This short article is written so as to be read together with another article posted to my website today, “The Muslim Brotherhood: The Many Faces of Their Majesties’ Service” By Ramtanu Maitra to expose the lies and propaganda by the BBC relying on an impeccable source from within the Saudi Royal family that the RM2.6 Billion deposited in the personal account of the Prime Minister of Malaysia was a “donation” from the late King of Saudi Arabia (allegedly partly from his personal finances and the balance from the government sources, which in itself is odd and unprecedented).
On this sole basis, the Attorney-General Apandi in his recent Press Statement declared that the Prime Minister was thereby not guilty of any criminal offences and all investigations into this matter are no longer necessary and must be closed.
It is now stated that the donation is RM2.8 Billion (as announced by AG Apandi) and not RM2.6 Billion! Yet, the UMNO warlords and Najib referred to the donation as amounting to RM2.6 Billion. They cannot even count!
This unusual mode of payment to a Head of Government from the Saudi King was pronounced by the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry of the Kingdom as unprecedented and that they have no records of such a financial transaction.
What is most interesting, coming from the BBC, was that this donation was to prevent the spread of the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood within PAS, an Opposition party in Malaysia. Prior to this outlandish propaganda, the Najib regime through its various mouth-pieces - ministers and UMNO warlords, asserted without any caveats and or reservations that the donation was given by “a Saudi Donor” in recognition of the efforts, particularly by Najib to counter the terrorism of ISIS. Never was this so-called ISIS threat mentioned in conjunction with any other Muslim organization when the local propaganda dominated the mainstream media.
Zahid met a dead man?
The deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi was blatantly confident that he met the donor himself (we must take that to mean the late King because the King was subsequently alleged to be the donor).
Zahid had said he has met the donor several times but did not name the donor, which in itself was odd. At the material time, he merely stated that he met the Saudi Arab donor. Surely, if he had met the King himself (most unlikely from the point of view of protocol convention that a mere deputy Prime Minister would be granted an audience with the King himself to merely verify a donation), Zahid Hamidi would have said so, as this in itself would have buried the controversy once and for all. But, no names and or status of the donor were mentioned.
PM Najib
But, could Zahid Hamidi have met the late King in August, 2015? Surely not, as the donor King died in January 2015, three weeks after being hospitalized for pneumonia, and was succeeded as king by his half-brother Salman of Saudi Arabia. The exposé by Sarawak Report and Wall Street Journal was only made in early July, 2015, so Zahid Hamidi could not have met the late King before July 2015.
The king had a personal fortune estimated at US$18 billion, making him the third wealthiest head of state in the world. It is inconceivable that this King would be willing to donate almost a 10th of his personal fortune to Najib, more so when his fortune is not US$18 Billion cash, even though according to Najib “Cash is King”.
In his press statement on 26.1.2016, Zahid Hamidi said:
"I know this myself, having met the donor. It was the Prime Minister who chose to use the donations for the benefit of our party and needy communities throughout Malaysia".
And, added for good measure (as reported by BERNAMA), he said the investigation revealed that the amount deposited was actually RM2.08 billion, and it was a personal contribution from the Saudi Arabian royal family in 2013, and of the amount, RM2.03 billion had been returned to the contributor in the same year.
No mention of ISIS and/or Muslim Brotherhood
The above statement was a repeat of his earlier statement on 23.8.2015 as reported by the STAR newspaper. Our comments are in bold and with the brackets:
He said the family, who he did not named, had donated the money because of Malaysia’s commitment in fighting terrorism, and being a moderate Muslim country with a plural society. [No mention of ISIS and or Muslim brotherhood!]
The family, he said, was impressed by how Malaysia, with its plural society, still managed to remain moderate without sidelining any other religions.
“Those were the answers given to me when I asked them the reason for their donation”. They also told me that Malaysia was not the only country they have
donated money to. [This is a confirmation that there was no reference to ISIS and or Muslim Brotherhood]
“They have also helped other Islamic countries,” he said when opening the Sri Gading Umno division meeting yesterday.
He said he had also met with the investment officer of the wealthy Arab family, who explained how the first US$100mil was given via a cheque under Najib’s name and the rest through other channels.
“I saw the documents myself – the original documents, not photostated ones, and I also saw the money trail,” he added.
AmBank-ANZ involvement
The best corroboration of the authenticity of the documents referred to by Zahid Hamidi would be the banking documents with the AmBank.
The fact that AmBank was fined recently by Bank Negara is evidence of major non-compliance by the said bank. The CEO of AmBank, Ashok Ramamurthy, who was on attachment from ANZ Bank, stepped down in January following a compliance audit of several billion ringgit of loans to 1MDB .
Additionally, laws in Saudi Arabia have stringent measures with regard to remittances of foreign currencies. This includes any citizen who is using a BVI off-shore company. This is sorely lacking in the case of the above remittances. Sarawak Report and Wall Street Journal have yet to be sued when they reported the above-mentioned discrepancies.
The name that was originally provided to AmBank was ‘His Highness Saud Abdulaziz Majid al-Saud’. This name was first provided to explain an original payment of US$100 million, which was passed into Najib’s AmPrivate Banking account in Kuala Lumpur back in February, 2011. This cannot be a reference to the late King Abdullah!
And bearing in mind what Zahid Hamidi said earlier and we quote again from the STAR:
He said he had also met with the investment officer of the wealthy Arab family, who explained how the first US$100mil was given via a cheque under Najib’s name and the rest through other channels.
So having given information regarding the so-called donor, what is preventing Zahid Hamidi from confirming that the person he saw was ‘His Highness Saud Abdulaziz Majid al-Saud’, as opposed to the late King Abdullah.
Till today, there is no official direct confirmation that the donor was in fact King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. What we have, is a mere BBC report that the donation was from the late King Abdullah.
Why are key players Najib and Zahid keeping mum
We therefore invite Zahid Hamidi to state categorically whether he met the late King Abdullah in August, 2015. Najib has remained silent on the name of the donor. Zahid Hamidi met the alleged donor. He did not say that there was a prohibition against the naming of the donor. So, why the eloquent silence on the identity of the donor by Najib and Zahid Hamidi?
Finally, we would like to draw the attention of our readers that following the nonprosecution of Najib by the Attorney-General, Appandi, the response from the global power elites have been immediate.
Global response: Najib now vulnerable after force-passing TPP in Parliament
Firstly, there was an announcement in France that an indictment has been issued against the former boss of a French defense company in Paris on charges of bribing Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in the purchase of two Scorpene submarines when Najib was the Defence Minister.
Bernard Baiocco, 72, former president of Thales International Asia (Thint Asia), a unit controlled by the French munitions manufacturer DCN, was indicted on Dec 15th for “active bribery of foreign public officials on people including Najib Razak,” according to Agence France Press, quoting judicial sources.
This was followed by the announcement by the Swiss Attorney-General that he had requested a Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) from AG Apandi in Zurich in September, 2015 and expects that the AG from Malaysia would honour his commitment and assist in Swiss investigations into the hanky-panky of 1MDB wherein US$ 4 Billion was found to have been sloshing around the world through Swiss banks contravening inter-alia Swiss anti-corruption and money-laundering laws.
Najib and the UMNO idiots have now found out too late, that having forced the passing of the TPP in Parliament, thereby assisting the US led initiative to encircle China, they are no longer useful and can be discarded as old rags!
Geopolitical betrayal
Malaysia was and still is a mere pawn in the geopolitical scheme of things. The Zionist Anglo-American global financial elites used political blackmail to pressure Najib and UMNO to do their bidding. Now that the dirty deed has been done, Najib is an expired item.
China, having used its abundant finances to shore up the 1MDB mess and made multi-billion investments in Malaysia to counter the insidious plot by the US, have found that Najib can no longer be trusted. China fell hook-line-and-sinker for the soft diplomatic propaganda that Najib, being the son of Tun Razak would align Malaysia with China.
This was so obvious, but the arrogance of some of the Chinese officials who were involved in this great game fell into the same mistake when they considered “Cash Was King” as Najib did and strategised that Malaysia would be grateful for the financial patronage.
To think that China and President Xi would turn the other cheek and not be slighted for this geopolitical betrayal, one must be a fool.
Like I said in my previous article, “2016 Will Bury UMNO, MCA and MIC! - Future Fast-Forward
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