Anwar confirms Hadi is innocent and a victim of slander
“Anwar liberated Hadi by revealing that “the RM90 million PAS (was alleged to have) received was from UMNO, not 1MDB.” This proves that Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan lied to Clare about “Najib paying PAS’ “top echelons” RM90 million using money stolen from 1MDB.” The fact that Anwar claims to possess ‘evidence’ that the money “wasn’t from 1MDB” but has yet to hand over the ‘evidence’ to the police constitutes a crime punishable by terms of imprisonment”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
Earlier today, PAS president Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang asked Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim to reveal the names of persons who the latter alleged received cuts from a RM90 million bribe. Stories of the bribe first surfaced in a 6th of August 2016 article by Sarawak Report, in which the portal owner, Clare Rewcastle Brown, accused Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak of paying PAS’ “top echelons” RM90 million using money stolen from 1MDB. Anwar shifted the goalpost yesterday by insisting that the MACC could not trace the money to 1MDB because the money had come from UMNO, to the wealth fund. The PKR president says he has proof of this and the names of PAS leaders who took ‘cuts’ from the said fund. Now, this is the same fellow who previously told us that he had the name of the person who ‘paid’ Clare RM1.4 million.
And we all know where that went.
To recap, on the 27th of February 2019, just three days ahead of the Semenyih by-election, Anwar declared that Hadi paid Clare RM1.4 million to end the PAS president’s defamation suit against her. Speaking before a ceramah, the PKR president gallantly declared that he had a bank statement ‘proving’ that Hadi was responsible for the RM1.4 million payment. Two days later, Clare published a cheque (hereinafter referred to as “the cheque”) worth RM1.4 million and a letter (hereinafter referred to as “the letter”) she addressed to the Manager of Maybank Jalan Tun Razak. In the letter, the Sarawak Report Chief Editor stated in no uncertain terms that Hadi paid her RM1.4 million as part of a settlement agreement to withdraw the PAS president’s defamation suit against her.
When Clare repeated the claim in Sarawak Report, I made no bones about it. However, the minute her lawyer, Americk Singh Sidhu, validated her claim and confirmed receiving a RM1.4 million cheque from a ‘third party’, I lodged a police report stating that the trio – Americk, Clare and the so-called ‘third party’ – was complicit with the manager of Maybank Jalan Tun Razak and Bank Negara itself to launder RM1.4 million into the United Kingdom (UK). When questioned by an Investigating Officer, I stressed that the man who issued the cheque, Rameli Musa, did so on Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s behest and that everyone concerned with the transaction knew that the money was not from Hadi.
As a matter of fact, not only was the money not from Hadi, neither Americk, Bank Negara nor the Manager of Maybank Jalan Tun Razak found any need to get in touch with the PAS president, which is highly irregular, given that RM1.4 million is a very large sum to be channeled across borders without anyone from Bank Negara or Maybank getting in touch with the PAS president. The flow of such a colossal sum would surely have triggered a red flag somewhere and prompted some form of communication between Bank Negara and the central bank of the UK. How and why Bank Negara and Maybank chose to skip all money laundering regulations by ignoring Hadi is as good your guess as it is mine.
