This is that report from the Asia Sentinel. You can read the whole thing here.
- Acrimonious Split Rattles Malaysian Premier’s Family
- February 11, 2015 By John Berthelsen
- Feud reportedly sparked by PM Najib’s wife
- announcement by Nazir Razak to file defamation charges against bloggers believed connected to a close friend of his brother, Najib Razak, has laid bare what has been whispered about for months
- There is growing, acrimonious rift in the Razak family
- much of it over deeply indebted 1MDB
- Najib’s siblings’ relationship with Rosmah, partly because of her flaunting enormous wealth.
- Rosmah believed to have convinced her husband to initiate 1MDB
- questions circulating is whether family feud might result in problems for CIMB
- “The brothers openly criticize Rosmah at dinner functions and family events"
- “I have heard them myself. Nazir’s family has moved to Oxford, where he spends 60 to 70 percent of his time.
- elder brother Nizam spends time with his family in Boston.
- two elder brothers Johari and Nazim also cannot get along with Rosmah
- some of the family spent Hari Raya in Phuket & Spore to avoid PM's open house
- squabble broken into open at time when Najib is under attack
- including Dr Mahathir Mohamad
- 1MDB subject of a long and critical New York Times article on Feb. 8.
- article since served as red meat to Mahathir forces and Muhyiddin Yassin
- deputy prime minister who eyeing Najib’s job
- rift began in January 2014, when Nazir wrote article in Kinibiz highly critical of govt
- Nazir wrote a remembrance of his father, “Remembering My Father, Tun Razak.”
- father refused to use public funds to build a swimming pool for his children
- personally paid his family’s expenses on government trips, Nazir said
- article obvious public rebuke to PM
- remodeling PM's residence at vast public expense at urging of wife
- using government’s public jet for private junkets
- “Nazir has long worried about the negative influence of Rosmah, in particular, on Najib and has complained to friends and associates about it,” said a longtime western political analyst in Kuala Lumpur.
- “Of course, Rosmah knows this and despises Nazir in return and badmouths him to Najib. So it goes.”
- Nazir said anonymous attacks began on his family and his children from bloggers believed to be connected to Taek Jho Low
- and embroiled Najib in government debt generated by 1MDB, the subject of an extensive Asia Sentinel report on Dec. 8, 2014
- Jho Low became a friend of Rosmah’s son Riza Aziz
- to start a sovereign investment fund, Jho Low turned to Najib, then the defense minister.
- On Jho Low’s advice, 1MDB appears to have invested vast amounts in a series of misguided adventures
- In Kinibiz last week, Nazir said the attacks, constituting “lies and slander,” cross the line.
- businessman and publisher Tong Kooi Ong, also been subjected to anonymous blog attacks that Tong claimed were due to The Edge's extensive and biting coverage of 1MDB.
- The Edge Malaysia is part of The Edge Media Group, which Tong owns.
- On Feb. 6, Tong said he had ascertained the identity of the blogger going by the name ‘ahrily90’ and had served a legal letter to Jho Low
My comments : Tak ada class. No class.
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