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Friday, November 29, 2013

Truth about Gani could have altered Umno polls results, says ex-CID chief

Truth about Gani could have altered Umno polls results, says ex-CID chief The Malaysian Insider - 19 hours ago


The outcome of the Umno polls last month could have been different if party president Datuk Seri Najib Razak had revealed the contents of a statutory declaration on Pulau Batu Puteh, said former city CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim.
In a statement today, Mat Zain said he had sent a 31-page statutory declaration to the prime minister on October 9 on the alleged wrongdoings of Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail (pic) with regard to Pulau Batu Puteh, but Najib chose to remain silent on the matter until today.
Mat Zain felt that if the content of the SD was made public, voters at the Umno polls would have voted differently.
“There were Umno supreme council candidates who are known to have been protected by Abdul Gani when allegations of wrongdoings were raised against them. There is a strong possibility that Umno members would not have voted in these candidates.
"Umno supreme council candidates, especially those from Sabah, would not have fared well either as Abdul Gani is from Sabah and has family ties with Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
"Musa himself has been accused of being protected by Abdul Gani on several occasions when he was accused of corruption and abuse of power. I believe that if Najib had told the assembly about my SD, the outcome of the polls would have been very different," Mat Zain said.
Mat Zain said concealing material information was tantamount to deception.
"And by concealing the content of the SD, Najib could be said to have deprived the members of their rights in choosing the right candidates in the party polls.”
Mat Zain said the Registrar of Societies should declare the results of the 2013 Umno elections null and void.

"The RoS must show that it has a backbone and is able to take action against any political party which has violated the laws or party constitution," Mat Zain said, adding that deception and intentionally hiding vital information was a serious offence.
He said following the Lahad Datu incursion in February, Corporal Hassan Basari of the Special Branch was sentenced to seven years' jail for hiding information relating to the intrusion by the Sulu gunmen.
"The one who decided to charge Hassan was none other than Abdul Gani, who is from Sabah," said Mat Zain.
"I hope Hassan's case will make Najib and other ministers realise how serious the issue of concealing information is, especially when it concerns the nation's security and sovereignty.
"If a mere corporal can be sentenced to seven years' jail, what more someone who caused Malaysia to lose Pulau Batu Puteh?"

Both Malaysia and Singapore had claimed Pulau Batu Puteh, a dispute which was later settled by the International Court of Justice in 2007. The ICJ ruled in favour of Singapore, a decision which put Abdul Gani under the spotlight.
Mat Zain alleged that Abdul Gani had deliberately lost the case resulting in the ICJ ruling in favour of Singapore. He alleged that a substantial amount of money had been deposited into a bank account in Hong Kong.
"A heavy punishment is in order, especially if there is information and evidence that hundreds of millions of ringgit changed hands. Najib should form a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate these claims against Abdul Gani."
Mat Zain said Pulau Batu Puteh should not be seen as a cluster of rocks in the middle of the sea and without any commercial value. Malaysia gave up the coastal waters and air space when it lost the island.
"What is the actual reason for Malaysia losing Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore? The RCI must be formed to investigate and maximum penalties must be levied on whoever is guilty of betraying Malaysia's sovereignty."
The former CID chief pointed out that Najib's silence on major issues could backfire on him and his government.
"Perhaps he has been wrongly advised.
"Najib should be transparent. Whenever there are allegations against the AG, no matter how serious they are, the PM will somehow brush them aside.
"As the prime minister, he should not show that he is afraid of Abdul Gani." – November 26, 2013.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Family of Malaysian “slave” Siti Aishah reveals her story

Family of Malaysian “slave” Siti Aishah reveals her story



A Malaysian family has come forward to claim that a woman allegedly held as a slave for 30 years is a relative who disappeared virtually without trace after joining a Maoist sect in London.
Retired teacher Kamar Mautum, said she believed her 69-year-old sister, Siti Aishah, was the Malaysian woman who had allegedly been held captive by the leaders of a 1970s Communist "collective" for 30 years.
She said her disappearance had caused extreme heartache for her family.
Kamar said their mother’s dying wish had been to know what had happened to her daughter, who never returned, The Daily Telegraph reported.
“I have felt so choked without her for years and years. She was so talented, she was the apple of my mother’s eye. My mother asked for her on her death bed.
“When my mother died she (Aishah) did not want to talk to us and I could not do very much,” she told the British newspaper.
Aishah (pic, left) had studied at one of Malaysia’s most elite schools, eventually winning a Commonwealth scholarship to study surveying in London.
She moved to Britain in 1968 with her fiance and dreamed of balancing an exciting career with a family, but was soon involved in extremist politics, eventually giving up everything to follow a Maoist doctrine.
She fell under the spell of Indian national Aravindan Balakrishnan and his Tanzanian partner Chanda, who were last week arrested on suspicion of holding three women against their will for more than three decades in south London.
Former student activist Hishamuddin Rais (pic) told The Malaysian Insider today that the 69-year-old Malaysian woman held as a slave in a London "collective" for some 30 years could be Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, who went missing years ago.
She was one of three women freed on October 25 in London after one of them secretly contacted a charity. The other two are a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton.
Hishamuddin, who went into self-exile in London in the 1970s, said Siti Aishah was active with Malaysian students in a leftist group that called itself "New Malayan Youth" in the British capital city at that time.
"Her brother sought me in 1991 to get assistance to find Aishah, who was said to be missing, as both of us come from the same district," Hishamuddin told The Malaysian Insider early today.
But Hishamuddin said she could not be found.
Kamar told The Daily Telegraph that her father, who was a school inspector and landowner, had given them strong Muslim values but Aishah had turned her back on her upbringing.
“This has been a dark age for her and for all of us. I will do anything to bring her home. I want to see her before either of us die,” she said.
When Aishah and her fiance, Omar Munir, arrived in London together it was a time of increasing social unrest with growing protests about the war in Vietnam.
Both were soon attracted to an organisation called the Malaysian and Singaporean Students Forum (MASS), which had a reputation as one of the more extremist Maoist groups operating in London.
Under the leadership of Aravindan and his partner Chanda Pattni, a Tanzanian of Indian descent, the collective was at the forefront of many student protests, despite boasting only a small membership.
Among the group’s many supporters were Malaysians who had fled a crackdown on radicals in their country and were backing the Maoist uprising from their London base.
Kamar said her sister was so in awe of the leader that she eventually split with her fiance, throwing her engagement ring into the River Thames, in a row over her loyalty to "Chairman Ara", or "Comrade Bala" as he was known to his followers.
According to Aishah’s family, the Malaysian government became aware of her political activities in London and warned her in the 1970s that it would make it very difficult for her to return home.
A fellow Malaysian, who asked not to be named said: “Aishah joined the group after me. She was an ethnic Malay with privileges in Malaysia, so it was a big step for her. She had a big sense of social justice. She was very determined, loyal.”
At one point there were thought to be up to 45 members and 200 supporters, but the group’s popularity waned as Balakrishnan’s ideology became more and more extreme.
The former member said this coincided with the leader becoming more manipulative and controlling and he soon began expelling anyone he regarded as a threat.
He later aligned his group with the Maoist Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist), which supported China’s Cultural Revolution and regarded only China and Albania as true Communist countries.
Aishah was one of just a small band of loyalists who remained with Aravindan and Chanda.
The former member said: “What happened is that over the 25 to 30 years, all of the things that were supposed to happen, didn’t happen.
“The world did not have a global revolution. His vision collapsed but he still tried to keep a grip on a small number of people.
“Aishah had cut herself off from everybody, her relationship, her family and lived in the collective. She remained with them, was financially dependent on them, had no friends as she became more and more reliant on them.”
He went on: “If your self-confidence is being chipped away all the time, self-esteem chipped away, you feel intellectually inferior... and you are dependent on group living, you are as good as being in prison.” - November 26, 2013.


Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Money changed hands over Pulau Batu Puteh


Money changed hands over Pulau Batu Puteh, claims ex-CID chief The Malaysian Insider - 23 hours ago

Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim today revealed that money changed hands, which led to Malaysia losing its claim on Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore in 2007.
That revelation was made in Mat Zain's 31-page statutory declaration sent to the Prime Minister's Office on October 9.
"In the accompanying letter to the Prime Minister, I urged him to focus on paragraph 54 (e),(f) and (g) of the SD , which revealed the wrongdoings of Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, who handled the Pulau Batu Puteh case.
"Also included was information that a large amount of money changed hands and was credited into a bank account in Hong Kong," said Mat Zain.
He also defended his earlier allegation that Abdul Gani was the reason that Malaysia lost the case which was heard at the International Court of Justice in 2007.
In his SD, Mat Zain claimed that Abdul Gani had intentionally lost the case.
"Studies made on the ICJ proceeding notes showed that a 'controversial photograph' was added in a few days before the case was heard, which can be seen as trying to dupe the ICJ panel," said Mat Zain.
Putrajaya had denied the claim that Malaysia lost its claim on Pulau Batu Puteh due to a wrong photograph of the location of the island submitted by Abdul Gani in the proceedings.
"The AG did not head the case and did not have the final say on the handling of the case," said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri in Parliament last week.
"So the allegations that the AG had shown a wrong photograph as claimed by the opposition leader (Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) is baseless and made without any verification."
Mat Zain said if the SD had been made public before the Umno party polls last month, it would have affected Sabah Umno representatives who contested, adding there was a link between Abdul Gani and politicians in the state.
Mat Zain urged Putrajaya to appeal the ICJ decision on the Pulau Batu Puteh case for the sake of the country's honour.
"We still have four and a half years more to file an appeal to ICJ if there was enough evidence to do so.
"No matter how slim our chances are, we cannot let it go just like that," the former Kuala Lumpur CID chief stressed.
It was previously reported that on August 10, Mat Zain met former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Umno lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, former Commercial Crimes Investigation Department director Datuk Ramli Yusoff and Dr Mahathir's former political secretary Matthias Chang.
Their discussion reportedly centred on Abdul Gani's alleged wrongdoings, including fabrication of evidence in the infamous "black eye" incident of 1998 involving former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Mat Zain, then the investigating officer in that case, reportedly informed Dr Mahathir that Abdul Gani, then a senior deputy public prosecutor, had fabricated evidence to suggest that Anwar's injury was self-inflicted.
Mat Zain also claimed that Abdul Gani deliberately lost the Pulau Batu Puteh case.
Following the meeting, Mat Zain released his SD with copies to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa, Solicitor General Datuk Idris Harun and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.
Part of the contents of the SD was made public by Mat Zain earlier this month after he expressed his disappointment with Putrajaya for not acting on the revelations. - November 26, 2013.