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He was only the minister answering questions in parliament on issues that he was not involved in.
As such, he sees no conflict of interest with Michael Chia. Sadly and shamefully, Nazri was in effect saying that he merely parroted what these government agencies told him, for which he disavowed any responsibility.
Breach of parliamentary democracy
Nazri’s stance immediately raises an alarm. If Nazri disclaims responsibility over his statements, then who is responsible to parliament for them?
Nazri is a cabinet minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, looking after parliamentary affairs, as well as de facto law minister.
So, if Nazri’s disclaimer is justified, does it not mean that in addition to Nazri (right) himself, the prime minister and the entire Barisan Nasional (BN) cabinet can also be freed from responsibility over possible false statements on the scandal made in parliament?
Doesn’t this amount to the Barisan Nasional leadership abdicating wholesale its accountability to parliament, and by extension, betraying the trust upon which the people have elected the coalition to power?
This is certainly a serious breach of the principles of parliamentary democracy upon which this nation was founded, for which Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak can no longer keep silent and must promptly stand up to make his stand to the nation.
He must urgently clarify in parliament whether Nazri was authorised to make those statements and whether every minister is personally responsible for what he states in parliament.
And since MACC comes under the Prime Minister’s Department while the AG is the cabinet’s chief legal adviser, both of whom are claimed by Nazri to be responsible for the statements he made in parliament, Najib must now give unequivocal answers to many perplexing questions on the scandal, compounded by Nazri’s contradicting versions of the story.
Nazri’s contradictory statements
To appreciate the seriousness of these contradictions perpetrated by Nazri in parliament, I will briefly recap them as follows:
- On Oct 11, answering MP Chua Tian Chan, Nazri stated that the AG decided that there was no corruption, based on MACC’s investigations and reports. However, this assertion immediately clashes with MACC’s own statement a few days earlier, when its deputy chief commissioner (operations) Shukri Abdull said on Oct 5 that investigation were still on-going, due to instruction by its review panel to get more evidence;
- On Oct 18, answering MP Tan Kok Wai, Nazri changed his tune by saying that the investigation was not carried out by MACC, but instead, by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), which concluded that there was no corruption. No explanation was given as to why Nazri reversed his story; and,
- On Oct 22, answering questions at the committee stage of the Budget 2013 debate in Dewan Rakyat, Nazri astounded all by denying that Michael Chia was ever arrested, neither did Chia possess the alleged cash, as he understood from MACC.
No explanation was given why the BN government had kept its strange silence, while reports of Michael Chia’s arrest with S$16 million cash meant for Musa Aman had swirled for the past four years.
It is important to note that while Nazri was dancing like a yo-yo in parliament with his statements of exoneration for Chia and Musa, none of the investigating/law-enforcing bodies – ICAC, MACC or AG – ever uttered a word on the scandal (except for MACC’s statement on Oct 5 that investigation was still in progress), least of all any declaration of the duo’s innocence.
All we have is Nazri’s words – words that are not collaborated or substantiated with even an iota of evidence, in addition to being self-contradictory and conflicting with MACC.
PM must answer
Under the circumstances, Premier Najib must take responsibility for the bumbling minister in his department and step up to give categorical answers to the following questions in parliament to avert a total collapse of confidence in his leadership:
1. Is it true that ICAC has conveyed its findings of money laundering to MACC, including a money flow chart trailing the Sabah timber corruption money through a convoluted network to end up in Musa Aman’s UBS AG account in Zurich, complete with details of various nominee accounts, payers and payees, deposit amounts, etc? (This money flow chart has been widely circulating on the Internet for some time).
2. Is it true that MACC has carried out an investigation of its own on Sabah timber corruption including probe on Musa Aman and his brother Anifa Aman (Malaysia’s foreign minister) since the Michael Chia incident in Hong Kong?
3. Is it true that neither ICAC nor MACC has ever exonerated Chia and Musa of money laundering and corruption?
To avoid falling into the same quagmire as minister Nazri has, the premier is well advised to buttress his answers with sufficient and credible facts – the kind of evidence that will restore public confidence.
Latest Nazri-Chia corruption scandal
With regard to Nazri’s latest refutation of any impropriety over his family’s beneficial link to Michael Chia on the grounds that his son is his son, with whom he has nothing to do, this is sheer child’s talk.
Whether Nazri likes it or not, his son Nedim is his immediate family, and for any improper favour granted to Nedim by virtue of Nazri’s position as a minister, the latter is deemed beneficiary and recipient of that improper favour.
Would Chia have given the half-million-ringgit Hummer SUV for use by Nedim’s family, if not for the fact that Nazri is a senior minister capable of doing Chia a favour?
In this case, Nazri easily stands out as a prime corruption suspect, as he has already stuck his neck out in parliament where he recklessly cleared Chia (as well as his alleged master Musa Aman) of any wrong-doing.
This is clearly a case with classical corruption ingredients, cut out for action by any corruption buster worth ihis salt in any democratic country.
However, in Malaysia, our MACC has already played deaf and dumb on the Chia-Musa scandal for the past four years. Will it also do a Chia-Musa on the latest Nazri-Chia corruption scandal this time around?
KIM QUEK is a retired accountant and author of the banned book ‘The March to Putrajaya’.
I would go for something that is usual.
Isu ini masih menjadi bualan rupanya.
I wonder what is happening now, I mean all this news keep reposted for?
Biar lah orang nak kata apa, yang penting kita tahu di mana kah kita berdiri.
Respect and be respected.
Jangan lagi cari pasal dengan segalanya.
I wonder why so many people hate the present government. Still they are receiving assistance.
Panji kebenaran memang terlentang luas di depan mata.
Looks like all the BN cybertroopers are living in fear. One can delay fate but not alter it.
pabila Rafizi Ramli Pengarah Strategik PKR mengadakan sidang media eksklusif mendedahkan satu klip video melibatkan Menteri Dato Seri Nazri Aziz dan anak beliau Nedim Mohd Nazri Aziz. Seluruh wartawan yang ada di Malaysia ini dipanggil
Video: Rafizi langgar’ fatwa’ Haji Hadi untuk kenakan Nazri
Ini bab nak kenakan orang Barisan Nasional yakni Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz bukan main bersusah payah Rafizi dan gengnya menayangkan tujuh segmen video di sidang akhbar di ibupejabat PKR di Petaling Jaya Jumaat.
Video tujuh segmen itu adalah untuk membuktikan anak Nazri iaitu Nadim mengunakan SUV mewah jenis Hummer milik seorang tauke balak, Micheal Chia yang dikaitkan dalam sumbangan RM40 juta pada UMNO Sabah.
Video: Rafizi langgar’ fatwa’ Haji Hadi untuk kenakan Nazri
Dalam kes Anwar…pakatan pembangkang siasat pun tidak…suruh cuti pun tidak…dan bebas bersiul ke sana kemari sedangkan dakwaan video seks itu melibatkan kes moral yang sangat menjijikan.
Syok juga Rafizi persoal mengapa Micheal Chia dibersihkan dari dakwaan rasuah sedangkan pihak SPRM dan pihak penguatkuasa pencegahan rasuah Hong Kong (ICAC) tidak memberikan sebarang butir-butir kes itu.
Video: Rafizi langgar’ fatwa’ Haji Hadi untuk kenakan Nazri
Wang RM 40 juta itu disalurkan menerusi Hong Kong sebagai sumbangan politik kepada UMNO Sabah dan ICAC juga sudah bersihkan Micheal Chia.
Dalam kes video seks Anwar pakar luar negara sendiri sudah sahkan ia 99.9 peratus tulen. Namun pembangkang buat pekak dan tak faham.