The coup d’etat allegation getting stronger
What appears to be even stranger is the way the Attorney General handled the WSJ allegation. He formed a Special Task Force (even before the WSJ story came out, as if he already knew it was going to come out) without first getting Cabinet approval, thus violating the Federal Constitution of Malaysia.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Since Tun Musa Hitam came out about ten days ago to reveal that there exists a plot to launch a coup d’etat against Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak (READ HERE) more developments have surfaced to support this allegation.
The latest is the confession by The Edge and its owners that they were involved in a deal to buy stolen data from Xavier Andre Justo. They even confessed that they led Justo up the garden path and actually did not really intend to pay him the US$2 million that was agreed.
Aren’t there any honest crooks left in this world any more?
The Edge and its owners said they never paid the money as promised because they never intended to do so in the first place but Justo says the money was supposed to have been paid to a middleman (or woman).
Justo does not know whether the middleman received the money in the end because he was arrested before any money could be transferred to him. Anyway, in the event The Edge or its owners did pay the middleman the US$2 million, Justo had better hope that that middleman is honest enough to keep it for him until he comes out of jail, if he does get sent to jail.
Ex-Law Minister, Zaid Ibrahim, now a staunch opposition supporter and who shares the view that Najib should resign, said that The Edge does not qualify for protection under the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010. And the reason he gave was exactly as what we said in this article, which you can READ HERE.
An even more interesting development is Calvin Sankaran’s analysis that was published in Malaysiakini (READ HERE). Calvin went into great detail to explain why he thought the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) allegation that Najib stole RM2.6 billion of 1MDB’s money lacks substance. And he concluded his analysis by saying as follows:
In summary, I can conclude that the WSJ’s allegations neither make any logical sense nor have any evidence to back up. In fact the WSJ have zero ground to make the accusations. With this the whole affair does look like an orchestrated plan to discredit Najib and sabotage the Malaysian economy and currency.
It is also interesting to note that the Sarawak Report have in their possession the same documents but published them in different graphical format. This appears to show that those behind the plot were also involved with Sarawak Report in the past. But the difference this time is that the information is coming from sources within the Malaysian government agencies, 1MDB and banks.
In my view, the main objectives of the plan is to show the ruling BN government used huge sums of monies to bribe voters to win the 13th general election. Thus the plotters wish to overturn the result and call a fresh election. Thus beneficiaries of a new election are likely to be the ones who are behind the plot.
Unfortunately for the WSJ, they fell for this elaborate scam and published the allegations without performing due diligence. I predict a number of Malaysian from political parties as well as from the financial media will be spending a long time behind bars for this nefarious plot to sabotage the country. These people are certainly no whistle blowers or patriots but traitors to the country.
In the meantime, Clare Rewcastle-Brown and the WSJ can expect to be hit with huge lawsuits that will completely destroy their reputations.
Malaysiakini seems to know something the rest of us don’t and everything seems to point to the existence of a conspiracy to launch a coup d’etat to oust Najib from power. In fact, since the last three days the following graphics has been going viral on the Internet, which dovetails with Malaysiakini‘s analysis.
What appears to be even stranger is the way the Attorney General handled the WSJ allegation. He formed a Special Task Force (even before the WSJ story came out, as if he already knew it was going to come out) without first getting Cabinet approval, thus violating the Federal Constitution of Malaysia.
In any complaint, allegation or report, the police must first interview, interrogate or record the statement of the complainant. Then, after taking the statement of the complainant, and after determining that there is a basis for this complaint, an investigation is launched and the statement of the accused is recorded.
Part of this investigation could involve compiling the evidence such as paper and digital records, which may be obtained through police raids and confiscations.
In the WSJ allegation, however, this was not done. So they actually bypassed the normal procedure and straight away launched the investigation and started confiscating evidence.
The way it was done gives an impression that the WSJ allegation has been assumed to be true and no further work needs to be done in establishing whether it is true or not. Then they immediately go into the final stage of arresting, raiding and confiscating evidence.
This is probably the first time Malaysia has done things back to front. Very seldom would a newspaper story be taken as evidence of wrongdoing and arrests and confiscations are immediately launched just based on the story in the newspaper — unless, of course, the coup d’etat to oust Najib from power allegation is true.
In that sort of situation, what normally happens is that the target of the coup d’etat launches a counter–coup and gets rid of those who are threatening him or her.
