Khamis, 31 Mac 2016

Sejauh Mana PRN Sarawak Tidak Terpengaruh..!


Khabarnya jika (PRN)Piliharaya Negeri Sarawak boleh mencapai kejayaan besar maka PRU14 telah tiba di jendela..! Dekat..! kerana nak ambil 'semangat' tersebut..katanya!

Soalnya siapa yang nak mengemudi PRU14 dengan mengambil 'mood' Sarawak tersebut? Itu yang dilihat berlaku pertelingkahan diantara pemimpin utama UMNO terutama pihak Zahid dan Hisham..!

Berbuih buih mereka mengeluarkan hujah..! Tiba tiba timbul cerita Ku Li..! Itu yang macam nak pecah meja kena hentak..!

Ketua Menteri, Tan Sri Adenan Satem hari ini mengumumkan bahawa Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak akan dibubarkan pada 11 April untuk memberi laluan kepada pilihan raya negeri ke-11.
Pengisytiharan pembubaran itu, ditandatangani oleh Yang Dipertua Negeri, akan diserahkan kepada Yang Dipertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar yang akan memaklumkan kepada Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya, yang akan menetapkan tarikh bagi penamaan calon dan pengundian.
" Yang Dipertua Negeri, Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud, telah bersetuju bagi pembubaran itu," katanya di pejabatnya di Wisma Bapa Malaysia di Kuching.
Ini adalah kali pertama Adenan menerajui BNSarawak dalam pilihan raya berikutan persaraan Taibsebagai ketua menteri selepas 33 tahun berkuasa.
Sebanyak 82 kerusi dewan undangan negeri akan dipertandingkan pada pilihan raya ini. 
Ia meningkat berbanding 71 kerusi pada pilihan raya negeri lalu yang diadakan pada 16 April 2011.
11 kerusi baru adalah susulan persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya oleh SPR pada tahun lalu.
Adenan yang berusia 72 tahun itu telah memanfaatkan kerusi baru berkenaan untuk menyelesaikan masalah berhubung pengagihan kerusi kepada SUPP dan SPDP serta parti serpihan masing-masing, UPP dan Teras yang mesra BN.
Daripada 71 kerusi yang dipertandingkan pada pilihan raya negeri ke-10, BN menguasai 55 manakala DAP 12 dan PKR tiga. Terdapat seorang wakil Bebas.
Menurut Klausa 4 Perkara 55 Perlembagaan Persekutuan, pilihan raya negeri perlu diadakan dalam tempoh 60 hari selepas pembubaran Dewan Undangan Negeri.
Nampaknya puak puak penyokong pihak pemimpin kerajaan ni bukan berkesah dengan cerita dan pandangan rakyat..! mereka lebih 'serius' membincangkan nasib bos mereka..! Sedangkan nasib kerajaan UMNO dan BN sendiri pun terlalu samar dan kusam dalam PRU yang akan datang..!
Itu pun jika PRN Sarawak menunjukkan pengundi tak 'tersampok' dengan cerita di Semenanjung..! Kalau tersampok rasanya mahu digantung Parlimen..!
MKN kan ada..! Tak gitu?
Lu FIkir La Sendiri!!! 

Anak Jantan Mesti Berani & Benar..!


Langkah seorang negarawan..!

Bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sekali lagi mengambil langkah drastik apabila bertindak meletakkan jawatan sebagai Pengerusi Proton Holdings berkuatkuasa semalam.
Menurut kenyataan yang disiarkan di blognya, surat peletakan jawatan dihantar kepada Pengarah Urusan Kumpulan DRB-HICOM Berhad, Datuk Seri Syed Faisal Albar.
"Dr Mahathir juga melepaskan jawatannya sebagai Canselor Universiti Teknologi Petronas, juga berkuatkuasa pada 30 Mac 2016.
"Keputusannya itu disampaikan kepada Rektor UTP, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hashim," jelas kenyataan itu.
Selain itu, Dr Mahathir juga meletakkan jawatan sebagai penasihat kepada Lembaga Pembangunan Langkawi (LADA) dan Lembaga Pembangunan Pulau Tioman (TIDA).
"Ketua Setiausaha Negara telah dimaklumkan mengenai peletakan jawatan itu," kata kenyataan itu lagi.
Mahathir sebelum ini mengumumkan keputusan keluar Umno kerana tidak berpuashati dengan pentadbiran Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak terutama dalam isu melibatkan 1MDB dan derma politik berjumlah RM2.6 bilion.
Beliau juga mengetuai Deklarasi Rakyat bersama pemimpin pembangkang dan NGO dalam usaha menggesa Najib berundur.
Kabinet pada 11 Mac lalu menamatkan perkhidmatan Mahathir selaku penasihat Petronas kerana berpendapat beliau tidak lagi mendukung kerajaan sedia ada.
Sementara itu, Proton dalam kenyataan berasingan berkata Dr Mahathir juga akan meletakkan jawatan sebagai Pengerusi anak syarikat milik penuhnya, Group Lotus plc.
"Kami menghormati hasrat beliau untuk berundur. Kami ingin merakamkan penghargaan yang tidak terhingga atas sumbangan, komitmen dan dedikasi beliau sebagai Pengerusi sejak 2014 dan juga Penasihat sejak 2003.
"Kami mengucapkan terima kasih dan mengiktiraf peranan Dr Mahathir sebagai pencipta syarikat kereta nasional," katanya.
Jadi..siapa yang pondan, bacul dan bersalah???
Lu Fikir La Sendiri!!!

Rahsia Ku Li Tunggu ? Bakal Terdedah..!

Ada masa, ada perkara ada tempatnya..!

Has Tengku Razaleigh Eaten the Dedak?


APART from a brief reference to Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s 360-degree about-face in the update to the March 23 posting, I had said nothing openly about that event.

On March 24 the Gua Musang Member of Parliament effectively broke ranks with the people who are seeking the removal of Prime Minister, (Datuk Seri Mappadulung Daeng Mattimung Karaeng Sanrobone), Mohd Najib Abdul Razak.

For months he was in the forefront of the movement. He was leading a campaign to remove Mohd Najib via a vote of no confidence.

He met and received the endorsement of his former Umno rival, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The latter even made a trip to Sarawak to canvass the support of the state Barisan Nasional members of the Dewan Rakyat.

Tengku Razaleigh is known to have met several Malay rulers to inform them of his plan. But over the same period he also met Mohd Najib secretly at home and abroad. It is understood that Mohd Najib had offered him positions in the government.

Lo and behold, on March 24 he signed a so-called Kalantan Declaration that pledges support to the Prime Minister.

Singing off loyalty to Mohd Najib
The spontaneous reaction is to accuse him of betrayal of the highest order; of eating the dedak.
  
But his about-turn did not come as a complete surprise to me for two key reasons.

Firstly, I have known Tengku Razaleigh and his modus operandi since the early 1970’s when he was the Chairman of Fleet Group (the original Malaysian owner of the New Straits Time Press) and President of the Malay Chamber of Commerce. I was then an economic reporter for Bernama. I visited him regularly in Kota Bharu in the late 1970’s when he was spearheading the development of the state after the 1977/78 takeover by Umno.

Secondly, I have been warned by many people, including those who have dealt with him over a long period of time, that for him self-preservation comes. Crudely put, he could not be trusted to march with the masses.

One of his former operators said he could not get rid of his princely habit of always wanting to be served and waiting to be “crowned”. 

The Possible Trigger

But what could have caused this Kelantan prince to make an about-turn?

Consider the following possibilities:

1. The admission that his no confidence-vote against Mohd Najib has come to naught. He could not get enough commitment from Dewan Rakyat members, via statutory declarations, to convince the House and the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to act against Mohd Najib.

2. That he has found other ways of removing the Prime Minister.

3. That he has become the latest and the most significant dedak eater to pledge loyalty to Mohd Najib.

But there could be another reason - something less sinister. As unlikely as it would appear to a lot of people, he could have entered into a secret agreement with Mohd Najib.

This agreement would allow Mohd Najib to make a safe exit and enable Tengku Razaleigh to become the Prime Minister – something that has eluded him for so long.

In return Tengku Razaleigh would guarantee that Mohd Najib is given safe passage and no charge is brought against him for the various crimes that he has been alleged of committing.

Mohd Najib makes an escape. Tengku Razaleigh becomes the Prime Minister. And the Barisan Nasional remains in power at least until the next general election.

Tengku Rarazeigh the Reformist?

Or if indeed Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is serious about finding “a quick settlement to the current problems of governance and leadership,” as was reported by The Star newspaper today, he would do one of the following two things:

1. He would form a national unity government comprising all political parties and representatives of civil society organizations, or

2. Call for an early general election so that the people can choose a new government that is capable of quickly and amicably settle all problems pertaining to governance and leadership.

The Gua Musang MP said that when it came to governance, no one could accuse him of inconsistency.

Responding broadly to allegations that he has betrayed public confidence by pledging support to Mohd Najib, Tengku Razaleigh was reported saying:

“I am confident that nobody can accuse me of inconsistency in my stand on governance, public responsibility and the need for change.

“This has been the theme of my struggle nationally and in Umno since 1987.”

In a meeting I had with him at the height of his no-confidence campaign against Mohd Najib, he shared his vision for the future, which is revolutionary to say the least.

Among other things he wants the Prime Minister’s post to be universally decided and for the Parliament to be answerable directly to the people.

Although he does not participate in the Deklarasi Rakyat, the same ideals are broadly embodied in the declaration which, inter alia, says:

“We call upon all Malaysians, irrespective of race, religion, political affiliation, creed or parties, young and old to join us in saving Malaysia from the Government headed by Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak, to pave the way for much needed democratic and institutional reforms, and to restore the important principle of the separation of powers among the executive, legislature and judiciary which will ensure the independence, credibility, professionalism and integrity of our national institutions.”

So which Tengku Razaleigh are we talking about – a saviour, a reformist, a traitor, a dedak eater, a wolf in sheep’s skin or simply a prince who craves for the crown?

Only time will tell.

Wallahuaklam.


Soalnya...boleh pakai lagi ker?

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PANAS ~ Pendedahan Skandal RM4 Bilion..!


Ini wajah Perdana Menteri Malaysia..! Ini bukan wajah penyamun tau..! Faham tak ni..!

Najib Razak scandal: ANZ ‘can’t act’

One of Australia’s biggest banks, ANZ, insists it had no authority to act over the alleged transfer of more than $US1 billion into Malay­sian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal accounts at AmBank, despite being a major shareholder of the Malaysian institution with ANZ executives working in senior management and sitting on the board.
The scandal surrounding money transfers totalling $US1,050,795,451.58 said to have flowed into Mr Najib’s bank ­accounts between January 2011 and April 2013 has rocked the Malaysian government and triggered fin­ancial investigations by authorities on three continents.
Mr Najib has denied any wrongdoing and in January his hand-picked new Attorney-General, Mohamad Apandi Ali, ­demanded all Malaysian investi­gations into the transfers be closed, declaring the bulk of the money a gift from Saudi royalty.
The ANZ has been a major shareholder in Malaysia’s AmBank for almost 10 years, after buying a 24.9 per cent stake in 2006.
A partnership agreement drawn up after the acquisition and lodged with the ASX not only gives ANZ seats on AmBank’s board and empowers it to ­parachute its staff into key management positions, it also obliges the Malaysian institution to follow its Australian partner’s rules of probity and core policy “to the extent appropriate in Malaysia”. It must also consult ANZ before approving any business plan, major mergers, disposals, acquisitions or changes in capital structure or direction.
According to bank documents seen by the ABC’s Four Corners, between January 13, 2011, and April 10, 2013, Mr Najib received more than $US1bn into personal AmBank accounts held under the name Mr X in instalments of between $US9 million and $US70m from, variously, the Saudi Arabian government, a Saudi prince and two Virgin Islands companies.
At the same time, Nik Faisal bin Ariff Kamil, the former investment director of the 1MDB state investment fund at the centre of the corruption scandal, was topping up the Prime Minister’s ­credit cards with millions of ­dollars in cash.
Mr Faisal is also chief executive of the state-owned SRC International, which is alleged to have paid $9m into Mr Najib’s accounts in 2014, a “smoking gun” that was to have formed the basis of a “criminal misappropriation of public money” charge against the Prime Minister until his then attorney-general was removed in July.
So much money was pouring into the accounts of the country’s highest office holder, a man with an annual income of $130,000, that the activity triggered money-laundering alerts within AmBank.
In November, AmBank paid a fine equivalent to more than $17m after Malaysia’s central bank found it had breached anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism finance obligations in relation to “politically exposed persons” ,_ believed to be a reference to Mr Najib’s accounts.
Yet the ANZ has repeatedly refused to say what, if any action, it took as a major shareholder with key appointments in senior probity, auditing and management positions within AmBank in the face of obviously suspect activity.
Last night, ANZ said: “As a minority shareholder, ANZ is not involved (and not permitted to be involved) in the day-to-day operations of AmBank, which is a listed company on the Malaysian Stock Exchange.
“ Directors have a fiduciary duty to all AmBank shareholders (not just ANZ) and nominated executives are employees of AmBank (and do not report to ANZ).
“Naturally, ANZ is very concerned by the recent issues involving AmBank. Both ANZ-nominated directors and nominated employees of AmBank are, however, subject to a significant restrictions under Malaysian law both as a listed company and under banking, privacy and other laws in Malaysia relating to operational matters and to specific accounts .”
ANZ’s new chief executive Shayne Elliott sat on the AmBank board until October, when he stepped down citing “additional workload commitments”.
Until January last year, AmBank was run by Ashok Ramamurthy, a 23-year ANZ veteran who joined AmBank as chief fin­ancial officer in 2007. After stepping down, he returned to ANZ’s Melbourne headquarters to work on “special projects”.
ANZ has told The Australian Mr Ramamurthy “co-operated fully with any regulator’s inquiry into 1MDB”.
Other ANZ executives to hold top-level jobs at AmBank in recent years include its chief internal auditor Thien Kim Mon, who join AmBank in 2010 after 21 years with ANZ. ANZ’s Mandy Simpson and Nigel Denby serve as ­AmBank’s chief financial officer and chief risk officer respectively.
ANZ may appoint up to four directors to the AmBank board but has only one, Suz­ette Cor, following the resig­nations of Mr Elliott and ANZ executive Mark Whelan this month.
ANZ is understood to have been trying to divest its stake in the scandal-plagued Malaysian bank since at least September — one month after tens of thousands of Malaysians staged street protests over the scandal.
That same month, Malaysian public prosecutor Kevin Morais, the man believed to have drafted the charge sheet against Mr Najib over the $9m payment from SRC, was abducted from a Kuala Lumpur street and found 12 days later stuffed in an oil drum filled with cement in a swamp on the capital’s fringes.
Makin terbelit bro..! Layan bahasa Malaysia pulak...

Sebuah akhbar Australia melaporkan bahawa bank keempat terbesar di Australia - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ)- mungkin menjual pegangannya dalam AmBank Holdings Berhad selepas publisiti buruk berhubung laporan ribuan juta ringgit disalurkan kepada akaun bank peribadi Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
"ANZ difahamkan cuba untuk melupuskan pegangannya dalam bank di Malaysia itu yang dibelenggu skandal sejak September lalu - sebulan selepas puluhan ribu rakyat Malaysia mengadakan demonstrasi jalanan membantah skandal itu," lapor The Australian dalam artikel bertajuk ‘Skandal Najib Razak: ANZ tidak boleh bertindak’ yang diterbitkan hari ini.
Akhbar itu melaporkan bahawa jumlah besar wang yang mencurah ke dalam akaun Najib mencetuskan amaran mengenai pengubahan wang haram di AmBank yang menyebabkan bank tersebut terpaksa membayar denda selepas Bank Negara mendapati ia melanggar undang-undang anti pengubahan wang haram dan peraturan transaksi kewangan memerangi keganasan.
Ini susulan pendedahan semalam oleh rancangan ehwal semasa 'Four Corners' terbitan Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) yang memperincikan bahawa ribuan juta ringgit didakwa mengalir ke dalam akaun AmBank Najib.
Akhbar itu melaporkan ANZ berkata ia tidak boleh bertindak ke atas pemindahan yang dikatakan bernilai lebih daripada AS$1 bilion ke akaun peribadi Najib di AmBank, walaupun ia adalah pemegang saham utama di institusi Malaysia itu dengan eksekutif ANZ bekerja sebagai pengurusan kanan dan juga menganggotai lembaga pengarahnya.
ANZ menjadi pemegang saham utama dalam AmBank Malaysia selama hampir 10 tahun, selepas membeli 24.9 peratus kepentingan pada tahun 2006.
APa maksudnya..!

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HOT ~ Lagi Najib Di Mata Dunia..!


Layan...

The Rise and Fall of Tim Leissner, Goldman's Big Man in Malaysia


The prime minister of Malaysia had a message for the crowd at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco in September 2013. “We cannot have an egalitarian society -- it’s impossible to have an egalitarian society,” Najib Razak said. “But certainly we can achieve a more equitable society.”
Tim Leissner, one of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s star bankers, enjoyed the festivities that night with model Kimora Lee Simmons, who’s now his wife. In snapshots she posted to Twitter, she’s sitting next to Najib’s wife, and then standing between him and Leissner. Everyone smiled.
The good times didn’t last. At least $681 million landed in the prime minister’s personal bank accounts that year, money his government has said was a gift from the Saudi royal family. The windfall triggered turmoil for him, investigations into the state fund he oversees and trouble for Goldman Sachs, which helped it raise $6.5 billion. Leissner, the firm’s Southeast Asia chairman, left last month after questions about the fund, his work on an Indonesian mining deal and an allegedly inaccurate reference letter.
Few corporations have mastered the mix of money and power like New York-based Goldman Sachs, whose alumni have become U.S. lawmakers, Treasury secretaries and central bankers. Leissner’s rise and fall shows how lucrative and fraught it can be when the bank exports that recipe worldwide. In 2002, when the firm made him head of investment banking in Singapore, it had just cleaned up a mess there after offending powerful families. It took only a few years before the networking maestro was helping the bank soar in Southeast Asia -- culminating in billion-dollar deals with state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd., also known as 1MDB. But if his links to the rich and powerful fueled his Goldman career, they also helped end it.
“He has to know a lot of people, that’s just the nature of the business,” said Gerry David, president of Celsius Holdings Inc., an energy-drink company that counts Leissner and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing as investors. “He’s the type of person that I would honestly tell you I would really want as a friend, a personal friend.”
Leissner’s lawyer, Jonathan Cogan, didn’t respond to messages. Edward Naylor, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs, declined to comment.

Suckling Pigs

Proximity to power is so prized at Goldman Sachs that a former co-head wrote it into his commandments for the firm: “Important people like to deal with other important people. Are you one?” The answer from lanky, blue-eyed Leissner seemed clear from his earliest years at the firm. He joined in 1998 and then became chief of staff to Richard Gnodde, president of the bank’s Asia operations and now co-head of investment banking.
One colleague from that era said Leissner was the kind of banker who could hop in a canoe, paddle upstream and come back with a fee. That person, who asked not to be identified, said Leissner could dazzle in other ways: When he married Judy Chan, whose father ran a coal-mining business in China, the wedding feast included suckling pigs with electric lights flashing in their eye sockets.
The firm learned a lesson about how to handle itself around power in Singapore just before Leissner got a big break there in 2002. In a presentation for a client bidding to take over a bank, Goldman Sachs advisers said that a rival deal was designed to keep powerful families in control while ignoring public shareholders. Regulators and local bankers were offended by the bluntness. Hank Paulson, chief executive officer at the time, flew to Singapore for damage control.
Leissner became the firm’s local head of investment banking a few months later. The banker, whose father was a Volkswagen AG executive in Yugoslavia during the Bosnian War before stints in Mexico and China, graduated from Germany’s University of Siegen and got an MBA from the University of Hartford in Connecticut in 1992.
At a 2001 gathering of young Asian leaders, the program listed him as Dr. Leissner for his workshop “What would happen had Einstein joined Wall Street?” A biography he provided at another forum said he got a doctorate in business administration from Somerset University. A school with that name offered degrees for $995, a retired federal investigator told a U.S. congressional committee on education in 2004.

Malaysian Billionaires

Leissner’s contacts were more impressive. In May 2006, he was sitting onstage when the conglomerate controlled by billionaire Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary announced its takeover of power producer Malakoff Bhd., what it called “the largest acquisition ever undertaken in Malaysia.” Goldman Sachs was an adviser on the deal. That year, Leissner made partner.
The firm helped manage billionaire T. Ananda Krishnan’s 2009 initial public offering of Maxis Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest wireless operator. Krishnan also controlled Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd., the largest pay-TV broadcaster, and Goldman Sachs was there when it went public, too.
Leissner was open about his ambition. The firm wanted to do more business in Malaysia, he said in an interview carried by a government news agency. That was before Najib became prime minister in 2009. By the end of that year, the nation’s securities commission cited the new leader’s “strategic shift” when it announced that Goldman’s application to start operations for fund management and corporate finance was approved.
That smoothed the way for the firm’s blockbuster deals with 1MDB, which began as an investment fund set up by oil-rich Terengganu state before Najib took it over. The government-owned entity attracted attention even in early days: Jho Low, a young dealmaker who advised the Terengganu Investment Authority and was a friend of Najib’s stepson, film producer Riza Aziz, popped up in tabloids celebrating in New York and St.-Tropez with Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and magnums of champagne.
Goldman Sachs, where Jho Low’s brother Szen had worked, hit it big, too. The firm made $593 million working on three bond sales that raised $6.5 billion for 1MDB in 2012 and 2013, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, dwarfing what banks typically make from government deals. Leissner was an adviser to the state fund from early on, according to a former colleague familiar with the bond sales.
“There’s no law against bankers meeting with heads of state,” Wong Chen, an opposition member of Malaysia’s parliament, said in an interview this month about Goldman Sachs’s relationship with 1MDB. “That’s a bit too cozy, a bit too overly generous.”

‘Large Requirements’

"There were large requirements and Goldman was one of the few firms, in fact the only firm, that could provide the solution that was required,” 1MDB President Arul Kanda said in an interview Wednesday at his office in Kuala Lumpur. “Overall the objectives were met." He declined to comment specifically on Leissner.
The bank said last year that fees and commissions “reflected the underwriting risks assumed by Goldman Sachs.” A spokesman for Najib declined to comment for this story. Jho Low didn’t respond to e-mails.
Leissner became the firm’s Southeast Asia chairman in 2014. By then, he had met his current wife in business class on a flight from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur, with an argument in the beginning and a marriage proposal by the end, according to an interview they gave to a Wall Street Journal fashion columnist. She was previously married to Russell Simmons, who co-founded Def Jam Recordings.
His wife’s social-media accounts chronicle the couple’s jet-set life, from yachts in the Caribbean to Indonesia, where she thanked god for her police escort. The prime minister and his wife weren’t the only Malaysian leaders she mentioned: The queen, she said, was a fan. In 2014, Simmons told a reporter that one of her daughters wanted to be a banker and met Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

$681 Million

Anger about the Wall Street bank’s profit was overshadowed by controversy over whether the money 1MDB raised was spent as intended on local projects including a Kuala Lumpur financial center or siphoned off.
“I am not a thief,” Najib said last July, as investigators probed the hundreds of millions of dollars that were said to have shown up in his bank accounts.
Malaysia’s attorney general said in January that the prime minister got $681 million as a gift from Saudi Arabia’s royal family and returned $620 million. That month, Switzerland’s prosecutors asked for Malaysia’s help investigating 1MDB, saying they suspected $4 billion may have been misappropriated.
Goldman Sachs reviewed the deal too, finding no indication the firm or Leissner engaged in wrongdoing, two people familiar with the process said. Even so, the bank stepped up scrutiny of him after he worked with a group of investors last year trying to buy Newmont Mining Corp.’s Indonesian copper operations.
One of them, Sudjiono Timan, a former head of a government-owned brokerage convicted of corruption in 2004, created a problem. The firm told Leissner it wouldn’t move ahead if he was a sponsor, even though the conviction was overturned in 2013, two people familiar with the matter said. Timan withdrew, but Goldman Sachs pulled out of the deal when it learned he was still an adviser, the people said. The bank then examined Leissner’s messages and found a reference letter he wrote that it said in a regulatory filing was “inaccurate and unauthorized.”

Gated Mansion

The firm put Leissner on leave in January, and he resigned soon after. U.S. investigators subpoenaed him in February over the 1MDB work. The government told him he’s not a target, according to one of the people.
Authorities are exploring whether Goldman Sachs misled 1MDB bondholders or broke anti-corruption laws, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Leissner recommended the firm hire the daughter of a close aide to Najib, according to the paper.
Goldman’s business in Malaysia, where it was one of the top banks four years ago, has fallen far. It ranked 17th for local mergers and acquisitions work last year, when it was credited with no equity or debt deals, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Leissner moved to Los Angeles. His exit from Goldman Sachs is an “opportunity to be back home with the family,” according to David, who promotes his energy-drink Celsius as a “negative calorie beverage.”
An attempt this month to reach Leissner or his wife via intercom at the black gate of an $11 million Beverly Hills mansion was unsuccessful. The 9,405-square-foot house, which has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a screening room, gym, tennis court and guest house, according to an old listing, is just north of Sunset Boulevard.
Last month, a few weeks after news broke that Leissner was on leave and in California, Najib returned to San Francisco. He was talking up his country, part of a tour called Invest Malaysia 2016.
“Under adverse conditions, we still perform pretty well,” the prime minister said. “We believe that performance can continue with policies that will not change.”
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Rabu, 30 Mac 2016

PANAS ~ Putera Pun Derma Boss Aabar Serta Kaitan Dengan 1MDB & Jho Low..!


Derma la katakan..!


Najib's Mystery Billionaire 'Prince' Also Paid Millions To Aabar Boss!

ABC Australia’s Four Corners programme has confirmed and documented information published by Sarawak Report about payments into Najib’s AmBank accounts by a mystery ‘Prince‘, previously condemned as ‘malicious falsehoods’ by the Prime Minister’s spokesmen.

ABC corroborated that these payments had been ‘authenticated’ by bizarre letters from a supposed donor, supposedly signed by a Prince Saud Abdulaziz al-Saud from the Private Office of Saud Abdulaziz Majid al-Saud.

Four Corners even published one of this series of letters, which concludes with a revealing denial:
“The Gift should not in any event be construed as an act of corruption since this is against the practice of Islam and I personally do not encourage such practices in any manner whatsoever…” intones the letter of November 1st 2011
So, ought we, like AmBank, just take the word of this ‘Prince’, who went so out of his way to stress that there was nothing corrupt about these gifts of hundreds of millions of dollars – allegedly donated because he supported Najib’s efforts in promoting ‘moderate Islam’? [letter in full below].

It would be easier to do so if there was any evidence that Prince Saud Abdulaziz al-Saud actually existed. However, it would seem that it is his identity rather than our reporting that has proved false.

Indeed, the name is merely generic and does not specify which son of whom this ‘prince’ might be, let alone one who is a multi-billionaire with philanthropic notions towards Malaysia.

Prince Faisal bin Turkey bin Bandar Alsaud

Furthermore, the ABC team has added a devastating detail to the information around the identity of this ‘donor’.  They have established that the bank transfer documents for these payments provide an altogether different name again for the mystery philanthropist!

The account from which the money actually came was in the name of one Prince Faisal bin Turkey bin Bandar Alsaud and not Prince Saud Abdulaziz al-Saud/ Saud Abdulaziz Majid al-Saud.

Once again, a search of the internet fails to deliver any reference to a gentleman of that specific name – the third related to the same payments – despite his apparent humungous wealth and generous disposition.

However, Sarawak Report can provide new evidence that the very same account also made a separate multi-million dollar payment to none other than the sacked Aabar Chairman, Khadem Al Qubaisi, during the same period in 2012!

On 26th April 2012 the mystery Prince Banda paid a whopping US$23,999,977 into Khadem’s private Vasco Trust account at Edmond de Rothschild Bank in Luxembourg.
What an interesting connection.
Telling payments into Khadem Al Qubaisi’s secret Vasco Trust account at Edmond de Rothschild bank in Luxembourg from Blackstone, Good Star Limited and Prince Faisal Bin Turkey Bin Bandar Alsaud

1MDB connections

The plainly fictitious Prince is not the only connection to be found between secret payments to Najib and secret payments to the ex-Aabar boss. Khadem also received money from the Jho Low companies Good Star Limited and Blackstone Asia Real Estate Parters Limited, which also funded Najib (above).

As Malaysian followers of the 1MDB scandal will know, Al Qubaisi was a key player working with Jho Low and Goldman Sachs to put together a series of multi-billion dollar loans raised by 1MDB.  These loans were mystifyingly ‘co-guaranteed’ by Aabar of which he was Chairman.
Secret party lover – Al Qubaisi has opened a string of nightclubs in the US
In return for this guarantee and to terminate supposed ‘options’ in the deals, over US$2.4 billion was allegedly paid to Aabar out of the money raised – except the money did not arrive, according to the accounts of its parent fund IPIC.

Research by the Wall Street Journal shows the money instead went to a BVI company of a similar name (Aabar PJS Limited), incorporated by Khadem and his side-kick CEO Mohammed Al Husseiny.

Khadem and Husseiny were both sacked by Aabar/IPIC last year and are under investigation, their accounts believed frozen.
However, over in Malaysia, Najib and the bosses of 1MDB continue to maintain there has been nothing untoward.

Blackstone BVI

There are more 1MDB connections thrown up by the latest information from Four Corners.  The programme also documents that a number of the payments to Najib, sponsored by the ‘Prince’, came from the phoney company Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited (BVI), which has already been exposed by Sarawak Report.

This is how the mysterious Prince of several names explained matters in his letter to the bank:
“I hereby grant you an additional sum of up to United States Dollars Three Hundred and Seventy Five Million (USD375,000,000) Only (“Gift”) which shall be remitted to you at such time and in such manner as I deem fit either directly from my personal bank account or through my instructed company bank accounts (such as Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited). You [Najib] shall have absolute discretion to determine how the Gift shall be utilised…”
This same Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited also sent half a billion dollars to Khadem Al Qubaisi’s Luxembourg account, according to our research.  Moreover, Sarawak Report has already identified Blackstone as another of Jho Low’s phoney companies, headed up by his number two, Seet Lin Lee.

Good Star Limited

The other company known to have paid money to Khadem during this self same period is none other than another of Jho Low’s companies, Good Star Limited, which was the recipient of the US$700 million dollars that was siphoned out of 1MDB’s original ‘joint venture’ with PetroSaudi in 2009 and later received a further US$330 million directly from 1MDB in 2011.

This is all money that Bank Negara is currently demanding back from 1MDB, on the grounds it was misappropriated.

Jho Low



There appears to be a common denominator to all these transactions, which we suggest is Jho Low.

Throughout 2011/12 Khadem Al Qubaisi received money into his Vasco account only from himself; Jho Low’s company Good Star Limited; Jho Low’s company Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited and the mysterious Prince Prince Faisal bin Turkey bin Bandar Alsaud.

Likewise, Najib received money from Blackstone and the ‘Prince’, while he utilised Jho Low for a wide variety of roles and transactions, including de-facto envoy to the Board of 1MDB and the purchase of diamonds for his wife Rosmah in Hong Kong.

Sarawak Report is going to venture an educated guess, therefore, which is that the real identity of the mysterious ‘Prince’ and author of the fawning letters praising Najib’s much vaunted ‘moderate Islam’ initiatives is also Jho Low:


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Kencing Arul Kanda Tak Lawas..?


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Former Premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants 1MDB President Arul Kanda Kandasamy to show the money that he says the company has.
Mahathir said the debt-ridden, controversial, government-owned strategic investment company was far from healthy financially without physical money but with only “numbers in the accounts”.
‎”Arul says he saw the money. Arul, if there is money around, then show it to me… I want to borrow some, to buy bread,” he said, mocking Arul’s public statement that the company now had money to pay off its debts.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is 1MDB advisory board chairman, has come attack ever since it was shown that 1MDB had RM42 billion in debts.
Mahathir yesterday joined Opposition politicians in the first stage of the Save Malaysia campaign trail which will take him and other signatories of the Citizen’s Declaration on a nationwide tour to meet people and get signatures to pressure Najib to resign.
The 91-year-old politician took the spotlight yesterday and used his witty remarks and humorous quips to delight the 1,000 or so attendees at the Ampang Jaya City Council field near here.
Mahathir intensified his attack on Najib and his statements – from Najib’s initial denial and subsequent flip flop on the controversial RM2.6 billion political donation that went into the latter’s personal bank accounts.
“He said it was the Arabs who gave the money. Who can believe it? When I asked for money to build the Islamic University, my Arab friends gave me kitab (holy book).
“But they (Arabs) love Najib so much they gave him RM2.6 billion,” he said.
Mahathir urged the people not to be afraid of signing the Citizens’ Declaration, asking them to help save the country from going bankrupt.
He also said his former party, Umno, could not do anything to stop Najib any more as the leaders of Umno were indebted to the money politics in the party.


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