Yesterday, Tan Sri Shafee presented documents in court to reveal CEO of TIA, then changed to 1MDB, Dato Shahrol suggested Federal government tookover TIA.
It was revealed TIA is the idea of His Highness Sultan of Terengganu and indirectly, it was Pak Lah's cabinet that approved establishment of 1MDB, never Najib.
Again, star witness of the prosecution and could be most worrying to defence, Amhari bombed out to not only unable to collaborate his view, but was uttering hearsay in court. He admitted to know Jho Low since his BNM days. Acknowledged receiving US$800,000 in his account, borrowed money on payable when able basis from Jho Low. He planned to buy his second bungalow.
It is safe to say Amhari was bought over by Jho Low. His testimony is as good as rubbish destined for the garbage bin without Shafee need to probe into possibility he owns a home in Perth.
Shahrol is next on deck for the witness stand for the 1MDB-Tanore case. Amhari is under threat for the Orb Solution Sdn Bhd investigation by MACC, but Shahrol is determined to see Dato Najib in prison. His testimony is expected to be the longest because he was there from the beginning.
It will be a while before Shafee could cross-examine him. Hope he has done investigation and found out about rumours Shahrol has a Swiss account.
All the rest collaborating with Jho Low in 1MDB and SRC benefitted. Using the simple UMNO grassroot logic of putting two and two together, takkan CEO tak dapat apa-apa?
Arrogance always a facade put up to hide guilt and insecurity. Having met Shahrol in 2011, his ways came off as beyond confident, but arrogant!
Shahrol is among the few that remain in Malaysia. Some of those that benefitted like Dato Subuh had returned, but AG had not charge yet to entice him to be prosecution witness and dramatise a prepared script.
Many more have disappeared.
Jho Low
Taek Jho Low is high on the wanted men list. If many parties confidently said he is in China, why is he not brought back?
He will be the star witness for both SRC and 1MDB-Tanore cases, but Tun Dr Mahathir may not want him back. It is the popular belief that it will be established that Jho Low is the guilty party and Najib will be exonerated.
To quote P Ramlee's movie, Labu Labi, "Don't drop my waterface!" Never do that to Mahathir. Even if he dies, his ghost will rise to revenge his shame.
Tun Daim hinted Jho Low was in China and said he tried to help on the ECRL negotiation. Daim said he refused any attempt by Jho Low to negotiate his refugee status and told him to return to face the law.
Though this blog claimed government could not extradite because China wants a tic-for-tac exchange with MBI International Dato Teddy Teow, Daim's statement is interesting..
Teow happen to be an acquintance of Dato. Hamzah Zainuddin. Extraditing him could land Lim Guan Eng in trouble. So it is no deal. However, it raise suspicion of a possible collaboration between Jho Low and Daim.
Quick and fast, one for you and one for me. Interestingly, Jho Low's father had long been viral on social media as being close with Mahathir and his company won few major infra projects.
It is possible that Mahathir and Daim said one thing but do the other way. Maybe OBOR, now BRI is Jho Low's next 1MDB scam.
Dato Hamid Bador said as though government will be extraditing Jho Low in a matter of days. The former illustrious SB officer could be deceptive, but he is not when he was so cocksure. Something may have happened beyond our eyes.
So the 1MDB case is more than that appeared as media report and sensational headline of Sarawak Report. Media Social writer, Zaharin Md Yassin should not be too cocksure too. Perhaps he was merely trying to draw information.
Now that it is revealed to be the idea of Tuanku Mizan, its original idea was not to turn it into a LBO investment company but to create a genuine investment fund for the state's long term use. However, there was a dispute between Yayasan Terengganu and MBI Inc. leading to federal government takeover.
This blog wrote repeatedly that Jho Low came into the scene and was brought in by his highness brother-in-law, or shall it be more appropriate now be refered as brother-out-law, Dato Osman Tahir.
Only then did Jho Low made his way into Najib's family.
Najib have been extensively misquoted to say, "I did not know Jho Low ...". Its been long so the original spin could not be remembered to be done by which then pro-opposition media report headline.
However, UMNO side failed to response effectively. Again refering to Zaharin, there are still UMNO supporters that fell for the then opposition ploy till today.
Najib effectively said he did not know Jho Low because Jho Low knows Najib's stepson, Riza Aziz. Apparently, he worked his way to know Ashman and finally managed to get into the family circle.
Boat trip
One argument of then opposition that still fail to be dispelled by UMNO supporters was the boat trip. In fact, this was the picture that made some UMNO supporters simplistically assumed Najib as kantoi for denying knowledge of Jho Low.
It is the presumption of the "Whale book" co-author and former WSJ journalist, Tom Wright that without Najib, there is no Jho Low.
The prosecution in the 1MDB-Tanore trial will try to established that and Shahrol will be the next hope of prosecution to pin it on Najib. Many have tried in the SRC case but failed under cross-examination.
This expose dated July 6th 2015 by SR's Clare Rewcastle Brown implicated a PMO officer, Dato Wan Shihab as the person who tool the picture and emailed to Tariq Obaid.
It is known that Petrosaudi data was stolen by Xavier Justo and Raja Petra exposed that Mahathir's officer Sufi Yusof have been going up and down to Thailand to meet him.
It is known later that Mahathir met Clare in London and contrary to this blog's denial then, Sufi may have managed to get these pictures paid to Xavier for Clare's use. To be fair to Sufi, the WA group transcript of Clare, Xavier and another person sighted claimed Sufi did not immediately responded.
Clare spin in her posting that after the meet at the yatch the Petrosaudi deal was accelerated. That will wait for the court.
The posting claimed Jho Low arranged for the family meet. However, it is presumptous to claim Najib was directly incommunicado with Jho Low. It is simplistic conclusion but it is usually void of the other information not readily available.
Most likely, it could not hold up in any court.
An important point to note, the tea get-to-gather was held on Prince Turk's yatch and on his invitation. Najib's holiday could be at the invite of someone.
Jho Low's role should not be forgotten as it is widely believed he was adviser to many middle east royals. Even he had communicated to Najib on the holiday trip, Clare's presumption on the deal accelerated is just a sensational putting two and two together.
Similar to the PPBM exco that accused Isham Jalil as corrupted and now him and Kelab Che Det will get sued. The officer Wan Shihab was accused of the same by Zaharin.
Its putting two and two togather too. Amhari has a bungalow and borrowing money from Jho Low to get his second. Higher grade Jusa, Isham should have two bungalows already and Wan Shihab should be getting his third bungalow.
This need proof and not guess work.