Government is building a Fortress of Solitude around Zeti
THE THIRD FORCE
Here’s the thing:
The administration of Dr Mahathir Mohamad charged Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak in court to allay suspicion that Pakatan Harapan lied to the people about the former premier.
The charges were preferred upon Najib by the MACC under the watch of Dato’ Seri Mohd Shukri Abdull, the agency’s current head.
Shukri was sworn in as MACC chief only after the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court read out the charges to Najib on the 4th of July 2018.
What this means, is that the probe conducted by the agency was without jurisdiction and, by all appropriate terms of reference, illegal.
This is further made manifest when one considers that Shukri himself needs to be probed by the MACC for a variety of reasons.
One of these reasons has to do with an investigation paper he put together sometime back in 2015.
The paper concerned a probe conducted by the MACC into the RM2.6 billion that ended in Najib’s account.
According to the paper, the then Governor of Bank Negara, Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, knew that the money was a gift from the Government of Saudi and suggested that the money be parked in Najib’s account.
Despite knowing this, Shukri refused to call Zeti in for questioning during the MACC’s fresh round of probes into the RM2.6 billion affair.
His refusal to do so implied that a conspiracy existed between him and Zeti to throw Najib under the bus.
But it was not until Zeti denied knowledge of the RM2.6 billion that the element of conspiracy was cemented.
Her denial immediately brought to question the paper Shukri prepared given that its content did not jive with what she said.
Shukri should immediately have dropped all charges the MACC preferred against Najib and resigned to allow someone else to discover if or not the paper was fabricated.
Instead, he allowed the court to press charges against the former premier and even claimed that the MACC was making headway into probes related to 1MDB.
His actions confirmed that the probes were conducted with male fide intent and done to throw Najib under the bus.
The fact that he went out of his way to protect Zeti showed that the duo were determined to finish Najib off by hook or by crook.
The fact that Tommy Thomas allowed the MACC’s filings to go through shows that the conspiracy extended all the way to the Government of Malaysia (GoM).
When all of this was pointed out by The Third Force, the GoM immediately undertook to shift the conversation away from Najib by putting Jho Low right under some high-intensity spotlights.
