The unanswered questions Perikatan Nasional now needs to answer

And what is the figure now? Has Malaysia’s debts gone back down to RM680 billion or has it increased further from RM1.1 trillion? What is the real figure in May 2018 and what is the figure now? Or has it been “readjusted”, like how BNM “readjusted” the figure for Malaysia’s reserves.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has just announced that Malaysia’s reserves has dropped since the new Perikatan Nasional government took over Malaysia Lebih Baru on 1st March 2020. Did Malaysia’s reserves really drop in just five days or is BNM “restating” its figures after some “adjustments” so that, in case anyone checks, the “titik” or decimal point is in the right place (an error commonly made by the Mantan Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng).

Whatever it may be, there are many unanswered questions which Perikatan Nasional now needs to answer — other than the real figure of Malaysia’s reserves — and these are just some of them.

Did Najib Tun Razak really steal RM42 billion from 1MDB? Thus far, Najib is facing trial for allegedly stealing RM42 million, just a fraction of the RM42 billion he was alleged to have stolen. RM42,000,000 is tiga titik or three decimal points from RM42,000,000,000 — a simple mistake commonly made by most DAP leaders.

Perikatan Nasional can now tell us how much of what Sarawak Report told us is true

Of course, they keep raising the issue of the RM2.6 billion but it appears, from the arguments during the trial, that the RM2.6 billion may, in fact, have come from the Saudi Arabian prince after all. The MACC officer who had travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet the donor prince testified in court regarding this matter.

And that is the next question the Perikatan Nasional government of Malaysia Lebih Baru needs to answer. Did the RM2.6 billion come from the Saudi Arabian prince or was it stolen from 1MDB? And was a large portion of that RM2.6 billion, which was eventually unused, returned to the donor?

Yes, we want the truth, not the Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Tony Pua, Rafizi Ramli, or Clare Rewcastle Brown version of the story.

Also on that list of unanswered questions, which the Perikatan Nasional government of Malaysia Lebih Baru needs to answer: did Umno or Najib Tun Razak really give PAS RM90 million, paid in one single cheque? Anwar Ibrahim, Ambiga Sreenevasan, Husam Musa, Clare Rewcastle Brown, and so on, say the RM90 million cheque does exist and, in fact, they have the evidence in their possession.

In that case, they can easily tell us the name of the bank, the cheque number, the date of the cheque, and payable to whom — or better still, show us the copy of that cheque or some form of evidence.

S. Ambiga said Husam Musa told her that he personally saw the RM90 million cheque and she, in turn, told Sarawak Report 

Further to that, the new Perikatan Nasional government of Malaysia Lebih Baru needs to tell us whether the MACC documents related to the corruption investigation involving the Penang Undersea Tunnel are genuine or fake. Thus far, MACC has said nothing. They have kept quiet and have not disputed the authenticity of those documents, meaning the documents are authentic.

MACC, has, however, lodged a police report regarding “leaked documents”, giving the impression that the documents are authentic. In that case, this would mean Lim Guan Eng and a number of DAP as well as Umno leaders received bribes involving the Penang Undersea Tunnel.

PKR leader Latheefa Koya has since resigned as the MACC boss and on Monday the new MACC boss will be taking over. By Tuesday, 10th March 2020, he can surely make the announcement, unless he, too, is a crook like all the others.

What happened to RM1.1 billion worth of cash and valuables that Amar Singh seized from Najib’s apartment in the Pavilion Residences?

We also need to know how much cash and valuables were seized from Najib’s home in the Pavilion Residences. The police officer who led the raid, Amar Singh Ishar Singh, said the figure was about RM1.1 billion. And he said he brought in valuation experts to check and confirm that figure of RM1.1 billion.

The police said the RM1.1 billion comprise 10,000 pieces of jewellery, watches, sunglasses, handbags and shoes (the raiding party ate all the chocolates so they were not included in the list) plus more than RM170 million in cash.

Amar Singh said it took the police three days to count the cash, which came to RM114 million in the end. Initially they said it was RM120 million and then they “adjusted” the figure down to RM114 million. But then an even earlier figure put it at RM130 million.

Now it seems the real figure was about RM170 million or so, which means roughly RM55 million in cash has disappeared. And the problem is no proper signed list was prepared during the raid, so no one can prove or disprove the figure either way.

In Malaysia it is quite normal for drugs, cash and valuables to disappear during police raids and seizures

Today, they tell us that the figure is not RM1.1 billion after all but less than RM700 million. RM700 million is RM400 million short of RM1.1 billion. And, according to inside sources in Bukit Aman, we may be looking at just RM500 million in the end, more than half a billion ringgit less than what they seized.

But then this is quite normal for the Malaysian police force or PDRM. They always announce a lower figure than what they really seize, whether it is drugs or cash in a bank robbery, kidnapping case, etc. That is why police chiefs always retire as millionaires.

In Najib’s case, however, either they inflated the figured to RM1.1 billion to “shock and awe” Malaysians when the figure was actually just RM500 million, or the figure is really RM1.1 billion and RM600 million has been stolen. Whatever it may be the new Perikatan Nasional government of Malaysia Lebih Baru needs to tell us what the truth is.

Perikatan Nasional can now take action on the RM31.5 billion FOREX scandal

And this also applies to Malaysia’s debts. Was Malaysia’s debts just RM680 billion when the new Pakatan Harapan government of Malaysia Baru took over in May 2018, or was it RM1.1 trillion, as they claim?

And what is the figure now? Has Malaysia’s debts gone back down to RM680 billion or has it increased further from RM1.1 trillion? What is the real figure in May 2018 and what is the figure now? Or has it been “readjusted”, like how BNM “readjusted” the figure for Malaysia’s reserves.

There are many more unanswered questions, of course, but we can start with those first. In the meantime, since the RCI has confirmed that BNM lost RM31.5 billion back in 1990-1992 gambling on the FOREX market, the new Perikatan Nasional government of Malaysia Lebih Baru can take the necessary action on that case without any further delay.