Sad as well as tragic. The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak single-handedly demolishing the credibility, integrity as well as professionalism of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
And this happening only 48 hours after the MACC's latest synthetic though carefully-crafted publicity blitzkrieg to benefaction itself as the fiercely independent, courageous as well as professional anti-graft physique allied to Hong Kong's world-famous Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) with government-paper New Straits Times front page inform "MACC gains in swindle war"on Thursday as well as the special editorial upon MACC upon Friday all collapsing like the residence of cards.
MACC claims which it had seized "a whopping RM66 million value of properties, including bungalows as well as oppulance cars" as well as arrested more than 900 people in the "war opposite swindle over the past dual years" paled in to insignificance when Najib discharged allegations which Sarawak Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud has thick with billions in wealth.
Najib told the press conference this sunrise after the launching of the Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) - new name for Pudu Sentral: "There have been all kinds of allegations, don't worry about it (jangan kita layan)".
Irresponsible
This is the most unsatisfactory as well as even irresponsible response by the Prime Minister to the ground-breaking though explosive inform by the Swiss-based NGO Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) which estimated th! e resour ces of Taib Mahmud's family during US$ twenty-one billion (RM64 billion), with the resources of Taib himself put during the whopping US$ fifteen billion (RM46 billion) creation him Malaysia's richest man outstripping aristocrat Robert Kuok who has US$ 12.5 billion.
The BMF inform entitled'The Taib Timber Mafia: Facts as well as Figures upon Politically Exposed Persons from Sarawak, Malaysia'was released last Wednesday in Brussels to coincide with the visit by the Malaysian Plantation Industries as well as Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok to the European Commission as well as is available upon the Internet.
It is the first inform which describes in detail the commercial operation activities as well as personal resources of twenty members of the Taib family in Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States as well as alternative countries.
The inform directed to build international vigour opposite the Sarawak's first family as well as yield investigating bodies, journalists, Sarawakians as well as interested parties with hard evidence upon the Taib monetary empire.
It is the first inform which describes in detail the commercial operation activities as well as personal resources of twenty members of the Taib family in Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States as well as alternative countries.
The inform directed to build international vigour opposite the Sarawak's first family as well as yield investigating bodies, journalists, Sarawakians as well as interested parties with hard evidence upon the Taib monetary empire.
BMF estimated the total net value of twenty Taib family members during close to US$ twenty-one billion, spread over 400 companies around the globe - all built by their near finish domestic as well as economic carry out of Sarawak, which has been marked down from the single of the richest to the single of the lowest states in Malaysia over 3 decades.
The BMF inform upon the aggregation of resources value RM64 billion by the Taib family as well as RM46 billion by Taib himself in his 31 years as Sarawak Chief Minister, by "monopolies over the extenuation of logging as well as plantation concessions, the export of timber, the upkeep of public roads as well as the prolongation as well as sale of cement, as well as the number of alternative building the whole materials", would have been the single of the "highlights" of the bill parliamentary! assembl y commencement upon Monday.
Strong signal to MACC to omit allegations
Was Najib creation the pre-emptive strike this sunrise to send out an unmistakable summary not only to MACC though to Barisan Nasional Ministers as well as backbenchers in Parliament not to entertain probes as well as questions about the BMF inform upon Taib family's RM64 billion as well as Taib's own RM21 billion fortunes?
I have no doubt which without Najib's pre-emptive strike today, MACC would have taken the utterly neutral though meaningless mount which it was prepared to investigate in to the BMF inform about Taib as well as his family's gargantuan resources as well as resources amassed from 31 years of Taib's Chief Ministership of Sarawak.
But with the stern signal from Najib today, would MACC dare to initiate investigations in to Taib formed upon the BMF inform as well as would there be any BN MP who would dare to endorse await for the full MACC investigation in to the BMF report?
Individuals profiled in the endless 45-page BMF inform embody Taib's brother Onn Mahmud, who is second richest family member with an estimated net value of US$ 2 billion, whilst Taib's eldest son, Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, the major player in the Sarawak construction, property as well as energy business, is ranked third during US$ 1.5 billion.
Next in line have been Taib's Canada-based socialite daughter Jamilah Taib Murray (US$ 1 billion), Taib's brother as well as timber businessman Tufail Mahmud (US$ 600 million), sister Raziah Mahmud (US$ 500 million), daughter Hanifah (US$ 400 million) as well as son Sulaiman (US$ 300 million).
Giving credit to the BMF inform have been news reports currently about the matrimonial brawl in in in between Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib as well as his former mother Shahnaz Abdul Majid who is looking RM400 million in mutaah (gift) as well as multiplication of joint assets, as well as of the one after another he! aring du ring the Kuala Lumpur Syariah High Court upon Monday as there has been no settlement offer from Mahmud's lawyers to finalise the long-standing dispute.
Next in line have been Taib's Canada-based socialite daughter Jamilah Taib Murray (US$ 1 billion), Taib's brother as well as timber businessman Tufail Mahmud (US$ 600 million), sister Raziah Mahmud (US$ 500 million), daughter Hanifah (US$ 400 million) as well as son Sulaiman (US$ 300 million).
Giving credit to the BMF inform have been news reports currently about the matrimonial brawl in in in between Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib as well as his former mother Shahnaz Abdul Majid who is looking RM400 million in mutaah (gift) as well as multiplication of joint assets, as well as of the one after another he! aring du ring the Kuala Lumpur Syariah High Court upon Monday as there has been no settlement offer from Mahmud's lawyers to finalise the long-standing dispute.
Making garbage of himself as well as his policies
The Prime Minister is only rubbishing his Government Transformation Programme (GTP) as well as in sold the 7 NKRAs quite upon Fighting Corruption if he is disallowing the MACC from acting upon the BMF inform to examine Taib Mahmud. Najib should be reminded about the cost of crime to the nation which the GTP Roadmap had estimated as potentially amounting to as much as RM10 billion the year or 1-2% of GDP as well as the garrulous statements in the GTP Roadmap about fighting the scourge of "grand corruption" by politicians as well as comparison civil servants.
Where is the credit of the GTP Roadmap as well as NKRA to quarrel corruption, as well as in sold to eradicate "grand corruption", when the BMF inform upon Taib family's RM64 billion as well as Taib's own RM21 billion fortunes thick with during Taib's 31 years as Sarawak Chief Minister could not be used by the MACC as basis for the anti-corruption mission?
The BMF inform compares Taib's family with the clans of former Indonesian boss Suharto as well as former Philippines boss Ferdinand Marcos - the dual families had embezzled in in in between US$ fifteen billion as well as US$ 35 billion, as well as in in in between US$ twenty billion as well as US$ 900 billion respectively. The BMF inform believes the research is "showing merely the tip of the iceberg as most (Taib) family resources have been likely to be dark overseas or in offshore districts where information is virtually unfit to obtain".
Najib should retract his implicit "hands off" gauge to the MACC as well as declare unquestionably which the MACC is duty-bound to make make use of of the BMF inform to conduct the full, thorough as well as wide-ranging investigation in to allegations of "grand corru! ption" b y Taib as well as his family in Taib's 31-year Chief Ministership of Sarawak.
Najib should retract his implicit "hands off" gauge to the MACC as well as declare unquestionably which the MACC is duty-bound to make make use of of the BMF inform to conduct the full, thorough as well as wide-ranging investigation in to allegations of "grand corru! ption" b y Taib as well as his family in Taib's 31-year Chief Ministership of Sarawak.
Lim Kit Siang is the DAP adviser & MP for Ipoh Timur
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