YOURSAY | ‘People who absconded can still remain as directors of a Finance Ministry firm?

Nik Faisal, Suboh still SRC International directors

Kit P: It is ridiculous for fugitives to be still on the payroll. It appears the Malaysian government is utterly not serious in pursuing the case of the lost 1MDB funds and the SRC International monies.

Ironically, the governments of Singapore and Switzerland are taking concrete action against the alleged crooks within their jurisdiction, while Malaysia, which is the epicentre of the fraud, still pretends no wrongdoing exists.

Mamadias: How come two SRC directors, who are supposedly not traceable, still on the directorship list of a government-linked company. Is this how government agencies are run?

Anonymous #40538199: People who absconded can still remain as directors of a Finance Ministry firm and they want to discuss the Islamic penal system in Parliament?

KY: Indeed, the whole Finance Ministry should be charged with allegedly harbouring criminals.

Closure of 1MDB-linked Swiss bank in S'pore viewed with deep concern

JD Lovrenciear: At some point the roof is going to cave in. That is a foregone conclusion.

And at that flash point, all those who betrayed the integrity, good name and honour of this nation will have to be brought to justice. Every one of them - whether directly or indirectly culpable - must be tried in court with utmost transparency.

Only then can this nation regain its battered and lost ground. Or we might as well kiss goodbye to the meaning of patriotism and nationhood.

Jaycee: But Bolehland is an exception. The other countries are all wrong about 1MDB. Only our leader and ministers are correct. They have immunity and they can do no wrong.

No one will be punished as these people, who are leading the country, are the best in the world and they know what it is best.

Keeping RM2.6 billion in personal account is a norm and having a sibling helping one to disburse money is the correct standard procedure. Malaysia Boleh!

Kim Quek: A great statement from the Citizens’ Declaration secretariat. It is heartening to hear that the secretariat recognises the urgent need for democratic and institutional reforms to restore integrity to our national institutions.

Perhaps the secretariat can now throw some light on how the movement proposes to achieve that, following the removal of Najib Razak as the premier?

Anonymous 2415891461978791: "Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali and Bank Negara have said that the 1MDB case is now closed.”

Well, we'll see about that. It is clear that the international prosecutorial teams are working together to bring this scandal into the daylight.

Paul Warren: But Singapore's own reputation is at stake and their sense of justice is beginning to look suspect.

It did not seem to be too difficult for them to prosecute, find guilty and jail lesser beings like Tan Koon Swan who was the then MCA president. But when it comes to Najib, they seem to be pussy footing around.

The MalaysianCitizen: Don't be over dramatic and overreact on this matter. BSI Bank was not, I repeat not, shut down because of 1MDB.

Two of the bank’s senior members had been allegedly serial money launderers, and the Singapore government missed that earlier, and as such, it is now atoning for its lack of monitoring.

The last time it had egg on its face was Nick Leeson, who gambled on derivatives that led to the collapse of the Barings Bank. He served jail time for it.

Kuasa Rakyat: A day will come when Najib, the man with RM2.6 billion in his private and personal bank accounts, and Public Accounts Committee chief Hasan Arifin, the man who said there was no wrongdoing, will have to face the laws of our country.

Benghazi: Any further investigation in Malaysia is not going to unearth anything new. Ordinary Malaysians no longer trust the local investigating institutions as they have been proven to be interested only in covering up the misdeeds of the BN top leadership.

So, let those institutions overseas do the investigations, which most people believe will be thorough.

Let them alert Interpol and hopefully we shall see several masterminds extradited to face charges in one or more of these countries.

Doc: I predict that at the end of the day all those people who had directly, indirectly or had some minuscule relationship with 1MDB or the companies that 1MDB had dealt with, will be either investigated, arrested, indicted, imprisoned, resigned, fired or disgraced but one person will be left standing unfazed from this international scandal and this person will be none other Najib despite having his hands smeared all over this IMDB debacle.

YHJ: It's so shameful that the new governor of Bank Negara had to make a police report for investigations into the leaking of the confidential letter that contained the explosive content.

It looks like he is in cahoots with the scoundrels who are going all out, albeit in vain, to delete or hide all evidence related to the financial scandal of the century.

Thanks to the ongoing foreign investigation in several countries, the naked truth about 1MDB with surely be exposed very soon.

Spinning: A bank in Singapore has been ordered to be shut down. Governments in at least seven countries are continuing to investigate 1MDB.

It is hard to accept the fact that our own attorney-general and Bank Negara had said the case is shut. Our local press carries very little information on 1MDB. It is as if there is a self-censorship.

I just want to know the truth - was our monies stolen, and if it was, by who and given to whom?

 

 

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