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- Robert Phang slams A-G Gani Patail Again
- Bye Bye Sarawak Reports!
- The Kampung Baru Saga
- A Sad Day for Lawyer Rosli Dahlan when the Justice was blind
| Robert Phang slams A-G Gani Patail Again Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:21 AM PDT
Robert Phang questioned the government's seriousness on the cases involving Tajuddin Ramli. This stemmed from Nazri Aziz's statement that A-G Gani Patail has agreed to compound the offences committed by former MAS Chairman, Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli. Robert Phang again raised A-G Gani Patail's involvement in a corporate tussle in Ho Hup Bhd where the A-G filed 11 charges for some very minor late filings of statutory returns. The point raised by Robert Phang about A-G Gani Patail's selective prosecution and abuses of power is valid. We have seen many of such instances lately. The fact that A-G Gani has taken no action against Robert Phang for his incessant attacks can only suggest that all of Robert Phang's allegations are true. Now read Phang's statement below: Selective Prosecution by A-G Gani Patail1.On 6th October 2011, it was reported that the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Dato' Seri Nazri Aziz gave a written reply to Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) in Parliament confirming that former MAS Chairman, Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli, had committed offences under Sections 131 and 132 of the Companies Act 1965. The MalaysiaKini Report (dated October 6, 2011) is below. 2.This admission is a positive development. However, I find it very disturbing that A-G Gani Patail has agreed that Tajuddin would be let off lightly by just compounding the offences that Tajuddin had committed. Indeed, there is such a provision to compound offences under Section 371A of the Companies Act. However, the exercise of such powers must not be abused. If A-G Gani Patail is allowed to do so, the Rakyat will view this as sweeping things under the carpet. Where is accountability? Where is corporate governance? 3.The acts which constitute offences under Section 131 and Section 132 Companies Act are very serious as they go to the very core of a company and of corporate governance. The Board of Directors and each and every director as fiduciaries of a company are expected to behave with honesty and integrity and must never place themselves in a position of conflict, what more to plunder a national company for their own benefit. That, in essence, were the allegations against Tajuddin Ramli. And yet despite Nazri Aziz's admission, A-G Gani Patail will just compound his offences. To me ,that is unacceptable. 4. I say so because I am now in possession of several charges for some very minor and technical offences. I am referring to the case of Dato' T C Low and his sister, Low Lai Yoong, involving a corporate tussle in Ho Hup Bhd. There were allegations that A-G Gani Patail had abused his powers by assisting his friend, Dato Vincent Lye, to prosecute Dato' T C Low. Pictures have since surfaced in the internet of A-G Gani Patail with Vincent Lye at Ho Hup's office. Documents have also surfaced of gratifications being provided to A-G Gani Patail. A-G Gani Patail has denied, but to date, the MACC has not issued any statement on this matter. 5.What is perplexing to most company secretaries and those in the corporate world is that it is not uncommon for statutory returns to be delayed or filed slightly late with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM). But in the case of Dato T C Low where there was no dishonesty but just a mere lateness, no compound was offered. Instead, A-G Gani Patail filed a total of 11 charges against them. This is preposterous. This constitutes an abuse of power. 6.I call on the government that there should not be such discrimination. Everyone must be treated equally before the law. If Tajuddin's offence, which is very serious, can be compounded, then others should be too. Why is Tajudin given this special treatment? Why is the MACC not looking into this as a case of abuse of power? 7. If PM's Najib's vision is to transform the country, then, such inequalities and abuses must stop! "HUMBLENESS IS GOOD VIRTUE, ARROGANCE SHALL FALL, THE MEEK WILL RULE THE WORLD".
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| Posted: 15 Oct 2011 12:18 AM PDT Sarawak Reports was part of a vicious network of internet sites, set up by the crooked UK-based production FBC Media, in a hired attempt to undermine this blog and to attack the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. By adopting a virtually identical name to our own, FBC clearly hoped they could confuse web-surfers into reading their pro-Taib propaganda, instead of our research into Taib's 30 years of corrupt government. However, there is little evidence that readers were in fact fooled by this costly exercise. The site never dared to publish the handful of comments it received for its stories, which were little more than dreary 'puff pieces' praising Taib's 'progress and development' policies. The site also carried a permanent section devoted to attacking the Editor of Sarawak Report and family members.
Collapse of Cyber-war campaign follows exposure of FBC Media After Sarawak Report started to investigate, the whole truth behind the scandal came out. We showed how FBC Media had commissioned a team of Republican bloggers in the States to write a series of attacking articles in a supposedly non-sponsored website called New Ledger.
These articles, by unheard of Americans, were then reproduced in Sarawak Reports as if they represented influential thinking in the US. Worse, we discovered a similar campaign was being carried out by the very same people against the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, and this time the person who commissioned the attacks was the PM himself, Najib Razak! The scurrilous articles about Anwar, written for New Ledger by non-entities in the States, were being reproduced in a separate blog called Malaysia Watcher. Just this week the PM was forced to admit that his office has spent RM 84 million on such campaigns with FBC Media in just three years! We can now report that Malaysia Watcher is likewise no longer accessible.
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| Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:59 PM PDT Ownership in Kampung Baru is complicated: lands in Kampung Baru are usually jointly owned by members of the family. This is largely due to Islamic inheritance laws. An owner usually has an undivided share in the land, and as such, that owner has a say in the matter of the whole piece of property represented under that title. It matters not that he owns only one-twentieth of the total property — he can still veto any transaction. Development in Kampung Baru must therefore take an innovative approach. It requires Government intervention and it needs a legal mechanism to ensure that unreasonable demands of a few are not allowed to scuttle the wishes of the majority of owners. In addition to a viable legal structure, it needs a capital injection that only the Government can provide. It also needs good marketing and a maintenance organisation to ensure that properties built can command good prices comparable to the surrounding area. Today, 20 years after Dr Mahathir's initiative, Kampung Baru residents have another chance at getting the development they need. The decision of the Federal Government to develop the area should be viewed positively. Of course, the proposal needs careful study and landowners must be able to get fair market value. It will be better still if owners can also have a share in the profit of the development of the area. What is important is that landowners must not be coerced or influenced by politicians who pander only to emotion and say things like "the Malays are going to lose their land." The Malays can be better off economically only if they participate in the development of their assets. Without development, Kampung Baru will continue to be an asset that produces no income.
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| A Sad Day for Lawyer Rosli Dahlan when the Justice was blind Posted: 12 Oct 2011 03:24 PM PDT Then, at 12 noon, Rosli texted me to say he was in court and would try to see me after he finished. I waited until past lunch time and then finished my meal alone, but he still did not turn up. I texted him several times but he did not reply. I felt a bit annoyed and rather disturbed that my young friend had stood me up. I called some friends and was told that Rosli was in court, not to conduct a case for his clients, but to attend to his own case. I was told that this was his RM 50 million suit against several officers of the MACC, the A-G Chambers, the Government and the media who had conspired to fix him up in 2007. I was perplexed why he did not tell me about this case as I would have attended court with him. Back to 2007 My readers would remember that in 2007, Rosli Dahlan acted for Dato Ramli Yusuff and the Commercial Crimes Investigations Dept (CCID) when AG Gani Patail abdicated his constitutional duties by refusing to act for the CCID in the case against an underworld operator, Goh Cheng Poh @ Tengku Goh. Apparently, this criminal had explicitly named former IGP Musa Hassan in various court papers and affidavits. Eventually the criminal got scot free and six junior policemen, Rosli and Dato Ramli got charged. The Non-Existent RM 27 Million Cop To discredit Rosli who prepared various court papers for Dato Ramli and the CCID, Rosli was fixed up in a most dramatic fashion which befits a suspense thriller movie. For months, the MACC leaked to the press that Dato Ramli was the "RM 27 Million Cop" and that it was hidden in the account of a lawyer. Then, in the holy month of Ramadan of 2007, the MACC agents stormed Rosli's office, humiliated and shouted at Rosli in front of all his employees, then brutally handcuffed him so tightly until his wrists swelled and split his skin that he bled. The MACC then threw Rosli into the MACC underground cell, refused him bail and deliberately held him overnight just to teach him a lesson.  In the month of Ramadan of 2007, the MACC stormed Rosli's office, humiliated and shouted at him in front of all his employees, then brutally handcuffed him so tightly until his wrists swelled and split his skin that he bled The next day, just one day before Aidil Fitri, the MACC paraded Rosli along the court corridors like a circus freak and charged him in a most sensational fashion to leave a permanent impression that this was the lawyer who hid RM 27 Million. That story fizzled out immediately when it was shown there never was that money and neither Rosli nor Dato Ramli was ever charged for any illegal asset. I have been writing about this case so that the public would know of this brutal display of power. I wanted the public to be conscious that nobody is safe if all these can happen to a senior Muslim lawyer with an unblemished track record during his period of fasting. And all that happened to Rosli just because he acted for former CCID Director, Dato Ramli Yusuff who, at that time, was the target for career elimination by Musa Hassan, A-G Gani Patail and the MACC. The rest is history.  The Infamous Conspirators Since then, the six junior Policemen, Rosli and Dato Ramli have all been acquitted. The various courts have also pronounced damning judgments against those who fixed Dato Ramli and Rosli especially former IGP Musa Hassan and DPP Kevin Morais. On the day, he was acquitted, I wrote that Rosli referred to those who did all these cruel things to him as "the Rogues in Government" and vowed to hold them accountable so that no one else would suffer the things that he had suffered. When Rosli filed his Statement of Claim, he gave explicit description of the various parts of the conspiracy including the part involving a Bank Negara officer who had colluded with the A-G and the MACC to conduct illegal financial searches on him. Rosli only knew the secret things they did when the banks started withdrawing his banking facilities, cancelled his credit cards and refused to do business with him. To a professional and those in the business world, this can be devastating. This was a death call that can end a professional's business and livelihood. That was what happened to Rosli and so he sued all of them, including the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) officer who caused the illegal search. Since BNM denied being involved in the conspiracy, Rosli offered to withdraw his suit against that BNM officer if BNM would send a letter to the banks to clarify that Rosli was never under investigations by BNM. This seemed reasonable enough, but BNM refused to do that implying they had something to hide. It was clear to me that all Rosli wanted was accountability and to get to the bottom of the conspiracy in order to put a stop to all these shenanigans by these rogues in the corridors of power. On April 15, 2008, the powerful Utusan Malaysia even admitted to their wrongdoings and published an unqualified public apology in the following words:
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