MAHA FIRAUN SHOULD ALSO BE SUBJECTED TO THE "FORENSIC POLICE INVESTIGATION" HE RECOMMENDED FOR 1MDB!

by holier-than-thou, donplaypuks® intrepid correspondent for hypocritical affairs

Who was it who said that behind every fortune there's a great crime, and who was it who said sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?

Well, ex-prime minister Maha Firaun's (MF) stirring conclusion on Friday the 13th of March 2015, that a mere audit of the books of accounts of 1MDB would not suffice, and that what was called for, was a forensic police investigation of those involved in its financial administration, is the stuff of some of the great calls for truth, transparency, accountability and justice in history. Emile Zola and J'accuse, Watergate and Nixon's fall from grace, Sherron Watkins's anonymous letter to CEO and Chairman of Enron, Ken Lay, the re-opening of the JFK assassination all spring to mind.

That MF charging in on a white horse with sword in hand to slay the beasts of iniquity in 1MDB would be a sight to behold. It would have the Rakyat lining the streets and cheering themselves hoarse, were it not for that slight, oh so slight, suspicions that many may have, that were Maha Firaun himself subjected to that very acid test, that "forensic police investigation", of his and his sons' Billion ringgit fortune and empires, and of the various financial and administrative scandals that surfaced during his 22-year tenure as prime minister, there might emerge a huge stink, and he would miserably fail that searching examination of his honesty, integrity and truthfulness. 

Perish the thought that Maha Firaun and his sons may have to endure lodgings at His Majesty's pleasure!

But, let's ask Maha Firaun anyway and see how it pans out:

1. How is it that despite a Malaysian Malay accountant being murdered in Hong Kong, and the 1983 collapse of Bumiputra Finance Malaysia (BMF) in 1983 and the near collapse of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad (BBMB), and three senior Bumiputra directors of BMF absconding overseas, you said that no crime was committed in Malaysia, and no one was charged for any crime here? Cost to the Rakyat - RM2.5 billion.

2. How do you justify bringing back into government the forex trader mainly responsible for the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) loss of RM 6 billion (some say RM30 billion) and that man today continues to work at a most senior position in the prime minister's office? What about the accounting fraud whereby these losses were netted off against revaluation of BNM's gold and other reserves to show a net gain? Why was there no Royal Commission of Inquiry to determine if fraud was committed and to bring to book those responsible? Cost to the Rakyat - RM6-30 billion.

3. What was your role in the collapse of tin prices and the MAMINCO fiasco in 1981? Cost to the Rakyat - RM1.6 billion.

4. How do you (and Diam Diam) justify buying MAS shares at RM8 when the market price was RM3.68? Cost to the Rakyat - RM1.8 billion plus RM8 billion in bailouts.

5. What was your role in fixing the appointment of judges vis-a-vis Limgamgate and the 2008 RCI, which recommended that the Attorney General investigate you? Cost to the Rakyat - Untold RM billions.

6. How did the railway double tracking project start at RM45 billion, then come down to RM22 billion and for a final bid of RM14.5 billion, when the "entrepreneur" concerned was known to be looking at sub-contracting out the work for RM 9 billion? Cost to the nation - RM5.5 billion.

7. You were the adviser to a national car company which wrote off in 2005 RM348 million on its investment in a motor-bike company, which it sold to undisclosed third parties for 1 Euro. How come you said you were not consulted about this fiasco? Was there fraud? Cost to the GLC - RM348 million.

8. How did so many thousand of Approved Permits (AP) for cars end up cornered by 4 AP Kings? Why did you not monitor your minister, that so-called fraud Iron Lady, RApidfire woman? Cost to the Rakyat - conservatively, RM 30,000 per AP x 1,000AP's per year x 15 years = RM45 billion.

9.  How do you justify paying RM1.7 billion to buy out a shipping and logistics concern, you son's Plc, following its torpedoing in the wake of the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis, when it was cheaper to hire ships and tankers in the open market? What "strategic concern" was it that has not survived? Cost to the Rakyat - RM1.7 billion.

10. Why was FOMEMO, a cash cow business owned 100% by the Rakyat, transferred to a Plc in which your son was a controlling investor? Cost to the Rakyat over 15 years - M15 billion.

11. Why did you complain about having to kow-tow to a famous Sil, KJ, for a direct-nego non-open tendered out Telekom's contract for your son? Cost to the Rakyat? RM 50 million.

12. How did your son so quickly acquire massive contracts from an oil monopoly for "marginal oil-field" and other contracts worth billions of ringgit? By open tender, hard work, know-how and dedication or Daddy Kasi?

13. What was the haste in awarding IPP licences and direct-nego non-open tendered out contracts circa 2000 to "entrepreneurs" regarded as your cronies, resulting in an unheard of 45% surplus electricity capacity and costing Tenaga RM15 billion + a year in unwanted and unutilised electricity? Cost to the Rakyar over 15 years - RM225 billion!!! 

14. Who are the real shareholders of your bread company and where did the capital for it come from? How did you secure a Japanese partner? Was it because of secret deals done for a certain national car company? Any money laundered, with BNM blindfolded?

15. Where did you get all those millions of dollars from, and from whom, to finance supply ships to Palestine? Who audited those accounts - the Big 4?

16. What about the 1987 Perwaja steel company collapse after you crowned its leader CEO of the Year? Cost to the Rakyat - RM1.2 billion + repeated bailouts, possibly another $3 billion.

 

17. Why have you been retained as adviser of a car company again, when its been sold to a Plc? After its collapse happened while you were the previous adviser, why are you still there? To preside over another collapse and bailout by the Rakyat? Have you always had a secret shareholding in it, that 5% owned by Syarikat Rahsia Cepat Kaya Semalam (Secret Company For Get Rich Quick By Yesterday)?

So, total loss to the nation during Maha Firaun's 22-year benevolent dictatorship, is conservatively estimated at RM 500 BILLION OR HALF A TRILLION!! My, my that's a heck of a lot more than 1MDB's RM46 billion debt, isn't it?

So, who should be visited first for a forensic investigation by the police? Maha Firaun or 1MDB?

There were many more financial scandals and irregularities during Maha Firaun's long and tiresome reign, but time and space constrains me from listing them all. But besides the financial fiascos, there were the moral ones about which he did very little to rectify, fearing the total collapse of NEW BUMNO/SCUMNO. The answers to the following dirty dozen of the best questions will reveal the frightening scale of that negligence and moral decay:

1. Who was the Chief Editor of a mainstream newspaper who had an affair with a young girl while his wife lay paralysed in bed?

2. Who was the Chief Minister who eloped to Thailand to secretly marry his second wife?

3. Who was the Federal Minister who later became a prime minister and who was caught with a female artiste in a Port Dickson hotel room?

4. Who was the Federal Minister whose brother was arrested for drug trafficking?

5. Who was the Federal Minister who enticed someone else's wife resulting in a broken marriage?

6. Who was the Chief Minister who had an affair with an under-aged girl?

7. Who was the Chief Minister who had an affair with a girl who gave birth to an illegitimate child?

8. Who was the Chief Minister who maintained an under-aged mistress at a condominium in KL?

9. Who was the Chief Minister who had an affair with his sister-in-law who gave birth to an illegitimate baby?

10. Who was the religious leader who had an illicit affair with a woman and is now holding a prominent position in a very important religious body?

11. Who was a BUMNO/SCUMNO lawyer who became the senior-most judge, took a beauty as a second wife in a marriage ceremony performed by a Thai kadi operating from a textile shop in Perlis, asked her to burn their marriage certificate, and then had the court annul their marriage a year or two later for want of proof of marriage?

12. Who was the Federal Deputy Minister who was not investigated for the murder of a Malay GRO with whom he was having an affair? Police apparently were alone in the dead girl's apartment for two hours removing all evidence. Later, the dead girl's flat mate was charged with murder, but was acquitted without his defence being called.

Donplaypuks® with what's sauce for the goose, man!