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Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim


Malaysia menuju bankrap acuan ekonomi Najib – Nurul Izzah

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:09 AM PDT

KeadilanDaily

Malaysia menuju ke arah bankrap jika negara ini terus ditadbir di bawah Umno Barisan Nasional (BN) dan kepimpinan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, kata Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Beliau berkata, sistem ekonomi acuan Najibnomics menyerlahkan kepincangan negara menuju bankrap apabila Laporan Ketua Audit Negara (LKAN) ditangguh walaupun Bajet BN 2013 dibentang hampir dua minggu lalu.

"Bayangkan sejak Najib ambil alih, kalau dulu diberikan laporan audit kepada Ahli-ahli Parlimen sebelum bajet, kemudian
ditunda sedikit, seminggu, sekarang dah dua minggu tak nampak pun bayang-bayang Laporan Audit 2012," katanya di depan 100 hadirin pada forum 'Diskusi Buku dan Belanjawan: Bajet 2013 Mengakhiri Era Politik Lama Negara' di Yayasan Selangor, di sini malam tadi.

Ia diadakan sempena pelancaran buku 'Pendedahan di Parlimen: Dasar dan Cabaran Malaysia' oleh Kajian Politik Untuk Perubahan (KPRU) dan ia disempurnakan Presiden KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

Kata pengantar buku itu ditulis Ketua Umum KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan disunting Pengarah Eksekutif KPRU, Ooi Heng.

Izzah berkata, pelaksanaan Najibnomics bukan sahaja tinggal 'sejarah', malah kajiannya juga tidak munasabah.

"Di Harvard Bussiness School di Boston pada 2009, Najib telah memperkenalkan satu kes studi 'Inisiatif berani Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak untuk menangani krisis kewangan' dan kes studi itu menjadi kokurikulum pengajian mikro modul ekonomi.

"Ia dipanggil kursus Najibnomics, dan yang mengejutkan bukan sekadar mengambil pelaksanaan semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri, tapi sebelum jadi Perdana Menteri pun sudah dimasukkan dalam modul tersebut iaitu kejayaan Malaysia untuk memperbaiki sistem insuran dan perbankan selepas krisis kewangan 1998.

"Seingat saya, 1998 Najib belum jadi Perdana Menteri, tapi dimasukkan juga dalam kokurikulum ini. Termasuklah isu liabiliti ekonomi," ujar Izzah yang juga Naib Presiden KEADILAN.

Katanya, walaupun pelbagai usaha Najib bagi membuktikan kecemerlangan ekonomi di bawah pentadbirannya hingga ke peringkat dunia, beliau tetap gagal.

"Perbezaan BN dengan kita (Pakatan Rakyat) tidak mahu yang superficial (pemikiran cetek) itu diberi cop seperti apa yang berlaku apabila Najibnomics diperkenalkan sekitar 2009.

"Kita jangka bila merujuk Najibnomics ini akan memudahkan, rupa-rupanya ia melangkaui lebih daripada apa yang Najib buat sampai bebanan (hutang) ditanggung Bank Negara Malaysia," katanya.

"Tanpa melihat pencapaian dan rekod semua bantuan, bagaimana kita dapat nilai Najibnomic ini merupakan sesuatu yang perlu diterima semua pihak termasuk dunia," tambah Izzah.

Dua lagi panelis adalah Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Samad dan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Seri Setia, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

Forum ini anjuran bersama KPRU, Kelab Anwar Ibrahim (AIC), Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)dengan kerjasama Akademi Pak Sako dan Alumni Sekolah Politik.

Program Jelajah DS Anwar Ibrahim Ke Sabah 12&13 Okt 2012

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:02 PM PDT

12 Oktober 2012 (Jumaat)

1) 12.30 – 3.00 ptg – Kampong Sarikan, Nabawan – (P-Persiangan)

2) 2.00 – 4.00 ptg – Restoran Pelancongan Pendalaman, Batu 2, Keningau (P- Keningau)

3) 4.00 – 6.00 ptg – Kampong Kalibatang Lama, Tenom (P – Tenom).

4) 5.30 – 7.30 mlm – Pekan Tenom (P-Tenom)

5) 7.00 – 9.00 mlm – Kampong Gadon, Lumada, Sipitang (P – Sipitang)

13 Oktober 2012 (Sabtu)

1) 9.30 – 11.30 pagi – Lot Persendirian MK, Jalan Assam, Lahad Datu (P- Silam)

2) 1.00 – 3.00 ptg – Jalan Apas, Tawau (P- Tawau)

3) 7.30 – 10.00 mlm – Borneo Paradise Beach Resort, Papar (P – Papar)

Barisan Penceramah:
i. YB Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim

ii. YB Dato' Seri Panglima Lajim Ukin

iii. YB Dato' Seri Panglima Wilfred Bumburing

iv. YBhg Tamrin Jaini

v. YB Senator Maijol Mahap

vi. YBhg Datuk Yahya Lampong

vii. YBhg Datuk Dr Richard Gunting

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WHAT NO TRIAL? French Lawyers Debunk Bernama Report On Scorpenes Hearing

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Malaysia Chronicle

It looks like Prime Minister Najib Razak and his Umno party are pulling out all stops to convince Malaysians that the Scorpenes corruption trial in Paris is a mere figment of the Opposition’s imagination.

With the 13th general election looming and the stakes high, resolving the public perception that Najib had pocketed a massive illicit kickback is a necessity if he is to to be assured of a comfortable win over arch rival Anwar Ibrahim, who leads Malaysia’s Pakatan Rakyat opposition front.

On Monday, quoting a ‘prominent’ French Government prosecutor Yves Charpenel, national news agency Bernama reported that Yves had denied there was an ‘ongoing trial in France’.

“I am aware about all the fuss kicked up by certain media (organisations) in Malaysia over this matter but what I can say is that this is nothing more than a trial by the media,” Bernama reported Yves as saying.

“A trial is a trial with all the rules. Investigation is another thing.”

Contradictory

Whether Yves was accurately quoted and reported in the right context remains to be seen. However, William Bourdon, the French lawyer acting for Malaysian NGO SUARAM has debunked the Bernama report.

“Yves Charpenel’s statement is absolutely contradictory with the current investigations. The Tribunal deGrande Instance has convened a criminal inquiry of which SUARAM has been accepted as a civil party since March 2012,” Bourdon, who was deported from Malaysia when he came to brief his client last year, said in a statement released by SUARAM late on Monday night.

“Upon completion of the inquiry will the investigating judge make the decision of whether the case goes to full trial. It’s the investigating judge that makes the decisions not the prosecutor. To our knowledge the current prosecutors in charge of the case have not made any such statements as suggested by Charpenel. The two Judges, Roger Le Loire and Serge Tournaire continue their investigations on the Scorpene inquiry".

Najib and the Umno-led federal government had hammered through a RM7.3 billion purchase of 2 Scorpene submarines from DCNS in 2002 despite public protest that the ships were unsuitable for the shallow local waters. There was also uneasiness over the exorbitant price tag.

In 2010, SUARAM lodged a complaint with the French authorities, resulting in the current investigative trial against DCNS. The French naval giant is believed to have paid Najib and his Umno party an illegal kickback worth at least 114 million euros to secure the sale of the two submarines to the Malaysian government. The payment was allegedly made through a firm controlled by Najib’s close friend Razak Baginda.

Guilty conscience? Why so SCARED?

The Umno-controlled press has repeatedly insisted that there was no proof of any wrongdoing but Najib and his administration have failed to convince Malaysians, largely because they kept rebuffing all efforts by civil society groups to hold a public inquiry.

The latest attempt to make Najib and Umno account for the murky deal is an invitation by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim to the lawyers of both Suaram and DCNS to come to Kuala Lumpur and brief the Malaysian Parliament on the case.

“I refer to the above ongoing judicial inquiry at the Tribunal De Grande Instance in Paris presided over by Judge Roger Le Loire and Judge Serge Tournaire into the complaint by SUARAM. a Malaysian human rights non-governmental organization alleging that corrupt and illegal payments were made by the French suppliers DCNS and Thies and their joint venture company Armaris to Malaysian citizens and officials in relation to the purchase of the submarines in 2002 which were at the material time authorized by the then Malaysian Defence Minister and current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. where payments of up to 700 milliom ringgit were received by companies ( Perimekar Sdn Bhd and Terasasi ) owned by his adviser and close associate, Abdul Razak Baginda,” Anwar wrote in his letter dated October 2, 2012.

“I am informed that you are representing the interest of DCNS in the above inquiry. As Leader of Opposition in the Malaysian Parliament. 1 have on this same date issued an invitation to the lawyers acting for SUARAM viz Messieurs William Bourdon and Joseph Breham to deliver a briefing on the status and development of the inquiry to interested Malaysian Members of Parliament during this current session of the Malaysian Parliament which will run until 22″ November 2012. I will be inviting all members of the Malaysian Parliament to attend this briefing. As the allegations are in respect of the conduct of DCNS. I am of the view that it is appropriate that you are also invited to attend in order that interested Members of Parliament may also hear from DCNS.”

Najib’s penchant for false public relations and media spin

However, Defense Minister Zahid Hamidi has been quick to object to the invitation on the grounds that the acquisition had followed “legal procedure”.

Umno-linked groups too have rushed to shoot down Anwar’s invite, rather illogically accusing him of trying to sabotage the nation by inviting “foreign interference” in domestic affairs.

In response, opposition leaders have expressed disappointment and concern over the “desperation” revealed by Najib, accusing him of doubletalk as he had just last week vowed to rid Malaysia of corruption and even donated RM1 million to the Vienna-based International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA).

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If Najib and Umno are innocent, let the lawyers from both sides – DCNS as well as SUARAM – come to Malaysia and clarify everything to Parliament. But obviously, this is what Najib and Umno fear most. Their reaction is very revealing,” PKR vice president Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

“As for the Bernama report, they could have twisted Yves Charpenel’s comment – we don’t know. But what we do know is that in the wake of the Bersih 3.0 rally in April, the Umno-controlled media tried to discredit Australian Senator Nick Xenophon by accusing him of describing Islam as a criminal organisation rather than a religion. Then there is Najib’s contract with FBC Media and US poison blogger Josh Trevino. The fact is Najib has the worst record of abusing the media than any other leader. He has given Malaysia a really bad name overseas. Let’s see if the Yves Charpenel report will blow up in his face.”

Investigative trial stage: Different system, witnesses will be subpoenaed

Tian was referring to Xenophon, a member of the international observer team invited by Bersih to assess if its demands for electoral reform were reasonable. The Australian leader had expressed shock at the Malaysian police brutality towards peaceful Bersih protesters during the April 28 demonstration for clean polls.

For his chiding comments, the Umno-owned NST had deliberately misquoted a speech he made to the Australian Parliament back in 2009. In fact, Xenophon had not referred at all to Islam, but had instead been criticizing Scientologists and their money-raising tactics. The newspaper just substituted the word Islam instead of Scientologist.

As for UK-based consultancy FBC Media and blogger Josh Trevino, both have been disgraced and dropped by various top international media including BBC and the Guardian for not disclosing they had underlying deals to churn out false positive publicity for Najib and Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud.

Indeed, going through the latest Bernama report and the Yves Charpenel quotes, it is evident that all the French prosecutor may have said was that the Scorpenes case had not gone into FULL trial yet but was still at the investigative trial stage.

This is actually in line with all the disclosures made by Bourdon and SUARAM so far. In fact, SUARAM has made it very clear that what was now taking place was an investigative trial, overseen by 2 investigative judges. The French judiciary system is different from the British, on which Malaysia’s own legal system is based.

Sinking with Najib & the Scorpenes

Industry practitioners question whether Bernama had led Yves on by asking whether a full trial was now ongoing. Hence his denial. The Malaysian news agency could then have written up its report to highlight Yves’ denial, but deliberately omitting to put into full context his statement.

But as Bourdon pointed out, the investigative trial is in full swing and the first witness already subpoenaed to take the stand to answer all the queries the investigative judges wish to make on the case.

Apart from Najib’s foreign media consultants and the NST, Bernama too has attracted controversy of late. Just weeks ago, it was forced to deny it had ‘doctored’ photos depicting a much larger crowd at Najib’s recent Hari Raya open house so as to give the impression that the PM was more popular that he really is.

However, due to the angry reaction of the Malaysian public and the slew of ‘photo-shop mistakes’ pointed out by netizens, Bernama’s chief editor had no choice but to finally admit the photos had indeed been “tampered” with.

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