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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Pua: Why no action against Jho Low yet?

MP questions why police acted so fast against critics but have not even called Jho Low for interview.
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PETALING JAYA: The police force have been taken to task for their speed in acting against political critics of the Barisan Nasional but have yet to even interview businessman Jho Low in the face of numerous allegations about his dealings with 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
Tony Pua, MP for Petaling Jaya Utara, said after nearly two months of a task force supposedly being set up, the investigation had appeared to be proceeding at a snail’s pace.
Pua derided the police force for its “ruthless efficiency” against peaceful protestors, Opposition leaders, civil society activists, media practitioners and even academics who expressed views against Malaysian authorities.
In contrast “tiny whistleblower site” Sarawak Report had produced a flood of incriminating documents “faster than all the various investigating authorities put together, he said.
The Inspector General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar had announced a special task force to investigate 1MDB on March 9. “We are a member of a task force set up by the Attorney-General, involving Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission, the police and the Attorney-General’s Chambers. We are investigating reports lodged (on 1MDB).”
However, over the past two months alone, he said, Sarawak Report had exposed how at least US$860 million of 1MDB funds found its way to the bank account of a company controlled by Jho Low and on Thursday had reported that at least US$528 million of that amount transferred to a bank account in Singapore, whose beneficial owner was Jho Low himself.
Pua said even the Singapore authorities had already provided Bank Negara Malaysia with all the relevant account information about the case and assets held in the BSI Bank branch there for 1MDB’s subsidiaries. There were also all the details of Jho Low’s corporate and personal banking account transactions of March 13.
BSI Bank was reported to have already initiated action by suspending an officer involved, Pua said.
“With Jho Low’s fingerprints all over 1MDB, I would have expected Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to have, at the very least, invited Jho Low for a conversation with the police, if not already issued a warrant of arrest. However, based on the public media interviews given by Jho Low to date, there has been no request from Malaysian authorities to question him,” he said.
Calling for more urgency, he said “the scale of the crime is like nothing Malaysia has ever experienced, dwarfing even the biggest robberies”.

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