NAMPAK gaya media pro-Zionis di luar negara memang jelas melakukan serangan bertubi-tubi ke atas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dengan dibantu portal propembangkang di Malaysia yang ‘tumpang sekaki’.

Jika sebelum ini akhbar terlaris di Amerika Syarikat (AS), Wall Street Journal (WSJ) memfitnah kepimpinan negara kita dengan dakwaan tidak berasas konon beliau ada akaun rahsia tertentu yang terbukti sengaja direka.

Kali ini, dua akhbar terkenal Australia – The Age dan Sydney Morning Herald tidak ketinggalan cuba berlagak hero mendakwa kononnya Najib dikaitkan dengan satu lagi skandal rasuah melibatkan ‘negara kanggaru’ itu.

Malangnya, laporan yang bertajuk ‘Bribery scandal linked to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’ disiarkan pada Selasa menyebabkan ramai terkejut dan tertanya-tanya apa pula kali ini, bahkan ada kata tidak masuk akal!

Memang sah serangan bertali-arus media Barat yang jelas pro-Zionis (meminjam ayat tokoh akademik terkenal Dr. Chandra Muzaffar) selepas tohmahan jahat WSJ kononnya ada RM2.6 billion masuk akaun peribadi Najib.

Bunyi tajuk dua akhbar Australia pada laporan itu memang gempar dan sensasi. Apa lagi portal propembangkang pun ‘tumpang semangkuk’ menambah ‘dosa kering’ siar semula laporan akhbar itu sebagai berita utama mereka.

Hakikat sebenarnya ia hanya berkaitan satu kes lama dakwaan skandal rasuah kontrak untuk percetakan wang kertas polimer Malaysia di Australia. Cuba lihat teliti tarikh kes itu didakwa berlaku: antara 1999 dan 2004.

Maka di mana datangnya Najib dalam kes ini yang tiba-tiba cuba ditonjolkan dua akhbar Australia itu. Untuk rekod, beliau belum menjadi Perdana Menteri apatah lagi juga bukan Menteri Kewangan pada waktu itu.

Sebaliknya kes itu adalah semasa zaman pemerintahan Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yang bersara pada 31 Oktober 2003 sebelum masuk sedikit pula ke era pentadbiran Tun Abdullah Badawi yang jadi Perdana Menteri selepas itu.

Pejabat Perdana Menteri (PMO) pada Rabu turut mengeluarkan kenyataan rasmi menyifatkan laporan berkenaan sebagai satu lagi ‘usaha terdesak’ pihak tertentu mengaitkan Najib dengan skandal rasuah zaman dahulu itu.

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Bahkan katanya laporan dua akhbar itu tidak berasas langsung kerana artikel berita berkenaan tidak mengandungi sebarang tuduhan secara langsung khusus terhadap Najib yang bukan pun perdana menteri pada waktu itu.

Beliau malah tidak terlibat dalam mana-mana kes mahkamah serta individu yang didapati bersalah dan dihukum dalam kes itu. Ironi gambar Najib dijadikan hiasan untuk laporan dua akhbar Australia itu memang berniat jahat.

PMO dilaporkan hairan kenapa dua akhbar itu tidak sebut langsung nama Dr. Mahathir kerana ia jelas berlaku pada zaman beliau yang kebetulan memang menjadi Menteri Kewangan selepas Anwar Ibrahim dipecat pada 1998.

Laporan dua akhbar di bawah Fairfax Media Group, firma media terbesar diasaskan di Australia sejak 1841 itu amat mengelirukan dan berbaur fitnah kerana memaparkan gambar Najib konon ada pula kaitan kes tersebut.

Perdana Menteri ujar PMO turut mengarahkan pegumnya untuk mengambil segala tindakan yang perlu terhadap The Age dan Sydney Morning Herald ekoran laporan amat tidak bertanggungjawab oleh akhbar berkenaan.

BERIKUT IALAH KENYATAAN PENUH PEJABAT PERDANA MENTERI :

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE STATEMENT ON THE ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE AGE AND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

1. The Prime Minister totally rejects the baseless smears and insinuations carried in an article “Bribery scandal linked to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak”, published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, papers owned by Australia’s Fairfax Media group, on July 14.

2. This is a desperate attempt to link the work he did when he was Deputy Prime Minister – which involved countless trade missions to promote Malaysia abroad, and meeting many thousands of people – with the alleged wrongdoings of middlemen who may have happened to have been in the same room as him at some time or another.

3. The article does not contain a single direct allegation about the Prime Minister – and for good reason. There are none to be made and there is not one shred of evidence that the Prime Minister was in any way involved in the case that the courts have already made judgments on, with individuals convicted and punished.

4. Fairfax Media knows this, yet their article persistently attempts to mislead and imply not only that he had some involvement, but that he also might have been a beneficiary of any alleged wrongdoing.

5. Instead of providing evidence to link the Prime Minister to the case, the article relies heavily on a series of slippery, non-conclusive words – “suspected”, “alleged”, “suggesting” – to lead the reader into thinking that the Prime Minister is guilty by association.

6. This is grossly defamatory, and this sly and underhand way of attempting to tarnish the Prime Minister’s name is underlined by the fact that Australian court records quoted in the article state that “none of the named persons [including Mr Najib and Mr Badawi] is a person whom the accused are alleged to have conspired to bribe”.

7. The article also states: “No overseas politicians have been charged or formally accused of conspiring to receive bribes, with the prosecution case restricted to allegations that overseas central bank officials, rather than any ministers, were bribed between 1999 and 2004.”

8. What then does the Prime Minister have to do with the case? This is a case that has been ongoing for a long period of time, and the bribes alleged to have been paid were over the period 1999-2004, during the administrations of former Prime Ministers Tun Abdullah Badawi and Tun Mahathir Mohamad.

9. Yet Fairfax Media chose not to mention Tun Mahathir anywhere in its article.

10. This is despite knowing that the alleged bribes took place not during Prime Minister Najib’s tenure, but during Tun Mahathir’s; and despite Tun Mahathir being named in the suppresion order regarding the case obtained by the Australian government. Instead, the entire article including its headline and photos focuses on and smears Prime Minister Najib. It may not be coincidental that Fairfax Media claims to have separate information from “high-level sources”.

11. It is also worth noting that an order preventing the release of information about this investigation was criminally flouted by Wikileaks. An Australian judge is quoted as saying that this was “a clear and deliberate breach of law”, and that the accompanying Wikileaks press release was “full of sensational, inaccurate allegations”.

12. The same description could be used to characterise Fairfax Media’s article, which is deliberately misleading, malicious and defamatory. The Prime Minister has instructed his legal counsel to take all action possible against The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

15 July 2015.

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Three arrested in Malaysia over Australian banknote scandal

Updated 3 January 2012, 16:50 AEDT

Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency says it has arrested three people over an Australian banknote supply contract scandal, as an international probe into the case deepened.

Image: RBA subsidiary in corruption investigation Image 2010-10-08

Three men have been arrested over corruption involving Securency International. [ABC] (Credit: ABC)

Two men were arrested in Britain on Wednesday (local time) after Australian, British and Spanish police carried out coordinated swoops over alleged corruption involving the banknote manufacturers, Securency International.

Securency is embroiled in a long-running investigation over claims its agents offered bribes to officials in countries including Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Nigeria to win contracts.

The firm is part-owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said the trio were arrested last month after claims emerged the Melbourne-based firm offered bribes to officials in Malaysia.

“I can only confirm that the MACC has arrested three persons to assist in the investigation. We arrested them about a month ago,” MACC investigation director Mustafar Ali said.

The arrests were not reported previously.

Mr Mustafar said the three were released after being held for questioning and none of them have been charged in court yet.

He declined to elaborate on their alleged role in the scandal.

He also declined to confirm whether the trio included a businessman who, according to reports, paid $US3.7 million to lobby Malaysia’s central bank and government officials to use the polymer banknotes.

He says the investigation is ongoing and is drawing to its final stages.- ( laporan ABC News 3 Januari 2012)

Australia, Malaysia Charge 8 in Money Printing Scandal

By Enda Curran

Updated July 1, 2011 8:09 a.m. ET

SYDNEY—Australian and Malaysian authorities have charged eight people and two companies with bribery related to money-printing contracts won by Melbourne-based Securency International Pty Ltd., the Australian Federal Police said in a statement.

The two companies charged are Securency—which is owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia and Innovia Films—and Note Printing Australia Ltd., it said.

Securency makes the polymer substrate used in banknotes in 27 countries around the world from Bangladesh to Zambia and has been embroiled in a series of bribery and misconduct allegations since May 2009 regarding the conduct of some of its former staff in winning orders from overseas governments.

Police allege bribes were paid by staff—who have now left the company—to government officials in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam to win currency-printing contracts between 1999 and 2005. The arrests are the first under foreign-bribery laws Canberra introduced in 1999.

In detailing the charges, police said senior company managers used agents to bribe an Indonesian official to secure a polymer contract with NPA, in Vietnam an official accepted a university scholarship to agree a deal with Securency while a Malaysian official also took a bribe from NPA.

“The Reserve Bank condemns in the strongest terms corrupt or questionable behavior of any kind,” Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said in a statement.

In Malaysia, the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission said it has charged a businessman and a central bank official for alleged corruption in currency-printing deals with Note Printing.

The Malaysian agency, in a statement, said Abdul Kayum bin Syed Ahmad, director of Aksavest Sdn. Bhd., was charged with two counts of bribery, having allegedly made two payments of 50,000 ringgit ($16,600) each to Mohamad Daud bin Dol Moin, then an assistant governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, through a middleman. The agency said the first payment was made on Nov. 24, 2004 and the second the following Feb. 15.

Separately, the Malaysian central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, said it “does not condone any misconduct by its employees. The Central Bank upholds the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in carrying out its roles and functions.”

It said it has been providing full cooperation to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and other relevant agencies in their investigations.

In Victoria state, Australian police said they arrested six people who will appear in court later Friday, including two former chief executives of the companies involved. Two arrests were also made in Malaysia after an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Australian Federal Police said.

The investigation involved the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers and the Indonesian National Police.

Both the RBA and Innovia are in the process of selling Securency, having been approached by possible buyers, the company said in November.

— Agensi/Mynewshub/HAA