Why is Muhyiddin so quiet regarding the allegation of an affair?
Muhyiddin has not denied that he is/was having an affair with a judge’s wife or that a certain Chinese tycoon who is very close to Mahathir paid the judge’s wife RM2 million to settle the divorce out of court. Mahathir, on the other hand, is trying to block the forensic investigation into his fraudulent 1.2 million signatures, failing which he will burn all the evidence.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Almost a week ago, on the 2nd of June 2016, Malaysia Today published the following article: Muhyiddin bogged down by personal scandals (READ HERE).
Until today, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s running mate in the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign), Muhyiddin Yassin, has not responded to the allegation that he is/was having an affair with a certain judge’s wife.
The judge is now filing for a divorce from his wife and he has cited her affair with Muhyiddin as the grounds for divorce. To get the judge’s wife to agree to the divorce and not challenge it in court, someone paid her RM2 million as an out of court divorce settlement.
Muhyiddin has not denied that a certain Chinese tycoon who is very close to Mahathir and is one of the financiers of the ANC paid the judge’s wife that RM2 million to settle the divorce out of court.
Normally, Muhyiddin would be very quick off the mark and would deny or rebut any allegation against him. For example, when he was accused of trying to oust Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, he quickly denied that allegation and said that he was just trying to save Malaysia.
When he was accused of not being honest about his allegation regarding 1MDB, since he did not say anything earlier, he said he did not know about the matter until he read about it in The Edge — which was why he said nothing during the Cabinet meetings, even the meeting that he chaired and which discussed 1MDB.
Muhyiddin is normally always so kaypoh when it comes to issues concerning other people — such as issues concerning the Prime Minister. Muhyiddin seems to have so much to say about others. But now that the allegation is about him and about his affair with someone else’s wife, he maintains a deafening silence and refuses to open his mouth.
Another thing that Muhyiddin is remaining very silent about and is refusing to comment on (when before this he had so much to say about the matter) is regarding the fraudulent signatures on the Citizens’ Declaration.
Now that the fraud has been exposed and the police are investigating this 1.2-million-signature scam, Muhyiddin is pretending he knows nothing and has heard nothing. Suddenly he is not so gung-ho about what he earlier said was the Rakyat-versus-Najib and not Mahathir-versus-Najib affair.
Mahathir is going all out to try to block the forensic investigation into those 1.2 million signatures. He is calling back every favour being owed to him and pulling all the strings he has to try to make sure the police do not proceed with the forensic investigation. As Hamid Bador, the ex-Deputy Director of the Special Branch said, there are people in the police force who are pro-Mahathir and are still loyal to him. So maybe Mahathir will succeed and maybe he will not. We shall have to wait and see.
In case Mahathir fails to block the forensic investigation and the police still insist on proceeding, they are contemplating to destroy all the evidence like what they did in the Vijandran Tapes affair. Once they burn all the evidence, the police would not be able to continue with their investigation and Mahathir would be off the hook.
Mahathir just cannot afford for the police to get their hands on the documents. And that is why he is no longer grumbling that he is being blocked from meeting the Agong because, according to Mahathir, His Majesty is under house arrest.
Mahathir knows that if he hands the Citizens’ Declaration to the Agong together with the 1.2 million signatures then the police would be able to obtain them from Istana Negara. So the safest thing would be to destroy all the evidence and put the Citizens’ Declaration to sleep and not talk it about it any more. And that is why this is not an election issue in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar.
