“Is it not ironical that Najib should file the suit now and not around the time he was first charged in court?”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
نجيب سداڠ ءمنچيڤتا ڤمبوهوڠن بسرء اونتوق دليهت تيدق برساله دان كمبالي بركواس
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is launching a series of lawsuits against prosecutors who lodged successful cases against him, leading to convictions on charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power.
On the 28th of July 2020, the Malaysian High Court in Kuala Lumpur sentenced Najib to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials.
The first of the two lawsuits filed so far by Najib is not directly related to his conviction, but the second is.
The first relates to Tan Sri Tommy Thomas and a publishing company, who Najib alleged had made defamatory statements over the murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu in a book entitled ‘My Story: Justice in the Wilderness’.
The second is also against Thomas and the Government of Malaysia (GoM) over charges that were brought against Najib in criminal cases linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
In the suit, Najib alleged that the charges against him were part of a “long planned, premeditated exercise by Thomas” and the then Pakatan Harapan government.
Is it not ironical that Najib should file the suit now and not around the time he was first charged in court?
According to Sarawak Report, what Najib is doing “is all a natural progression of the Big Lie that he has hidden behind for years in different shapes and forms.”
The portal wrote:
“Najib has no other choice, given the facts are against him and his back is against the wall. It is this or jail.
“His fightback weapons are (stolen) money and his powerful allies who have seized back power. So, thuggery and abuse of office must prevail or he will face punishment that he dreads (but has happily handed out to others for far lesser crimes).
“To sugar the pill Najib continues to weave a Big Lie that he was innocent after all and his accusers are to blame.
“The theory of the Big Lie is that you turn a criminal matter into a political distraction and a point of prejudice, so that certain people will believe you because they want to.
“In the process the perpetrator creates a blatant falsehood that is so outrageous that those same followers simply assume he couldn’t have made it up because who would be so brazenly audacious?
“Najib has adopted this well known strategy for those who are dishonest in public life and as a man who got to the top of politics in one of the most corrupted countries in the world he has been well practiced at it for some time.”
Though I am not too fond of Sarawak Report, I tend to agree with the portal on this note.
The portal further claims that it was warned by a very senior MACC official who said that public officials would be cautious over holding former criminal politicians to account.
It also said that a book is about to be published by Najib’s former communications boss, Romen Bose, who is said to have been paid half a million ringgit from the stolen 1MDB money.
The portal wrote:
Key to the new Big Lie is UMNO’s return to office, not thanks to election but thanks to a predicted coup by Malaysia’s entrenched political elite, enriched by decades of criminal abuse of office and well ingratiated into civil and social hierarchies – including royal families made rich by UMNO. Frogs hopped back and brought new frogs with them.
Straight after Najib 2018 defeat a very senior MACC official presciently warned Sarawak Report that public officials would be cautious over holding former criminal politicians to account, because they would buy back power within two years.
“We don’t have guns and we don’t have protection, so we cannot afford to move against” he told Sarawak Report, reminding of the sinister deaths and disappearances that spread fear against speaking out pre-2018. The officer is now promoted.
There is now once more fear against speaking out. After months of bullying and buying MPs UMNO are back in office and getting their people off the hook. Prosecutions have been pulled and cases against UMNO leaders are now barely moving through the courts.
Najib appealed his conviction and for over a year that hearing has been unaccountably delayed. His second major trial has ground to a standstill thanks to endless grants of special privileges and delays.
Meanwhile, the very same political party that now heads the government which is nominally prosecuting the former leader has, far from ejecting him as would have been appropriate, appointed him to key position, such as managing elections and even advising on public finances!
The vast, inflated budget that UMNO now seeks to pass will spend in excess of a RM100 billion over the available revenue – how much will be traced eventually to private pockets in true Najib style and on his advice?
Sentenced to 12 years in jail, Najib nonetheless still sits in Parliament, is escorted around town with outriders, hobnobs with royalty and senior figures, has received a return of his passport on an excuse he has since discarded and has started to come out with his latest re-invention of the facts to deny his guilt.
A book about to be published by his former communications boss, Romen Bose is merely the latest step in the planned rehabilitation. It claims, in the latest evolution of the Big Lie that Najib was merely a victim of 1MDB duped by his secret front man, Jho Low, into receiving billions stolen from the very fund that Najib managed as its sole signatory.
Bose was himself paid half a million ringgit from the stolen 1MDB money. However, according to the shameful promotional from his publisher, Penguin, Najib “became the unwitting patsy of a mastermind who had managed to pull off the single biggest con of the century”.
I am eager to see if the so called ‘planned’ publication of the said book by Romen Bose comes to fruition.
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