The Guan Eng scandal reveals how Chinese play both sides of the field
And this latest scandal involving the unfreezing of a Chinese tycoon’s bank account reveals the links between the Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires and DAP-Pakatan Harapan, the same Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires who have links with Umno-Barisan Nasional.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
It is an open secret that Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires play both sides of the field. One Chinese tycoon told me, “The Chinese have a saying. Why drink one cup of tea when you can drink two?”
In other words, be friends with both sides so that you can “drink two cups of tea” or benefit from both sides, whichever side that happens to win.
During the Emergency, the British faced that same problem. The Chinese supported the government plus they supported the CPM (Communist Party of Malaya). And they supplied the CTs (Communist terrorists) with food, medicine and money.
Finally, the British had no choice but to lock up the Chinese in “New Villages”, which were more or less concentration camps with a dusk to dawn curfew. That was the only way to stop the flow of support to the CTs.
That has always been the Chinese DNA.
Husam Musa was funded by a Chinese gambling tycoon when he was in PAS
One Thai uncle of my wife, a customs officer in the Malaysian-Thai border town of Betong, told me that the Chinese in Thailand fly two flags. In the morning they fly the Thai flag and at night the Communist flag.
And the same goes for the Chinese in Malaysia. The Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires also fly two flags. They give financial support to both Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional so that whichever side wins they will have friends in the government.
For decades DAP has been getting financial support from Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires who are actually cronies, proxies and trustees of those who walk in the corridors of power. These Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires make their money by being friends of Barisan Nasional and then they channel some of this money back to DAP.
(Of course, they also channel money, in fact, even more money, to Barisan Nasional as well).
Chinese billionaires like Koon Yew Yin make money from the government and donate it to the opposition and to the Communists
Barisan Nasional and those who walk in the corridors of power know this. And they know this has been going on for 55 years since DAP was founded in 1965. They also know that for every RM1 these Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires give DAP, they give RM10 to Barisan Nasional and those who walk in the corridors of power.
DAP and Pakatan Harapan say Umno and Barisan Nasional are corrupt. If that is true then we need to blame the Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires, the same people who are also giving money to DAP and Pakatan Harapan.
And this latest scandal involving the unfreezing of a Chinese tycoon’s bank account reveals the links between the Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires and DAP-Pakatan Harapan, the same Chinese tycoons, millionaires and billionaires who have links with Umno-Barisan Nasional.
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Order didn’t come from me, says ex-MACC chief on unfreezing tycoon’s account
(KTemoc Konsiders) – Former MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull has denied involvement in instructing the unfreezing of business tycoon Lim Soon Peng’s accounts which were subject to 1MDB probe back in 2018.
Responding to claims of political interference in the matter, Shukri stressed that he did not take orders from any ministers, even the prime minister.
“I always maintain my integrity.”
“In any investigation, I never adhere to instructions including by ministers or the prime minister. Even in this case, I never issued instructions to my officers to unfreeze the accounts in question,” he said in a statement today.
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His statement came following the claim by de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan that former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and former finance minister Lim Guan Eng had interfered in the matter.
Takiyuddin alleged in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday that a 2018 letter of representation written by Soon Peng’s lawyers to Shukri included handwritten notes which had been minuted by Mahathir and again by Guan Eng.
Back then, Soon Peng’s bank accounts were frozen over investigations into RM4 million in transactions relating to 1MDB-linked funds from former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
“I am in the opinion that the embezzlement conducted by the previous prime minister should not be blamed on Lim Soon Peng. Therefore, any freezing of personal or company accounts should not remain,” the minute allegedly by Mahathir read.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Lim Guan Eng and Tommy Thomas unfroze the tycoon’s bank account
Takiyuddin then claimed that Guan Eng had written to then attorney-general Tommy Thomas to release the accounts as instructed by Mahathir.
In response, Shukri today also said that he only took instructions from the deputy public prosecutors in any probe, and “not from unrelated parties”.
“If true the accounts were unfrozen, that was not by my orders,” he added.
Shukri served at the MACC for 32 years and retired in 2016 as deputy chief commissioner (operations) at the height of investigations into the 1MDB financial scandal.
However, he returned in May 2018 to head the anti-graft body under the Pakatan Harapan government and finally left in June 2019.
This is not the first time the allegations have surfaced regarding the case. In June, Penang PAS Youth made a similar claim and accused Thomas and Guan Eng of abusing their position to aid the businessperson.
This after an alleged letter by Thomas to Guan Eng on the matter, dated June 14, last year, was posted on a whistleblower site “Peniup Wisel Siber” on June 2.
