CRIMINALS IN SBAH and criminals in Pen Msia

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>Subject: The Truth behind the Double Track Project.....
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>Bloody Parasites.
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>The Truth behind the Double Track Project......
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>How they plunder the national coffers
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>The Truth Behind the Northern Double Track Project &
>Corporate Giants cashing out.
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>Mahathir Mohamad awarded the Double Tracking Project to MMC-Gamuda on
>21st October 2003, just nine days before he stepped down as Prime
>Minister. On 1st November 2003, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, fondly known as
>Pak Lah, took over as Prime Minister.
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>The first thing that Pak Lah did when he took over as Prime Minister
>was to cancel Mahathir’s pet projects. The Crooked Bridge to Singapore
>was one and the Double Tracking Project was the other, which Pak Lah
>shelved the following month in December 2003.
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>Mahathir was furious. He had spent more
than a year from mid-2002 to
>late 2003 discussing with Pak Lah as to what he can and cannot do once
>he took over as Prime Minister. Whether Pak Lah just forgot or whether
>he did a dirty on Dr Mahathir is not too clear. But the long and short
>of it, Pak Lah did everything he promised he would not do. And
>cancelling Mahathir’s pet projects was clearly one of the do-not-does.
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>Actually, Pak Lah had a great dislike for Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary who
>had shunned him when he was the Deputy Prime Minister. Hence, within
>just a month of taking over as Prime Minister, Pak Lah did the
>unthinkable. He cancelled the Double Tracking Project, the Crooked
>Bridge Project, and all those other projects that Mahathir had given
>to his cronies. Did anyone not bother to tell Pak Lah that one just
>does not slaughter sacred cows, in particular Mahathir’s sacred
cows?
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>Pak Lah explained that the government’s ‘poor finances’ did not permit
>such grandiose projects -- hence the need to cancel them. This caused
>Mahathir to flip. It gave the impression that Mahathir’s mismanagement
>has bled the country’s finances dry -- hence there is no more money.
>It also gave the impression that Mahathir’s projects are a total waste
>of money -- hence the need to cancel them. In short, Mahathir is a
>bungling idiot.
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>Try as he may, Syed Mokhtar could not get Pak Lah to agree to revive
>the Double Tracking Project. By 2006, Syed Mokhtar became very
>desperate. To get the project, he had already paid out commissions and
>under-table-money to various parties during Mahathir’s time. Syed
>Mokhtar realised that the only way to get this project back on track
>would be to work through the back door.
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>Syed Mokhtar asked the CEO of Gamuda, Lin Yun Ling, to approach Seow
>Lun Hoo to mastermind the
penetration of Pak Lah’s inner circle. That
>was how Seow first involved Khairy Jamaludin, Pak Lah’s son-in-law,
>and later Shah Hakim, the close associate of Kamaluddin, Pak Lah’s
>son.
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>And by a wave of the magical wand of Shah Hakim and Kamaluddin Badawi,
>the project began to be revived.
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>All these facts have now been revealed in court when Seow and Shah
>Hakim admitted that they “provided technical expertise and networking
>capabilities to help revive the once-shelved RM12.4 billion
>double-tracking railway project….It was through our efforts that the
>project was revived.”
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>The ‘networking capabilities’ and revival efforts included opening
>doors for Lin to present the revival ideas to then Minister-in-Charge
>of the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), Effendi Norwawi.
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>Effendi initially told Lin that given Pak Lah’s grim
description of
>the country’s finances it would be difficult for the government to be
>seen as reviving it from government funding. Effendi, the Sarawak
>financial wizard, then created this fanciful term for Lin to use when
>presenting the proposal to the government as a way in getting the
>project revived -- Private Finance Initiatives (PFI).
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>The idea was: the private sector can include all their additional
>financial costs and risks into the PFI proposal to make the project
>costs higher. Effendi also advised that after approval has been
>obtained, the PFI project could then revert to a design-and-build
>project fully shouldered by the government.
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>And that was exactly how MMC-Gamuda cheated the Malaysian public into
>believing that the PFI projects were fully funded by the private
>sector whereas in the end the taxpayers would be footing the bill.
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>For his wonderful advice and
support, Effendi also asked Lin to
>sponsor his new wife’s hobby in extravagant stage productions. That
>explained how Effendi’s wife, Tiara Jacqueline, could have the
>finances to mount the most glamorous and expensive Malay stage play to
>date -- Puteri Gunung Ledang. Lin and Syed Mokhtar were also made to
>sponsor Pak Lah’s wife’s pet project in the Pride Foundation and Endon
>Award for Performing Arts Excellence scholarship fund.
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>You see, Pak Lah, his family, and his friends in the cabinet, wanted
>to teach Syed Mokhtar and his sidekick, Lin, a good lesson for
>shunning them during Mahathir’s time. So they were going to make
>MMC-Gamuda pay for every single one of their whimsical pleasures.
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>In truth, what Pak Lah did was not new. The same thing had been done
>during Mahathir’s time by appeasing Siti Hasmah. And now, all the
>corporate giants in the country are outdoing each other
to
appease
>Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor. The mainstream media will give prominence
>to the generous donations by these corporate giants to Rosmah’s pet
>project, Permata. What is unseen is that they also donate more
>generously to Rosmah’s fetish for Hermes Birkin handbags and
>jewellery.
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>The story would be incomplete without explaining that the Chairman of
>the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure at that time was,
>coincidentally, Najib himself. Najib endorsed the revival of the
>project because Syed Mokhtar had agreed for Najib’s brothers to also
>take huge cuts in various parts of this revived project.
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>Nazim Razak (Jim) was the architect who will design the various
>railway stations, Nazir Razak (Jay) of CIMB will be the merchant
>banker for the PFI, Nizam Razak will be providing financial and share
>advisory, while Najib’s job is to approve its revival.
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>That is why the Plaintiff’s company is called NR Sistem, which are the
>initials of the Razak band of brothers.
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>So why the quarrel now if everyone in Umno and the Umno cronies were
>going to benefit?
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>Shah Hakim had a deep distrust for Syed Mokhtar. So he had convinced
>Effendi that the project should be divided into two parts – the
>Infrastructure Works to be awarded directly to MGJV for RM10 billion
>and the Systems Work for RM2.38 billion which will be given to a
>contractor of the government’s choice. The Systems Work was supposed
>to be sub-contracted by MGJV to NR Sistem.
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>When Syed Mokhtar realised that the 30% margin that the Shah Hakim
>group was going to make from the RM2.38 billion System Work contract
>amounted to RM600 million, Syed Mokhtar got upset. He complained to
>Mahathir about how Pak Lah had cancelled the project and forced him to
>use the
services of Shah Hakim who will now make RM600 million ‘atas
>angin’. Mahathir advised Syed Mokhtar to stall signing any contract
>with NR Sistem for the Systems Work.
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>At that time, Najib decided to play the neutral game in the open
>confrontation between Dr Mahathir and Pak Lah. As far as Najib was
>concerned, he had already secured all the contracts for his brothers.
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>Mahathir was still very powerful and his attacks could damage Najib’s
>political career. On the other hand, if Mahathir’s vicious attacks
>against Pak Lah succeeded, Najib could unseat Pak Lah as the PM
>without having to challenge him as Umno President.
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>That was why, in 2007, Mahathir mounted vicious attacks against Pak
>Lah and mocked him about being Mr Clean. Meantime, Syed Mokhtar
>directed Lin to force Seow and Shah Hakim to accept a reduced profit
>margin RM360
million instead of RM600 million.
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>This infuriated Shah Hakim and Kamaluddin because they thought they
>had already agreed to the 30% margin, which was equivalent to RM600
>million. That money was needed not just for them personally but also
>to fund Pak Lah’s 2008 elections campaign. Syed Mokhtar held back the
>money and refused to give Pak Lah what he needed for the 12th general
>election campaign. Mahathir had advised Syed Mokhtar to hang on and
>not to commit to any figure as Mahathir wanted Pak Lah to perform
>badly in the election and subsequently be ousted. The only way someone
>can become Prime Minister in this country is by paying huge sums of
>money to supporters to vote them into the hot seat. Without funds, Pak
>Lah could not pay for votes and was ousted.
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>Without enough funds, Mahathir’s plan became a reality. BN and Umno
>fared poorly in the March 2008
GE -- which was regarded as Pak Lah
>losing not just the elections but also losing face as well when
>Bumiputera businessmen who had benefitted from Umno’s patronage dare
>renege on their promise of providing funding.
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>This was worrisome to the Umno inner circle. The March 2008 GE was
>regarded as Pak Lah’s personal defeat and Mahathir unleashed the Umno
>warlords to cry for Pak Lah’s blood.
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>Post-March 2008, it was imminent that Pak Lah would have to give way
>to Najib. Syed Mokhtar, being the shrewd businessman that he is, then
>directed Lin not to sign anything with Shah Hakim’s NR Sistem – even
>for the agreed price of RM360 million -- as Pak Lah could no longer
>pose any threat to the project. Syed Mokhtar’s mentor, Mahathir, also
>wanted to ridicule Pak Lah’s son, Kamaludidn, and his son-in-law,
>Khairy Jamaludin (that they are nothing without Abdullah Badawi in
>power). Syed
Mokhtar also wanted Kamaludin and Shah Hakim to beg him
>for the RM360 million that Lin had promised them.
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>Syed Mokhtar never intended to pay Kamaluddin and Shah Hakim the RM600
>million nor the 33% or RM3.3 billion from the RM10 billion
>Infrastructure Works. All in all, Syed Mokhtar earned RM3.7 billion
>from the combined value of RM12.4 billion for the Double Tracking Rail
>Project.
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>That is why Scomi has been sidelined from most government businesses
>and projects. Kamaluddin Badawi and Shah Hakim were then forced to sue
>MMC – Gamuda and expose in court that this is how BN/Umno raise funds
>for the elections.
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>This explains Najib’s Economic Transformation Plan where the
>government will again undertake gargantuan projects on the pretext of
>injecting a revival of the economy. In truth, it is just further acts
>of plundering the nation.
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>Just imagine how much money Syed Mokhtar will make from
the KL MRT
>Project, which is valued at RM50 billion. Umno cronies expect a margin
>of 30%. That would be a cool RM15 billion! Now, add that to the recent
>KIDEX project awarded to companies owned by Umno Lawyer, Hafarizam
>Harun, and former Chief Justice, Zaki Azmi. Consider also the sale of
>the 26 kilometre Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya Highway, better known as the
>Maju Expressway (MEX), to EP Manufacturing Berhad for RM 1.7 billion
>-- where the original construction cost of RM976.6 million was by way
>of a government grant, i.e. taxpayers’ money. Include the NFC scandal
>and the 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s suspicious purchase of tycoon
>Ananda Krishan’s power business at RM8 billion. All this is proof that
>UMNO is desperately raising funds for the election as well as
>plundering the nation in a big way one last time. All the UMNO top
>guns are filling up their pockets as they realise that BN is doomed.
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>This is how Umno operates. It is Umno culture. They will milk the
>country until the country is dry.
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>Malaysia will soon become the next Greece if we do not kick out UMNO.
>So, whichever prime minister you have, it will still be the same until
>you get rid of UMNO. But what is also untold is that all these will
>have to be paid by hiking the project costs many-folds and it is the
>country and the public that will pay for such highly inflated costs.
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>This is how Umno does business and
controls the award of Government
>tenders. Projects are awarded, then shelved, then revived at a much
>higher cost, then given a new name or rebranded, and then passed back
>to the government to shoulder. It also reveals the huge profit margins
>that are made to line the pockets of the Umno cronies using the tax
>payer’s money and our EPF contributions.
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>How long more are Malaysians going to tolerate these dirty parasites?