Why First Lady AGC should discontinue the plot to topple the PM

By MT Webmaster Last updated Feb 24, 2018

In short, The Malaysian Insight was set up with a specific purpose to bring down the Prime Minister and the person behind this effort is none other than the First Lady of the AGC, Faridah Begum K.A. Abdul Kader. And now that she has lodged a police report, it allows Bukit Aman to investigate this matter and find out who came out with that RM50 million and what happened to that money. Looking at what is currently going on, it appears that a crime of money-laundering has been committed.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Faridah Begum K.A. Abdul Kader, the First Lady of the AGC, is playing the victim. She is as much a victim as a fox is the victim of the chicken it just ate. Even Ho Kay Tat, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Edge Communications Sdn Bhd, the owner of The Malaysian Insider, feels there is something amis with The Malaysian Insight. So, in this game of thrones of trying to oust Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the First Lady of the AGC is the villain and not the innocent damsel in distress.

This was what Wikipedia reported regarding The Malaysian Insider:

“On 25th February 2016, The Malaysian Insider was blocked by the country’s Internet regulatory body, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) on the grounds of national security following continuous publication of defamatory content. The move has been widely perceived by pro-opposition groups as blocking free speech in the country. Following the blocking, the owner of the site decided to shut down the website at midnight on 15th March 2016 citing financial losses incurred by its parent company The Edge Media Group amounting to RM10 million in the past 20 months since The Malaysian Insider‘s acquisition.”

Note that it cost The Edge Media Group RM500,000 a month to run The Malaysian Insider, or RM6 million a year. When The Edge Media Group announced the closing down of The Malaysian Insider, its Chief Executive Officer and Editor, Jahabar Sadiq, told all the staff to not seek employment elsewhere but just take a few months leave because they will soon be back in business and up and running again.

**Jahabar Sadiq, brother of the First Lady of the AGC, runs The Malaysian Insight backed with RM50 million funding**

It took a bit longer than that because Jahabar needed to get a pledge from their financiers that they will commit RM10 million a year for the next five years. If not they will not be able to reactive The Malaysian Insider. After getting that commitment of RM50 million, The Malaysian Insider was reactivated as The Malaysian Insight.

This was what the Malay Mail Online reported on 16th March 2017:

A former editor of The Malaysian Insider, the online news portal shut down by its owner in March last year (2016), said he will debut a new outfit called The Malaysian Insight. In a report by The Straits Times (ST Singapore), Jahabar Sadiq said the portal will go online sometime this month “as a free site before introducing a paywall sometime down the line”. He refused, however, to disclose the source of his funding.

“It has taken me 10 months to convince some private equity and businessmen to give me a loan of sorts to do this,” Jahabar was quoted as saying in the report. Jahabar added that the site will focus on politics, followed by civil society movements, issues of race and religion, and domestic economy.

Last year, The Edge Media Group decided to terminate The Malaysian Insider (TMI), some eight years after the news portal was started in 2008. Jahabar had said The Edge Media Group’s decision to close the news portal was made for commercial reasons.

The entire world knows that the First Lady of the AGC and her business partner own The Malaysian Insight, while her brother, Jahabar Sadiq, is running the show. Even Bukit Aman has the documents to prove this. What Bukit Aman is not sure of yet is who is coming out with the RM50 million to finance the operation over the next five years — although they have their suspicions that it is the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign).

In short, The Malaysian Insight was set up with a specific purpose to bring down the Prime Minister and the person behind this effort is none other than the First Lady of the AGC, Faridah Begum K.A. Abdul Kader. And now that she has lodged a police report, it allows Bukit Aman to investigate this matter and find out who came out with that RM50 million and what happened to that money. Looking at what is currently going on, it appears that a crime of money-laundering has been committed.

And this is not yet looking at the dozen or so companies she is involved in together with her business partner, Harbir Singh Gill A/L Ajaib Singh (see list below). So the First Lady of the AGC is crooked and her shady deals extend beyond just The Malaysian Insight and the effort to topple the Prime Minister.

Will the husband allow the police to investigate and charge his own wife?

What makes it embarrassing is her husband is the Attorney-General so he now has no choice but to resign or take a leave of absence to allow the police to investigate this matter without fear or favour. If not then there is no way Bukit Aman will be seen as having done an honest and impartial investigation.

With the general elections around the corner, the last thing that Najib can afford is to be seen as protecting a corrupt Attorney-General and/or his wife. As it is, the opposition is already saying that Malaysia’s judicial system is corrupt and that the judicial system requires a major reform. And now we have this case of the First Lady of the AGC, which the opposition can use to ‘prove’ that Malaysia’s judicial system is corrupt.

Just one issue alone — the RM3 million that Jahabar banked into his personal bank account — is enough to sink The Malaysian Insight and the First Lady of the AGC. Where did that money come from and why was it all in cash? By now Jahabar should be in chains, if not for the fact that his brother-in-law is there to protect him.

This is the first country in the world where the wife of the Attorney-General is working with the opposition to bring down the Prime Minister. This is probably qualified for entry into the Guinness Book of Records. And for the Attorney-General to buat bodoh and pretend he does not know what is going on is another Guinness Book of Records nomination. Does he really think he can buat bodoh and get away with it? This just makes it look like he is in cahoots with his wife and also wants to see the Prime Minister ousted from office, just like the Attorney-General before him.