January 17, 2013
Royal Commission of Inquiry exposes Mahathir's palm in a IC fraud in Sabah
by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
PKR Deputy President Azmin Ali called upon former Premier Mahathir Mohamad to own up as great as take shortcoming for a a liquid of illegal immigrants in to Sabah, where Mahathir's administration department has been indicted of "selling" citizenship to mercantile as great as amicable migrants mainly from a Philippines as great as Indonesia during a 1980s in sell for them voting in UMNO-BN bloc during elections.
"The special operations was headed by Dr Mahathir as great as if you demeanour during a testimony by a witnesses, they confirm which a officers as great as all those concerned were directly underneath a PM's bureau a Home Affairs Ministry, a National Registration Department as great as a Immigration Department. All these agencies were underneath a care of Dr Mahathir as great as so Dr Mahathir must be responsible," Azmin told a press discussion upon Thursday.
He was referring to a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) in to a issue, which has been a sore indicate with a Sabah people for decades. Not only have a liquid of migrants presented a innumerable of amicable as great as infrastructure problems, Sabahans believed their mercantile birthright has been threatened as well.
Plot to stymie PR's advance in Sabah: Dr M should "forever close up"
Azmin, who called upon Mahathir to transparent his name to a RCI, additionally revealed a plot to
implicate Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in a scandal.In a past year, Anwar as great as his Pakatan! Rakyat bloc have scored multiform major breakthroughs in a Land Below Wind, with UMNO Supreme Council part of Lajim Ukin, who is additionally a Beaufort MP, as great as Wilfrid Bumburing, a Tuaran MP as great as Deputy President of UPKO, quitting a BN as great as channel over to a Opposition along with thousands of supporters.
"I additionally received report a ultimate goal will describe to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also. All a problems in this nation is impeded upon a de-facto celebrity as great as you additionally expect," pronounced Azmin.
Meanwhile DAP Adviser Lim Kit Siang told Mahathir to "forever close up" if he is not rebuilt to proffer to crop up before to a Sabah RCI to transparent a allegations opposite him.
"Azmin has lifted a very great as great as pertinent subject was former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir guilty of fraud in a "IC receipts-for-votes" as great as "citizenship-for-votes" scams in Project IC or Project M in Sabah in a nineties," Kit Siang pronounced in a statement released after in a day.
Dr M's confidantes included his Political Secretary Aziz Shamsuddin
Two of Mahathir's closest confidantes Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin, his Political Secretary during which time, as great as Megat Junid, a late former Deputy Home Affairs Minister were implicated by witnesses who testified before to a RCI a day ago.
"After receiving instructions from then-Sabah NRD arch Abdul Rauf Sani, you were systematic to go to KL as great as were placed during Pak Aziz Shamsuddin's chateau in Kampung Pandan," Malaysiakini reported Yakup Damsah, who was a Tamparuli NRD arch during which time, as saying.
According to Yakup, they were tasked to pointer a temperament cards which were to be released to a immigrants, which were subsequently laminat! ed durin g a NRD headquarters in Petaling Jaya as great as shipped to a Kota Kinabalu NRD for distribution. "We were briefed about our special choice by a person not well known to us, named 'Mat Nor'. He told us to issue blue temperament cards to a immigrants," Yakup added.
He told a RCI his group signed a total of 40,000 blue temperament cards within a month, based upon a filled up duplicate forms provided to them. "We did not demeanour during a forms in detail, you only signed We know which they were immigrants, mostly Indonesians as great as Filipinos, though you did not know either they were authorised immigrants or not," he said.
Yakup additionally pronounced a intent of their action was to increase a number of Muslim electorate in Sabah as great as to ensure which these people would opinion for UMNO in a 1994 Sabah state election.
Megat Junid
As for a late Megat Junid (above), former Sabah NRD Ramli Kamaruddin told a RCI he received personal instructions from a Deputy Home Affairs Minister to issue temperament label profits to immigrants using a details of people who were already in a electoral roll though had never voted before.
"I received a call dual weeks before to a 1994 Sabah state choosing to meet Megat Junid during a hotel. I was instructed to assistance to ensure which a state supervision endorsed by a Federal supervision would win. I was instructed to issue NRD profits using a name as great as IC numbers of electorate already in a electoral roll, with a solitary role of allowing them to vote," Ramli said.
NRD profits have been temporary temperament label slips which have been released before to a granting of a correct temperament card. This document is sufficient to capacitate a person to vote, he explained.
The real t! raitors of Malaysia
"These have been a real traitors of a country. People who sell citizenship for a sake of political power," Azmin slammed Mahathir as great as UMNO.
Mahathir is expected to issue a reply to a ultimate RCI testimony. He had previously denied any believe of a fraud as great as had opined which a RCI would do no great when Najib eventually bent to pressure from Sabah parties to hold a inquiry.
However since a singular management as great as conditions of reference of a RCI, even if found guilty, a panel will not be means to charge or take to court Mahathir or any alternative celebrity found guilty of perpetuating a scheme.
"The RCI will not broach any outcome which will solve a problems. When there is a RCI it will move about alternative matters," Mahathir, who governed Malaysia from 1981 to 2003, had responded to headlines of a RCI's revelation.
"Previously they have been coming as great as going. They have been not visitor to Sabah; they have been starting back as great as forth between Sabah as great as a Philippines. Maybe they feel Sabah is safer as great as which is because they stay there."
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