‘Is this going to be the playbook for all the other 1MDB-related cases?’
We should appreciate MACC head Azam Baki sharing with us insights into the inner workings at management levels of his anti-corruption agency, at least since former MACC chief Latheefa Koya left the scene.
For his part, Azam insists that he will stand by what the DPP had told him. If you wish to accept the word of a junior officer against that from the chief, I would imagine you have such a right. Is this going to be the playbook for all the other 1MDB-related cases? Return some of the money and it's all ‘kau tim’ , followed by handshakes all round?Azam, is it really that difficult to pick up the phone and ask Thomas personally about it and not rely on the word of an unnamed DPP?You are not expected to do what the former AG asked you to. So stop hiding behind an ex-AG and state clearly why your agency had agreed to the plea bargain.
Do you mean Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is still carrying out what was decided by former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the new finance minister is carrying out what was decided by former finance minister Lim Guan Eng?Neither MACC nor Thomas should be embroiled in it, especially MACC since their statements are based on hearsay and their comments about hundreds of million being recovered contradict the several millionI am really perplexed by MACC wading into this issue which is purely the...
Anyway, Gopal Sri Ram is no crook, he’s been hard on Najib and Rosmah Mansor. Stop wildly speculating in the worst way about what happened here.What happened with Riza was a plea bargain. It happens all the time in the US, UK and other established countries. The chances of success in winning the actual case by the prosecution might also be a factor. They may not have the necessary evidence considering most of the allegations took place in the US so there is also a jurisdiction issue.
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