Program wawancara Datuk Seri Najib Razak menerusi FB Live Sinar Harian di sini, hari ini.
Saya ada hubungi Anwar pada malam 9 Mei - Najib
Oleh Khairul Azran Hussin
khaiazr@nstp.com.my
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SHAH ALAM: Datuk Seri Najib Razak mengakui beliau ada menghubungi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang ketika itu masih ditahan di penjara Sungai Buloh, pada malam 9 Mei lalu.
Najib, bagaimanapun, berkata tindakannya itu bukan sesuatu yang luar biasa kerana beliau sering menghubungi Anwar untuk bertanya khabar secara peribadi sepanjang ditahan di penjara.
“Ya ada (menghubungi Anwar) selepas keputusan pada Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-14...tetapi selama ini pun saya ada berhubung secara peribadi,” katanya dalam program wawancara menerusi FB Live Sinar Harian di sini, hari ini.
Beliau mengulas mengenai dakwaan ada cubaan daripada UMNO dan PAS menarik Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Harapan (PH) untuk membentuk kerajaan Melayu-Islam pada malam 9 Mei lalu selepas Barisan Nasional (BN) tewas dalam PRU-14.
Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, dalam temubual bersama majalah Mekong Review, mendedahkan ada cubaan “di sebalik tirai” beberapa jam sebelum keputusan rasmi PRU-14 diumumkan secara rasmi enam bulan lalu.
Perdana Menteri berkata, PH berdepan “masalah dari dalam” pada malam 9 Mei lalu sebelum membentuk kerajaan pada peringkat Persekutuan.
Mengulas lanjut, Najib berkata beberapa pemimpin utama datang menemuinya pada malam 9 Mei lalu, termasuk Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, namun ia langsung tidak menyentuh usaha untuk menarik Ahli Parlimen PH.
“Saya pun tidak tahu dari mana datangnya berita (menarik Ahli Parlimen PH). Saya juga hendak ulang balik bahawa bukan termasuk dalam perancangan saya supaya Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN) mengisytiharkan darurat...itu tuduhan tidak benar,” katanya.
Dalam perkembangan lain, Najib berharap kerajaan baharu akan meneruskan dasar bermanfaat kepada rakyat yang dilaksanakan kerajaan terdahulu.
“Saya melihat perlu ada kesinambungan dan atas sebab itu saya berharap janganlah hapuskan semua perkara yang dilaksanakan kerajaan terdahulu.
“Apa yang dilaksanakan kerajaan terdahulu...jika elok sambunglah, tetapi jika tidak elok beberapa perkara...kajilah semula.
“Kerajaan yang ada hari ini tidak boleh menoleh ke belakang menyalahkan kerajaan terdahulu. Mereka sudah dapat mandat dan tadbirlah mandat yang yang mereka terima,” katanya.
Would Pakatan have won with honest GE14 manifesto? Probably not, Najib says
Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
Malay Mail22 November 2018
Najib said that PH lacked 'moral integrity' by not admitting in the first place that implementing all of its policies would be an impossible task. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaMore
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak does not think Pakatan Harapan would be in power today if its leaders had been honest about their ambitious election promises prior to May 9.
“If during the election, Pakatan Harapan stated in their manifesto that the price of fuel would be floated, tolls would remain, and you had to pay back your PTPTN loan, if they did it like that, would they have won?
“If what is happening today is reflected in their manifesto, would Pakatan have won?” the former prime minister asked during a live interview with Malay daily Sinar Harian which was broadcast on Facebook today.
“If it was like that, I do not think Pakatan Harapan would have gotten the support they had during GE14,” he said.
Najib said that PH lacked “moral integrity” by not admitting in the first place that implementing all of the said policies would be an impossible task.
Instead, Najib added PH has chosen to blame his administration for any shortcomings, even though they now had the mandate to govern.
“For me, what has to be done is continuity. When the government has been replaced, you carry on what is good, what is perhaps not good you review, but you have to bring governance to the next level,” said the Pekan MP.
Najib insists had only ‘professional’ ties to Jho Low, blames Goldman Sachs for 1MDB fiasco
Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
Malay Mail22 November 201830 comments
Najib said that he saw Low as a potential link to the Saudi government and the Middle East, and nothing more. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaMore
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak maintained today that his relationship with Malaysia’s most wanted man Low Taek Jho was strictly professional and was forged with the country’s economic interests in mind even as he continues to be flamed for the alleged theft of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds.
The former prime minister also blamed US investment banking goliath Goldman Sachs for failing to safeguard Malaysia’s interests by not alerting his administration of Low’s efforts to defraud the Malaysian investment firm.
“My relationship with Jho Low was professional, I saw that he could bring in investment opportunities. If he did anything wrong, any breach of trust, action must be taken against him,” Najib told Malay daily Sinar Harian in a live interview broadcast on Facebook this morning.
“Goldman Sachs was appointed, they were responsible to safeguard Malaysia’s interests, if they failed, how was I to know?” Najib said, referring to embezzlement of 1MDB funds.
“The investment bank, auditors, lawyers did not play the role they were supposed to play,” the Pekan MP said.
Najib explained that he originally saw Low as a potential link to the Saudi government and the Middle East, and that the latter had a track record in securing deals.
“What he did personally, I did not know, I only found out later.
“I was not involved, I did not know at all,” Najib said.
Goldman is coming under heavy scrutiny after convicted ex-banker Tim Leissner and another former banker, Roger Ng, were indicted on criminal charges in the US.
Details from the US Justice Department’s investigation suggest that the bank was complicit in Low’s efforts to defraud the Malaysian investment firm.
According to US prosecutors, the investment bank generated an “above average” US$600 million in fees for its work with 1MDB, which included three bond offerings in 2012 and 2013 that raised US$6.5 billion. Leissner, Ng and others received large bonuses in connection with that revenue.
Leissner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and agreed to forfeit US$43.7 million (RM181.9 million).
Ng was arrested here and is fighting his extradition to the US, but has agreed to surrender US$29 million believed linked to 1MDB.
Najib himself is facing 38 charges related to 1MDB and a former subsidiary. Low remains at large.
The corruption scandal spanning over 10 countries remains under active investigation here and in at least six other foreign jurisdictions.
Yesterday, the International Petroleum Investment Company sued Goldman for allegedly conspiring against the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund to further a criminal scheme by 1MDB.
