Dear Editor,
ALLEGATIONS of corruption
surrounding Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman have been finally put to
rest this week with the Chief Minister being found cleared of any such
doings. It has also raised many
questions.
After all, if all these
allegations were false, then how did it even begin? An individual named Michael Chia, who is
supposed to be a timber trader, has also been linked to these allegations and
was said to be arrested and charged with trying to smuggle RM40 million back to
Malaysia some years ago.
Some questions that may need
to be relooked include was there proof that Chia was arrested? Where did the RM40 million figure come
from? A certain online portal claims to
be in possession of ICAC documents that implicate such wrong doings. Would such a highly regarded body have been
careless with such highly classified documents?
If the claims made by these
sites can be believed, then what about Chia himself saying he was never
arrested, or charged, and never carried that amount of money? These too had appeared in some online sites a
while back.
There are many questions
that do not seem to have any proof. What has been proven is that the funds were
not obtained through corrupt means.
Following that, then the purpose of these funds is no longer relevant.
What is also proven is that
more than one body of authority has looked into allegations of corruption by
Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman and arrived at similar conclusions?
Minister in the Prime
Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz said in a statement at the
Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, 9 October that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption
Commission (MACC) has cleared Musa of such allegations and that the A-G’s
Chambers had studied evidence from MACC and also concluded that there was no
element of corruption.
In addition, Nazri said the
Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has also probed the
case and the same conclusions were reached.
Hence, no further action was taken by the ICAC.
He added that the Macma
(Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act) application filed in the
Switzerland Courts had been done by the ICAC in its investigation of the case
and that it was later withdrawn.
By now, if the ICAC had done
contrary to what Nazri has officially stated, it can be reasonably expected
that the ICAC would also officially step forward to refute such statements.
Best Regards,
J. AMBROSE
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