250 million cattle farming scandal, NFCorp authority Datuk Seri Mohd Salleh Ismail, who was left uncuffed to walk into court.
"Already, the charge of Mr Rafizi has only served to lift his stature in the eyes of the public," the paper pronounced in the article patrician "Govt may be making the wrong pierce in charging Rafizi" published today.
Apart from his NFCorp expose, Rafizi has gained additional inflection after he went open with trusted Treasury documents showing an allegedly less-qualified consortium led by engineering organisation George Kent, which he has related to Najib, weeks prior to the supervision announced it as the winning bid for the lucrative RM1 billion rail enlargement plan in the Klang Valley.
Rafizi has also accused Najib of interfering in the behest routine by 
awarding the contract to Tan Sri Tan Kay Hock (right), the close associate who owns George Kent.
The paper remarkable which Rafizi's role in exposing financial mismanagement in companies related to the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) supervision has lifted his profile as between the young up-and-coming politicians in the antithesis Pakatan Rakyat (PR) agreement which could see the system of administration shift in Malaysia for the initial time since the republic gained autonomy 55 years ago.
"Should the 35-year-old accountant be fielded in the entrance ubiquitous election, he is expected to be the challenging opponent," the paper said.
Rafizi has told The Malaysian Insider which notwithstanding the authorised hurdles he will go upon his revelations upon purported crime in the government.He faces dual justice charges for his exposes which could land him in jail as wel! l as set him behind millions of ringgit as well as the shot during the Parliament seat.
www.themalaysianinsider.com, Aug 6, 2012
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