Throwing Pies at another YB, Minister Dr Ng Yen Yen. Once upon a dime she had one foot in Malaysia when appointed a Senator, and another foot Down Under. A common practice among top BN-MCA -- UMNO2? -- politicians who want the cake and eat it too!
From weechookeong.wordpress.com:
Jawapan YB Menteri Pelancongan mengenai dengan skandal yang terlibat dengan Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd dan Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai.
November 13, 2009 by weechookeong
Pada 5hb November 2009, semasa perbahasan Bajet 2010, saya telah menyeru Menteri Pelancongan, YB Dato’ Ng Yen Yen untuk memberi jawapan kepada soalan-solan seperti berikut:
Venturepharm Asia Bhd dan Madam Chen Oyan Yun Shai bukanlah menipu MOSTI sahaja ia juga ada terlibat dengan Kementerian Pelancongan.
Saya menyeru Menteri Perlancongan untuk memberi penjelasan:
1. Memandangkan pembantu peribadi terdahulu Menteri, iaitu Madam Ivy See adalah seorang pengarah eksutif Daley PR, adakah ia mempunyai satu “conflict of interest” terhadap Menteri semasa memberi kontrak pengiklanan kepada Daley PR untuk kerja-kerja pengiklanan di China? 2. Apakah alasan-alasan tender pertama Malaysian Pavilion Project dibatalkan selepas Menteri mengambil jawatan sejak April 2009? 3. Apakah alasan-alasan sementara akhir bulan June 2009 Venturepharm telah dianugerahkan dengan kerja pembinaan Malaysian Pavilion di mana ia tidak mempunyai rekod dalam kerja pembinaan semasa Venturepharm telah didedahkan di Parlimen dengan terlibat dengan penipuan MOSTI untuk mendapatkan TechnoFund? 4. Adakah ia mempunyai apa-apa perbezaan (variation order) dengan jumlah RM10 to 20 million untuk Malaysian Pavilion project?
Soalan diatas tidak dijawab dengan sempurna oleh Menteri. Padan 12-11-2009 semasa Menteri menjawab saya meminta beliau menjawab soalan diatas dan saya mengulang seklai latar belakang perkara ini. saya menegas bahawa Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai, yang berasal dari Taiwan, adalah sahabat karib YB Mneteri Pelancongan. Beliau tidak menafikan perkara ini dan beliau mengatakan bahawa beliau ada ramai kawan.
Saya juga meminta YB Menteri memberi penjelasan kenapakah tender pertama untuk projek Malaysian Pavilion di Shanghai Expo 2010 telah ditutup dan Ventruepharm Asia Sdn Bhd tidak mengabil bahagain dan selepas beliau dilantik sebagai Menteri Pelancongan pada 9hb April 2009 beliau membatalkan tender tersebut dna membuka tender kedua dan Venturepharm Asai Sdn Bhd mengambil bahagian. Pada akhir bulan Jun 2009 Kementerian memberikan projek tersebut kepada Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd dengan harga tender RM19.99 9,999-00 ( harga resserve projek ini adalahRM20 juta).
Saya juga menegaskan bahawa pada 24hb Jun 2009 (Session Parlimen yang lepas) saya telah menminta penjelasan daripada YB Timbalan Mentri Science, Teknologi dan Inovasi mengenai denagan kes Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd dimana ia telah mengunakan sebuah syarikat palsu, XLW Inc USA, untuk mendapatkan dana TechnoFund untuk penyilidikan biofeed. YB Timbalan Menteri tersebut memaklumkan kepada Dewan Yang Mulia bahawa Kementerian telah “frozen” baki TechnoFund berjumlah lebih kurang RM2 juta dan seisatan telah dijalankan terhadapa Venturepharam Aisa Sdn Bhd. Memandangkan keadaan sedemikian, bagaimanakah Kementerian boleh memberikan projek tersebut kepada Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd dan Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd tiada rekod untuk membina satu tandas atau tangga rumah. YB Menteri tidak memberi apa-apa jawapan terhadap soalan ini.
YB Menteri memberi jaminan bahawa tiada ada “variation order’ terhadap projek Malaysian Pavilion di Shanghai Expo 2010.
Saya juga memaklumkan kepada Dewan Yang Mulia bahawa Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai, shabat karib YB Menteri, adalah orang yang mengawal syarikat Daro Worldwide Sdn Bhd yang diawadkan dengan projeck Tourism Call Centre, Syarikat Daley PR communication Ltd di Guang Zhou (China) diawadkan dengan semua projek advertising di negeri China tanpa tender terbuka. Jawapan YB Menteri adalah awad yang diberikan menurut prosedur.
Saya juga menanya YB Menteri bagaimankah Fuji Property Management Co Ltd (Hong Kong) yang juga terlibat dengan Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai diawadkan projek untuk mengurus semua harta/bangunan Kerajaan Malaysia di Hong Kong, kerjaan pengubahsuaian (rennovations) harta tersebut tanpa tender terbuka? YB Menteri tidak memberi apa-apa jawabpan terhadap soalan ini.
Saya juga menuduh YB Menteri terlibat dengan “conflict of interest” dengan projek-projek tersebut yang diawadkan kepada syarikat, Daro Worldwide Sdn Bdn – Tourism Call Center, Venturepharm Asaia Sdn Bhd – Malaysian Pavilion di Shanghai Expo 2010 dan Fuji Property management Co Ltd – mengurus harta dan bangunan Kerajaan Malaysia di Hong Kong? YB Menteri terus meminta bukti daripada saya dan saya terus membangunan memberi bukti tetapi YB Menteri enggan memberi jalan kepada saya untuk memberi bukti-bukti. Saya berdiri beberapa kali tetapi beliau enggan memberi jalan. Saya seterusnya mengatakan bahawa YB Menteri adalah bodoh. Tuan Speaker meminta saya menarik balik perkataan bodoh kerana unparliamentary. Saya menarik balik perkataan bodoh dan saya menegaskan bahawa YB Menteri “kurang cerdik” kerana meminta bukti-bukti tetapi tidak memberi jalan.
Saya juga cabar YB Menteri untuk mencabar saya untuk mengulang perkara diatas di luar Dewan Yang Mulia. YB Menteri tidak berani menerima cabaran tersebut.
nota:
Saya tidak mempuas hati dengan jawapan YB Menteri diatas dan saya akan membangkit semula perkara diatas semasa perbahasan Bajet 2010 peringkat Jawatan Kuasa minggu depan.
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Posted in wee choo keong | Tagged Daley PR Communication Co Ltd, Daro Worldwide Sdn Bhd, Fuji Property management Co Ltd, Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai, Kementerian pelancongan, Malaysia Pavillion, Menteri Pelancongan, ministry of tourism, Shanghai Expo 2010, Venturepharm Asia Sdn Bhd, YB Dato" Ng Yen Yen | 8 Comments 8 Responses DESIDERATA: I took the liberty of extracting just ONE of the comments -- pls surf' dare for others'!:( -- in English, which helps to understand the post in BM better. I have never done this before, extracting word-for-word comment from another Blog, but there's aweways a first time eh!:) I hope the Commenter would bear with Desi for this liberty taken!:) Come to Furong and I offer endless cuplets of tehtarik at Lingam's, maybe some Puerh leftover2!:):)
(xtract: on November 13, 2009:
"Of course, all of us in Ministry of Tourism knew for a fact that Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai is a very close friend of Ng Yen Yen for donkey years since her days as deputy Minister of Tourism.
Grace Chen is a very powerful personality in Ministry of Tourism. The cancellation of the 1st tender after Ng Yen Yen was appointed Minister was to get Venturepharm to bid. We all knew that Venturepharm will definitely get the Malaysia Pavilion project in Shanghai Expo 2010.
YB was spot on on all the facts that he revealed in Parliament in connection with the Grace Chen Oyan Yun Shai and Minister of Tourism and all the projects have been awarded to companies connected to Grace Chen like: Daro Worldwide Sdn Bhd, Venturepharm, Daley Pr Communications Co Ltd, Fuji Property Management Co Ltd in Hong Kong.
More intriguing revelations by PI Bala on Altantuya's mystery
... you can do your own Agatha Christie's or Sherlock Holmes' trailbustling followuo eh!; I will stick to my newshound -- not from Baskervilles! -- forte:)--YL
From freemalaysiatoday.com...
Report: Bala links Najib’s family member to Altantuya cover-up
Tue, Nov 17, 2009 National
More damning details implying the involvement of a family member of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak have begun to emerge in private investigator P.Balasubramaniam’s allegations of a cover-up in the Altantuya muder.
The allegations included blackmail and threats made against Bala, his wife and children, to force him into withdrawing his first statutory declaration and sign a second statutory declaration which he never read.
Immediately after the second declaration was released to the media on July 4, Bala claimed arrangements were made for him and his family to flee Malaysia and they were forced into hiding until Najib was sworn in as Prime Minister in April.
Such details of the threats by the VVIP and the already reported RM5 million bribe, along with the involvement of military intelligence in keeping Bala’s home under surveillance has added more intrigue – and speculation – about the gruesome murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.
In its latest edition of Suara Keadilan, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat newspaper, reported on the alleged involvement of Najib’s family member and a carpet businessman named Deepak in forcing Bala and his family to go into hiding in Singapore, Bangkok and Kathmandu before ending up in India.
That, along with more other details of Bala’s 15 month ordeal of living as a fugitive, are expected to surface in the coming days as the opposition parties call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
Suara Keadilan cited Bala as saying that he was forced to retract his first statutory declaration of an alleged links between Najib and Altantuya who had a sexual relationship with Najib’s adviser Abdul Razak Baginda.
Razak Baginda has also confessed in an affidavit that Altantuya was his lover while Najib denies knowing the Mongolian model.
Suara Keadilan cited Bala as saying that that the member of Najib’s household teamed up with carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishan in using a carrot and stick approach to “persuade” him into withdrawing the first statutory declaration.
Deepak, who is said to be associated to Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, allegedly offered the private investigator RM5million to retract the statutory declaration, according to Suara Keadilan which obtained a transcript of the interview.
Deepak then ordered Bala to be brought to see a “Datuk” on the same day he made public his first statutory declaration, according to the newspaper.
Bala, a former Special Branch officer, identified the Datuk as a family member of the Prime Minister.
According to Bala, the first statutory declaration, in which he claimed that Najib had a relationship with the Mongolian model, was true.
But Bala withdrew it and signed a second declaration after he was taken to see the Datuk at the Curve in Damansara on July 3 2008 when he was told by the VVIP to “follow Deepak instructions if he (Bala) loves his family,” Suara Keadilan reported.
Bala said the specific instruction to him was to withdraw the first July 3 statutory declaration and leave Malaysia immediately.
Hours after that meeting, Bala signed a second statutory declaration which was prepared for him and later issued to the media.
He and his family were then taken by road to Singapore before being flown to Thailand and and Nepal and eventually landed in India where he has been hiding.
Suara Keadilan reported that Bala gave the startling account of the alleged threats made by Najib’s family member in which he concluded saying: “As a family man, I want to have a normal life. I want to put a stop to all this. ”
In the course of their numerous conversations, Bala said Deepak had related to him how he came to know Rosmah and had even offered to arrange a breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister’s wife.
Although Najib’s smooth ascension to power took place as scheduled in April this year, Bala saw little to suggest that he would be allowed to return to Malaysia to lead a normal life with his family, according to the Suara Keadilan report.
Part 2 of PI Bala’s interview-- Please surf to malaysia-today.net-lah, yopur lazey, hazey BUMmer like Desi -- YL:)
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From freemalaysiatoday.com: Anwar to Umno: I’m ready for battle Sun, Nov 15, 2009 National
IN his first public remarks since being appointed as economic adviser to Selangor, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he would do battle “to the end” against Umno-Barisan Nasional forces bidding to destabilize and wrest power from the state’s Pakatan Rakyat government.
“I have officially now entered the ring,” Anwar said in reference to his new job. “If you try (to seize power), we will go all out and fight to the end,” Anwar said in Shah Alam when opening the
state-level National Justice Party convention.
On Friday, Anwar, a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, was appointed Selangor’s economic advisor, a job for which he will be paid a norminal salary of RM1 a month.
The appointment is to help the state government formulate new economic initiatives as well as improve the implementation of existing policies that directly and holistically benefit people.
Anwar used the convention to galvanise party members into ensuring the state remained in opposition control despite simmering diffirences within Pakatan ranks which, according to insiders, the coalition has been able to contain so far.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who recently took over as Selangor Umno chief, has made public his party’s intention to retake Malaysia’s most developed state by the next general elections.
The Selangor state government has since become a punching bag in the mainstream media on several issues, ranging from the relocation of a Hindu temple to the sale of beer in 7-Eleven outlets.
Anwar admitted that despite some success, the opposition has been unable to deliver all of its promises to the people.
He attributed the problem to elements within Pakatan who still practise what he called the “Barisan Nasional politics” of corruption and racial based politics.
“This culture and way of thinking is outdated and must be rejected at all costs,” he said. “We will also not tolerate corruption within our ranks. Those caught will be sacked, make no mistake about this.”
At a press conference after his speech, Anwar said he had received positive response from investors abroad, especially in the Middle East, on his appointment as Selangor’s economic adviser.
He said a group of Arab investors had asked to meet him after the Hari Raya Aidil-Adha on November 27.
“Bala’s latest disclosure merits in-depth probe” ANWAR Ibrahim is pressing for a professional and independent probe into the latest disclosure by a private investigator in the Altantuya case, calling on those in authority to “walk the talk.”
However, he acknowledged that his call and that of others in the opposition coalition would make little impact on the authorities, as it meant investigating Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.
P. Balasubramaniam, a private investigator hired by Abdul Razak Baginda, an aide of Najib, claimed he was offered RM5 million to retract a statutory declaration that the Prime Minister had a relationship with murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Sharibuu.
In an interview posted on Youtube recently, Bala claimed the offer was made by a carpet businessman known as Deepak, who is said to be associated with Rosmah.
Anwar said Bala’s latest disclosure should be enough for the authorities to conduct further investigations but he doubts if the police, the Attorney-General or the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission were up to the challenge.
“Yes , there must be an in-depth investigation,” he told reporters. “This is just one statement from Bala. The problem with this country is that any investigation affecting Umno leaders will be trivialized.”
Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin’s website last Friday carried what he said was the first video excerpt of an interview Bala had with lawyers. He told readers to expect more clips in the coming days.
Bala claimed he was forced to flee the country on July 4, 2008, one day after issuing a statutory declaration retracting the first declaration. He is expected to name public figures who played a role in forcing him to withdraw his accusation against Najib.
Altantuya was murdered in October 2006. Her body was blown up using C4 explosives in a dense jungle in Selangor state.
She was said to be in Malaysia to collect US$500,000 in commissions for a French-Scopene submarine deal involving the Malaysian government. Najib was then Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
Asked what he thought about Bala’s decision to surface after 15 months in a tell-all interview, Anwar said: “I do not want to arrive to any conclusion. Let there be a free and independent investigation.”
From Sdr KIM QUEK, one of those rare Malaysians who always satnd up to be counted! His latest thoughts via several channels BY POPULAR DEMAND! -- YL
MB vs MB: Federal Court of Judicial Pillars or Political Stooges?
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
By Kim Quek
THERE was deep disappointment and angry resignation when the Federal Court panel of five sat on Nov 5 to hear the Nizar vs Zambry appeal, immediately after rejecting Nizar’s request for a full panel to hear the case.
The appearance of the five judges alone was sufficient to impart the sense of foregone conclusion, for these are familiar faces that appeared in the series of hearings of the Federal Court held in respect of the current Perak constitutional crisis, and they all seemed to lean towards the Barisan Nasional.
The first three – Alauddin Sheriff, Arifin Zakaria and Zulkefli Makinudin – are virtually permanent fixtures in the ‘Perak cases’, while the remaining two – Ghazali Yusoff and Hamid Embong – have also been involved. One cannot help but wonder: what happened to the rest? Why can’t we have fresh faces to also impart their wisdom over such a grave constitutional crisis?
What about the eminent Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, Richard Malanjum, whose seniority was only next to Alauddin Sheriff (President of the Court of Appeal), and whose judgments often won admiration of the legal fraternity and the general public alike. He has not sat in a single case. Why should the country be deprived of the opportunity of tapping into his rich experience and much valued judgment?
Then, what about our very senior Justice Gopal Sri Ram – an appellate court judge since 1994 – who is distinguished by his deep legal knowledge and sound judgment delivered without fear or favour.
Surely, the participation of Malanjum and Sri Ram will restore some credibility to a judicial system already teetering on total mistrust, thanks to the long string of judicial decisions which have been perceived as blatantly biased and politically partisan since the crisis started in March this year.
SHOW OF ‘ARROGANCE’ TO REJECT FULL PANEL
This is the third time that the Federal Court rejected Nizar Jamaluddin’s request for a full panel. And what irked the public is the court’s perceived arrogance in rejecting the lawyers’ earnest, compelling and unassailable plea without bothering to offer the reasons of rejection.
That the coming court decision will be of paramount importance is underlined by the fact that it is expected to define the power limits and the inter-relationships of the triangle of King-Prime Minister-Parliament, though the case is over the Perak constitutional crisis. This is because the state constitution and federal constitution are similar in these aspects of the law.
An affirmative decision in favour of Zambry will mean that in future the King is vested with the power to sack a Prime Minister. More than that, he can do so without the involvement of Parliament. This of course will mean the negation of the fundamental principles of democracy upon which this nation was founded.
Facing such a potentially momentous decision, is it too much to ask for a full panel, or at least as wide a spectrum of judges as possible, to deliberate on an issue which may make or break our democratic system of government?
Since the Federal Court has convened panels of seven judges to hear drug related cases in the past, why can’t it convene an even bigger panel for the current case, since the issues involved are many times more important?
And why make the ‘Perak cases’ the exclusive domain of the few judges who are already looked upon with increasing dismay by the public for their perceived political partisanship? Why meticulously keep these cases out of bound to the well regarded judges?
Doesn’t Chief Justice Zaki Azmi, who only a short while ago was an Umno stalwart, owe the nation answers to these perplexing questions?
COURT OF APPEAL ERRED
The court completed hearing in one single day of Nov 5, the submissions from the lawyers of both the Appellant (Nizar) and the Respondent (Zambry) as well as from Attorney-General Gani Patail. The latter appeared as intervener to help interpret the Perak and federal constitutions, though in actual fact, he acted more like an attorney for the Respondent.
The arguments from both sides are largely repetitions of those presented in May in the lower courts, with the exception of the Appellant putting in some fresh arguments. A new input was that the Sultan should not have taken upon himself to interpret the constitution like what he did in his press statement of Feb 5 that considered the posts of Menteri Besar and his exco vacant if they refused to resign. Interpretation of the constitution should be left to the court.
Another point was that as a constitutional monarch, the Ruler was duty bound to take advice only from his Menteri Besar – not any other including then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak.
The bulwark of the Appellant’s case, as submitted in the lower courts, remains that the Sultan is not empowered under the constitution to dismiss a Menteri Besar, and that only the assembly, through a vote of confidence, can dismiss him. The Appellant also hammered home the point that the Court of Appeal’s rejection of Nizar as the rightful MB was flawed in that it had failed to take cognizance of the fundamental findings of High Court judge Aziz Rahim.
And the Respondent continues to maintain its contention that BN had the support of the majority of assemblymen and that the Sultan is entitled to determine which party had the majority support, stressing that nothing in the Perak constitution stipulates that such determination of support must be made in the assembly floor.
AG Gani Patail said the Ruler had taken upon himself to determine who had the majority support. He said: “A press statement issued by the Perak ruler revealed this, where he was satisfied that BN had the majority, and therefore, Nizar’s post – despite his refusal to resign – was deemed vacant”.
Note how Gani avoided using the word “dismiss” on Nizar. In fact, none of Zambry’s lawyers or Appellate Court judges had claimed that the Ruler had the power to dismiss Nizar. They only claimed that Nizar’s post had become vacant.
But without Nizar resigning, how could the post become vacant, and how could the Ruler appoint another Menteri Besar? This is the mother of all questions that the judges must answer before any one can rule that Nizar has lost his post.
EXTREME TREATMENT AGAINST NIZAR UNJUSTIFIED
On reflection of the Respondent’s case, perhaps we should explore a new perspective. Let us ask: what has Nizar done to deserve such extra-ordinary treatment – his support being ascertained by the Ruler personally, ordered to resign immediately, failing which his post was “deemed vacant”? Had Nizar caused our democratic system of government to come to a dead end, which would have been the case if he had lost the majority support and yet
a) He failed to advise the Ruler to dissolve the assembly, and
b) He refused to subject himself to a vote of no confidence?
Did Nizar do any of these? No! In fact, he did the opposite. He repeatedly advised the Ruler to dissolve the assembly due to a stalemate, but was turned down. He wanted an emergency session of the legislature to resolve the stalemate; that was also turned down.
Since Nizar had committed none of the sins against the letter and spirit of our constitution so to speak, what justification was there to subject him and his cabinet to such extreme treatment as described?
That begs these further questions: Why was the Ruler in such a hurry that he couldn’t wait for a short while longer to let the assembly meet to resolve the impasse? And why did he reject his Mentri Besar’s advice to dissolve the assembly when it was apparent that there was a political impasse – a classic case of instability which is always resolved by returning the mandate to the electorate? Granted that the Ruler has the discretionary power to withhold consent to a disolution of legislature, but should a constitutional monarch exercise that power without accountability?
The time has come for our highest court to put things right. This is a rare opportunity for our judiciary to redeem its tattered image and for the judges to shine with their judicial integrity.
The stake involved is so grave that whatever decisions they make, each and every one of the panel should have the courage and dignity to stand up for their views for which they must write their individual judgments, unlike the recent practice of hiding under a single judgment, claiming that to be unanimous.
I saw some clowns today They did not build a big top my way
A few years ago they staged the shows at the Putra World Trade Centre
Today the stage has moved to Jalan Ampang Where stands a building rock solid reading Wisma MCA But inside it houses first class Second class and No class clowns
Claiming to be leaders champion the cause of the community classified under "Chinese" No, I'm a different species You don't represent Desi
I'm a Malaysian If they would allow me
If not then another CLOWN
I'll be showing off my writHings doing single headstand double summersalts triple winterturns on stilleto slippers
Ah, believe you me I trained once at the PJ Academie of *Ballet Defined: as "et" means the "small version of", and the other is the "Round Thing that Bounces", or more crude example, those two hanging below if thou art male!:(:(
*Ballet in my vocab is "small ball" clowning act:( If you beg to differ, You think I care? You badder defer to me, I'm a clown Wearing a crown invisible to you but ME:)
Four days into freemalaysiatoday.com launch, we have an ...
EXCLUSIVE on PI BALA DROPS BOMSHELL3!
Don't be lazy BUMmer, go see it in full at:
freemalaysiatoday.com.
LINK:
http://freemalaysiatoday.com/english/?p=1059
Exclusive Thu, Nov 12, 2009 National
PI Bala surfaces to drop Bombshell 3
MISSING private investigator P. Balasubramaniam (picture ) has broken his 15-month silence, claiming that Prime Minister Najib Razak’s younger brother, Nazim, met and threatened him into withdrawing his first statutory declaration.
Bala alleged that carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishan, an aide of the Prime Minister’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, instructed him to meet Nazim on the day he made public his statutory declaration.
He said the first statutory declaration in which he claimed that Najjib had a relationship with murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Shariibuu, a lover of the Prime Minister’s associate Abdul Razak Baginda, was true.
But he withdrew it and signed a second declaration after he was taken to see Nazim at the Curve in Damansara on July 3 2008 when he was told by the Prime Minister’s architect brother to “follow instructions if he loves his family.”
According to Bala, the specific instruction to him was to withdraw the July 3rd statutory declaration and leave Malaysia immediately.
Hours after that meeting, Bala signed a second statutory declaration which was prepared for him and later issued to the media.
He and his family were then taken by road to Singapore before being flown to Thailand and and Nepal and eventually to India, where he has been hiding since.
Bala gave the startling account of the alleged threats made by Nazim in a tell all interview done overseas which concluded with him saying: “As a family man, I want to have a normal life. I want to put a stop to all this. ”
FreeMalaysiaToday was provided with excerpts of the interview done in the presence of three lawyers including Bala’s.
In the hour long interview, Bala gave an account of money allegedly promised by Deepak, whose orders Nazim told him to follow.
He claimed Deepak offered him a RM4 to RM5 million deal to sign the second statutory declaration retracting his allegation against Najib, and to remain overseas until Najib was installed as Prime Minister.
In the course of their conversations, Bala said Deepak related to him how he came to know Rosmah and even offered to arrange a breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister’s wife.
“(Deepak said) I can come back to Malaysia after Najib become the PM. (Also) he will make arrangements to have breakfast with Rosmah (for her to ) thank me ,” for retracting the first SD, Bala added.
However, no breakfast meeting took place with Rosmah, and Bala said he never received the RM5million sweetener promised to him.
Although Najib’s smooth ascension to power took place as scheduled in April this year, Bala saw little to suggest that he would be allowed to return to Malaysia to lead a normal life with his family.
Bala said Deepak gave him about RM750,000 in total to cover expenses for him and his family during their stay overseas. The money was mostly banked into his account with cheques issued by Carpet Raya Sdn Bhd, of which Deepak is a director.
Another revealation by Bala was his meeting with a Malaysian Police Special Branch team which tracked him to Bangkok in July last year.
Bala said the officer in charge of the Special Branch team, ASP Muniandy, asked him which of the two statutory declarations was true.
“ I told him the first SD was the true SD. Then he just shook my hand and said ‘You are really brave,’” Bala quoted Muniandy as saying.
He said the police team then proceeded to record a statement from him for nearly seven hours on the contents of the first statutory declaration and events leadings to the release of the document.
Given the circumstances of fear and continued harrassment against him and his family, Bala indicated he wanted to start his life afresh overseas with his family rather than returning to Malaysia as long as Najib and his people were in power.
Efforts to contact Nazim and Deepak were unsuccessful.
From the MP's blogsite: http://drdzul.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/it%E2%80%99s-dangerous-to-be-right-when-the-government-is-wrong/
It’s Dangerous to Be Right, When the Government is Wrong!
HUBUNGI: PUSAT KHIDMAT RAKYAT AHLI PARLIMEN No 10A, Tingkat 2, Jalan Bendahara 1/1 45000 Kuala Selangor, Selangor Darul Ehsan Tel: +603 3289 6575 Fax: +603 3289 7300 It’s Dangerous to Be Right, When the Government is Wrong! Posted on November 11, 2009 by admin Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, MP Kuala Selangor.
As if the rots that have plagued the judiciary weren’t enough to erode the confidence of the people towards this critical institution, the de facto Law Minister, DS Nazri Aziz, on Monday, stunned the House when he said that there’s no law to criminalize brokering for judicial appointment. Despite all the hue and cry, VK Lingam is after all going to be scot-free as no crimes were established.
This has surely brought utter disrepute to the already tainted judiciary, now badly in need of a ‘total overhaul’ of its image and integrity. While the claim of an absence of a legislation or an act to ‘illegalise’ and ‘criminalise’ may be unfortunately true, his suggestion that ‘Lingham might have just acted to fix the appointment of judges to impress’ was really a very bad joke. I almost wanted to say that he has turned himself into a clown. But I would reserve it for another day.
But this decision has made a huge mockery of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on VK Lingam’s fiasco. I stood in that august house on that day, to make the minister to commit saying that ‘what may be morally wrong could be legally or politically right’ in this country of ours.
He answered in the affirmative without hesitation. He wanted to lecture us on that. He chose to be oblivious of the saying of Abraham Lincoln and many a great mind on the subject of “Philosophy of Law”, “Moral Foundation of Law” and “Theory of Law” 101.
Admittedly also, the acrimonious debate is a long standing one, from time immemorial. Notwithstanding, the case of Lingam is surely so obviously ‘wrong’ as much as it is ‘immoral’. When an action could not, but be interpreted, as brokering or lobbying for an appointment of the highest position of the office of the judiciary, it indeed is an open assault on the integrity of the judiciary.
And that is almost subversion and ‘treason’ to the state. The entire act of those involved in the Lingam’s case is despicable as it inevitably brings one to the next logical conclusion. If judges’ appointment could be fixed than logically verdicts/judgments of judges could as well be similarly fixed, at a ‘certain price’ of course.
Most atrocious in the Lingam’s case is the fact that, while the ‘brokering’ may be immoral but legal, the latter ie writing judgment, while both immoral and illegal, also escaped the long arm of the law. The nation must not take all these assaults lying down. This will be elaborated later.
Nazri had in fact earlier said that further investigations into the Lingam’s case cannot be undertaken by the MACC as the key witness could not be located. The MACC had subsequently classified the case as ‘no further action’ (NFA).
In an effort to counter the various indiscriminate claims of the law minister, the Opposition MPs have brought a key witness sought by the Malaysian Ant-Corruption Commission (MACC) to Parliament yesterday (Tuesday 10). Jayanthi L.G Naidu was Lingam’s former secretary at the time of the royal commission’s probe into Lingam’s alleged involvement in brokering the appointment of judges.
Reading from her written statement, Jayanthi explained that she has been available to assist MACC in their investigations at all times and was very willing to cooperate with the ant-graft body. She was also called in as a witness by the commission to testify about Lingam’s holiday with the former Chief Justice Eusoff Chin to New Zealand.
She had given a full statement in 1998 regarding the trip to the former Anti-Corruption Agency (now MACC). She repeated this at the royal commission’s proceedings. She had told the ACA and the royal commission that Lingam and Chin’s family holiday trip to New Zealand in 1994 was arranged and paid for by Lingam. She stands her ground to date. Kudos Jayanthi! Her safety is now the responsibility of the nation.
However, the commission found that no crime has been committed as both parties had paid for their own respective holidays and that further investigations cannot be undertaken as a key witness could not be located. The rakyat now wishes to know who the person is, as only he or she is capable of putting the case to rest for ever.
But most appalling, the MACC and Nazri had both refused to name the witness that could not be located. If it’s not Jayanthi, they must now name the person as it is critical to safeguard the integrity of the judiciary. Their actions are indeed at best irresponsible and at worst amounting to ‘subverting’ the judiciary. Is that both moral and legal?
Inter alia, Jayanthi also divulged information pertaining judgment delivered by Judge Mokhtar Sidin in the Vincent Tan vs MGG Pillai ’s libel case that was written in the office of Lingam. Besides, on various occasions, she confessed having withdrawn large sums of cash between RM100,000 and RM300,000 under Lingam’s instructions which then were wrapped in gift boxes with the understanding that they were to be hand-delivered by others to individual judges.
“On one occasion I saw one of these money boxes being placed with a box containing a cake to be delivered to a judge,” she testified.
Despite the commission’s recommendation to conduct fresh investigations into the Lingam’s case, authorities decided to close two of the investigation documents and another was marked as ‘no further action’.
The Pakatan MPs and the rakyat the nation over, now unequivocally demand that the MACC and the relevant authorities would re-think their position.. The buck must stop at the premier. Pak lah, as a reminder to all and particularly to Najib, has now left a ‘legacy of lost opportunity’.
Najib had equally pronounced high-sounding rhetoric, ever since he took over the premiership in the same tradition of his predecessors. But slogans without substance undermine trust.
This is an opportune time to placate grouses against himself and vindicate his claims of People’s First. If he insists of doing it wrongly again, let him be reprimanded that, (quoting Voltaire), ”It’s dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong”!.
He shall be duly punished come next 13th GE!
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