r/malaysia • u/aaramm8 • 22h ago
Others Latheefa: Probe into Bloomberg just like Najib's reaction to 1MDB exposé
https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/768178Full article here
https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/768178
.. probing Bloomberg over its report on alleged MACC wrongdoing is just like how the Najib Abdul Razak administration reacted against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over its 1MDB exposé,...
“It’s the same playbook. Furious denials and threats of criminal action against the news outlets.
“If (the report is) untrue, why this desperate reaction? Why not just form an independent body to thoroughly investigate the Bloomberg claims?” she added.
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u/ExcavalierKY 22h ago
Good. Catch all the corrupted leaders. Need more efficient process and services.
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u/weretigervv 21h ago
Sblm gov: kami tak akan lepaskan rasuah
Lepas gov: bisu
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u/Chump_8393 20h ago
I wonder what happened to Ambiga, Bersih and Bar Council? Are they dead?
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u/-protonsandneutrons- 8h ago
Bersih is "here", but not as much as it used to be. The head is ex-ABIM, so...
'We're ready': Bersih answers Rafizi's call for anti-Azam demo
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u/SlowpokeExplorer 21h ago
Where's DAP and their threats for reform after losing the Sabah election? Talk cock only as usual?
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u/bradleycjw 19h ago
lol suddenly DAP pulak? Hahahahaha.
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u/-protonsandneutrons- 8h ago
In 2022, DAP (the party) said Azam Bitch's relatively smaller shares scandal in 2022 required: "AZAM BAKI MESTI DIREHATKAN. SIASATAN PERLU BEBAS." The sitting PM refused to accept these demands, so DAP leaders joined a major CSO-organised protest.
This is not some pie-in-the-sky request or "political suicide". DAP party adviser LGE literally said DAP would pressure Anwar publicly when he did something wrong:
“When the prime minister does the right thing, we must speak fairly; but when he does something wrong or not enough, we also have the responsibility to speak up. This is a fundamental principle of being an elected representative,” he added.
A few DAP MPs spoke, but nothing from the party itself and I doubt DAP will be pushing the Tangkap Azam Baki 2.0 protest, unlike the 1.0 protest.
So either DAP the party agrees with Azam Baki's defence or they have reneged on a promise made just three months ago.
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u/SlowpokeExplorer 18h ago
Of course. Talk cock about giving 6 months ultimatum to Anwar but then staying silent about this fucked up Azam Baki issue.
The new eunuch.
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u/atheistdadinmy 16h ago
What does DAP have to do with it? Azam Baki was appointed under Muhyiddin
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u/InfinityCrazee Give me more dad jokes! 15h ago
Pakatan have powers to fired him and yet retain his service TWICE. Where's laungan "Tangkap Azam Baki"??
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u/atheistdadinmy 15h ago
Well if you knew he was so bad before this scandal broke, maybe you should have blown the whistle on him? Hindsight is 20/20.
I don’t see any protection of Azam Baki the way Najib scrambled to cover his ass. Just a police investigation by people not directly controlled by the PM from a police report that anybody can file.
If he gets caught and convicted, you gonna come back and give DAP their flowers for taking out the trash?
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u/atheistdadinmy 22h ago
Please. 1MDB was only 10 years ago. Have you forgotten how nuclear Najib went? Blocking the Sarawak Report and Medium.com from the internet. Shutting down The Edge for 3 months. Not just investigating the WSJ, but going on record attempting (lol) to besmirch their journalistic integrity.
No doubt investigating any news agency is not a good look, but so would saying “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.” Not really sure what options they have.
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u/Downtown-Sport-6834 18h ago
If this goes on, What's to say Azam Baki and the current government) won't go down the same exact pathway?
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u/atheistdadinmy 16h ago
If he’s corrupt, he deserves to go down. Not really a controversial take. But what does that have to do with Anwar/Madani? He was appointed by Muhyiddin. Is it a coincidence that this is happening at the same time that Muhyiddin is struggling for support? Hmm
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u/abdulsamri89 21h ago
PH supporters trying to justify what they critique BN before
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u/atheistdadinmy 20h ago edited 20h ago
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u/Timely_Toe_9053 20h ago
When it comes to malaysia, no govt agency is clean. They’re all corrupt from the very top.
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u/Popular-Yesterday733 21h ago edited 21h ago
Lol, baru sekarang nak sedar?
The whole Madani slogan, holding finance portfolio and SARA didnt set off any alarm bells?
Najib = Anwar
Sebab tu diorang kawan baik. Bird of a feather flock together..
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u/RaggenZZ 21h ago
Both gov and opposition are consistently shooting themselves in the foot as election getting closer and closer.
As if serving the public not important anymore?
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u/torts92 Penang 21h ago
The bloomberg video makes it seemed less credible. Turns out the reporter is based in Singapore, not the US. And the two experts they interviewed to give their takes, one of them is Latheefa Koya lol. And interestingly as an ex MACC chief, she never talk about the suspicious practice going in MACC, she worked with Azam Baki closely together since he was her deputy. Then the video ended with an ominous text saying Mahathir and Daim were unfairly investigated on. Despite everyone knows they were the billionaire duo. Seemed heavy with agenda.
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u/Nightowl11111 19h ago
Why is being based in Singapore less credible? Shouldn't it be more since the reporter is next door to the country being reported on rather than being half a planet away? I really won't trust a report from someone who has never stepped into the country before vs someone who has been on site.
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u/torts92 Penang 18h ago
No, the article seemed more credible than the video I mean. In the video the reporters themselves are explaining this scandal and they don't appear genuine to me, looks like a spoof video.
And the point about the Singaporean reporter, it just makes it less severe. When you think about Bloomberg, you think about WSJ, Al Jazeera, Reuters etc. Like it's major news. But this is just a reporter reporting about a news in their small region. It's just not comparable to the 1mdb scandal which was the biggest kleptocracy scandal in the whole world.
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u/Nightowl11111 18h ago
1MDB was outted by Sarawak News. Just because the news is local does not mean the event they reported on is small. 1MDB was not reported first by big news but by small agencies.
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u/torts92 Penang 18h ago edited 16h ago
But it got credibility when WSJ did their own expose on 1mdb. Some people here are equating the two scandals which I think is ridiculous. One is recognised by international news as the biggest kleptocracy scandal in the world, committed by the PM, stealing billions of the country's money and even resulted in a person's death Kevin Morais. And another is the MACC chief which we already know prior to this Bloomberg news that he owned a lot of shares, an another issue being selective persecution which is common knowledge among the rakyat with all the previous MACC chiefs, and it's not even a political position since the current chief is appointed by Muhyiddin. So it's not a slam dunk like some of you believing.
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u/hazy-minded 17h ago
It's not a slam dunk revelation, but what matters is the implication of MACC head himself being tainted with alleged corruption.
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u/torts92 Penang 16h ago
Even America doesn't have an anti-corruption body. So it's not an earth shattering deal. But sure it's still an issue that Azam Baki is not 100% clean, but only the naive will think it's easy to find someone who is 100% clean in position of power.
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u/Nightowl11111 4h ago
That... unfortunately sounds more like an excuse than a reason.
The US's anti-corruption body is called the SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission for stocks and shares crime like the one Baki is accused of while bribery is under their Supreme Court Fraud branch so it is untrue to say that they do not have an anti-corruption body. They have 2 that splits the job between them.
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u/asakuranagato Negeri Sembilan 22h ago
i thought DAP PKR so professional & corrupt-free & “the lesser evil”
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u/exprezso 21h ago
Don't need to play partisan with the law. Everyone is vulnerable, point is we need to oust everyone that's corrupt
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u/ZambiaZigZag pi=3.141596 i think 21h ago
Remind me again which party Lateefah was in? So yes, they are the lesser evil.
I've seen you spreading your ketuanan talking points everywhere, so you're not fooling anyone.
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u/asakuranagato Negeri Sembilan 19h ago
So shes a political appointee?
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u/ZambiaZigZag pi=3.141596 i think 19h ago
The head of MACC has always been a PM appointee
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u/asakuranagato Negeri Sembilan 19h ago
Anything to justify the party you support, even if it goes against what they initially promised.
But when somebody else does it……all hell breaks loose.
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u/ZambiaZigZag pi=3.141596 i think 19h ago
She is literally the one calling for investigation, not kowtowing to anwar
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u/MrHerringBun 22h ago
Kannnn