BANK NEGARA AND FOUR KEY OFFICIALS ARE ABOUT TO GET SCREWED

And this happened three years ago. So why did Bank Negara not block it or take action three years ago? Is it because Bank Negara was informed about it and was in the know and actually approved it when it was done three years ago? And if so then why today pretend they were not aware and are blur and do not know what is going on?

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

In our previous article, ‘The reason for the hurry to finish off Najib’, we highlighted certain facts to this case as follows:

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran a story on 2nd July 2015 alleging that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak stole RM2.6 billion of 1MDB’s money and transferred it to his personal bank account.

WSJ said its report is based on documents related to an investigation by the Malaysian authorities regarding this matter, which they have in their possession and/or have sighted.

On 4th July 2015, Gani Patail, the then Attorney General, announced that he had just received the documents related to that case. Gani received the documents two days after the WSJ story.

On 8th July 2015, the launching of a Special Task Force was announced. The purpose of the Task Force is to investigate the WSJ report of 2nd July 2015.

So, the question is, if Gani received the documents on 4th July 2015 and if the Task Force was launched on 8th July 2015, what investigation and which documents was WSJ talking about in that 2nd July 2015 report?

And this is the same point raised by Azalina Othman Said, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, in her press statement below.

WSJ was supposed to have come out with its special report based on an alleged investigation. However, the investigation was launched based on the WSJ special report. Hence one of the two has to be wrong. They cannot both be right.

Can you see that this is a ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg’, conundrum? So, Azalina wants to get to the bottom of it all and find out whether the WSJ story led the investigation or the investigation led the WSJ story.

Now, if what WSJ said is true, meaning that its story was based on the investigation and the documents related to the investigation, that would mean someone, somewhere, leaked those documents. And they leaked those documents some time in June 2015 or earlier — which is before the Attorney General received his copies on 4th July 2015 and before the Special task Force was launched on 8th July 2015.

And that, therefore, can mean only one thing — that the documents came from Bank Negara. So whatMalaysia Today said in mid-2015 is true after all — that four very senior officers from Bank Negara, which possibly includes the Governor herself, are part of the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign) that is working with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Muhyiddin Yassin, plus people in the MACC, Special Branch, Attorney General’s Chambers, etc., to oust Najib (which was supposed to have happened at the end of July 2015).

As Azalina said in her press statement below, on 30th March 2016, WSJ came out with a revised version of its story and said that the amount was not US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) after all but US$1 billion (which was what Malaysia Today said last year).

And WSJ also said that the money did not come from1MDB and that at least part of it came from the Middle East (which, again was what Malaysia Today said last year).

WSJ added that its story is based on the investigation done by the Malaysian authorities and according to the documents related to that investigation which is in their possession and/or which they have seen.

So Najib did not steal RM2.6 billion from 1MDB and transferred the money to his personal bank account after all (which if he did would be a police case and would have nothing to do with Bank Negara).

So the RM2.6 billion was not from corrupt sources or a bribe after all (which if it was would be a MACC case and would have nothing to do with Bank Negara).

The RM2.6 billion was merely a donation from foreign sources, not local sources, and since it is foreign money brought into Malaysia then this concerns Bank Negara. And therefore Bank Negara can look into this matter and take action against Najib.

But then did Najib smuggle the money into the country in hard cash in containers and not declare the amount to Bank Negara? Or was the money openly transferred through regular/normal channels into Najib’s back account?

If the latter then did Bank Negara not know about it? I mean we are talking about RM2.6 billion and even it was just RM100,000 it would not have gone undetected. So Bank Negara did know about it. There is no way they would not have known about it.

And this happened three years ago. So why did Bank Negara not block it or take action three years ago? Is it because Bank Negara was informed about it and was in the know and actually approved it when it was done three years ago? And if so then why today pretend they were not aware and are blur and do not know what is going on?

Bank Negara is just main wayang. They know what happened because they approved the transaction. If they did not then the RM2.6 billion would have had to be placed overseas and would not have been able to be brought into Malaysia.

And it was Bank Negara who leaked the documents to WSJ for its 2nd July 2015 report. And it was Bank Negara who also leaked the documents to WSJ for its 30th March 2016 report.

And for that someone or some people are going to end up in jail.

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Statement by Dato’ Sri Azalina Othman Said

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department

3 April 2016

On 30 March 2016, the Wall Street Journal was forced to admit that at least some of the monies received by the Prime Minister were a donation from Saudi Arabia. This was contrary to their report in July 2015, which claimed that RM2.6 billion of 1MDB’s funds had ended up in the Prime Minister’s accounts.

It was this WSJ report that was used by the former Attorney-General as the reason to open the Special Task Force investigation into the Prime Minister.

This decision to investigate provided the platform to Tun Mahathir and the Anti-Najib Campaign to unfairly and ceaselessly attack the Prime Minister and Government, just on the basis of WSJ reporting. Malaysia’s international reputation and any economic damage was just collateral damage to Tun Mahathir, for whom the ends always justifies the means.

Given WSJ’s long-delayed admission, there should be a full investigation to understand who leaked these fake documents to the media, and why the former Attorney-General set up the Special Task Force. It should also be investigated whether the authenticity of the documents was ever properly verified by the former Attorney-General.

Those responsible for launching this investigation on the basis of false documents and reporting must set the record straight. They must apologise for damaging the reputation of the Prime Minister and Malaysia.‎