Some call it divine intervention

Sigh…poor Gani Patail. Nothing seems to be going his way. He is supposed to be God where even Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is supposed to be scared of him. But everything he tries seem to have failed. Could there be an even greater God than Gani Patail who is intervening and thwarting all the AG’s plans and plots?

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Attorney-General Gani Patail is very short-tempered nowadays. Nothing seems to be going his way. Every plan and plot he hatches blows up in his face in the end.

What Gani Patail does not seem to understand is: man proposes, God disposes. He can plan and plot all he wants, but, as the Quran says, God is the greatest plotter of all. And the more Gani Patail thinks he is God, the more his plans and plots will get thwarted.

Gani Patail’s dilemma started back in 2009 when he discovered that I was no longer in Malaysia. He tried to track me down and found out that I was in the UK (mainly because I was not in hiding but made many public appearances).

However, he tried to hide this fact from me and announced that they know I was in Australia. Actually, this was a red herring. They knew I was in the UK but they did not want me to know that they know.

But I knew that they knew. This was because they met up with the British authorities to discuss the possibility of extraditing me back to Malaysia. They told the British authorities that I was facing four charges, one for sedition and three for criminal defamation.

What Gani Patail did not know is that the British authorities contacted my lawyers to get more details about my cases. It seems they wanted to send a report to the Home Office in case the Malaysian government files an application to extradite me.

The British authorities reminded Gani Patail that there is no extradition treaty between the UK and Malaysia. Therefore, they can’t just pick me up and send me back to Malaysia. Malaysia would have to go to a UK court to apply to extradite me. This means a sort of trial would be held where Malaysia would have to convince the UK court of my guilt.

Now this would be a problem for Malaysia. Gani Patail would not be able to manipulate the British judiciary like he does in Malaysia. The evidence would have to be very strong for them to convince the UK court that I am guilty and therefore should be sent back to Malaysia.

An even bigger problem would be the dual criminality law. The crime I am alleged to have committed must also be a crime in the UK. For example, sodomy is not a crime in the UK (gay marriages are legal in the UK). So, in that type of situation, you cannot extradite someone charged with sodomy in Malaysia.

This all happened back in 2009, mind you.

While Gani Patail was figuring out what to do, on 1st January 2010, the UK Government suddenly repealed the sedition and criminal defamation laws. That means sedition and criminal defamation were no longer crimes in the UK. And that also means that since the dual criminality rule would apply, Malaysia could no longer extradite me.

I am sure the UK government did not repeal the sedition and criminal defamation laws just for my sake. Was it a mere coincidence then? Or is this what we can call divine intervention?

Anyway, that ended any possibility of the Malaysian government applying to extradite me back to Malaysia.

They then tried to get my son instead -- in the hope that I will make a deal to save my son. They arrested my son and beat him up to get him to confess to four criminal charges. He, however, pleaded not guilty and fought the charges.

I then announced that I am ‘disowning’ my son and that he is entirely on his own. He would have to sort out his own problems and I would not intervene. That surprised them. They thought I would surely try to make a deal instead of ‘abandoning’ my son.

In wars there is such a thing called ‘collateral damage’ and my son would have to be that collateral damage.

Finally, the court ruled that there was no case against my son and he was acquitted without his defense being called on all four charges.

This made Gani Patail hopping mad and he now wants to appeal the court’s decision and try to get my son back into court. The problem with this, though, is that they first have to find my son and serve the papers on him. But they don’t know where to find him. So they sent the letters to my old house address where no one is living any longer.

Officially, therefore, nothing has been served on my son yet. (You can read the scanned copies of the letters below).

In the meantime, my son is moving around town a free man while they try to track him down and drag him back to court. And the beautiful thing is, my son is not even in hiding. Yet they can’t find him.

Is this divine intervention, yet again? Kuala Lumpur is not that big. And still they can’t find my son? Aiyoh! Apalah ni?

Yes, nothing seems to be working in Gani Patail’s favour and he can’t figure out why. He knows that I have moles in Bukit Aman and the A-G Chambers -- people who are feeding me information so that I am always one step ahead of the government. But after two years of trying, he still can’t figure out who they are. And this is really making him mad as hell.

Now I have moles in the Customs Department as well -- the result of what the MACC did to Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed. Who do you think leaked the documents regarding Rosmah Mansor’s USD24 million diamond ring? This was the Customs officers’ revenge for what they did to Ahmad Sarbaini.

Incidentally, next week, the Coroner is going to deliver the verdict on how Ahmad Sarbaini died. And they are at a dilemma as to what to rule.

In Kugan’s case, it was death due to water in the lungs. Okay, he died because of water in the lungs. That is like saying he died because he stopped breathing. Everyone knows you stop breathing when you die. The question is: why did you stop breathing?

What they did not explain is: how did the water get into Kugan’s lungs in the first place? Well, have you ever heard of water boarding? The Japanese used this in WWII. They pump water into your stomach and once your belly is bloated they jump up and down on your belly.

The Americans too use this method on suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. It is a very effective way to make you confess to crimes you did not commit. And that is what they did to Kugan -- which was why he died due to water in the lungs.

Then Teoh Beng Hock died at the hands of the MACC and they ruled that he committed suicide. And before the Beng Hock storm could blow over, another man died, also at the hands of the MACC. This time it was Ahmad Sarbaini.

Now, how did Ahmad Sarbaini die? According to the official story, he died while trying to escape through a third floor pantry window.

But Ahmad Sarbaini went to the MACC office on his own accord, so the official story goes. He was not under arrest or was being interrogated, so the official story goes. So why does he need to escape then? He can just walk out of there if he wants to.

That is what does not make sense and which is troubling Gani Patail.

Shafee Abdullah, the lawyer acting on behalf of the MACC, says that Malaysia Today’s story that Ahmad Sarbaini was forced to stand on the window ledge and that was how he fell to his death is a lie. He insists that Ahmad Sarbaini died while trying to escape through the third-floor pantry window,

Okay lah! The official story and ruling by the Coroner is that Kugan died due to water in his lungs, Beng Hock committed suicide, and Ahmad Sabraini died while trying to escape. That is the official story. But the Court of Public Opinion rejects all three findings. The Court of Public Opinion insists that all three were murdered. And this is what they will remember when they go to the polls come the next election.

The government knows that this will have a serious impact on the government. And Gani Patail’s job is to do damage control. However, he has failed to do that. And that was why Shafee Abdullah was brought in -- to sort out the mess that Gani Patail can’t seem to handle.

In fact, Gani Patail has many other problems as well. He went for the ex-CCID Director, Ramli Yusuff. Ramli Yusuff was charged for all sorts of things. Then the court acquitted him without his defense being called, like what happened to my son. In fact, the Sabah court even said that the ex-IGP, Musa Hassan, lied.

That was a double whammy for the Gani-Musa team.

Then, coincidentally, or maybe through divine intervention, Ramli Yusuff was appointed the Deputy Chairman of Ho Hup. And, lo and behold, Ho Hup’s auditors discovered that the previous Chairman had bribed Gani Patail.

Now that is what I not only call divine intervention but poetic justice. Talk about bad karma. So Ramli Yusuff now has Gani Patail’s balls in his hands. And he is squeezing them so hard that Gani Patail can’t breathe properly.

Gani Patail is still trying to get Ramli Yusuff though. He is also trying to get Ramli Yusuff’s lawyer, Rosli Dahlan, as well. However, just like what happened to Ramli Yusuff, Rosli Dahlan was also acquitted of the charges they brought against him.

Not satisfied with that, Gani Patail asked his boys to appeal the court’s decision. But his boys realised that, just like in the case of Ramli Yusuff, they had no case against Rosli Dahlan. So they did nothing.

Unknown to Gani Patail, the time allowed to file an appeal had expired. When he found out that the deadline had come and gone, and the appeal against Rosli Dahlan’s acquittal had not been filed yet, he flipped.

Gani Patail has now written to the court to apply for an extension of time to file the appeal against Rosli Dahlan’s acquittal. By right, the date to file the appeal has expired. But Gani Patail is trying to bypass the rules so that he can still file the appeal even though the date has expired.

Sigh…poor Gani Patail. Nothing seems to be going his way. He is supposed to be God where even Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is supposed to be scared of him. But everything he tries seem to have failed. Could there be an even greater God than Gani Patail who is intervening and thwarting all the AG’s plans and plots?

Anyway, in the meantime, they will have to find my son to serve the papers on him so that they can, again, drag him to court and ‘punish him for the sins of the father’. Good luck. That is my son’s problem and for him to handle. But if he is the son of the father that I think he is, then Gani Patail is going to have his hands full in trying to get him -- just like he can’t seem to get me, Ramli Yusuff or Rosli Dahlan.

This is what life is all about -- making your enemies run around in circles and defeating them every step of the way while we shout: Yeh! Yeh! Kita menang!