Thursday, 18 October 2012

DON'T POINT MIDDLE FINGER TO MUSA!





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filed in the Switzerland Courts had been done by the ICAC in its investigation of the case and that it was later withdrawn.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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