YOURSAY | ‘The first person who should have come out to deny the contents would be Ambrin.’

Salleh Keruak: Sarawak Report misled public on 1MDB audit findings

Kim Quek: Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak, stop talking nonsense about “final report” and “complete report” on 1MDB (which are in effect non-existent), and just answer this simple question:

“Is any of the revelations on the Auditor-General’s Report on 1MDB carried by Sarawak Report’s three articles in the past three days factually incorrect? If so, please state categorically which facts are factually incorrect.”

Salleh, you called earlier for action to be taken against the whistleblower for threatening national security by leaking the classified auditor-general’s report; pray tell us clearly and precisely how national security can be threatened by disclosing this document, which is essentially an audit of the financial management of 1MDB.

Malaysian Born: What is really disturbing is that based on Salleh's statement, the material on Sarawak Report is truly from the auditor-general's report, not that they are fake but that they are part of some bigger report.

I'm not really clear what Salleh is trying to say beyond confirming our worst fears. Somehow I am supposed to feel better since above and beyond what is in the auditor-general's report, there are other papers that have not been shown...

Anonymous 122461436161429: Thanks Salleh for confirming that the audit report published by Sarawak Report is correct as you merely say that it must be read with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report.

Please tell the inspector-general of police (IGP) not to waste his resources to probe whether the audit report is the real thing as we know it is because we have nothing else to compare it with and Sarawak Report has never been wrong so far.

Anonymous #44199885: To ask an already obvious question, if the PAC report contains the entire pertinent results of the investigation into 1MDB, why classify the audit report under OSA?

Res Ipsa: Indeed, the first person who should have come out to deny the contents of the leaked report should have been auditor-general Ambrin Buang.

However, he has kept silent all along which only gives credence to the general perception that the leaked content exposed by Sarawak Report is genuine.

Of course, as expected, we now have the IGP jumping into the fray saying that he would get in touch with the auditor-general to confirm if the leaked contents were in fact genuine. And of course, no timeline has been given for this exercise by the IGP which is hardly surprising.

Is all this ‘sandiwara’ really necessary? Just declassify the report immediately instead of playing for more time to find ways and means to mitigate the damage caused.

Let the public judge for themselves on the issues of culpability instead of making unwarranted accusations or insinuations, especially against PAC members who were not given full and unlimited access to the report.

Apa 1Malaysia?: Salleh, you must be more specific if you want to convince non-Umno members. Which part of Sarawak Report is misleading?

It looks like you are shooting everywhere hoping somehow you would find the target.

Clever Voter: We can assume Salleh may not have read or even understood the auditor-general’s report. His reply was not unexpected.

So why then the need to remain secretive? The answers are the possible adverse consequences to the entire supply chain of beneficiaries. Najib may be singled out as the main culprit.

But the reality is that he may not be the only beneficiary. There are potential risks, not only institutional credibility, but more importantly, the political survival of Umno and its allies.

The down side of further denial is a prolonged uncertainty and Malaysia failing the international standards of governance and trust.

Hello: Salleh said that Sarawak Report is not truthful. Yet he and his master will not make public the auditor-general's report to prove this.

Neither is Najib taking any legal actions against the various international news media and Sarawak Report to court about their negative reports on 1MDB implicating Najib and Jho Low and others.

Meanwhile, Najib is bringing in new laws to give him extraordinary powers to prevent the public from protesting and commenting on this alleged colossal corruption.

Rupert16: With the PAC chief intentionally deleted key information from the PAC report just prior to the report being released, it confirms that the PAC report has been tampered.

Furthermore, the fact that the PAC did not allow for Jho Low, the key suspect behind the 1MDB scam, to be questioned by the committee showed that the PAC report is just scratching the surface with respect to the alleged massive corruption involving Najib.

Anonymous 23651434356067: It looks like someone might be trying hard to convince others. The more one tries to do, the more one may show how desperate one is without realising that in the course of doing so more truth surface.

Sometimes it is better to keep the mouth sealed.

Pahatian: Why must they all deny? How are they going to teach their children and grandchildren? How are they going to face their elders, relatives and friends?

I guess they are all the same too.

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