PKR is wasting their time!

Pakatan Rakyat parliamentarian have urged the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to review the ruling government's RM3.7 billion Scorpene submarine purchase following moves by the French legal circles to probe the matter.

Stop wasting time! No way MACC will be doing such thing! But I understand that PKR must at least try to do something! I guess better than parties like MCA and their supporters who keeps quiet on such blatant corruption!

PKR call comes in wake of a visit by French legal officer Joseph Breham's who is currently in Kuala Lumpur on a two-day fact finding mission targetting the scandal.

Breham is one of the three lawyers who has filed a case with Parisian prosecutors on behalf of local human rights group Suaram on DCN's sale of the three submarines to Malaysia in 2001.

A French court has opened a preliminary investigation into the matter and Breham would be advising Suaram on the next step.

The opposition parliamentarians spent an hour with Breham before having a press conference during which they noted that the French defence giant had a history for being investigated for corruption and handing out bribes to government officials.

Among the countries where such incidents are alleged to have occurred are India and Taiwan, two nations which have had arms dealings with DCN.

PKR's Batu member of Parliament Tian Chua said the French authorities' ongoing probe in the two countries suggests there could be discrepancies in the Malaysian transaction which saw the payment of RM534.8 million to local company Perimekar for supposed 'support services'.

The sum has instead been alleged to have been kickbacks for various government-linked officials from the sale of the submarine.

'Failure to investigate'

"We call upon the MACC to review and investigate thoroughly the transaction relating to the payment of these monies to Perimekar and to follow the money trail.

"MACC ought to obtain information from DCN and the French authorities so that those who are involved in bribery and corruption are made accountable and brought to justice promptly," he said.

He told Malaysiakini that during their meeting with Breham, the Pakatan parliamentarians had also discussed the workings of the French legal system.

Also present at the press conference were parliamentarians William Leong (PKR-Selayang), Dzulkefly Ahmad (PAS-Kuala Selangor) and M Manoharan (DAP-Teluk Intan).

"The MACC has not instilled confidence in the Malaysian public that it is capable of carrying out independent and professional investigation and prosecution of corrupt senior officials," said Tian Chua (right).

"The lack of a thorough and proper investigation into this matter by MACC is seen by their failure to investigate and obtain information from France and other countries.

He added the information dug out by the French after Suaram's complaint only reflected on MACC's 'lack of thoroughness.

"The MACC or its predecessor, the ACA, had conducted investigations in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe when investigating Eric Chia in the Perwaja case.

"The failure of the MACC to carry out investigations in France on the Perimekar case is therefore a glaring omission," said Tian.

Well I hope Altantunya will come back and claim her commission (with interest!) from Najib in his sleep!!!

Wah! Court rule in favour of UMNO!

Are we still surprise by this rulling?!?

The appellate court in Putrajaya has dismissed an appeal by Elegant Advisory Sdn Bhd to reinstate its RM218 million suit against Umno, for alleged non-payment of election campaign paraphernalia.

Court of Appeal judge Justice Tengku Baharudin Shah Tengku Mahmud - sitting with Justice Abu Samah Nordin and Justice Sulong Matjeraie - delivered the unanimous decision.

Justice Tengku Baharuddin said Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Justice Anantham Kasinater had made the right decision in striking out the case on Sept 10 last year.

"Although we felt the judge had gone overboard in looking at the merits of the case at the preliminary stage, there is basis as the claim did not include material facts vital to the application," he said.

The appeal was dismissed with costs of RM5,000, to be paid by Elegant Advisory, which had claimed to have supplied the materials for the 2004 general election.

Hafarizam welcome the decision, saying it shows that Umno had not violated procedures on campaign expenditure.

"We hope that this will dispel rumours in parliament that we (violated the) Election Offences Act.

The Act in question stipulates that campaign materials for parliamentary elections should not be in excess of RM200,000 while that for state seats is capped at RM100,000.

Justice Anantham, in striking out the suit earlier, said the court was satisfied the claim did not meet the requirements of Section 71 of the Contracts Act, and ruled it as unjust enrichment.

Describing the suit as frivolous and vexatious, he said there was no merit for the case to go for a full trial and ordered the company to pay costs of RM10,000.

Elegant vs Umno

The company had initially obtained a judgment in default against Umno on 17 July, 2008.

The case was then brought before Justice Anantham on an appeal by the party, resulting in the judgement being set aside.

Elegant had initially named then Umno treasurer Abdul Azim Zabidi as the defendant, but the court later permitted the company to amend its claim by replacing Abdul Azim's name with the party's former administration and finance secretary Ishak Abdul Rahman's as defendant.

The poll merchandise scandal was first highlighted when Malaysiakini ran a series of exclusive reports three months after BN won a landslide victory in the 2004 general election.

Elegant Advisory filed the suit claiming a sum of RM218,013,475 as compensation from Umno for the supply of election campaign materials, which include posters, banners, buntings, flags, souvenirs, mineral water and transport costs.

The claim was made on the basis of Section 71 of the Contracts Act, in which Umno is obliged to pay the campaign materials to Elegant Advisory.

The company's statement of claim said that in March 2004, it had supplied the campaign materials to Umno at the party's request, based on an order agreed upon between both parties.

It claims the company had managed to fulfil the defendant's request and order for the large quantity and urgency required by engaging third-party subcontractors such as printers.

BN faces more lawsuits

This is not the only lawsuit currently afflicting the ruling coalition.

The ruling party is involved in another lawsuit by Pentas Permata Sdn Bhd set to be heard at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on 10 May, 2010.

The Shah Alam company is suing BN for RM500 million over breach of contract over an agreement for a promotional campaign to put up 3,222 billboards nationwide to boost the image of the coalition ahead of a general election.

The campaign was proposed on 30 Aug, 2005 and the agreement signed with BN on 5 Jan, 2006.

Pentas Permata claimed that it worked tirelessly and incurred costs in designing the billboards, identifying placement sites and applying for the relevant permits to put them up.

BN however terminated the contract on 2 Feb, 2007. The company alleges that the client had failed to provide an agreed six-month period of notice for termination resulting in a loss of potential advertising revenue from the billboards.

The coalition, in its statement of defence, claims that the terms of the agreement are clear in that Pentas Permata was only entitled to sell advertisements, and not to benefit from the proceeds.

Should give Najib a bad KPI for this!

This is a direct cut and paste from Malaysiakini.
Najib was ask to take action in the wake of a damning United States Senate report on human trafficking in Malaysia back in April 2009.
But till today nothing significant has been done and the situation is getting worse!

WHY???

Police in Sabah fear that human trafficking in the state may soon spin out of control if something isn't done seriously about the growing menace. This follows, according to them, the mushrooming of suspect massage parlours, night spots and match-making agencies in Kota Kinabalu and other major cities and towns in the state “and the long, porous borders”.

“Human trafficking may be significantly linked to Sabah if it is not tackled soon,” admitted DSP Mohd Taufik Maidin at a seminar organised in Kota Kinabalu yesterday by the Sabah Women's Advisory Council (SaWAC). “Already now there are escort services and guest relations officers (GROs) available as a cover. This puts Sabah in the right spot for such crimes.

Taufik heads the Gambling, Gangsterism and Prostitution Unit within the Sabah Police CID.

Taufik disclosed that Sabah was among the top three human trafficking hotspots in the country. He did not mention the other two hotspots in his presentation.

Sabah's growing notoriety

As evidence of Sabah's growing notoriety from the menace, he cited the prosecution of 23 pimps, including seven women, in the state in the last two years. The seven women were arrested this month along with four other pimps who were involved in similar operations in Indonesia, he added. “They moved here because the pickings were reportedly better and enforcement is weak.”

Twenty-two women were rescued in January alone in Keningau, according to Taufik, and 33 other women elsewhere in eight raids last year. “The cases are being treated under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 (ATIP Act) as they were trafficked and tricked into prostitution”.

Explaining the difference between a prostitute and a person trafficked for sexual purposes, Taufik stressed that the former was free to move around unlike the latter. Trafficked women are generally confined, abused and are not allowed to move around without close monitoring, it was pointed out. “These women were sometimes forced into the sex slave trade by deception, coercion, abuse or intimidation.”

The authorities find prosecutions under the 2007 Act not only an uphill challenge but often a losing battle at the end of the day. They attribute this to the reluctance of victims of human trafficking to co-operate with the law and admit that they were trafficked and lured into prostitution.

“We believe that if ten persons, for example, point their fingers at the same person for the same illegal operation, we will be able to nab the human traffickers,” said Taufik, calling for greater co-operation from other agencies and the various consulates in the state to battle the scourge.

Another difficulty faced by the authorities was housing and caring for victims of human trafficking pending their day in court.

While human traffickers could easily escape persecution under the 2007 Act in the absence of co-operation from their victims, ironically the latter could still be charged under the Immigration Act for over-staying, misusing their social passes or, under Section 372B of the Penal Code, for soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.

The human traffickers meanwhile get the proverbial slap on the wrist under Section 372A of the Penal Code for living on or trading in prostitution.

'Enforcement is weak'

“Human trafficking is the nation's number two problem after drugs,” charged senior lawyer Martin Idang who represented the Archdiocese Human Development Commission Kota Kinabalu at the seminar. “It's important to tackle this problem before it gets any worse.”

SaWAC deputy chairperson Mariati Robert, speaking on the sidelines of the seminar, charged that enforcement of the 2007 Act was weak amidst strong circumstantial evidence that “the authorities were also actively involved in human trafficking.”

Earlier, in closing the seminar, the senior lawyer attributed the negative public perception of the police, Immigration Department, Home Ministry, Human Resources Ministry and other relevant authorities to “their failure to curb human trafficking activities in Sabah.”

Mariati, continuing, told the local media that the existing Special Task Force on illegal immigration should also consider the human trafficking aspect of the problem.

“Instead of setting up a new task force to combat human trafficking, it's better to extend the existing Special Task Force on illegal immigration to include human trafficking as well,” she said, seeing both problems as inter-twined.

SaWAC's campaign against human trafficking amongst locals, she disclosed, would henceforth focus on warning the youth against dubious job offers from syndicates and encouraging the setting up of shelters for victims. Here, the local and foreign victims could avail themselves of counseling and other support programmes on the road to recovery and while awaiting their court cases.

“There are only three protection centres in Sabah including the Good Shepherd Welfare Centre,” lamented Mariati, calling for more NGO involvement in resolving the problem of lack of shelters. “Two other centres are run by the government in Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.”

The 200-odd participants at the seminar heard that five individuals have been sentenced so far under the 2007 Act. The first involved an Indian national who pleaded guilty to exploiting his maid for prostitution, and jailed eight years.

Since Feb 2008, 173 suspects have been arrested under the 2007 Act, of whom 23 were prosecuted, 17 brought to court and 36 cases still under investigation.

Malaysians, according to presentations at the seminar, are also involved in human trafficking activities in Singapore, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

Women brought into Malaysia are usually from Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Korea, Philippines and Indonesia.

As expected the 2 Corrupt Perak frogs gets an Acquitted!

Free to go! BN friendly MPs!

As expected!!
The two former Perak exco members whose defections brought down the Pakatan state government and three others were acquitted by a Sessions Court here without their defence being called in a high-profile corruption trial.

This just makes me sick reading this!

The five were charge for being involved in bribes of between RM400 and RM10,000 from one Mohamad Imran Abdullah and demand of sex from a woman through Imran. They occurred between Aug 6 and 11 in the Hotel Excelsior coffeehouse.

During the hearing, it was revealed that the MACC had procured the services of an agent provocateur and women to offer sexual services. Clips allegedly showing one of the accused having sex with a woman was shown in open court.

AFTER ALL THAT THEY STILL GOT AN ACQUITTAL!?!?!

Doesn't this news just makes you want to curse our judiciary system??

Malaysiakini had reported that the frogs may have gotten RM3million for jumping ship!
I don't have prove about that but this much we know... they got at least their freedom for being frogs!

I just hope those frogs will jump out of the frying pan and into the fire!!

meanwhile the other perak frog got a datukship for her troubles!
*@#!!@F***!

Aminulrasyid Amzah Death! Is 5 years justice for this crime?

Kpl Jenain had been charged with causing Aminulrasyid’s death between 1.10am and 2am on April 26 last year at Jalan Tarian 11/2 here.

Sept 16, 2011 - SHAH ALAM: Kpl Jenain Subi has been found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail for causing the death of 15-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah in a shooting incident during a car chase.

“The accused agreed that 21 gunshots were fired. This shows that there was indeed intention to cause death,” Latifah said.

Judgment day: Kpl Jenain arriving at the Shah Alam courthouse Thursday.

She said Kpl Jenain had testified that he wanted to “pursue and stop” a car with the licence plate BET 5023 and help the police patrol team.

However, she pointed out that Kpl Jenain had also agreed during cross-examination that the car driven by Aminulrasyid was slowing down.

“The car was not capable of speeding away as it was already slowing and swaying when it entered Jalan Tarian.

“He agreed that the car did not pose any danger to the police patrol team or the surroundings of the housing area as there were no passers-by or other vehicles,” said Latifah.

The court found that the situation did not warrant Kpl Jenain to open fire with his HK MP5 submachine gun, she said.

“The accused should have known that firing from his automatic submachine gun is dangerous,” she said.

In passing the sentence, Latifah also granted a stay of execution pending an appeal against the conviction.

Idham later told reporters that the prosecution would appeal against the five-year jail term.

Aminulrasyid’s mother Norsiah Mohammad, 62, who was in tears after the verdict, said Kpl Jenain’s conviction had cleared her son’s name.

“It shows that my son is not a criminal,” she said.

The trial that started on Oct 12 last year saw 39 prosecution witnesses taking the stand while three witnesses, including Kpl Jenain, testified for the defence.

PKFZ scandal will come to nothing with OTK losing his MCA Presidency

As I expected, PKFZ scandal will die a slow and quiet death without anyone being purnished for corruption or etc.!

PETALING JAYA (April 18, 2010) : All previous directors of the Port Klang Authority (PKA) under whose watch the nation lost more than RM12 billion in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal have been let off the hook.

This deals a severe blow to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat's promise to bring to book all those responsible for the scandal and the current Board's undertaking to leave no stone unturned to hold its predecessors responsible for the massive losses.

At its meeting two weeks ago, the PKA board decided not to take any form of action against members of previous boards which allowed the management of PKFZ to enter into dubious and non-existent deals.

The 11 directors "reached a consensus" that although the previous directors failed in their fiduciary duties; it was not intentional as “they did not personally gain from such breaches".

Their reasoning grossly undermines the findings of a PKA-commissioned PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report into the scandal which among others noted of potential conflicts of interests of parties with either the land or PKFZ turnkey contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB).

The PwC report noted that the board “did not exercise oversight and adequate governance” over the implementation of the project which included that no board approval was sought when the PKA’s Common Seal was affixed to agreements; when delivery of the land was accepted without KDSB completing the infrastructure works; and when variation orders totalling RM62.6 million were accepted.

The current board’s decision is a far-cry from its gung-ho attitude when it was set up in 2008 under present chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng. Then, it undertook to leave no stone unturned in getting all those responsible for the debacle to be held answerable.

When contacted today, Lee said there was lack of evidence to go after the former directors and that the board had taken the advice of lawyers. He declined to elaborate.

Lee had said on March 1 said that PKA had yet to let the former directors off the hook due to a lack of clear evidence.

Does the timing of these change of events come closely with Ong Tee Keat losses in the MCA election?

The face of a lame duck!

Your reward for being a traitor!

Just found out from Malaysiakini that...
Jelapang state representative Hee Yit Foong, whose defection from DAP triggered BN's takeover of Perak, will today receive the Darjah Datuk Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP).

The face of a traitor.

Hee, who is among 56 recipients of Datukship, is appointed deputy Perak legislative assembly speaker after becoming a BN-friendly state representative.

Her defections along with two PKR reps - Osman Jailu and Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi - made it possible for BN to reclaim Perak from Pakatan Rakyat after the sultan sacked then menteri besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.

So for this act of betrayal, she has been awarded a Datukship!

MALAYSIA BOLEH!!

Why Najib paid RM77 million to APCO

Been reading about the APCO issue and my fav has got to be the article by Tunku Abdul Aziz

(I got from LKS site)

I tried to cut short the article for simple reading.

Najib Greases His Way To Washington D.C
And so it has finally happened. Najib, the Prime Minister of Malaysia was thrown a few crumbs, a few brief moment to savour, exchanging pleasantries with US President Obama on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit.

What irks me about this non-event meeting is that we had to resort to employing a very expensive public relations firm (APCO), for which read grubby Washington lobbyists, for close to 25 million US$ dollars, give or take a million dollars here and there.

Small change I suppose when it is not your hard-earned money.

Maintaining diplomatic missions abroad requires a huge budget, and ours in Washington D.C must cost us an arm and a leg. So Malaysian tax payers have every right to expect to get value for money, especially when we were assured by Prime Minister Najib that his choice of our ambassador to the US was based on the gentleman’s credentials, whatever those might be.

One of his qualifications, so we were told, was that he had developed extensive networking, Washington D.C style, into a fine art, and could be reasonably expected to pave the way for getting Malaysia into the inside track.

Our man in D.C. could not, on this occasion, even arrange a fleeting “hello and goodbye” meeting without resorting, in the time honoured Malaysian culture of corruption, to that offensive practice euphemistically referred to as “cheque book diplomacy.”

The Prime Minister could not have picked a better candidate for the job, and I wonder if there would ever be an end to the perceived sleaziness, rightly or wrongly, that has come to be associated with Najib. For the all our sakes, the Prime Minister has to be a little more circumspect and open in his dealings.

What has this visit achieved for the money and time expended?

A photo opportunity at most for Najib, but for Malaysia, toeing submissively the American/Israeli policy against Iran. We decried Bush’s attack on Iraq because we were not convinced that the claimed weapons of mass destruction really existed.

But three days after Najib held talks with US President Barack Obama, the Prime Minister confirmed last Thursday (15 April 2010) that Malaysia has cut off gasoline supplies to Iran, warning Tehran it was close to facing new international sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme

Why are we so quick of the mark this time to believe the Israeli-inspired conspiracy against Iran? Where is the incontrovertible evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons? What have we done to urge the Americans to dismantle Israeli nuclear warheads?

Anyone familiar with the workings of the American system on the international policy level will realise that no matter how often you meet Obama, nothing will happen unless the very powerful pro-Jewish Congressional committees want it to happen.

Rather than swimming in circles in the murky Potomac inhabited by totally disreputable money-grabbing grey-suited lobbyists just to pay homage to the White House, it would be easier and a great deal less costly to recognise Israel.

(Malaysia currently does not recognise Isreal and banned all Jewish goods and products....except for APCO Ha! Ha! Ha!)

All this pretence that it does not exist has to make way for a pragmatic new policy. We have to exorcise the ghost of Mahathir’s rabid anti-Jewish ghost or we will get nowhere.

I recall in 2006 while serving with the UN in New York I was invited to deliver a talk at a conference in Jerusalem. They wanted to know why Malaysia did not recognise Israel and, yet at the same time our government leaders saw nothing wrong in depositing huge sums of money in Israeli banks.

By all means get close to Washington, Najib, but not at any cost.

Thanks Malaysian Today!

Thanks Malaysian Today for giving us prove that APCO is a Jewish company and the Malaysian Govt has paid them a lot of money to do PR work for them!

MIC arrogance against their own race!

'No effect'.

Those were the words of BN's Hulu Selangor by-election candidate P Kamalanathan when asked for his opinion on whether the well-known Indian rights movement would be able exert its influence among the constituency's Indian electorate.

"Hindraf? No effect. The people will judge us from our work not by any individual. Most of them have forgotten (Hindraf)," he said, dismissing the movement in having any impact in the upcoming by-election.

Kamalanathan said there were still some who were keeping the legacy of Hindraf alive "...but the Hindraf by-products themselves are not sure where they are heading".

I hope all the Indians (and their friends and family) who got whack at the Hindraf demonstration in the past will wake up and help campaign against P. Kamalanathan for his arrogance against his own race!

Reported by Malaysiakini

Why does Nazri get away with everything?

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz has called renowned Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand a liar over her claims that the Malaysian government exercised "political pressure" to stop her from testifying.

"She is a liar! She lied in the inquest and she is lying now," said the de-facto law minister (left) when contacted by Malaysiakini.

I want to know how does this minister know that Pornthip is lying when he has nothing to do with the trials or even closely related with the case?

Does this bigmouth minister know something we don't?

Or is he the one lying??

Kapal Singh is trying to get the courts to charge Nazri for contempt of court.

But I think it is a waste of time lah!

Like the courts will do anything to this guy!

This idiot can get away with saying anything he wants and nothing will happen to him!

Just remember guys! There is 1 law for UMNO ppl and 1 law for the rest of us Malaysian!

Happy 1 MALAYSIA!

Dumbest DPM Malaysia has ever had! This is why!

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is the biggest sucker of the day!
1 day before April Fool's Day, this dumbo got conned by DAP leader Lim Kit Siang who had challenge him to state whether he is a Malay or a Malaysian first.

Some question are just not meant to be answer outright as it is meant to trap you!

It is called entrapment! If you are smart you won't answer the question outright!

LKS knows that if Muhyiddin said Malaysian first, the UMNO goons will get angry and if Muhyiddin said Malay first, then the whole country will get piss off at the DPM.

Unfortunately, this cow-head was not too bright and just answer outright by saying..

"I am Malay first,"

he continues by saying...

"How can I say I'm Malaysian first and Malay second? All the Malays will shun me... and it's not proper," he said.

To make things worst (or to make himself look more stupid)

Muhyiddin challenged LKS to declare that he is a Malaysian first and Chinese second!

The embarrassing part was that Muhyiddin had to be told by reporters that LKS had already made such a declaration – in Parliament during the debate on the Royal Address on 18th March.

Two things that I hope will happen from this!

1. Muhyiddin effectively killed any chance of him becoming a Prime Minister for ALL MALAYSIANS!!!

2. The people in East Malaysia (Dayah, Iban, Kadazan, Dusun and etc.) will realize that BN is controlled by UMNO and UMNO are lead by leaders such as our very own DPM who is a Malay first and a Malaysian second!

This DPM should learn to shut up so as not to show everybody how high his IQ really is!

The biggest part of this joke is that Mudyiddin is said to be of a Johor-Riau and Bugis decendent.

Hmmmm... makes me wonder what is the real definition of a Malay?