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Whistleblower site Sarawak Report today alleged documents from investigations into the controversial 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal revealed that RM2 million was deposited into the account of the prime minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
The money, the blog said, was allegedly transferred to Rosmah's account in Affin Bank Berhad in eight deposits within two and a half months earlier this year.
"Baffling amounts of cash were deposited into it during the course of just two months at the start of this year," Sarawak Report said in its latest posting.
"According to documentation related to the 1MDB related enquiries, between February 10 and April 23, 2015, a gentleman called Roslan Sohari entered the central branch of the bank in Kuala Lumpur on eight occasions.
Sarawak Report claimed that he deposited RM2 million into a bank account, which “investigators have reported as belonging to Rosmah Binti Mansor (Datin Sri)”.
The site said according to information it had received, Roslan came to the bank with cash in the form of notes in a bag.
The blog displayed a document which it said came from the investigation that showed Rosmah as being the owner of the account. It also showed her details and that of the depositor of the money, Roslan.
Calls by The Malaysian Insider to the telephone number that was shown in the document as belonging to Roslan were not answered and diverted to voicemail.
News portal Malaysiakini said it contacted Roslan who said he did not know about the deposits he allegedly made.
"No, I don't know," he was quoted saying by Malaysiakini.
He also told the portal that he never worked for the Prime Minister's Department, nor did he have links with Rosmah.
Sarawak Report also said the particular bank account purportedly belonging to Rosmah was now under investigation as it could be linked to the debt-ridden 1MDB.
"One of the key Board Members at Affin Bank is none other than Lodin Wok Kamaruddin, who is the Chairman of 1MDB," the website said.
Sarawak Report also questioned why such an enormous transaction was not immediately flagged down by authorities as suspicious to trigger an inquiry.
"As anyone who has deposited large sums of cash is well aware, such enormous transactions are immediately treated as suspicious. They automatically flag up on the banking system and trigger an enquiry," it said.
This latest allegation comes in the wake of last week's expose by Sarawak Report and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that US$700 million (RM2.67 billion) was moved among government agencies, banks and entities linked to 1MDB and finally ending up in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's personal accounts in five separate deposits between 2013 and this year.
A special task force consisting of Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chairman Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed and Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, has been formed to look into the allegations.
The task force has frozen six bank accounts and seized documents related to 17 bank accounts.
It has already raided the offices of SRC International Sdn Bhd, Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd and Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd, the companies which were part of the local transfer of funds totaling US$11.1 million (RM42 million).
Najib has denied taking funds for personal use but has not commented directly on the transfer of the money into his accounts. He instead blamed former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for masterminding the latest allegations. – July 9, 2015.
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Millions In Cash Go Into Rosmah's Account - How Come? EXCLUSIVE!
9 JUL 2015
Shopping therapy – how does Malaysia’s ‘First Housewife’ manage to get such enormous cash injections into her accounts?
Sarawak Report has been passed information relating to an account at Affin Bank Berhad owned by the Prime Minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor.
Baffling amounts of cash were deposited into it during the course of just two months at the start of this year.
According to documentation related to the 1MDB related enquiries, between 10th February and 23rd April 2015 a gentleman called Roslan Bin Sohari entered the central branch of the bank in Kuala Lumpur on eight occasions.
On these visits he deposited a round total of RM2,000,000.00 into the account number 1000 2000 0058, which investigators have reported as belonging to “Rosmah Binti Mansor (Datin Sri)”.
Sarawak Report has a copy of these transactions and has been informed that Roslan came into the bank with the cash in the form of notes contained in a bag.
According to the record (below) the deposits into the account were made by the account owner’s ‘personal assistant’.
Eight deposits that came to a neat total figure of RM2 million
Owner of the account was Rosmah Mansor
As anyone who has deposited large sums of cash is well aware, such enormous transactions are immediately treated as suspicious. They automatically flag up on the banking system and trigger an enquiry.
The question is why did this not appear to immediately happen in this case, until the 1MDB investigation took place?
Could the answer be that the owner of the account was considered too powerful to be touched? That individual, according to the investigation papers acquired by Sarawak Report, is indeed Rosmah Mansor:
Rosmah was the owner of the account and Roslan the designated bag carrier who made the deposits on each occasion
1MDB related
Sarawak Report can confirm that this particular bank account has now been placed under investigation, because it can be related to enquiries about the possible misappropriation of money linked to 1MDB.
One of the key Board Members at Affin Bank is none other than Lodin Wok Kamaruddin, who is the Chairman of 1MDB.
As originally reported by Sarawak Report, investigators have already discovered that money from the former 1MDB subsidiary company SRC went into bank accounts in the name of the Prime Minister himself, via the companies Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd and Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd.
The account for Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd is also at Affin Bank:
Transfer documents – one of the transfers of money that had arrived from Gandingan Mentari into Ihsan Perdana at Affin Bank, before transferring on to the PM’s named account at AmBank
SRC itself was raided by investigators last week at its offices in the Menara BRDB building in the Bangsar Shopping Centre.
Sarawak Report understands that the Rosmah linked cash payments came to light during the course of these investigations, but that this account may just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to other previously undisclosed accounts belonging to Malaysia’s first lady, who has become a world famous shopper in recent years.
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