1. Amatlah mengagumkan bagaimana Datuk Seri Najib berjaya berpura-pura bodoh dan cuba putar belit isu berkait saya menerima RM2.6 juta dari UKSB.

2. Najib cuba untuk menyamakan dengan isunya menerima RM2.6 billion yang masuk ke dalam akaunnya dan mendakwa diberi oleh Raja Arab yang sehingga hari ini tidak wujud atau tampil membuktikan kenyataan Najib.

3. Selain itu, dua mahkamah dan empat hakim telah dapati dia bersalah tujuh tuduhan pecah amanah, salah guna kedudukan dan pengubahan wang haram dana RM42 juta milik SRC, sebuah anak syarikat 1MDB.

4. Najib juga sedang dibicara di dalam mahkamah berkaitan kes 1MDB di atas empat pertuduhan menggunakan kedudukannya untuk peroleh suapan berjumlah RM2.3 billion dalam dana 1MDB dan 21 pertuduhan pengubahan wang haram berjumlah RM2.3 billion tersebut.

5. Kesemua aliran wang tersebut ada paper trail dan digital footprint dan kesemuanya terkait dengan Najib.

6. Ini berbeza keadaan dengan kenyataan David Tan dari UKSB di dalam mahkamah iaitu duit itu diberi melalui anak saudara saya Tan Sri Rahmat dan bukannya kepada saya.

7. Tidak ada bukti duit masuk akaun saya atau saya terima duit itu atau David Tan melihat duit itu diserah pada saya.

8. Yang ada hanyalah kenyataan David Tan yang bersandar pula kepada ledgernya digelar Buku 555.

9. Tan Sri Rahmat telah keluar kenyataan nafi dia serah apa-apa duit pada saya. Tan Sri Rahmat juga terangkan dia ada terima wang RM1.3 juta tetapi ini adalah imbuhan untuk jawatan sebagai pengerusi dan penasihat UKSB.

10. Dia telah letak jawatan di UKSB tidak lama kemudian dan serah kembali wang RM1.3 juta. Tan Sri Rahmat juga ada surat dan dokumen berkait dengan apa yang dinyatakannya.

11. Memang pun saya tidak pernah terima duit tersebut.

12. Ini sesuatu yang amat mudah di faham dan Najib memang faham. Dia berpura-pura tidak faham kerana dengan itu dia dapat terus bohong dan tipu untuk tutup kesalahannya menyamun wang rakyat.

13. Malangnya, dengan berpura-pura bodoh, Najib dapat terus perbodohkan penyokongnya.

1. Apandi ingin tahu asas dan sebab keputusan dibuat untuk tidak teruskan cadangan menuntut semula Batu Puteh sebagai milik Malaysia.

2. Saya telah jelaskan perkara ini berkali-kali. Yang perlu dijelas ialah bagaimana Apandi mencadang penyelesaian kes Jho Low dengan tawaran Jho Low untuk bayar kepada Kerajaan Malaysia sebanyak satu billion lima ratus juta Ringgit.

3. Apandi telah mendakwa dahulu bahawa tidak ada kesalahan yang dibuat oleh Datuk Seri Najib dalam kes 1MDB. Ini bermakna Jho Low juga tidak bersalah.

4. Jikalau tidak bersalah apa sebabnya Jho Low bercadang bayar satu setengah billion Ringgit kepada Kerajaan Malaysia. Cara orang yang tidak bersalah ialah dengan kembali ke Malaysia dan sanggup dibicara di mahkamah.

5. Tetapi Jho Low masih tidak sanggup kembali ke Malaysia walaupun sanggup menghubungi Apandi. Kesanggupan Apandi menerima tawaran Jho Low tentulah kerana Apandi sekarang akui yang Jho Low bersalah.

6. Lagi pun Najib didapati bersalah dengan ke semua tuduhan di mahkamah apabila dibicara. Sekaligus keputusan Apandi bahawa Najib tidak melakukan apa-apa kesalahan, ditolak oleh mahkamah apabila Najib dibicara. Ini bemakna Apandi cuai dalam menjalankan amanah sebagai AG.

7. Yang menjadi soalan ialah apakah jenis hubungan Apandi dengan Jho Low semasa ia memutuskan bahawa tidak ada apa-apa kesalahan yang dibuat oleh Najib. Jika ada hubungan maka ‘conflict of interest’ berlaku. Keputusan Apandi menghalang mahkamah dari membicara kes Najib dan juga melindungi Jho Low.

8. Adalah penting siasatan dibuat berkenaan hubungan Apandi dengan Jho Low.

1. Laporan-laporan berita bahawa Tan Sri Apandi Ali bertindak sebagai orang tengah untuk Jho Low amatlah mengejutkan.

2. Pertamanya, Apandi ketika menjadi Peguam Negara telah menyatakan tidak berlaku sebarang jenayah berkaitan dengan 1MDB serta menyucikan Perdana Menteri ketika itu Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

3. Pendirian Apandi itu berlaku di waktu beberapa Negara luar telah mengambil tindakan terhadap bank-bank dan orang persendirian yang terbabit dengan jenayah 1MDB.

4. Kerana itu apabila Pakatan Harapan mengambil-alih Kerajaan, perkhidmatan Apandi tidak dilanjutkan kerana sikap dan tindakannya menyucikan 1MDB secara langsung adalah kegagalannya melaksanakan amanah dan tanggungjawab Negara.

5. Selain itu, tindakannya juga secara langsung mempertahankan jenayah-jenayah yang telah dilakukan oleh Najib dan sekutu-sekutunya termasuklah Jho Low.

6. Hari ini hakim-hakim mahkamah tinggi dan mahkamah rayuan telah mendapati perlakuan jenayah tetap berlaku di dalam 1MDB dan menghukum penjara Najib Razak kerana kesalahan-kesalahan berkaitan 1MDB.

7. Sepatutnya Apandi merasa bersalah dan menyesal kerana pendiriannya menyekat jenayah 1MDB dari dihadap ke mahkamah.

8. Sekarang, dia sanggup menjadi orang tengah untuk Jho Low mendapat penyelesaian dan diberitakan dengan membayar Kerajaan Malaysia RM1.5 billion. Ini bermakna Jho Low bersalah. Jika tidak bersalah kenapa menawar wang untuk menyelesaikan tindakan terhadapnya.

9. Sekali lagi Negara dan rakyat Malaysia ingin dianiayai oleh Apandi dan Jho Low dengan tawaran penyelesaian sejumlah wang yang sebegitu kecil berbanding dengan pencurian wang negara berjumlah puluhan billion ringgit.

10. Tindakan Apandi yang sanggup bersekongkol dengan Jho Low amat mencurigakan.

11. Kesediaan Jho Low membayar untuk penyelesaian membukti bahawa Jho Low mengakui kesalahan.

12. Sekali lagi Apandi seharusnya mengambil sikap menyesali kesilapan atau kesalahannya yang dahulu dan bukannya mengambil upah (saya tidak percaya Apandi melakukan kerja orang tengah Jho Low secara percuma) dari penjenayah 1MDB yang Apandi telah bebaskan dahulu.

13. Di sini timbul kecurigaan bahawa kerjasama Apandi dengan Jho Low telah bermula semasa dia Peguam Negara.

14. Satu siasatan perlu dilakukan terhadap Apandi sama ada dia membuat keputusan menyucikan 1MDB dahulu kerana hubungannya dengan Jho Low.

15. Ini bukan sahaja satu conflict of interest. Lebih dari itu, ia adalah satu jenayah terancang untuk mencuri harta rakyat dan Negara dan ini membabitkan bukan sahaja Najib dan Jho Low tetapi juga Apandi.

16. Kerajaan hari ini bertanggungjwab untuk menyiasat kerana terdapat unsur kolusi (collusion) dan subahat (complicity) Apandi di dalam jenayah 1MDB untuk memastikan penyamun-penyamun Negara yang terbabit di dalam jenayah terancang ini diadili dan dihukum.

1. It is amazing. Najib is at it again. He is blatantly blaming others for the situation that he himself created.

2. Yes, the country is lagging behind its neighbours. Correct. But it is due to Najib’s corruption of the Government. It is due to the huge amounts of money he borrowed which have now disappeared. It is due to the projects he started which were not only overpriced but favoured the other parties. It is due to the projects being of little benefit to the country. And of course due to having to pay to settle the huge debts incurred by him. There is no money left to develop the country.

3. What does he expect the government which defeated him to do? Overlook all the crimes he has committed?

4. Who is he asking to focus on the economy? It cannot be PH as he has engineered the back door change of government; not once but twice.

5. Obviously the first change was not to his liking. Now he has managed to have his party as the Government. Well ask his party, ask the UMNO PM, why are we lagging behind now that Najib’s party is in power?

6. Big companies are leaving the country in droves. Everyone complains that getting approvals or permission for anything take months if not years. Only when money is paid will the permission be granted. Even meeting the ministers require bribes to make it possible. And frequently the ministers refuse to meet investors. Even the PM is not available.

7. In one project, a statement was made that the project is 90% completed, when even the ground has not been broken.

8. A high-speed train only saves time if it covers a long distance. For short distances the time saved is insignificant. And HSR is very costly.

9. Yes, we have to pay RM320 million to Singapore. That is because Najib made that silly agreement. Carrying on would drain the treasury more, at a time when we need to pay money for Najib’s borrowings.

10. Incidentally I am reading a novel about England a thousand years ago by Ken Follett. He tells of a crooked bishop caught red handed forging coins. The case was tried before an alderman who was his brother.

11. Instead of the sheriff prosecuting, the bishop prosecuted. He declared that he was in the coin workshop because he was going to arrest the counterfeiters.

12. In fact he was gloating over the counterfeit money he was forcing the jeweller to produce when the sheriff and his man at arms arrived. He was furious and was screaming at the sheriff.

13. But in his prosecution he named the counterfeiter as the culprit. The man protested and said he was forced to manufacture the coin by the bishop. Witnesses to the truth were dismissed.

14. The jeweller was declared guilty of counterfeiting and sentenced to be blinded and castrated. And the sentence was carried out immediately in full view of the town people.

15. That was justice in England of 10th century. It sounds like Najib’s twisting of facts and accusing others of the crimes he had committed. He stole billions of Ringgit which affected the development of Malaysia. Yet he puts the blame on PH which he brought down through the back door.

1. There was a time when Malaysia was admired as the best developed of the countries achieving independence after World War II. From a poor British colony, it became an Asian Tiger with GDP growth of 8% plus. It was believed that the growth would continue and Malaysia would become a developed country by 2020.

2. But today Malaysia is behind even Vietnam and Indonesia in terms of economic growth and political stability. A country that had changed Government democratically every five years, is now ruled by Governments which slipped in through the back door.

3. And these Governments are weak and liable to be overthrown by 3 Members of Parliament crossing over. It has happened once and it can happen any time.

4. The backdoor Governments are only concerned with sustaining enough support to remain in power.

5. The people have become apathetic, not caring what happens to the country. The Federal Government is made up of the parties rejected by the people in the 14th General Election because of corruption, stealing money and money laundering. It has no idea about administration. A dominant leader even declared that money borrowed by the Government need not to be paid.

6. Corruption is rampant and bureaucratic hassles deter investors. In the Johor state elections voters admit accepting money from the party that won.

7. One would have thought that the people would reject corrupt politicians. But no. They are winning elections to the point that they could form Governments after state elections. They truly believe that if general elections are held in the near future, they would win with good majorities through bribing the voters.

8. They believe, and apparently, they have good grounds for so believing, that the voters could be corrupted. And they have enough money to offer, because the money they had stolen from the Government is still with them.

9. It is even possible that a convict would be pardoned and be chosen as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The convict had already admitted that as PM he stole money, abused power, laundered stolen money and live a high life. Will he do it again? The chances are that he will.

10. What will happen to the country? Does not matter. The important thing is the money he is giving out. It may be stolen money. But that is his problem. You did not steal the money. It was given to you. So, take it even if it lasts only a day or two. Give him the vote.

11. That was the thinking in Melaka and in Johore. Will that also be the thinking in the 15th General Election!!

1. Tan Sri Apandi Ali telah fail tuntutan di Mahkamah terhadap saya setelah saya letak jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri. Dia tuduh yang saya berniat jahat dan tidak turut undang-undang dalam menamatkan perkhidmatannya sebagai Peguam Negara.

2. Saya telah beri kenyataan saya kepada pihak Peguam Negara. Saya pertahan tindakan saya dan percaya bahawa saya telah ikut prosidur yang ditetapkan dengan menasihati Yang di-Pertuan Agong bagi menamatkan perkhidmatan beliau sebagai Peguam Negara.

3. Pada masa itu saya berasa Tan Sri Apandi tidak dapat bertindak bebas kerana beliau merupakan peguam UMNO sejak sekian lama.

4. Dia tidak mungkin dapat berlaku adil dalam siasatan terhadap 1MDB dan salahlaku Dato Seri Najib. Malahan dia telah kata bahawa Najib tidak bersalah kerana kononnya tiada kes, sebelum apa-apa tindakan siasatan dibuat.

5. Sikap berat sebelah Apandi ini terbukti apabila Najib didapati bersalah oleh hakim Mahkamah Tinggi dan Rayuan dan dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 12 tahun serta denda RM210 juta.

6. Semasa saya beri keterangan kepada pihak Peguam Negara (Tan Sri Idrus Harun) bagi persediaan kes saman Apandi terhadap saya, saya telah dimaklum bahawa proses penamatan perkhidmatan itu betul dan mengikut prosidur dan Rule of Law.

7. Mereka maklumkan bahawa saya dan kerajaan telah memberi nasihat betul pada Yang di-Pertuan Agong supaya Tan Sri Apandi Ali ditamatkan perkhidmatan.

8. Saya terkejut apabila baca berita baru-baru ini tentang satu penyelesaian diluar mahkamah dibuat diantara Kerajaan dan Apandi. Terma penyelesaian juga dirahsiakan.

9. Saya tidak pun dimaklum tentang terma penyelesaian walaupun saya merupakan saksi utama.

10. Saya menulis pada Peguam Negara. Saya tidak bersetuju dengan cara penyelesaian tersebut dibuat. Saya berasa kerajaan tidak sepatutnya tunduk memandang bahawa tindakan penamatan perkhidmatan Apandi mengikut semua urusan dan kuasa yang ada pada Kerajaan.

11. Saya tidak faham kenapa terma penyelesaian harus dirahsia dari saya serta rakyat. Rakyat berhak tahu. Lebih-lebih lagi jika ianya melibatkan pampasan.

12. Apakah pampasan perlu dibayar jika tindakan dibuat mengikut undang-undang? Di mana prinsip Rule of Law.

13. Saya berpendapat penyelesaian memberi pampasan besar itu untuk seorang yang gagal melaksanakan tanggungjawab dengan baik adalah amat dikesali diwaktu mana sekalipun. Saya tidak mengaku salah dan bersedia untuk tuntutan Apandi di adili di mahkamah.

1. No one can deny that the Malaysia of today is not the country that the world acclaimed as the Asian Tiger. It is not even a shadow of its former self. It is now a kleptocracy – a country of thieves led by thieves.

2. How did this come about? How did a tiger descend so low as to be a failed country? The answer lies in the corruption of the country by specifically a corrupt leader.

3. When a person says “cash is king” he means that “corruption is king”. That was what Najib Razak said when he became Prime Minister of Malaysia. It is shocking but he meant it. His actions before and after his declaration proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that he believed in corruption as a way to achieve anything that he wishes. And among these was his ambition to continue to be Prime Minister of Malaysia for as long as he lived.

4. He apparently believed that in order to be effective corruption must be big. The size must be such that the recipient would find it difficult to reject. Just imagine a man who had never seen a thousand Ringgit is given a million Ringgit to do something wrong or immoral. Few would be able to resist.

5. And so when everyone is aware that he has stolen huge sums of Government money, none of the UMNO leaders or members would criticise him, not even to ask him to explain. They continued to support him.

6. As mentioned above Najib believed that to be effective the bribes must be very substantial. He needed to have billions of Ringgits for the schemes he had in mind. He was not thinking only about the money to be given as bribes. He wanted a lot of the money for himself and his wife.

7. He therefore conceived of very big projects which cost billions of Ringgits. Among the projects were the East Coast Railway and the high-speed train between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. He also decided to buy power plants.

8. For these projects money that he borrowed run into billions of Ringgits. By overpricing some of the money could be hived off and disappear.

9. But Najib found a way to exceed the ceiling the Government was allowed to borrow. He set up a Government – owned company ostensibly to invest. Normally such a fund would come from excess revenue earned by the Government. But this fund is to be borrowed.

10. Although 100% owned by the Government, the company, 1MDB (1 Malaysia Development Berhad) was not subject to the Government ceiling for borrowing. At that time the ceiling was 53% of the GDP. He borrowed 42 billion Ringgit, the biggest loan ever raised by the country.

11. Part of this money was used to buy power plants at above the market prices. Much of the rest of the fund just disappeared after having invested in dubious oil and gas projects in the Middle East. Some money was moved through banks in the Caribbean, in the Seychelles and Singapore. Somehow a substantial sum ended in Najib’s account in the AmBank.

12. Later Najib claimed that billion plus in his bank account was gifts from Saudi royalty.

13. This claim can be verified. But little attempt was made to trace the movements of the money. Large sums of money are not easily moved. Cash would be so huge that it is not practical to move it around. It has to be in the form of documents; cheques for example or electronic transfers.

14. There must be records held by the banks issuing the documents or receiving the documents. There will be records both at the issuing banks and the receiving banks.

15. Then the banks must record how the money came to be in the banks, the depositor or depositors, the way the money was earned. If the investigators cared, they would be able to trace the movements of the money and prove whether the claim that it was a gift is true.

16. But there is no evidence that a thorough investigation was carried out. And so the claim that it was a gift was accepted.

17. The sum is very big. The Saudis may be rich and generous but even they would not reward a foreign leader such a huge sum of money for his role in helping the Palestinians.

18. Then there is the money and expensive articles found in the Pavilion. Initially the police claimed that the money and the articles were bought with money from 1MDB.

19. Later it was claimed that the Government could not prove that the money and the purchase of luxury articles were with money stolen from the Government – principally from 1MDB.

20. And so it was decided to give the money and the gifts back to Najib as they were the gifts to him. As pointed out above, tracing the source of the money was not thorough. It is more likely that they were not gifts. Imagine the Saudi king giving so many luxury handbags to Rosmah. There are no documents to prove this. But jewellers in New York claims they sold jewellery to Rosmah. Has the Malaysian authority investigated this.

21. If Najib cannot prove that the gifts were gifts, they should not give the money and the gifts to Najib. Like the Government the proof that these were gifts were not adequate. The Government should retain the money and gifts until the sources are proven.

22. At this moment no one knows where the rest of the 42 billion Ringgit has gone to. It was suggested that Jho Low had taken the money. I suspect that blaming Jho Low is because he could not be reached. It is not possible to investigate him.

1. I am prepared to accept that, in terms of development, Malaysia has fallen behind Indonesia and Vietnam lately. Of course we have always been behind Singapore.

2. But I was shocked when I discovered that we are also behind some African countries. We are not prepared to use the latest technology to achieve efficiency and limit corruption. We reject this technology because it may expose the wrong doings of our Members of Parliament.

3. I am told that if we adopt this new technology there would be loud protests from members of Parliament. It would seem that many of them are involved in the export and import business.

4. And so the country continues to lose lots of money because we reject better ways of management.

5. But African countries are saving billions because their management, using the new equipment is more efficient. They are already drawing ahead of us.
6. Of course we need not feel ashamed about our being overtaken by African countries. Haven’t we been told that stealing Government money is not something we should feel ashamed about. If our boss does it, it is okay.

7. After all the boss throws a few crumbs to us. That is how generous the boss is. We have shown our appreciation by supporting the party of the boss. They may shamelessly steal more money and give us some in appreciation. That’s okay.

8. Don’t adopt the new technology because if may cause our law makers to lose money. Reject it. Let the country go bankrupt. Its only the country losing money. You don’t lose. It’s okay.

1. For a long time now Malaysians have expressed disgust with the corruption of the politicians.

2. It is one thing to be against corruption but it is another thing to act against corruption.

3. Many would say that there is no opportunity to act against corruption. But really there is.

4. The state election and elections in general will provide opportunities to act effectively against corrupt practices.

5. In the Johor State Elections we should see the corrupt parties being challenged and defeated by the anti-corruption people.

6. Most of the parties fielding candidates for the Johor Election are from parties tainted by corruption in the past. They were so corrupt that the electorate rejected them in the fourteenth Election.

7. But now they are back. Maybe they will field new candidates. But the parties and the leadership are still the same. They may talk about wanting to do away with corruption. But their campaign would depend much on bribing the voters in one way or another.

8. Against these corrupt parties will be newer parties, led by politicians who had refused to be bribed into overthrowing the Government elected by the people in the 14th General Elections. They uphold democracy even if they had to make costly sacrifice.

9. For the corrupt the choice will be very simple. They will vote for the candidates from the corrupt parties. But for those voters who are against corruption their votes will reflect their strength in their stand against corruption.

10. It will be difficult. For numerous elections they had remained loyal to their chosen party. They had overlooked some deviations by their party, gave them the benefit of their doubt and supported the party. But now the corruption, the deviations have become very serious. They have affected the good reputations of the past. In fact the good name won by the party has been reversed not only in Malaysia but also in the world. Corruption has actually overthrown a Government chosen by the people, a democratic Government.

11. Some loyalists may choose not to vote. If they do that, the diehard loyalists would still vote. And the corrupt candidates would win. The Government would be corrupt and continue to be corrupt.

12. But if they, the anti-corruption voters are still truly against corruption they would come out in great numbers and vote for the anti-corruption candidates. The result would be a clean Government.

13. But will there be enough votes for those against corruption to win. If the 14th General Election is any indicator, they can win.

14. The 14th General Election showed the determination of the free voters. i.e the voters who were tied to no party, exercising their right to support candidates of their choice. Thus the opposition won.

15. This time around the anti-corruption voters would be more because of their disgust with the two governments which had seized power through party hopping – through non-democratic means.

16. But will the anti-corruption party win enough seats. It is possible that it will not. There would be a need to form some kind of coalition with partners who are not involved with corruption.

17. Remember UMNO by itself could not form a Government. Although UMNO is also a Malay party it accepted the need to work with non-Malay parties.

18. Pejuang too would be a leader in a coalition with multiracial parties which subscribe to its anti-corruption principles and is aware that disparities between people and states need to be corrected in a fair and equitable way.

1. War is about killing people. And killing people is a crime. Yet so-called civilised people choose war in order to settle conflicts between them.
2. I had tried to criminalise war. But I was unsuccessful. Today wars are being fought. They are terrible because everyone is regarded as legitimate targets, not just the soldiers but all the non-combatants, men, women, the old, the sick, children and the babies. No one is spared.
3. And now the weapons. They are more powerful. They destroy whole cities and the people living in them. Buildings, old and new are pulverised and levelled to the ground.
4. The destruction is beyond imagination. The wounded are left unattended, crying and screaming with pain. The dead, sprawled and decomposing on streets, twisted, without limbs or heads, being eaten by dogs and other animals.
5. And all these are done by men, so-called civilised men. And they do it on the instruction of older men. Now they are committing genocide.
6. I would like to appeal to the leaders of powerful countries to stop this carnage. War does not solve anything. But the cost is horrible.
7. Please stop it.
8. Please go back to negotiations, to arbitrations, to courts of law.
9. The result may not be satisfactory. But wars also produce no satisfactory results.
10. But at least no one gets wounded, no one dies, no devastations of whole countries when we do not war.
11. I would like to appeal to the leaders of great powers to stop resorting to wars as a means of settling conflicts.
12. Stop inventing new and more destructive weapons.
13. Stop selling arms.
14. Strengthen international institutions for peace.