French lawyer Joseph Breham, who is acting on behalf of human rights NGO Suaram, revealed that the company paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, ostensibly for "commercial engineering" works. However, the company was paid for selling top secret military intelligence on the Scorpene submarines to the French company.
Breham, who based his expose on the French prosecution papers, said the act of "selling" top secret papers to a foreign country such as this is considered treason.
In France, he stressed, it would be absolutely illegal to sell such reports as it could either be considered a breach of defence secrets or high treason.
"It's treason because you are selling to a competitor or a foreign country what you think about a specific weapon, and your plan on how to use this specific weapon," replied Breham, when asked by a journalist if it was legal for an individual to sell such reports.
"In France, if you release them (secret documents), you can be punished with up to 10 years in jail," said Breham
Hong Kong-based Terasasi had been accused of funneling money through its accounts to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as "commissions" for the sale of the submarines.
Two Terasasi directors are Najib's close ally Abdul Razak Baginda and his father Abdul Malim Baginda.
If the report from Malaysiakini is true, it is going to shatter Najib's reforms credentials which have been weakened by several questionable decisions and lack of action to curb abuse of power, corrupt practices, growing politics related violence and poor governance.
These allegations, that Najib and his party had profited from the corrupt proceeds, pose serious challenge to his leadership and personal credibility.
Silence is not a good choice for the embattled premier. He must stand up and speak up to clear the doubts.
His ex-advisor, Abdul Razak Baginda, must be summoned back to answer to these allegations. Otherwise, it would appear to be very difficult for Najib to continue to claim the moral high ground with his 1Malaysia: People First, Performance Now agenda.
It is unprecedented that a serving Malaysian premier is caught in such quagmire and controversy rising from an abuse of direct public procurement. The government has ignored repeated calls for more transparency in its procurement system and to stop using direct negotiations.
Now, the premier must answer why we should pay more than RM500 million on commission to a middleman?
Where does the money ended up?
Why aren't our MACC spring into action and investigate those personalities mentioned in the Paris trial?
Why is the so-called independent anti-corruption commission choose to ignore such huge controversy and allegations against some of the biggest personalities in Malaysia?
Malaysia's image is surely going to take a harsh beating if the ones connected to the investigation do not cooperate and come clean on the allegations.
5 comments:
This is retribution for calling for Allah to be his witness with his misleading swearing that he has never met the mongolian beauty. Najib was trying to mislead the public into thinking that he was swearing on the Koran that he wasn't responsible for the killing.This is Karma !
He is now shitting in his pants and not able to sleep well at night at is hoping and praying for the proceeding in the French court to be delayed until after the GE in Malaysia is held. So that as P.M. he is still able to cover the Malaysian sky at least.
Khoo,even during the trial of the two bodyguards,the defence and prosecution were instructed what to ask and say,and what questions not to ask and not to say.So from the start there was already a cover up.The trial was screwed from the very start.Razax Baginda was fixed a free and innocent man before the trial even began.Or else how and why our courts are nicknamed kangkaroo.
Jumping ships and a domino effect has started! 12 June media report: “…speculative news on 6 BN defections into PKR party, 2 of whom allegedly held seats in Parliament….pundits expect this to set in motion a domino effect as Sabah leaders fled the decaying BN, helping to pave the way for the country's first regime change in 55 years…. Not surprisingly, news was soon leaked to the Umno-linked media that MPs would receive an additional RM1.5 million each after the Budget 13 in Sept” – From tax-payers’/the people’s money. God is wonderful and BN is crumbling like Idi Amin, Suharto, Marcos, Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi & Assad in Syria.
Scorpene case. Impeachment is long overdue. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Think, before the arrival of internet media, twitter & blogs, how much has been plundered, squandered and hidden by Sarawak’s PBB & KL’s UMNO. Malaysia has become the biggest laughing stock of the world.
Our Problem is: the BIG thieves are ruling the country. Howard Zinn: “….Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves…(and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
3 murders: Ross Boyert (Taib’s former US aide), Manser (native & rainforest activist) & Altantuyaa (Scorpene commission claimant). It was likely many at the top were beneficiaries of the French kickbacks. Hence the deadening silence from UMNO. Kleptocracy! A government that exists only to boost the wealth & grip of those in power. Hence the kind of MACC you have, torturing opposition over a few thousand ringgits. A government of thieves. What justification is there for crooks & criminals to remain in power? The only question is how long it will take to remove them given your unfair electoral system.
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