BUKIT GANTANG - Bekas Setiausaha Pemuda dan Ahli Majlis Tertinggi PKR, Lokman Noor Adam mendakwa Penasihat PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sehingga kini tidak mahu Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bukit Lanjan, Elizabeth Wong melepaskan jawatan disebabkan peranan penting Elizabeth kepada parti itu.
Lokman yang juga merupakan Exco Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia mendakwa pada bahawa pada tahun 2003, Anwar telah menghantar pimpinan kanan PKR ke Washinton DC untuk mendapatkan dana daripada George Soros untuk menghadapi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-11 ketika itu.
Menurutnya, pertemuan itu telah diaturkan oleh Tian Chua dan pimpinan PKR yang menghadap George Soros ketika itu ialah Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Azmin Ali dan Khalid Jaafar.
Bagaimanapun katanya, Tian Chua tidak ada pada pertemuan itu sebaliknya beliau menghantar Elizabeth Wong untuk menguruskan pertemuan tersebut.
Menurut Lokman, pertemuan mereka terbongkar apabila berlaku pertengkaran diantara Azmin dan Elizabeth apabila Azmin tidak membenarkan Elizabeth memasuki perbincangan tersebut kerana khuatir ada pihak luar yang mengetahui tindakan mereka menagih dana dari Soros.
Beliau dimaklumkan mengenai perkara tersebut oleh bekas Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK), Ezam Mohd Noor semasa mesyuarat ‘inner circle’ mereka.
“Anwar masih tidak mahu Elizabeth meletakkan jawatan kerana Elizabeth adalah ‘jambatan’ kepada dana yang diberikan kepada PKR dari pihak asing yang mahu mengkucar-kacirkan negara,” katanya pada ceramah ‘kenapa harus tolak Pas’ di sini, malam kelmarin.
Pada 1997, George Soros dilabel sebagai penyangak mata wang yang menyebabkan ekonomi negara merundum dan ekonomi Asia juga turut tergugat.
Katanya, pendirian Anwar berhubung kes Elizabeth juga jelas bersikap pilih kasih kerana dalam kes ADUN Bukit Selambau, V Arumugam yang didakwanya terlibat dengan masalah moral (perempuan simpanan), Penasihat PKR itu terus mendesak Arumugam meletakkan jawatan.
“Sebaliknya walaupun Elizabeth berhadapan dengan masalah ketagihan rokok, arak dan yang terkini isu gambar bogel, Anwar tetap mempertahankan Elizabeth habis-habisan,” katanya.
Lokman menegaskan, antara punca beliau dan ribuan anak muda lain tidak percaya bahawa Anwar seorang peliwat pada tahun 1998 adalah kerana ulamak Pas, bekas Imam Besar Masjid Negara ketika itu (Ustaz Taib Azamuddin) menyembunyikan kebenaran behubung skandal liwat anwar apabila kebenaran itu tidak menguntungkan politik Pas.
Beliau mendakwa Taib merahsiakan pengakuan yang dibuat oleh Ahmad Hairani (bekas penulis ucapan Anwar) dan Amir Hamzah bahawa mereka telah diliwat oleh penasihat PKR itu sebelum Anwar dipecat.
“Kalau dia beritahu perkara ini kepada umum sejak awal lagi, sudah pasti orang seperti saya tidak akan terpedaya dengan manusia yang bernama Anwar Ibrahim,” katanya.
Semantara itu, beliau menyeru pengundi Bukit Gantang menolak calon Pas, Datuk Seri Ir Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin pada pilihan raya kecil Parlimen Bukit Gantang, 7 April ini.
Katanya, pengundi Bukit Gantang perlu sedar bahawa Pas di negeri itu hanya diperkudakan oleh DAP di mana segala keputusan Mohamad Nizar semasa menjadi Menteri Besar adalah diatas telunjuk DAP.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Najib oh Najib...
Hujung bulan dan awal bulan depan pasti mencatatkan sejarah baru politik negara...kenapa aku cakap macamtu, kerana 'perkara' ini tidak pernah berlaku dan tidak pernah terfikir oleh mana-mana rakyat Malaysia setahun lalu.
Ramalan yang mungkin terjadi adalah....
(1) Kalahnya Barisan Nasional (BN) di tiga Pilhan Raya Kecil (PRK) Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau dan Batang Ai. Lebih signifikan antara PRK ini adalah apabila BN tewas di Batang Ai. Sudah pasti pada Pilihan Raya Undangan Negeri Sarawak awal tahun depan di menangi oleh Pakatan Rakyat (PR) dan sudah pasti lagi pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 nanti, PR akan menguasai kerajaan pusat.
(2) Pertukaran Presiden UMNO antara Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dengan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Mari kita lihat bersama-sama apakah yang akan terjadi kepada UMNO selepas itu dan ini membawa kita ke kemungkinan seterusnya.
(3) Desas-desus kuat mengatakan Pak Lah tidak akan melepaskan jawatan Perdana Menteri walaupun Presiden UMNO di pegang oleh Najib. Ini kerana Pak Lah masih mendapat sokongan majoriti di Parlimen.
Seperti kenyataan Tun Mahathir, tidak ada dalam undang-undang yang mengatakan Presiden UMNO mesti menjadi Perdana Menteri. Lebih menarik lagi kata Tun, sebelum mendapat perkenan dari Yang di-Pertuan Agong, bakal Perdana Menteri tersebut mestilah mendapat sokongan majoriti di Parlimen dan pilihan ini agak mustahil buat Najib.
Tambah Tun lagi, BN sekarang berpecah dua, separuh masih menyokong Pak Lah dan selebihnya menyokong Najib, dan PR pula sudah tentu tidak menyokong Najib dan memberi sokongan kepada Pak Lah. Seperti Tun cakap, Pak Lah akan menjadi 'Perdana Menteri Pembangkang'.
Sekarang sudah semakin jelas kenapa Pak Lah berjumpa dengan Ketua Umum PR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim tempoh hari, kedua-dua pihak menafikan sebarang perbincangan berlaku tetapi sebagai dua tokoh penting negara, mana mungkin tiada perbincangan langsung.
Marilah kita bersama-sama menyaksikan apakah yang akan terjadi dalam kancah politik negara hujung bulan ini..Salam..
Ramalan yang mungkin terjadi adalah....
(1) Kalahnya Barisan Nasional (BN) di tiga Pilhan Raya Kecil (PRK) Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau dan Batang Ai. Lebih signifikan antara PRK ini adalah apabila BN tewas di Batang Ai. Sudah pasti pada Pilihan Raya Undangan Negeri Sarawak awal tahun depan di menangi oleh Pakatan Rakyat (PR) dan sudah pasti lagi pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 nanti, PR akan menguasai kerajaan pusat.
(2) Pertukaran Presiden UMNO antara Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dengan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Mari kita lihat bersama-sama apakah yang akan terjadi kepada UMNO selepas itu dan ini membawa kita ke kemungkinan seterusnya.
(3) Desas-desus kuat mengatakan Pak Lah tidak akan melepaskan jawatan Perdana Menteri walaupun Presiden UMNO di pegang oleh Najib. Ini kerana Pak Lah masih mendapat sokongan majoriti di Parlimen.
Seperti kenyataan Tun Mahathir, tidak ada dalam undang-undang yang mengatakan Presiden UMNO mesti menjadi Perdana Menteri. Lebih menarik lagi kata Tun, sebelum mendapat perkenan dari Yang di-Pertuan Agong, bakal Perdana Menteri tersebut mestilah mendapat sokongan majoriti di Parlimen dan pilihan ini agak mustahil buat Najib.
Tambah Tun lagi, BN sekarang berpecah dua, separuh masih menyokong Pak Lah dan selebihnya menyokong Najib, dan PR pula sudah tentu tidak menyokong Najib dan memberi sokongan kepada Pak Lah. Seperti Tun cakap, Pak Lah akan menjadi 'Perdana Menteri Pembangkang'.
Sekarang sudah semakin jelas kenapa Pak Lah berjumpa dengan Ketua Umum PR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim tempoh hari, kedua-dua pihak menafikan sebarang perbincangan berlaku tetapi sebagai dua tokoh penting negara, mana mungkin tiada perbincangan langsung.
Marilah kita bersama-sama menyaksikan apakah yang akan terjadi dalam kancah politik negara hujung bulan ini..Salam..
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Pakej rangsangan sedikit terlewat: Anwar
KUALA LUMPUR – Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menyifatkan pakej rangsangan kedua bernilai RM60 bilion yang dibentangkan oleh Menteri Kewangan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebagai ‘sedikit terlewat’.
Menurutnya, ia adalah kerana pemimpin-pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sudah mula bercakap mengenai pakej rangsangan ini sejak tahun lepas kerana menganggap isu ekonomi sudah lama menjadi keutamaan negara.
“Kita sudah bercakap mengenai pakej rangsangan ini sejak 5-6 bulan yang lepas, kalau benar kenapa beliau (Najib) tidak bersedia berbincang dan mendengar pandangan ahli-ahli parlimen PR mengenai pakej rangsangan ini.
“Ekonomi masih lagi menjadi keutamaan dan kita harus berunding mengenai isu ini kerana isu ini adalah masalah negara dan Najib sebagai Menteri Kewangan memang ada langkah untuk menangani kemelut ekonomi tetapi pakej rangsangan ini sedikit terlambat.
“Dari segi politik, kita kena hentikan sebarang tindakan politik rakus dan tindakan fitnah dalam media malah kita hendaklah duduk berunding membincangkan masalah negara yang lebih utama, tidak ada masalah,” katanya pada sidang media selepas sesi perbahasan Rang Undang-Undang Perbekalan Tambahan 2009 di lobi Parlimen semalam.
Beliau yang juga Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) turut menjelaskan bahawa kelemahan utama dalam pakej rangsangan ini adalah kegagalan kerajaan untuk melihat isu keyakinan rakyat, pelabur domestik dan pelabur antarabangsa sebagai asas kepada pemulihan ekonomi.
“Kita harus memulihkan keyakinan semua pihak seperti yang dikatakan oleh pakar ekonomi sebagai ‘faktor psikologi’, ia adalah satu faktor yang amat penting.
“Buatlah rangsangan RM60 bilion atau sebanyak mana pun, tetapi kalau orang ramai tidak yakin, maka pakej rangsangan ini tiada keupayaan untuk membawa perubahan.
“Sebagai contoh isu tol tidak dinaikkan, itu hanyalah satu tindakan mendapatkan sokongan pengundi untuk kepentingan mereka, tetapi rakyat sudah tahu dan tidak yakin tol benar-benar tidak akan dinaikkan,” katanya.
Selain itu, Anwar turut menegaskan agar agihan pakej rangsangan ini tidak ada sebarang unsur diskriminasi kerana setiap rakyat negara ini mempunyai hak keatasnya.
“Jangan sesekali ada diskriminasi projek-projek yang dilaksanakan dinegeri-negeri dibawah pemerintahan PR,” katanya.
Ditanya mengenai adakah pakej rangsangan ini dikeluarkan oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) bertujuan untuk mengambil hati rakyat supaya menyokong mereka, Anwar menjawab, “bajet ini bagi saya tidak ada kena-mengena dengan beberapa isu yang menjelang tiba tetapi ia adalah keperluan negara berhadapan dengan krisis ekonomi yang besar,” katanya.
Tambahnya lagi, PR tidak pernah mempersoalkan keperluan pakej ini pada masa sekarang tetapi PR hanya mempersoalkan mengenai pengurusan dan kemana arah tuju duit ini dibelanjakan nanti.
Terdahulu, pada sesi perbahasan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim turut berkata, PR sedia bekerjasama dengan kerajaan dalam usaha memulihkan ekonomi negara namun kerajaan sebenarnya perlu terlebih dahulu memulihkan kebuntuan psikologi dan keyakinan rakyat.
Sambil menyifatkan pelawaan Najib semalam supaya kerajaaan dan pembangkang sepakat dalam menangani masalah ekonomi umpama 'menghulurkan ranting zaitun', pelawaan itu tidak ada gunanya jika pada masa yang sama, rakyat 'ditikam' dengan pelbagai tindakan zalim dan ditindas.
"Sekonyong-konyong dalam ucapan semalam, (kerajaan) memberikan ranting zaitun ingin bekerjasama dengan Pakatan Rakyat memulihkan ekonomi negara.
"Kita berikan ranting, kita tikam rakyat...buang mereka dalam ISA (Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri), lempar fitnah yang keji terhadap mereka, rampas kuasa mereka seperti yang berlaku di Perak kemudian berikan ranting zaitun.
"Orang yang berikan ranting zaitun ini perlu dibaling dengan durian, melainkan ranting itu diberikan secara konsisten," katanya.
Kelmarin, Timbalan Perdana Menteri selaku Menteri Kewangan telah mengumumkan pakej rangsangan kedua berjumlah RM60 bilion sebagai satu langkah berhadapan dengan krisis ekonomi yang semakin mencabar selaras dengan kehendak pasaran dan keperluan negara.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Altantuya Shaaribuu's Case : How and why she was killed?
(First published in Liberation French newspaper, 5th of March 2009)
Shaaribuu Setev is a bitter and disappointed man. Yet behind the saddened face of this Mongolian lies a fierce determination. Seated in a sofa in the lobby of an Ulaan Baataar hotel rattled by gushes of a freezing wind, this sixty years old man is ready to fight. His face features, hardened by the suffering and the stern climate, and his intense gaze tell all. “My daughter has been murdered by Malaysians on Malaysian territory. And they did not have even offer a word of apology,” states this professor of psychology at the National University of Mongolia. The assassination of his daughter, Altantuya Shaaribuu, took place in October 2006. This was a murder unlike others in a region where business conflicts or petty politics are often settled with a gun. Everything in this case, which started in 2002 when the French Spanish company Armaris concluded the sale of three submarines to the Malaysian government for the amount of one billion Euros, is out of the ordinary. The impact of the “Altantuya case” in France, Malaysia and Mongolia has yet to reach its climax. The murder of the 28 year old Mongolian was the result of a “commission” at the price of 114 million Euros by Armaris to its Malaysian counterpart. This “commission,” which was acknowledged by the Malaysian government in front of the Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, has triggered a chain of events that has led to the assassination of Altantuya and the disappearance of several key witnesses in the case.
A report from the Malaysian police, written on 19th november 2006 and which has been kept secret until now, reveals dry and precise descriptions as to how this young woman, a member of Asian high society, has been killed. In this document, one of the killers, a policeman of the Malaysian Special Branch named Sirul Omar, replied to the questions of an officer at a police station close to the murder scene. “When the Chinese woman saw that I was taking a gun, she begged me to spare her, saying she was pregnant. Azilah (the commanding officer of Sirul) grabbed her and [threw] her on the ground. I immediately shot the left side of her face. Then Azilah took off her clothes and put them in a black plastic bag. Azilah noticed that her hand was still moving. He ordered me to shoot again, which I did”, said Sirul. This is the first confirmation of Altantuya's assassins’ identity. “Then we carried her body into the woods. Azilah wrapped the explosives around her legs, her abdomen and her head, and we exploded her.”
The revelation of this report in the French newspaper Liberation is the latest chapter in this colorful and dramatic saga featuring French weapon sellers, Mongolian Shaman, and Malaysian politicians. This case is explosive not only for the Malaysian government, since the deputy Prime minister and Finance minister Najib Razak (who is scheduled to become Prime minister at the end of March) is suspected of having links to the case, but also because it could embarrass the DCNS, this French company specialising in military shipbuilding. The French Spanish company Armaris, which sold two Scorpène and one Agosta submarines to Malaysia in June 2002, was bought by DCNS in 2007.
With her magnetic beauty and sophistication, Altantuya is reminiscent of the troubling image of a Far East Mata Hari. She grew up in Saint Petersburg (Russia), then studied at the Institute of Economic Management in Beijing. Besides speaking English, she is fluent in Russian, Chinese and Korean. The fateful cycle for Altantuya came into gear when she met Abdul Razak Baginda in Hong Kong in 2004. Baginda is a security expert and the director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, a pro-government think tank. The two quickly became romantically involved. Altantuya, nicknamed Tuya by her friends, proved to be a useful assistant, helping Baginda translate from Russian to English.
Whereas Altantuya is young and beautiful, the rich and alluring Baginda is a well known figure of the Kuala Lumpur’s elite, notably because of his proximity to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister and, until 2008, minister of Defense Najib Razak (he is also his security affairs adviser). Baginda parades in the most exclusive circles of Kuala Lumpur, sometimes accompanied by his legitimate wife.
In March 2005, Altantuya and Baginda departed for Europe, touring France, Germany, Italy and Portugal in the red Ferrari of Baginda, staying in posh hotels and dining in the finest restaurants of the old Continent. This trip, however, was not only for tourism: the contract for the sale of the submarines had been signed in 2002, but important details had yet to be settled. “We knew that Baginda was used by Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak as an intermediary for weapons systems deals, especially the high level ones,” says a regional security affairs expert.
At the end of March 2005 the couple was in Paris, where they met with Najib Razak. A picture shows the threesome in a Parisian private club. “Tuya showed me the pix. She said that one of the men was her boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and the other the “big boss”, Najib Razak. I asked her if they were brothers because of the names, but she said no, and that Najib Razak was the ‘prime minister’”, said Amy, Altantuya’s best friend (Najib Razak has sworn on the Koran that he has never met Altantuya). According to a private detective, now in hiding in India, the beautiful Tuya was also the occasional mistress of the deputy Prime minister, who was introduced to her by Baginda at the end of 2004.
The story became dramatic when, in October 2006, Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by the French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived on a Kuala Lumpur bank account. It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Baginda. Altantuya rushed to Kuala Lumpur, in order to claim her share of the commission from Baginda ; she said she was entitled to 500,000 dollars. Baginda and Altantuya broke up prior to this. A jealous Rosmah Mansor, the feared businesswoman and wife of Najib Razak, objected any payment to Altantuya. Altantuya arrived in Kuala Lumpur with two other Mongolian women, one of them was a Shaman responsible for putting a spell on Baginda if he refused to pay. For several days, Altantuya harassed her ex-lover. On the 18th of October, Baginda could no longer tolerate the daily scenes made by Altantuya in front of his house. He contacted the Director of the Special Branch, Musa Safrie, who happened to also be Najib Razak’s aide de camp.
On October 19th, 2006, a little before 9 pm, two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Omar, were sent in front of Baginda's house where Altantuya was gesticulating and shouting. They had the order of “neutralizing the Chinese woman.” They kidnapped her, and drove her ten kilometers away and shot her several times. Then, they destroyed her body with C 4 explosives, a type which can only be obtained from within the Defense Ministry. Her entry into Malaysia was erased from the immigration records. It would appear that Altantuya had never come to Malaysia, because there is no trace left of her.
There is no perfect crime. The taxi driver hired by Altantuya for the day did not appreciate that his passenger was kidnapped under his eyes without payment for the fare. He took note of the registration plate of the kidnapper’s car and filed a complaint at the local police station. In a few days, the police identified the car and realized that it was a government vehicle. Events unfolded that even the Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak could not impede. He tried to cover the case. A few hours before the arrest of Baginda, he sent him a SMS : “I will see the Inspector General of Police at 11 am today... The problem will be solved. Be cool”. A few hours after, Baginda was arrested as well as the two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah and Sirul.
After a trial considered dubious by many observers, Baginda was acquitted with the accusation of having ordered the murder and released in November 2008. Accused of having perpetrated the murder, Azilah and Sirul appeared in front of the Court last month. If convicted, their sentence is death. The verdict is scheduled for the 9th of April.
Thousands of miles from there, in the Mongolian capital city Ulaan Baataar, Shaaribuu Setev, Altantuya's father, is trying to control his anger. To him and his family, the acquittal and release of Baginda is symbolic of the unfairness of the Malaysian judicial process: “The Malaysian government is not even answering to the letters from the Mongolian Foreign Affairs Ministry,” he says. When Shaaribuu came to the Malaysian parliament to meet Najib Razak, the Deputy Prime minister had to escape through a back door in order to avoid an embarrassing encounter. The Altantuya case has become a key element of the Malaysian political game between Najib Razak (who is expected to become Prime Minister after the United Malay Nation Organisation (UMNO) Congress in March) and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. So far, Najib Razak has navigated around the obstacles, but the murder of the young Mongolian remains a sword suspended over his head.
One of the most obscure aspects of the Altantuya case is the role of the Armaris company. In October 2007, the Malaysian Deputy Defense minister, Zainal Abdidin Zin, acknowledged in front of the Parliament that Armaris had effectively paid 114 million Euros in commission to Perimekar. He maintained that it was not a bribe, but a payment for “support and coordination services.” Was there corruption as in the case of the Taiwanese frigates in which the French DCNS was also implicated ? DCNS, a private company with public financing, has declined our request for a meeting. “Nobody can comment on this case,” was the sober reply of the DCNS Press relations officer in Paris. A document, which could establish a link between Altantuya and the French company is the guarantee letter written by Abdul Razak Baginda so that his mistress could obtain a visa to enter the Schengen zone (of whom France is a member country). The French embassy could not refuse this service to a man decorated with the Legion d'Honneur. But the role of Altantuya in the submarines negotiations is still not clear. Intelligence agencies find her background intriguing and the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) is following closely the case.
In Ulaan Baataar, Mungunshagai, the eldest son of Altantuya, who is 12 years old, is traumatized by the death of his mother. Altanshagai, the youngest, who is five years old and mentally handicapped, has not understood that he will never see again his mother. “He is asking for her all the time and is staying the whole day prostrated on his chair. Every evening, I bring him sweets and I tell him that his mother gave it to me for him”, says Shaaribuu Setev, the grandfather of the two boys. As for Baginda, he settled down in the United Kingdom with his family. He never uttered a word of regret on the deadly fate of the one who shared his life for two years.
Arnaud Dubus (in Kuala Lumpur, Ulaan Baataar and Paris)
P/S: Before anything happen to me, i want everyone who read this post NOT TO RE-POST this article. I'm very thankful to Arnaud Dubus because he personally give this article.
Shaaribuu Setev is a bitter and disappointed man. Yet behind the saddened face of this Mongolian lies a fierce determination. Seated in a sofa in the lobby of an Ulaan Baataar hotel rattled by gushes of a freezing wind, this sixty years old man is ready to fight. His face features, hardened by the suffering and the stern climate, and his intense gaze tell all. “My daughter has been murdered by Malaysians on Malaysian territory. And they did not have even offer a word of apology,” states this professor of psychology at the National University of Mongolia. The assassination of his daughter, Altantuya Shaaribuu, took place in October 2006. This was a murder unlike others in a region where business conflicts or petty politics are often settled with a gun. Everything in this case, which started in 2002 when the French Spanish company Armaris concluded the sale of three submarines to the Malaysian government for the amount of one billion Euros, is out of the ordinary. The impact of the “Altantuya case” in France, Malaysia and Mongolia has yet to reach its climax. The murder of the 28 year old Mongolian was the result of a “commission” at the price of 114 million Euros by Armaris to its Malaysian counterpart. This “commission,” which was acknowledged by the Malaysian government in front of the Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, has triggered a chain of events that has led to the assassination of Altantuya and the disappearance of several key witnesses in the case.
A report from the Malaysian police, written on 19th november 2006 and which has been kept secret until now, reveals dry and precise descriptions as to how this young woman, a member of Asian high society, has been killed. In this document, one of the killers, a policeman of the Malaysian Special Branch named Sirul Omar, replied to the questions of an officer at a police station close to the murder scene. “When the Chinese woman saw that I was taking a gun, she begged me to spare her, saying she was pregnant. Azilah (the commanding officer of Sirul) grabbed her and [threw] her on the ground. I immediately shot the left side of her face. Then Azilah took off her clothes and put them in a black plastic bag. Azilah noticed that her hand was still moving. He ordered me to shoot again, which I did”, said Sirul. This is the first confirmation of Altantuya's assassins’ identity. “Then we carried her body into the woods. Azilah wrapped the explosives around her legs, her abdomen and her head, and we exploded her.”
The revelation of this report in the French newspaper Liberation is the latest chapter in this colorful and dramatic saga featuring French weapon sellers, Mongolian Shaman, and Malaysian politicians. This case is explosive not only for the Malaysian government, since the deputy Prime minister and Finance minister Najib Razak (who is scheduled to become Prime minister at the end of March) is suspected of having links to the case, but also because it could embarrass the DCNS, this French company specialising in military shipbuilding. The French Spanish company Armaris, which sold two Scorpène and one Agosta submarines to Malaysia in June 2002, was bought by DCNS in 2007.
With her magnetic beauty and sophistication, Altantuya is reminiscent of the troubling image of a Far East Mata Hari. She grew up in Saint Petersburg (Russia), then studied at the Institute of Economic Management in Beijing. Besides speaking English, she is fluent in Russian, Chinese and Korean. The fateful cycle for Altantuya came into gear when she met Abdul Razak Baginda in Hong Kong in 2004. Baginda is a security expert and the director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, a pro-government think tank. The two quickly became romantically involved. Altantuya, nicknamed Tuya by her friends, proved to be a useful assistant, helping Baginda translate from Russian to English.
Whereas Altantuya is young and beautiful, the rich and alluring Baginda is a well known figure of the Kuala Lumpur’s elite, notably because of his proximity to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister and, until 2008, minister of Defense Najib Razak (he is also his security affairs adviser). Baginda parades in the most exclusive circles of Kuala Lumpur, sometimes accompanied by his legitimate wife.
In March 2005, Altantuya and Baginda departed for Europe, touring France, Germany, Italy and Portugal in the red Ferrari of Baginda, staying in posh hotels and dining in the finest restaurants of the old Continent. This trip, however, was not only for tourism: the contract for the sale of the submarines had been signed in 2002, but important details had yet to be settled. “We knew that Baginda was used by Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak as an intermediary for weapons systems deals, especially the high level ones,” says a regional security affairs expert.
At the end of March 2005 the couple was in Paris, where they met with Najib Razak. A picture shows the threesome in a Parisian private club. “Tuya showed me the pix. She said that one of the men was her boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and the other the “big boss”, Najib Razak. I asked her if they were brothers because of the names, but she said no, and that Najib Razak was the ‘prime minister’”, said Amy, Altantuya’s best friend (Najib Razak has sworn on the Koran that he has never met Altantuya). According to a private detective, now in hiding in India, the beautiful Tuya was also the occasional mistress of the deputy Prime minister, who was introduced to her by Baginda at the end of 2004.
The story became dramatic when, in October 2006, Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by the French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived on a Kuala Lumpur bank account. It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Baginda. Altantuya rushed to Kuala Lumpur, in order to claim her share of the commission from Baginda ; she said she was entitled to 500,000 dollars. Baginda and Altantuya broke up prior to this. A jealous Rosmah Mansor, the feared businesswoman and wife of Najib Razak, objected any payment to Altantuya. Altantuya arrived in Kuala Lumpur with two other Mongolian women, one of them was a Shaman responsible for putting a spell on Baginda if he refused to pay. For several days, Altantuya harassed her ex-lover. On the 18th of October, Baginda could no longer tolerate the daily scenes made by Altantuya in front of his house. He contacted the Director of the Special Branch, Musa Safrie, who happened to also be Najib Razak’s aide de camp.
On October 19th, 2006, a little before 9 pm, two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Omar, were sent in front of Baginda's house where Altantuya was gesticulating and shouting. They had the order of “neutralizing the Chinese woman.” They kidnapped her, and drove her ten kilometers away and shot her several times. Then, they destroyed her body with C 4 explosives, a type which can only be obtained from within the Defense Ministry. Her entry into Malaysia was erased from the immigration records. It would appear that Altantuya had never come to Malaysia, because there is no trace left of her.
There is no perfect crime. The taxi driver hired by Altantuya for the day did not appreciate that his passenger was kidnapped under his eyes without payment for the fare. He took note of the registration plate of the kidnapper’s car and filed a complaint at the local police station. In a few days, the police identified the car and realized that it was a government vehicle. Events unfolded that even the Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak could not impede. He tried to cover the case. A few hours before the arrest of Baginda, he sent him a SMS : “I will see the Inspector General of Police at 11 am today... The problem will be solved. Be cool”. A few hours after, Baginda was arrested as well as the two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah and Sirul.
After a trial considered dubious by many observers, Baginda was acquitted with the accusation of having ordered the murder and released in November 2008. Accused of having perpetrated the murder, Azilah and Sirul appeared in front of the Court last month. If convicted, their sentence is death. The verdict is scheduled for the 9th of April.
Thousands of miles from there, in the Mongolian capital city Ulaan Baataar, Shaaribuu Setev, Altantuya's father, is trying to control his anger. To him and his family, the acquittal and release of Baginda is symbolic of the unfairness of the Malaysian judicial process: “The Malaysian government is not even answering to the letters from the Mongolian Foreign Affairs Ministry,” he says. When Shaaribuu came to the Malaysian parliament to meet Najib Razak, the Deputy Prime minister had to escape through a back door in order to avoid an embarrassing encounter. The Altantuya case has become a key element of the Malaysian political game between Najib Razak (who is expected to become Prime Minister after the United Malay Nation Organisation (UMNO) Congress in March) and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. So far, Najib Razak has navigated around the obstacles, but the murder of the young Mongolian remains a sword suspended over his head.
One of the most obscure aspects of the Altantuya case is the role of the Armaris company. In October 2007, the Malaysian Deputy Defense minister, Zainal Abdidin Zin, acknowledged in front of the Parliament that Armaris had effectively paid 114 million Euros in commission to Perimekar. He maintained that it was not a bribe, but a payment for “support and coordination services.” Was there corruption as in the case of the Taiwanese frigates in which the French DCNS was also implicated ? DCNS, a private company with public financing, has declined our request for a meeting. “Nobody can comment on this case,” was the sober reply of the DCNS Press relations officer in Paris. A document, which could establish a link between Altantuya and the French company is the guarantee letter written by Abdul Razak Baginda so that his mistress could obtain a visa to enter the Schengen zone (of whom France is a member country). The French embassy could not refuse this service to a man decorated with the Legion d'Honneur. But the role of Altantuya in the submarines negotiations is still not clear. Intelligence agencies find her background intriguing and the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) is following closely the case.
In Ulaan Baataar, Mungunshagai, the eldest son of Altantuya, who is 12 years old, is traumatized by the death of his mother. Altanshagai, the youngest, who is five years old and mentally handicapped, has not understood that he will never see again his mother. “He is asking for her all the time and is staying the whole day prostrated on his chair. Every evening, I bring him sweets and I tell him that his mother gave it to me for him”, says Shaaribuu Setev, the grandfather of the two boys. As for Baginda, he settled down in the United Kingdom with his family. He never uttered a word of regret on the deadly fate of the one who shared his life for two years.
Arnaud Dubus (in Kuala Lumpur, Ulaan Baataar and Paris)
P/S: Before anything happen to me, i want everyone who read this post NOT TO RE-POST this article. I'm very thankful to Arnaud Dubus because he personally give this article.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thanks Hilmi Malik!
aku sangat2 berterima kasih pada ko la hilmi. akhirnya ko telah membuktikan lelaki melayu sangatlah hebat diranjang. kalau tak masakan si elizabeth wong (EW) boleh heret ko kesana kesini...hai!
even lepas ko kawen pon minah tu terhegeh nak bawak ko tido sama.
aku bangga jadi melayu dan aku bangga ko telah membuktikannya.huhuhuh.
aku tahu, aku mcm cuba mempositifkan isu negatif. tp aku bukan bermaksud aku nk hina atau kutuk EW, aku cuma terfikirlah kan, kenapa lah orang melayu yg kau hina hina, cakap malas la ape la...ahkirnya ko bawak tido sama dengan kau? mestila ade sebab UTAMA betol tak? mesti ade motif kenapa hilmi malik menjadi pilihan ko EW, tol tak?
dan aku rasa tidak ade mende lain selain dari kehebatan himli malik diranjang. Maybe lelaki melayu ni sebenarnya bangsa EW ni mmg terngidam2 kot. tp dirang segan dan malu nak mintak, yela, nanti bapak dan abang2 bangsa EW ni marah la pulak. kira mcm against social norm dirang la.
ceh! podah!
aku dah lama agak dah, sebenarnya mmg lelaki melayu ni hebat dirajang. dari segi cara, manisnya pmpn boleh cair mair beb.hehe...suke aku
dalam org sibuk nak bicara pasal EW ni, aku tgk hal ini dari segi perspektif yang berbeza. dan perspektif aku adalah, bangsa EW ni nak lelaki MELAYU!..yumyum...
even aku tgk gay bangsa EW pon nak laki gay melayu. haha..tapi aku bukan gay taw.
cuma skrg ni aku lebih konfiden nak cuba ngorat si sepet amoi la. lepas aku saksikan ape yang hilmi buat, aku yakin, ramai amoi2 diluar sana menantikan kehebatan lelaki melayu memberi servis yang OPTIMUM kepada mereka.
selepas melihat EW, apa lagi wahai amoi2 semua? mari la kita mengejar lelaki melayu supaya kehebatan diranjang menjadi satu realiti.
ps- tak main la kulup!
Di cilok dari blog member aku>>> http://www.asalbolehbelah.blogspot.com/
even lepas ko kawen pon minah tu terhegeh nak bawak ko tido sama.
aku bangga jadi melayu dan aku bangga ko telah membuktikannya.huhuhuh.
aku tahu, aku mcm cuba mempositifkan isu negatif. tp aku bukan bermaksud aku nk hina atau kutuk EW, aku cuma terfikirlah kan, kenapa lah orang melayu yg kau hina hina, cakap malas la ape la...ahkirnya ko bawak tido sama dengan kau? mestila ade sebab UTAMA betol tak? mesti ade motif kenapa hilmi malik menjadi pilihan ko EW, tol tak?
dan aku rasa tidak ade mende lain selain dari kehebatan himli malik diranjang. Maybe lelaki melayu ni sebenarnya bangsa EW ni mmg terngidam2 kot. tp dirang segan dan malu nak mintak, yela, nanti bapak dan abang2 bangsa EW ni marah la pulak. kira mcm against social norm dirang la.
ceh! podah!
aku dah lama agak dah, sebenarnya mmg lelaki melayu ni hebat dirajang. dari segi cara, manisnya pmpn boleh cair mair beb.hehe...suke aku
dalam org sibuk nak bicara pasal EW ni, aku tgk hal ini dari segi perspektif yang berbeza. dan perspektif aku adalah, bangsa EW ni nak lelaki MELAYU!..yumyum...
even aku tgk gay bangsa EW pon nak laki gay melayu. haha..tapi aku bukan gay taw.
cuma skrg ni aku lebih konfiden nak cuba ngorat si sepet amoi la. lepas aku saksikan ape yang hilmi buat, aku yakin, ramai amoi2 diluar sana menantikan kehebatan lelaki melayu memberi servis yang OPTIMUM kepada mereka.
selepas melihat EW, apa lagi wahai amoi2 semua? mari la kita mengejar lelaki melayu supaya kehebatan diranjang menjadi satu realiti.
ps- tak main la kulup!
Di cilok dari blog member aku>>> http://www.asalbolehbelah.blogspot.com/
PR akan halang Najib jadi PM: Azmin
SELAYANG – Naib Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Azmin Ali menegaskan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) akan cuba sedaya-upaya untuk menghalang Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak daripada diangkat menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia.
Menurutnya, sudah terlalu banyak keburukan yang dilakukan oleh Najib contohnya seperti mengarah pembentukan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) haram di Perak serta serangan, ugutan dan penculikan wakil-wakil rakyat PR.
“Belum jadi Perdana Menteri tetapi Najib sudah menunjukkan taring yang melampaui batas dan menguji kesabaran PR.
“Saya bersama-sama pemimpin PR serta rakyat berjanji akan cuba menghalang habis-habisan Najib dan Rosmah diangkat menjadi Perdana Menteri.
“Jika kita gagal, nescaya kita akan melihat kehancuran negara kita pada masa depan,” katanya ketika berucap pada Ceramah Perdana anjuran PKR di sini malam kelmarin.
Menurut Azmin lagi, BN Selangor dibawah kepimpinan Datuk Seri Khir Toyo turut bertubi-tubi menyerang kerajaan PR Selangor contohnya seperti mengaitkan Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dengan rasuah melibatkan 46 ekor lembu.
“Wahai Khir Toyo, tolong cerminkan diri kamu sendiri, siapa kamu hendak bercakap mengenai moral dan rasuah? Cukup adalah cukup, kesabaran kita betul-betul diuji oleh ‘Si Kitol’ ini.
“Pada Persidangan DUN 10 Mac ini nanti, kita akan londehkan Khir Toyo, pada saya ada 28 kes rasuah Khir Toyo dan pada Menteri Besar ada lebih 50 kes rasuah,” katanya.
Sementara itu, Ahli Dewan Undangan (ADUN) Batu Caves, Amirudin Shari menyifatkan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) mengamalkan prinsip ‘berat sebelah’ sekiranya berhadapan dengan kes rasuah melibatkan pemimpin BN.
“Kita sudah laporkan banyak kesalahan rasuah melibatkan pemimpin BN, tetapi SPRM langsung tidak ambil sebarang tindakan.
“Kalau SPRM tidak ambil tindakan selepas ini, kita akan hantar dua butir peluru kepada mereka seperti yang dihadapi oleh Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh,” katanya.
Menurut Amirudin lagi, isu derhaka yang di main-mainkan oleh UMNO-BN serta media-media yang dikawal mereka adalah satu percubaan untuk menggambarkan bahawa PR benar-benar derhaka kepada institusi Raja-Raja.
“Derhaka? Buku Sejarah Melayu jelas memberitahu apa makna derhaka kepada Raja, kepada Pemuda UMNO, jangan lupa sejarah, jangan hanya tahu menjerit Daulat Tuanku, sudahkah mereka lupa siapa yang mencela dan menghina Raja-Raja pada tahun 1980-an dahulu?,” katanya.
Ceramah Perdana ini turut dihadiri oleh Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Ahli Parlimen Selayang, William Leong dan Ketua Bahagian PKR selayang, Abdul Rahim Wahab serta dihadiri oleh kira-kira 3 ribu penyokong PR.
Menurutnya, sudah terlalu banyak keburukan yang dilakukan oleh Najib contohnya seperti mengarah pembentukan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) haram di Perak serta serangan, ugutan dan penculikan wakil-wakil rakyat PR.
“Belum jadi Perdana Menteri tetapi Najib sudah menunjukkan taring yang melampaui batas dan menguji kesabaran PR.
“Saya bersama-sama pemimpin PR serta rakyat berjanji akan cuba menghalang habis-habisan Najib dan Rosmah diangkat menjadi Perdana Menteri.
“Jika kita gagal, nescaya kita akan melihat kehancuran negara kita pada masa depan,” katanya ketika berucap pada Ceramah Perdana anjuran PKR di sini malam kelmarin.
Menurut Azmin lagi, BN Selangor dibawah kepimpinan Datuk Seri Khir Toyo turut bertubi-tubi menyerang kerajaan PR Selangor contohnya seperti mengaitkan Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dengan rasuah melibatkan 46 ekor lembu.
“Wahai Khir Toyo, tolong cerminkan diri kamu sendiri, siapa kamu hendak bercakap mengenai moral dan rasuah? Cukup adalah cukup, kesabaran kita betul-betul diuji oleh ‘Si Kitol’ ini.
“Pada Persidangan DUN 10 Mac ini nanti, kita akan londehkan Khir Toyo, pada saya ada 28 kes rasuah Khir Toyo dan pada Menteri Besar ada lebih 50 kes rasuah,” katanya.
Sementara itu, Ahli Dewan Undangan (ADUN) Batu Caves, Amirudin Shari menyifatkan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) mengamalkan prinsip ‘berat sebelah’ sekiranya berhadapan dengan kes rasuah melibatkan pemimpin BN.
“Kita sudah laporkan banyak kesalahan rasuah melibatkan pemimpin BN, tetapi SPRM langsung tidak ambil sebarang tindakan.
“Kalau SPRM tidak ambil tindakan selepas ini, kita akan hantar dua butir peluru kepada mereka seperti yang dihadapi oleh Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh,” katanya.
Menurut Amirudin lagi, isu derhaka yang di main-mainkan oleh UMNO-BN serta media-media yang dikawal mereka adalah satu percubaan untuk menggambarkan bahawa PR benar-benar derhaka kepada institusi Raja-Raja.
“Derhaka? Buku Sejarah Melayu jelas memberitahu apa makna derhaka kepada Raja, kepada Pemuda UMNO, jangan lupa sejarah, jangan hanya tahu menjerit Daulat Tuanku, sudahkah mereka lupa siapa yang mencela dan menghina Raja-Raja pada tahun 1980-an dahulu?,” katanya.
Ceramah Perdana ini turut dihadiri oleh Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Ahli Parlimen Selayang, William Leong dan Ketua Bahagian PKR selayang, Abdul Rahim Wahab serta dihadiri oleh kira-kira 3 ribu penyokong PR.
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