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| Law minister under fire over defence of Azam |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 06:54 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has got his facts and law wrong in defending top graft-buster Azam Baki over his ownership of corporate shares, a PKR MP has claimed.
Sungai Buloh MP R Sivarasa told FMT that Wan Junaidi was wrong on the value of shares owned by Azam, as well as on the laws on share ownership by public servants.
Yesterday, Wan Junaidi said the shares owned by Azam were “not expensive” when they were acquired in 2016 — priced between 30 sen and 33 sen each — and that the one million units were valued at RM330,000 at the time.
However, Sivarasa said records show that shares and warrants were bought under Azam’s name between 2015 and 2016 in two public listed companies. This, he said, would have been worth some RM2 million.
For the record, Azam has said that he did not purchase the shares and that his brother had used his share account to purchase them.
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| ‘We have your back, Azam’: MACC expresses support for its chief |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 12:11 PM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has thrown its backing to its embattled chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki amid allegations of impropriety involving the top dog.
In a memorandum of support issued this morning, the anti-graft body said the commission is united in defending the institution and its chief for the sake of its continued fight against corruption, and called for an immediate end to the ongoing imbroglio.
The statement was jointly signed by MACC’s three deputy chief commissioners – Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi Yahaya (operations), Datuk Seri Norazlan Mohd Razali (prevention) and Datuk Junipah Wandi (management and professionalism).
“We represent the whole of MACC in stating our stand of supporting Azam’s leadership,” the statement read.
“We are of the view that the allegations and attacks made against him are motivated by the politics of revenge, to tarnish MACC’s image and reputation.
“We urge all quarters to stop the attacks and allow the due legal process to be carried out fairly, transparently and equitably.”
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| Was Taman Sri Muda drainage done properly, says ex-deputy minister |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 12:03 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News
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PETALING JAYA: A former deputy minister has questioned the state of enforcement over drainage systems in Taman Sri Muda, the worst-hit area when a tropical depression brought massive flooding in five states.
At least 25 people died in the floods in Selangor, most of the deaths occurring in Taman Sri Muda in Shah Alam.
Former deputy housing and local government minister Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah, an architect by training, said the severity of the flooding would not have been as great “if things were done properly”.
He said: “Warnings have been issued many times, but nobody has taken them seriously.”
The residents association of Taman Sri Muda told FMT recently that their drainage systems had been swamped with water from nearby areas, amounting to three times what the drains were designed to handle.
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| A failed state - when ‘pontianak’ comes out to play |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 11:58 AM - Forum: Politics
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Headhunter: Malaysiakini columnist Fa Abdul’s description of the abandoned school fits perfectly of a failed state. The usual story of a huge amount of rakyat money spent on a project which failed miserably due to endemic corruption and at the end of the day, no one is made accountable.
We read this almost on a daily basis with no end in sight. The perpetrators are still in power and fighting among themselves over the spoils, while agencies like the MACC are even getting into the act.
We can only wring our hands and keep paying tax for them to steal. And those convicted of being the most corrupted in history are still walking free and proudly displaying their arrogance and thumping their nose at us peasants. Nothing short of a people’s revolution will stop it.
BluePanther4725: This abandoned school of SK Danau Perdana in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur, as mentioned by Fa is just one of the many failed government projects during the corrupted Umno/BN era.
Now Perikatan Nasional (PN) is continuing with the corruption legacy. Nobody will do anything about this abandoned school project funded by the rakyat's tax money as all the parties and cronies involved have received their huge payoff and are happily enjoying their rich, luxurious life. Only the people are left to suffer.
So, we ask ourselves, do we still want to vote for this kind of irresponsible government like PN/BN in the 15th general election? Do we want to repeat this mistake over and over and suffer the same consequences? We need to wake up from this nightmare.
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| Not enough for MACC advisory board members to distance themselves: Gomez |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 09:30 AM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – Political economist Terence Gomez has demanded to know why he was not informed about a purported decision reached by the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board (LPPR) on the alleged impropriety of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner, if indeed the board had met and discussed the matter on November 24 last year.
Gomez, who resigned as a member of MACC’s consultative and corruption prevention panel over the alleged conflict of interest, called on the board members to confirm if the meeting, in which Tan Sri Azam Baki was supposedly exonerated took place, as claimed by LPPR chairman Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang.
Abu Zahar had claimed at a press conference on January 5 that the board was satisfied with the explanation given by Azam on the issue of his procurement of shares.
However, in a joint statement yesterday, six members of the board denied having expressed such an opinion, saying that Abu Zahar’s comments were his own “personal view”.
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| Protect whistleblower Lalitha under the spirit of the law, says MP |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-09-2022, 09:24 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: The use of legal action against whistleblower Lalitha Kunaratnam, who wrote articles linking the anti-corruption chief to share purchases, would be a mockery of the whistleblower protection law, an MP said today.
Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh said Lalitha deserved protection under the spirit of the law, although Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Azam Baki could argue that she is not entitled to protection as she did not report her grievance to the relevant enforcement agency.
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| ‘Weird’ of ex-PM to use ‘cyber-gangsterism’ to divert attention |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-08-2022, 06:50 PM - Forum: Politics
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‘Weird’ of ex-PM to use ‘cyber-gangsterism’ to divert attention: tycoon Lee Kim Yew claps back at Najib
KUALA LUMPUR – Tycoon Tan Sri Lee Kim Yew finally broke his silence after he was repeatedly mentioned by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak since late December.
Lee became a favourite topic after describing Najib as “a convicted criminal awaiting outcome of an appeal” when the former prime minister became the keynote speaker at the World Chinese Economic Forum (WCEF).
In an elaborate and snarky Facebook post today, the tycoon lambasted Najib for stooping to acts of “cyber-gangsterism” and using social media to divert attention from the 1MDB scandal and other court cases, where Najib was labelled a “national embarrassment” by the Court of Appeal.
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| M’sia set to become worst country in the world, unless… |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-08-2022, 06:38 PM - Forum: Politics
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KANGAR – Malaysia is on track to become the worst country in the world unless its custodians change how they conduct themselves in leading the nation, said former Perlis menteri besar Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Pawanteh.
He said the ills – from healthcare, to the economy and politics – afflicting the country will worsen unless a determined sense of change takes place soon.
He blamed it on the education system, which has failed to produce the right type of leaders for the new age of globalisation and emergence of great threats, such as Covid-19.
“My anger, bitterness and remorse are sincere. Our education system has failed, and we do not have the right quality of leaders to take us forward,” he told The Vibes.
Hamid, 77, who also served as Dewan Negara president, said the poor education system has led to the shortcut adoption of abusing race, religion and sovereignty to “pursue evil than for the greater good of fellow Malaysians”.
The main culprit is Umno, as the party has betrayed its own cause, he added.
“I grew up detached from the royalty as they are not the working class. But now, it has come full circle – the royalty represents a glimmer of hope to arrest this steep descent into the annals of a disjointed country.” – The Vibes, August 5, 2021
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