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- ‘Gov’t Downplaying Air Traffic System Problems’
- Skandal LRT Ampang RM960 juta
- Former ACA Director Abdul Razak Idris Denies That Anwar Ordered Him to Make SD
- Bagaimana Permulaan Kerugian Mendadak MAS
- Rakaman #meetanwar Di Perak 23 Jun 2012
- Deep and Dirty: Malaysia’s Submarine Scandal
- Photo Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Di Program #meetanwar Edisi Ke 6
| ‘Gov’t Downplaying Air Traffic System Problems’ Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:47 PM PDT PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar has lashed out at the authorities for downplaying alleged problems with the national air traffic control system by calling this "minor glitches". She said the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) had said "minor glitches" had been spotted in the 26.05 million euro (RM128.4 million) system installed nationwide, while the Transport Ministry has claimed that it is "performing well". She said the statements are a far cry from complaints by Subang air traffic controllers that there are "clear weaknesses that render the system unstable". In a June 13 letter to Nurul Izzah, DCA director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the regulatory body had held five meetings with the Italian radar systems provider, Selex Sistemi Integriti SpA, from January to May to "monitor improvements to the system". Nurul Izzah had claimed that the Human Machine Interface (HMI) fitted to the National Air Traffic Control Centre (NATCC) has been defective since being installed on Dec 13 last year. She based her allegations on documents she had received, the source of which could not be independently verified. According to the documents, the NATCC director had sent out a memo to "all traffic controllers, in particular highlighting the inconsistency in cleared flight level". A letter addressed to their director and dated Jan 4, had 11 signatories including NATCC's deputy director of air traffic control. They complained that efforts to rectify the problems up to then were "very disappointing", and air traffic controllers had been advised to be cautious. NATCC's systems coordinate air traffic over the entire country's airspace and any problems in the system would compromise flight safety. Azharuddin explained that the DCA had began upgrading the Air Traffic Control (ATC) mechanism in stages under the Malaysia Air Traffic Services Modernisation Programme since 1992, with the latest being Sibu and Tawau where the radars were fitted in 2010. "While the ATC system was being improved in stages, Selex was then given the Certificate of Practical Completion (CPC) on Dec 21, 2011… as stated under Clauses 44 and 47 of the conditions of contract, the contractor has to "make good any defects, imperfections, shrinkages or any faults whatsoever" during the Defects Liability Period which will take two years," the letter states. "With that assurance from Selex though the CPC, the DCA used the new system. For your information, the new system before it was used by the DCA, was researched and a Safety Management System (SMS) was conducted as required by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)." Noting that safety is a "very important aspect", he said the software used in the ATC system had undergone a quality assurance process at the point of manufacture in Italy. The letter further clarifies that the DCA is monitoring the "glitches" and as for the problems faced by the ATC in Subang, 78 percent have been resolved, 10 percent are being tested and 12 percent are being analysed at the Selex factory in Italy. He also responded to Nurul Izzah's call for an audit on system, saying that the ICAO has conducted two audits on DCA and found it to be compliant with international specifications. 'Absence of open tender' However, Nurul Izzah retorted that the audits on DCA "do not calm public concern" as the fault is in the system and not with the regulator. The letter however, fails to address why the project was not awarded through an open tender, when it was pointed out that Selex is embroiled in controversy, she said. "It has also come to my attention that (the contractor) was given a 5+5 years maintenance contract for this system upgrade without an open tender being conducted. I am made to understand that for the Kuala Lumpur International Airport as an example, the length of maintenance contract for a similar service is three years," she said. "Hence, Transport Ministry must explain the length and the lack of an open tender, if indeed this is the case." According to an AFP report, Selex has been investigated since 2010 over allegations that it had been given no-bid contracts by the Italian civil aviation agency Enav. Most recently, the probe led authorities to search the home of the Vatican's former de facto bank chief Ettore Gotti Tedeschi on June 6 for documents pertaining to the case. Selex is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica SpA, a defence company that is facing its own set of corruption allegations. These range from claims that its former chairperson had created false invoices and slush funds to pay off politicians to allegations that its current chairperson had greased helicopter deals with India when he was the head of its subsidiary, AgustaWestland. Finmeccanica and Selex have consistently denied any wrongdoing. |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:43 PM PDT PKR akan membuat pendedahan setiap dua hari bermula hari ini mengenai apa yang didakwanya skandal pemberian kontrak pembinaan projek tambahan sistem LRT Ampang yang bernilai RM960 juta. Pengarah Strategi PKR, Rafizi Ramli (kanan) berkata, projek tersebut yang didakwa dianugerahkan kepada syarikat yang tidak terpilih melalui proses tender terbuka, telah menjejaskan janji pentadbiran Najib untuk membanteras rasuah. Berikutan itu, tegasnya, PKR akan membuat pendedahan setiap dua hari mengenai skandal tersebut yang bakal menguji komitmen Najib kepada usaha membanteras rasuah dan penyelewengan. Katanya, pendedahan tersebut adalah juga sebagai balasan kepada tindakan Umno memutarbelitkan keputusannya menarik diri dari Kerajaan Selangor sebagai petanda wujud keretakan dalam pentadbiran kerajaan negeri itu yang ditunjangi PKR. Sebaliknya, kata Rafizi, beliau mengambil tindakan tersebut untuk menumpukan perhatian merancang strategi pilihan raya PKR. “Saya menasihati Datuk Seri Najib supaya menangani skandal ini dengan baik demi menjaga imej pentadbiran beliau,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini. Rafizi adalah individu yang memainkan peranan penting dalam mendedahkan dakwaan penyalahgunaan pinjaman mudah RM250 juta oleh NFC. milik anggota keluarga Ketua Wanita Umno, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. Shahrizat tidak dilantik semula sebagai menteri pembangunan wanita, Berikutan ini,Najib mengambil alih kementerian berkenaan dan tidak melantik ahli parlimen wanita untuk portfolio tersebut. Mengenai dakwaan skandal pemberian kontrak pembinaan projek tambahan sistem LRT Ampang, Rafizi mendakwa Najib campurtangan dalam tender terbuka untuk memastikan konsortium George Kent memenangi kontrak tersebut yang bernilai hampir satu bilion ringgit. Beliau mendakwa, PKR mendapat maklumat yang rapat dengan kerajaan bahawa Najib sendiri campurtangan di dalam hal ini untuk memastikan kontrak tersebut dianugerahkan kepada George Kent, sedangkan beliau (Najib) pernah berjanji untuk berlaku telus dan memastikan semua kontrak besar dijalankan secara tender terbuka. |
| Former ACA Director Abdul Razak Idris Denies That Anwar Ordered Him to Make SD Posted: 25 Jun 2012 06:45 AM PDT We refer to the false allegations published in the NST and Berita Harian on 21st June 2012 that opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had ordered former ACA director of investigations Abdul Razak Idris to make a statutory declaration relating to the RM 3 billion allegation. En Abdul Razak Idris has now denied the allegation that he was ordered by Anwar to make the SD clearing him of wrongdoing. Abdul Razak Idris has communicated this fact to NST and Berita Harian. We have been given a copy of his message in which he says, ” Saya pula bukan diarah oleh DSAI tetapi saya diminta oleh KP SPRM untuk elakkan beliau atau pegawainya disapina oleh DSAI sebagai saksi plaintif dlm civil suit terhadap NST yg didengar pd akhir Nov 2009.” From the preceding, it is clear now that the UMNO- owned NST and Berita Harian published a blatant lie against Anwar in order to inflict political damage upon him. This campaign of libel and character assasination is of course carried out with the knowledge and approval of Prime Minister Najib and UMNO who own these two newspapers. This denial by En Abdul Razak Idris’ gives clear proof of the underhand UMNO campaign to defame and villify Anwar Ibrahim. UMNO and its media have now been caught red-handed making a false statement of a very serious nature about Anwar.The opposition leader has through his solicitors today issued a demand to the NST and Berita Harian newspapers to publish with equal prominence Abdul Razak Idris’ denial that he was ordered to make the SD by Anwar. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also claims damages and an undertaking that the false allegations will not be repeated. |
| Bagaimana Permulaan Kerugian Mendadak MAS Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:40 PM PDT |
| Rakaman #meetanwar Di Perak 23 Jun 2012 Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:35 PM PDT
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| Deep and Dirty: Malaysia’s Submarine Scandal Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:02 PM PDT Leaked prosecution documents show a pattern of official misdeeds in two countries A two-decade campaign by the French state-owned defense giant DCN and its subsidiaries to sell submarines to the Malaysian ministry of defense has resulted in a long tangle of blackmail, bribery, influence peddling, misuse of corporate assets and concealment, among other allegations, according to documents made available to Asia Sentinel. Some of the misdeeds appear to have taken place with the knowledge of top French government officials including then-foreign Minister Alain Juppe and with the consent of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, according to the documents, comprising 133 separate files and hundreds of pages. They were presented to the French Prosecuting Magistrate at the Court de Grand Instance de Paris in May and June of 2011. French lawyers have begun preparing subpoenas for leading Malaysian politicians including Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the current Defense Minister, Ahmad Zaki Hamad and several other figures. The documents were sent anonymously to Asia Sentinel via a circuitous route that took them to Brussels, Belgium; Lagos, Nigeria; Brazzaville,Congo; Libreville, Gabon; then to Leipzig, Germany and finally to Hong Kong. The documents, written in French, can be found in a collection in Asia Sentinel’s Scribd account. The documents were compiled as a result of a raid on April 7, 2010, when scores of investigators from the anti-organized and financial crime unit of the French Directorate of Judicial Police swooped down on DCN's offices at 19 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia in Paris's 15th Arondissement, and four other locations, demanding that stunned officials give them access to safes, files and computers. They collected thousands of documents that form the bulk of the files delivered to Asia Sentinel. Together, they present a damning indictment of Malaysian officials whose goal was to steer a €114.96 million (US$114.3 million at current exchange rates) payment through a private company called Perimekar Sdn Bhd, wholly owned by Abdul Razak Baginda. Razak Baginda was then the head of a Malaysian think tank called Malaysian Strategic Research, which was connected with the United Malays National Organization, the country's biggest political party. The payment appears to have been in violation of the OECD Convention on Bribery, which France ratified on June 30, 2000. On Sep. 29, 2000, according to document D00015, DCNI, a DCN subsidiary, "took corrective actions" after France joined the bribery convention. Contracts concluded after that date were to be routed to Eurolux and Gifen, companies held by Jean-Marie Boivin, DCN's former finance chief, and headquartered in Luxembourg and Malta respectively Boivin is being investigated for having played a central role in the "corrective actions," with what were described as "outlandish commissions" traveling through the welter of companies that he established in tax havens around the world. Among the documents is one that shows Boivin paid to send Razak Baginda on a jaunt to Macau with his then-girlfriend, Altantuya Shaariibuu, a Mongolian national who was later murdered by two of Najib's bodyguards. "A separate agreement sets other compensation consisting of a fixed amount independent of the actual price of the main contract," one document reads in reference to the payment to Perimekar. "This has been made to be consistent with [DCN's] internal rules and [its subsidiary] Thales and those of the OECD. The beneficiaries of these funds are not difficult to imagine: the clan and family relations of Mr. Razak Baginda. In addition, these funds will find their way to the dominant political party.” Malaysia's dominant political party was and is UMNO. Malaysian Defense Spree The story in essence began when Najib Tun Razak was appointed defense minister in Mahathir's cabinet in 1991 and embarked on a massive buildup of the country's military, arranging for the purchase of tanks, Sukhoi jets, coastal patrol boats – and submarines. That kicked off a stiff competition between French, German, Swedish, Russian and Dutch manufacturers, who in turn went looking for the most effective cronies of the Malaysian leadership to help them out. By 1995, according to document DC00078, DCN's subsidiary Thales was losing out to the German manufacturer Kockums AB, which was represented by Amin Shah, dubbed "Malaysia's Onassis" because of his business and shipping interests, who was close to then-finance minister Daim Zainuddin and was suspected of being a front man for Daim's interests. French authorities seemed to counter by paying a "consultancy fee" according to a handwritten document called a “Consultancy Agreement" signed in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 1, 1996 between DCN International representative Emmanel Aris and a Malaysian Army major named Abdul Rahim Saad. The purpose was "to reintroduce DCNI in the short list of tenders after it was rejected by the Government of Malaysia" on Dec. 14, 1995, according to the French documents. The remuneration was to be paid in two lots, US$20,000 before Jan. 31, 1996, and US$80,000 after acceptance. Apparently it was successful. Rahim is now managing director of a company called ARS Sehajatera Sdn Bhd., which supplies logistical equipment to the Malaysian armed forces. However, there are questions whether Rahim was ever paid. A memo found in the DCN files said he "expresses discontent and proclaims his support for the Agosta [the Spanish manufacturer of the Scorpenes for DCN] submarines since 1996 but he 'has not had any news from DCNI to date.' He says he organized shady activities to promote the French bid…He complains of not having been paid for his services." Eventually, according to the documents, Amin Shah began to lose his influence with the government after Daim Zainuddin left his position as finance minister. DCN and its subsidiaries began casting around for other sources of influence within the Malaysian government. An attempt to woo Tan Sri Razali Ismail, one of Malaysia's most distinguished diplomats, failed. "It was ultimately unsuccessful and Mr. Abdul Razak Baginda was chosen in his place," the documents note. "The role of the latter was to facilitate the submission procedure to the Malaysian government and the responsible ministers, in particular the Minister of Defense, with whom he claimed to have a close relationship." According to Document D000112, "…Razak Baginda has maintained excellent relationships with the Defense Minister and Prime Minister. Moreover, his wife, Mazlinda Makhzan, is a close friend of the Defense Minister's wife. Thus, Baginda has become the center of the network. Both companies are at the center of this network: Terasasi, related to Baginda, and Perimekar, which was initially controlled by Mohamad Ibrahim Mohamad Nor," who was also close to Daim Zainuddin. However, with Daim stepping down as finance minister after a spat with Mahathir, Razak Baginda took over sole proprietorship of that company through his wife. "The major defense contracts in Malaysia as in other countries require substantial money transfers to individuals and/or [political] organizations," the document noted. "In Malaysia, other than individuals, the ruling party [UMNO] is the largest beneficiary [rather than Perimekar, the company to which the commission was directed]. Consultants [agents or companies] are often used as a political network to facilitate such transfers and receive commissions for their principals." The Heart of the Deal Over the next few years, the documents show, as the contract came closer to fruition Razak Baginda and Najib maneuvered in France to get the best possible deal for themselves and UMNO, establishing a tangle of companies through which funds would ultimately pass. Their activities included the founding of several companies including Perimekar in 2000 as a vehicle to funnel the €114.9 million commission to Razak Baginda and others, with Razak Baginda's wife the principal shareholder. The plan appears to have had the approval of Mahathir. A diplomatic cable to Foreign Minister Juppe said, "The company chosen by the government for the submarine project is…Perimekar. This choice is the subject of an official notification from the Malaysian Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Defence… Note that this decision of the Ministry of Finance was taken while the Prime Minister himself held the post of Minister of Finance, after the departure of Tun Daim." The French company appears to have had no illusions as to Perimekar's function. Documents note that "Perimekar was a limited liability company with a capital of MR5 million (€1.4 million) of which 1 million is available. It was created in August 1999 … it has no record of sales during 2000. Its ownership is in the process of restructuring." As Asia Sentinel has previously reported, document D00087 shows that Najib demanded a US$1 billion "condition" for Perimekar Sdn Bhd's "stay in France." The notes, however, don't make it clear exactly what that means. The information is contained in a note faxed from Francois Dupont, the Asian representative of Thales International Asia, to his bosses but the notation in the documents presented to the court doesn't elaborate. Dupont indicated that a meeting with Najib on July 14, 2001 would take place with the above mentioned "condition" but it was not known if the meeting transpired. Along the way, Jasbir Singh Chahl, one of Razak Baginda's associates at Perimekar, decided he hadn't been paid enough. In several memos to DCN, Jasbir Chahl demanded a full fourth of Perimekar's total €114.96 million. Despite several demands, there is no indication that Chahl has ever been paid. He has been subpoenaed as a witness in the case, but after first indicating to French lawyers that he would cooperate, he has since said he knows nothing of the affair. He is said to be extremely ill and suffering from some form of cancer. Other documents made public by Asia Sentinel earlier show that at least €36 million flowed from the DCNS subsidiary to Terasasi Hong Kong Ltd., whose principal officers are listed as Razak Baginda and his father. Najib was defense minister from 1991 through the time when the submarines were delivered in 2002. Terasasi only exists as a name on the wall of a Wanchai district accounting firm in Hong Kong. |
| Photo Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Di Program #meetanwar Edisi Ke 6 Posted: 24 Jun 2012 10:28 PM PDT Photo Ihsan Yus Suara Keadilan Photo-photo menarik sepanjang sesi #meetanwar edisi ke 6 di Ipoh Perak pada 23 Jun 2012. Program ini dianjurkan oleh Anwar Ibrahim Club (AIC) dan ia menjadi program utama kelab tersebut. Konsep Program berbentuk diskusi ini bertujuan membuka ruang pada anak muda untuk bertemu dan berinteraksi secara terus dengan tokoh itu. Sila Klik ke web kelab http://aicmalaysia.blogspot.com/ untuk mengetahui maklumat lebih lanjut tentang Anwar Ibrahim Club.
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