Show how 1MDB’s emails were tampered with
YOURSAY ‘Everybody is waiting with bated breath to see the original emails.’
'Tampered' emails narrative to shield 1MDB?
Kim Quek: I wonder whether Umno ministers like Ahmad Zahid Hamidi realise that they are not only making a fool of themselves, but also of PM Najib Razak, by declaring the leaked emails as falsified and hence allegations against 1MDB untruthful.
If the leaked emails are lies, wouldn’t PetroSaudi International and 1MDB, who were the original writers of these emails, be the first ones to discover these falsification and made instant and categorical denials?
Why must they have waited all this time until New Straits Times (an Umno-linked paper) spread the information that these emails were “tampered” and hence false?
And wouldn’t our prime minister have appeared silly for ordering the auditor-general and PAC (Public Accounts Committee) into action, when in fact the entire scandal could have been simply dismissed by revealing instances of such so-called tampering and coming out with the truthful version of events?
Why is it not even one shred of such evidence is produced? The way Umno has jumped on this sketchy news from Thailand to launch its counter attacks on critics of 1MDB looks to me like a drowning man grasping his last straw.
Odin Tajué: To my mind, the point that needs to be considered is that if the emails published by the Sarawak Report are not the original versions but are tampered ones, whether the portions that have been altered render meaningless the allegation or implication that vast sums of monies have been paid to parties who are not the appropriate beneficiaries.
Next point. Whether the emails which have been allegedly tampered with have any bearing on these two matters:
1) the location of huge sums of money which both the Finance Ministry and 1MDB have failed to explain, and
2) the inordinately high prices paid for the IPPs (independent power producers) and the extraordinarily steep fees paid to Goldman Sachs.
Abasir: The interesting bit about this carefully calibrated piece of misinformation is the use of the word "tampered" - a word that was never once used by the owners/authors of the emails who would have known of 'tampering' the minute they became public.
The fact that they hired a security contractor to say so is most revealing.
Rick Teo: If it was indeed tampered, reveal the actual contents and let the public see what was actually tempered.
Surely the truth of the contents cannot be altered totally. So did the contents reveal that the money from PetroSaudi was transferred to Good Star belonging to Jho Low?
And then the money from Jho Low was transferred to Riza Aziz, the son of PM’s wife Rosmah Mansor.
Mushiro: This is a sad and cheap attempt to fool Malaysians in their desperate attempt to save Najib from the 1MDB scandal.
Again millions of ringgit would have been spent on this move which have tarnished further the credibility of the government.
This NST story, endorsed by the government and Home Ministry, cannot even withstand media and public scrutiny for two days.
Sirach: For starters, just explain how Jho Low made so much money from 1MDB and how Riza got so much money to fund ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, and after that spent tens of millions of dollars on US property acquisitions.
That's just for starters. The days when Malaysians fell for the hoodwinking of the Umno Baru characters are long past.
This is especially so, after exposures by the New York Times on Najib's lavish lifestyle, and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal on the use of 1MDB money as a slush fund for Umno Baru.
These are newspapers of international repute. Juxtaposed against that, we see the pathetic NST trying to get a scoop on this sordid affair, valiantly trying to show that the critics are barking up the wrong tree.
Does anyone read the NST, or if they do, buy into its editorial line? That once-respected newspaper has for several years been a rag hardly worth wrapping fish in.
Vijay47: I am sure everybody is waiting with bated breath to find out what exactly was contained in the original emails that the vile former employee tampered with.
The ‘PSI and Tampered Emails’ chapter is only one aspect of the entire 1MDB scandal. Did that vile former employee also tamper with other details and facts unrelated to emails? Did he also tamper with Paris Hilton to make her into Jho Low right down to his bust measurements?
Whatever it is, I am very impressed to see that persons serving with cyber-security firms include political scientists and international diplomats. Almost as learned as our one and only Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Negarawan: Let's see how karma will turn out for the people behind 1MDB. The 1MDB scandal is increasingly getting more international exposure, and there's always more than one whistleblower. The situation may present an even bigger twist.
Swipenter: Yes, show us the proof that the emails were tampered with and how they were tampered with.
Using the allegations of "tampered emails", the government is trying to muzzle anyone from talking about 1MDB. The fact remains that 1MDB has not enough cash flow to repay its bankers.
Justine Gow: Whatever the email experts may say, I cannot see how false information can be used to blackmail anyone.
The Swiss guy (Xavier Andre Justo) was charged for blackmailing by Thai police. Blackmailing can only happen if there is something true that a particular party does not wish the public to know.
T: Tampered, huh? Please publish the evidence. They won't dare because all the real cyber-security experts will tear it to shreds.
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