September 11, 2012
(09-10-12)
Suaram says it is being persecuted by the Malaysian Government
Human rights group Suaram has claimed that it is being persecuted by the authorities for having filed a case in the French courts on alleged corruption in Malaysia’s purchase of two Scorpene-class submarines.
“The BN government has embarked on this shameful frame-up to the extent (of) perverting the government agencies and civil servants for this purpose,” Suaram Executive Director E Nalini said in a statement today.
“It is clear that these desperate actions by the government are attempts to discredit Suaram and its selfless service to the rakyat and to stop Suaram from revealing further damning evidence relating to the Scorpene scandal.”
Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry Ismail Sabri Yaakob had repeatedly questioned Suaram’s financial sources and stated that the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) was looking at its German funding as well as possible links to currency speculator George Soros (picture above).
‘Gov’t jumping the gun’
“Suaram condemns the Domestic Trade Minister for making a statement that Suaram will be prosecuted and that our accounts are ‘highly suspicious’ even while the investigation is still ongoing.
“Suaram has all along complied fully with the Companies Act in our dealings and our accounts are fully audited every year,” said Nalini.
On July 3 the CCM had attempted to serve a Notice of Inspection on Suaram but the NGO only received the notice 10 days later, after regulators ran into several technical glitches.
Suaram on July 20 furnished CCM with the requested documents – among them information on the company’s bank statements, business activities and administrative expenses for four years beginning 2008.
On September 3, Ismail Sabri declared Suaram’s accounts to be “highly suspicious” and two days later CCM seized documents from Suaram’s company secretary and auditors.
Subsequently, Wisma Putra took the German Embassy to task for allegedly funding of Suaram, while Ismail Sabri said it had identified five charges under the Companies Act 1965 against Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd – the vehicle for Suaram.
Dato Din,
Your fellow Kedahan had THIS to say,
““We DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY WHETHER THE COUNTRY WILL BE BANKRUPT or face negative effects from the giving of assistance to the rakyat.”
- Mukhriz Mahathir
Deputy Minister for International Trade and Industry
(Speech to UUM students on 6th September, 2012).
It is OK if Malaysia is bankrupt??? By the son of the longest serving Prime Minister in the country and a member of Najib’s cabinet !!
So, how now??
suaram keep it up! put up a good fight for the people. najib is corrupted to the core and need to be charged n need to return billions of corrupted money to the people!
well done suaram!
SUARAM has nothing at all to worry about if it has been complying with the Malaysian laws in all respects. If it is so, then let the authorities make fools of themselves. The rakyat will be the final judge. At the moment it appears that SUARAM does not represent the voice of all the rakyat but we will see who is right.
No problem Frank…Mahathir’s loot stashed up in Argentina is enough to ensure that Malaysia will never go bankrupt if his son Mukriz becomes PM !!!
Anyway can someone tell me what did George Soros do to Malaysia to deserve to be treated and perceived as a leper? Did he weaken the ringgit or did our people in BNM shot themselve in the foot?
According to our Perdana Menteri , it is not Malaysian culture to hold street demo’ nor sit on the pictures of Malaysian leaders . So it looks like CORRUPTION and selective persecution is Malaysian culture lah!!!
Frank,
The guy is thinking in Malay (as usually is the case for many) and is speaking in English. Or was he??
Apparently you have raised the bar too high for him. Among the siblings this one I know for a fact he has the lowest IQ. You may want to lower the bar a little. Also you may want to go to the other thread and rebut allegations made against you about being caught inflagrante delicto with grandma Hyacinth Goddard, Ivy Goh and Adele Koh and Daisy – the first being from FEA Public Administration and the rest English Department gals.
Bean, my, my, you are keen on Hyacinth Goddard but are passing the buck to Frank.–Din Merican
Mr Bean always has Hyacinth Goddard on his mind because he still misses the panty raids on 3rd RC.
Here is this song for you. Mr Bean, as you wander in the corridors of your mind for those nights in 3 RC.
I am more keen in seing Sharizat probed for money laundering. There is enough evidence to book her. There is a layering of transactions and over valuing of invoices through intermediary companies controlled by her The Attorney General has enough prima facie evidence for a case of money laundering going forward to a successful prosecution. Tok Cik may want her probed for other reasons..
Hyacinth Goddard in FEA? No. I mixed that up with Henrietta Impossible – also another of Frank’s unrequited love.
Ms Impossible (believe it or not that was her name) was my classmate in FEA. Everything was possible with her. Over here Sandra Fluke is making headlines since according to the Republicans she wants America to pay for her contraceptives.
Mr Bean,
Adele Koh migrated to Australia in 1973 after Lee Kuan Yew expelled her from Singapore and she married a popular South Australia Premier , the late Don Dunstan (who died in 1999). .Adele was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in May 1978. She died in October 1978.
http://zorro-zorro-unmasked.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/remembering-adele-koh-and-jean-periera.html
Over here today I’m reflecting on what might have been eleven years ago on 9/11. The name Mr Bean from Din Merican DJ Blogger missed by 45 minutes from being carved in stone on the 9/11 Memorial in New York.
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You must have had inside information to escape joining the 3500 people who lost their lives. Your Guardian angel was helping you.–Din Merican
If SUARAM are being targeted then they must be doing something right? I read somewhere that Mahathir’s sons are worth US8 billion? theres a lot of work to be done, do you think?
Mr Bean, common denominator in your rantings about “panty raids” and “3rd R.C.” and “money laundering” is Sharizat Abdul Jalil… hmmmm…
Bean,
By ” over here ” do you mean the piece of wood above your neck?
Mr Bean,
I was told if you are given another chance by Providence, you do one of two things:
A) get drunk, be happy and don’t give a damn to anyone or anything without going to jail
B) It means you still have unfinished job before seeing your 72 Virgins. So go and spend the rest of your life doing something good or useful to your fellowmen/women.
You can’t do both…. and cease thinking about Hyacinth Goddard and the 3rd RC… Or Ivy Goh. Ivy Goh is a permanent feature on Saturday Night Balls in the Great Hall.
I read somewhere that Mahathir’s sons are worth US8 billion? theres a lot of work to be done, do you think?- Kathy
What work to be done??
It’s amazing when someone belittle others of lower IQ when they posit a ridiculous assertion. How can we go bankrupt when most of our debt is in Ringgit Malaysia. There’s so many lies and myth about our country going bankrupt. The best is one party’s deficit budget makes us bankrupt while the other’s similar budget deficit doesn’t and in fact good. Just read hishamH good write and assess again who has lower intelligence. http://econsmalaysia.blogspot.com/2012/08/mythbusting-government-debt-edition.html?m=1
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Our government will go bankrupt when we cannot repay our debt.It does not matter whether the debt is in ringgit or any other currency.Prudent fiscal management is vital for public and investor confidence.
Hishamh, whose writings on economics and economic policy I appreicate, has a point – borrow to finance development projects but not at inflated cost, and without return on investment (minimum equal to cost of loan).–Din Merican
Frank,
Who could forget the sight of Ivy Goh knees apart in her red thong long before the thong made its debut pouring over a copy of ‘Coitus Interruptus’ in the Red Spot section of the library; and the sight of Adele Koh in revealing mini skirts bent over her car flaunting her assets for all to see on a hot lazy afternoon …. who could forget?? Talk about making my day !
Greenbug,
Dato was six years my senior and Rosmah Mansor two years my junior and Sharizat Abdul Jaiil three years my junior. I believe Frank was my contemporary. And as for you I think you’re trying to tell us you’re Sharizat’s contemporary. Congratulations.
Mr Bean, you have a good memory for the fine details, even the color of Ivy Goh’s clogs…. I would say you should have taken medicine instead, and I have no doubt at all you could have been a great gynaecologist. Law is a wrong career for you with such memory and talent.
I knew it ! I knew it. Frank was sitting behind me. And he had an eyeful of Ivy Goh’s falling leaves, shrubs and undergrowth. So here’s to ‘Falling Leaves’. Dato’s favorite next to ‘Autumn Leaves”
You must have had inside information to escape joining the 3500 people who lost their lives. Your Guardian angel was helping you.– Din Merican
Frank,
72 virgins are for the Old Goat. I had all the virgins I wanted. They would drive you into tight corners forcing you to make the Hail Mary pass. You don’t want virgins. You want Kim Kardashian.
Dear Dato,
Ive gone through this many times. I find the argument were going bankcrupt as ludicrous.You as an erudite would know that a country and an individual is not the same. If you look at BNM September figures, only 17 B is external debt. Our operational revenue is 175B. Its just 10% of our operational budget. There is no major risk of external loan default unlike the Greece case. The rest of our debt as are in Ringgit. As you have read hisham in the last 40 years save 3 years our operational budget has always been a surplus. And as a rule our government incurs debt to fund development. Thus all this ringgit debt has future cashflows. Further on a worse case scenario as a country it can always issue ringgit though it will have inflationary pressure. Thus its unfathomable how our current ringgit debt will make us bankcrupt.
Let me put it in more layman term. Our debt gdp ratio is maximum probably around 55%. Assuming we are closed to bankcrupt, then almost all the developed nations in this world are bankcrupt. US debt gdp ratio is around 60% to 70%. Germany, UK and France 70-85%. Singapore 100%, Japan 200%.
So why is there no fuss of them being a bankcrupt despite having a debt to gdp ratio higher than us. Its really an outlandish assertion.
And to rub salt into this ludicrous idea, PR including tony phua Anwar and LKS also acknowledge there’s nothing wrong. They too after taking into account of so called measure in eliminating corruption came up with a deficit budget wih billion dollar hand out.
We are no longer stupid. How come BN deficit budget makes us bankcrupt but PR deficit budget doesnt? HishamH is being very nice to call it a myth on this ridiculous bankcruptcy assertion. I would have call a spade a spade.