“I am of the opinion that Istana Negara should initiate legal proceedings against Clare Rewcastle Brown and SR with immediate effect as the article seems to have deliberately been crafted to tarnish the image of our royal institution”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
ايستان نڬارا ڤرلو برتيندق ترهادڤ سراوق ريڤورت، چلار بروون كران كايتكن اڬوڠ دڠن اوسها توتوڤ كيس بركايت 1مدب
The Clare Rewcastle Brown run propaganda channel, Sarawak Report, has waged a vicious attack against the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong by suggesting that His Royal Highness may be involved in a ‘Royal Deal’ with Abu Dhabi to close a case related to 1MDB
Clare, who is rumoured to be a staunch adherent of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s questionable ‘game-changer’ plans to take over government, has recently been dishing out articles that seem to concentrate on anything or anyone who is perceived to be “anti-Anwar.”
In SR’s latest post, uploaded on the 21st of December 2020 (link below), the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong was implied to have entered a quid-pro-quo of sorts with Abu Dhabi to sweep under the carpet a case currently pending before the UK Supreme Court.
CLICK HERE TO READ SARAWAK REPORT’S POST ATTACKING THE AGONG
The case, brought by the previous Malaysian government, alleges that decision makers in the Emirate “engaged at the highest levels in the 1MDB fraud and subsequent cover-up, in return for kickbacks amounting to at least a billion dollars.”
SR wrote:
Malaysian prosecutors have estimated that the cost to Malaysia has totalled at least $3.5 billion – money that Abu Dhabi therefore owes Malaysia. Enough cash, in fact, to purchase 300 million doses of already certified Pfizer vaccines, which are marketing at €12 each as the most expensive of the several completed vaccines already coming available to buy.
It would therefore seem to be a poor exchange to be fobbed off with a quarter of a million unconfirmed trial doses (plus the same numbers in placebo) if this ‘donation’ is to be presented be part of an expected ‘Royal Deal’ with Abu Dhabi to close the case.
SR referred to the Agong’s travel plans to visit what it referred to as His Royal Highness’ “old friend,” the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and said the trip involved discussions between Al-Sultan Abdullah and Sheikh Mohamed Zayed and the top leadership of the UAE government.
The discussions, which SR claimed were skated over by Malaysian media, is said to have been associated with Abu Dhabi’s intention to “donate 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Malaysia for the purpose of the third phase of the clinical test in the country.”
SR further wrote:
Speaking to Sarawak Report on condition of anonymity one of Britain’s top infections diseases experts said that such a large trial would not only be unprecedented it would be unnecessary and hard to justify “most vaccine trials involve up to 40,000 volunteers” he confirmed.
Sarawak Report’s investigation of the Abu Dhabi initiative appears to confirm that the vaccine in question is being developed by China and is not projected to complete its trials until September 2021.
An Emirati company, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, is working as a so-called “collaborator” in a trial sponsored by Chinese state owned giant Sinopharm/China National Biotec Group (CNBG) with the Wuhan Institute – one of many across the world in the race to corner the vaccine market.
The matter is hugely significant because in no country in the world, of course, are such initiatives on health supposed to be made on the prerogative of a political leadership as opposed to the objective and professional health authorities.
Indeed, in a shocking development on late on Monday afternoon the Malaysian Director General of Health confirmed to journalists at a press conference that as far as his ministry is concerned this plan has so far not been addressed at all by the proper regulatory bodies.
Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was further forced to admit that whilst he had heard of the royal announcement about the vaccine “donation” (touted as the main purpose of the King’s five day visit to Abu Dhabi) the matter remains “hearsay” as far as he is concerned!
The portal then alluded to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong’s alleged interference in politics and said “the new Agong has controversially demanded that MPs to accept a budget that he claimed to have overseen.
Referring to Tengku Zafrul as His Royal Highness’ “own close friend,” SR claimed that the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong repeatedly “manipulated his constitutional role by delaying audiences with party leaders in order to prop up the prime minister he selected over recent weeks and months.”
Why is SR attacking our constitutional Monarch?
I am of the opinion that Istana Negara should initiate legal proceedings against Clare Rewcastle Brown and SR with immediate effect as the article seems to have deliberately been crafted to tarnish the image of our royal institution.
