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Serious ST interviews Jho Low the scapegoat
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ST investigaative journalist? My foot. PAP told them where he is.
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Too many high profile names involved in 1mdb so the mudlaysians are just beating drums and blowing trumpets instead of really apprehending him. Fatty is just a bagman
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Shafee: With ‘number one culprit’ Jho Low absent, Najib deprived of ‘best defence’ | Malay Mail
Defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah arrives for Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s SRC trial at the Kuala Lumpur High Court January 6, 2020. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said today the absence of fugitive financier Low Taek Jho or Jho Low in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s ongoing corruption trials has seen the former prime minister deprived of his “best defence”.
Asked to respond to Straits Times’ published interview with Low, Muhammad Shafee, who is also Najib’s defence lawyer, admitted that it was “cumbersome” to prove Najib’s case in court as Low and his alleged accomplices have absconded.
According to Muhammad Shafee, the accomplices whom Low was acquainted were named as Jasmine Loo, Terrence Geh, Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil and Casey Tang.
“My client isn’t getting the best defence because these people are absent. So is it purposely done to deprive my client of the best defence? These are witnesses my client can use by way of cross examination and prove my client case.
“I must tell you it is very cumbersome. Our case has always been that Najib being the prime minister was led to believe that Jho Low can open the gates of Saudi, Emirates and even China because of his influence,” he told reporters after Najib’s SRC International Sdn Bhd trial at the High Court here.
Muhammad Shafee also called out Low’s bluff for claiming others played a far bigger role in the financial swindle before labelling the latter the “number one central culprit”.
“I don’t think he is telling the truth. I think he is the central figure who organised everything else around him including the financial institutions, the financial people like bankers and all his cronies who are actually his accomplices.
“They are in 1MDB, they are in SRC and they are also overseas,” he said.
Muhammad Shafee then pointed out that Low had “conveniently” forgotten to tell the public of his role in misleading SRC International and 1MDB.
He also rubbished Low’s claim that the latter was a convenient scapegoat in the multibillion-dollar global financial scandal by virtue of not being a politician.
“That is totally rubbish because if you are not a politician nobody would want to victimise you.
“It is only politician who gets into trouble because there is a counter-politician who wants to put you in trouble,” he said.
At the same time, Muhammad Shafee also questioned Malaysian authorities and even singled out the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador for not going “hard” in their efforts to locate Low.
Last month, Abdul Hamid said he was frustrated with the lack of cooperation from authorities in countries where Low was supposedly hiding.
“Until today the IGP has not made an announcement as to where Jho Low is. Not only Jho Low, where are these four five people I said? Why not go after them? Why not announce where Jho Low is and then name and shame the country who you know where he is and has not responded to our legal request?
“I want to know why Malaysia hasn’t done any request for extradition? They have been talking all the time but do nothing,” he said.
In the interview, Low again portrayed himself as a middleman, albeit one who “worked for the benefit of Malaysia and advanced Malaysia’s Government-to-Government connections with key allies.”
He claimed to have helped build relationships that have “directly or indirectly assisted Malaysia, including helping Malaysians that were stranded during the crisis in Egypt to get safely back home to Malaysia via Saudi Arabia; the increase in Haj quotas for Malaysian Muslims.”
Low also told ST that he had been offered asylum half a year ago but refused to disclose the nation’s name out of “serious personal safety concerns.”
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said today the absence of fugitive financier Low Taek Jho or Jho Low in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s ongoing corruption trials has seen the former prime minister deprived of his “best defence”.
Asked to respond to Straits Times’ published interview with Low, Muhammad Shafee, who is also Najib’s defence lawyer, admitted that it was “cumbersome” to prove Najib’s case in court as Low and his alleged accomplices have absconded.
According to Muhammad Shafee, the accomplices whom Low was acquainted were named as Jasmine Loo, Terrence Geh, Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil and Casey Tang.
“My client isn’t getting the best defence because these people are absent. So is it purposely done to deprive my client of the best defence? These are witnesses my client can use by way of cross examination and prove my client case.
“I must tell you it is very cumbersome. Our case has always been that Najib being the prime minister was led to believe that Jho Low can open the gates of Saudi, Emirates and even China because of his influence,” he told reporters after Najib’s SRC International Sdn Bhd trial at the High Court here.
Muhammad Shafee also called out Low’s bluff for claiming others played a far bigger role in the financial swindle before labelling the latter the “number one central culprit”.
“I don’t think he is telling the truth. I think he is the central figure who organised everything else around him including the financial institutions, the financial people like bankers and all his cronies who are actually his accomplices.
“They are in 1MDB, they are in SRC and they are also overseas,” he said.
Muhammad Shafee then pointed out that Low had “conveniently” forgotten to tell the public of his role in misleading SRC International and 1MDB.
He also rubbished Low’s claim that the latter was a convenient scapegoat in the multibillion-dollar global financial scandal by virtue of not being a politician.
“That is totally rubbish because if you are not a politician nobody would want to victimise you.
“It is only politician who gets into trouble because there is a counter-politician who wants to put you in trouble,” he said.
At the same time, Muhammad Shafee also questioned Malaysian authorities and even singled out the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador for not going “hard” in their efforts to locate Low.
Last month, Abdul Hamid said he was frustrated with the lack of cooperation from authorities in countries where Low was supposedly hiding.
“Until today the IGP has not made an announcement as to where Jho Low is. Not only Jho Low, where are these four five people I said? Why not go after them? Why not announce where Jho Low is and then name and shame the country who you know where he is and has not responded to our legal request?
“I want to know why Malaysia hasn’t done any request for extradition? They have been talking all the time but do nothing,” he said.
In the interview, Low again portrayed himself as a middleman, albeit one who “worked for the benefit of Malaysia and advanced Malaysia’s Government-to-Government connections with key allies.”
He claimed to have helped build relationships that have “directly or indirectly assisted Malaysia, including helping Malaysians that were stranded during the crisis in Egypt to get safely back home to Malaysia via Saudi Arabia; the increase in Haj quotas for Malaysian Muslims.”
Low also told ST that he had been offered asylum half a year ago but refused to disclose the nation’s name out of “serious personal safety concerns.”
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at least $6.9m.
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That cockroach should be expelled from Malaysia after 100 rounds of rattan on his bottoms.
And after 50 years of prison sentence served.
Malaysia is just too tolerant.
To the extent their ah neh owned forums like lowyat (is it ok to mention other forums' name @Leongsam ? if not, i can delete that name when you inform me), chink owned mass media, don't tolerate divergent viewpoints.
Those kafir chink dogs only push one agenda. Anything else and when they are in power, they just crush oppress and silence with absolute force, if possible.
We see that in stinkypura too where PAP-pigs have set up a hereditary dictatorship ruling for 60 odd years now.
Opposing voices are silenced, Muslims and Malays are discriminated against and no way for minorities to win a constituency on their own .
Must piggyback on chinks, no way for minorities to form a political party either. Unlike Malaysia which has been toooo generous and with sooo many chink and ah neh political parties filled with traitors and backstabbers like DAP MCA MIC etc.
Sth unimaginable in stinkypura, let alone tiongkok or ah nehs' land.
Those jiuhu chinks need to be caned and imprisoned 50 years at a stretch if they act against the country, its ideology and constitution.
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