Since the Pak Man Telo expose by Facebooker Salahuddin Hisham on March 2nd, 2021, Lembaga Tabung Haji have been absolutely silenced without a response.
Its a clear cut case of non-distributable income being given out, which current LTH CEO Dato Nik Hasyudeen used to accuse previous management of doing a Ponzi scheme-like operations.
In this age of social media openness, which used to be led by blogs, keeping silence is not an option for Investor Relation or Corporate Communication people, more so management.
Issues will not go away and gets buried. These days getting someone on WA group to deny, "It's not true" is not good enough.
More so with extract of documents provided. Made possible by technology to enable easy distribution of image, text, audio, and video. Proudly to say, if it is written in this political economic blog, it does get at least attention from its modest number, but yet influential followers.
Perhaps, this blog can claim to be an Industrial Relation blog too. Nik Hasyudeen will not be preachy anymore in his way to evade hard questions. He was given the Donald Trump reality show ending.
The end of evil?
An embarassing ending to an illustrous careeras a professional accountant for this ksampong boy from Kelantan.
Allah pays cash and a swift retribution on earth is a useful reminder to never be in-cahoot with evil.
It was only yesterday on August 2019 that this blog posted Nik Hasyudeen replacing Zukri and also hinted the nonsence Zaiton was beginning to do at Bank Pembangunan.
All three are gone with Dato Nazir Tun Abdul Razak will be replacing Zaiton. Sadly, it comes after another of Nazitr trademark quench for non-beneficial merger.
He will be merging all DFI at the detriment of SMEs. The merger basis will be a selfish perspective seen from a capitalist point of view.
The merger of Banks done by Tun Daim at the turn of the milleneum does not benefit consumers but create monopolies and allow bankers control on economy tighter to the point of choking.
Nevertheless, Zaiton is gone, her key stooges gone, and many years of expose of Tan Sri Dr Zeti now out in the open. There is still Dato Norshamsiah heading BNM.
Nazir, who was part of the plot to destroy LTH, somehow is getting a second life. Literally too as he survived a cancer scare.
New CEO
Nikko will be replaced by AA, a corporate man with humble beginning from Klang and not even a boarding school product.
He was with a long and wide range of corporate experiences, whose career outside banking started under Tan Sri Halim Saad.
All the luck needed to compliment his effort. He ... opps yes it is male, will need to go back and understand the deceitful manner Zaiton avenge her due removal from Bank Islam by slandering LTH.
A lot of their interpretations of LTH account was done by wrongly applying accounting standards with support from PWC which were not in sync with the Act.
They were playing to the political gallery of Rafizi Ramli from documents probably leaked by corrupted Zeti herself.
Their accusation then was not justified but politically motivated with malicious intent towards the institution and Zeti assistancing Tun Dr Mahathir to embarass the then BN government.
At the same time, Zeti could be covering up her, husband and children corrupt ways by doing her numbers on others and drumming up her public popularity.
AA should acknowledge Nik Hasyudeen's Ponzi Hibah is clearly giving put "dividend" out of income from UJSB that would only be received years in the future.
The restructuring done by Dato Zukri and Dato Zaiton Hassan was a real fucked up case that severely weakened LTH and sukuk bond issued by UJSB is not of good credit standing to convince auditor the future payment from UJSB is reliable.
One can only envision by the time Sukuk expired, LTH will be buried and Lim Guan Eng can rejoice to detriment of Malaysian Muslims.
AA will need to get trustworthy advisers and be wary of ex Bank Islam management team brought over to illegally replaced LTH managers.
Diplomatic boo boo
Operationally, do rely on the long serving Managers and staff. If it is not LTH, no other organisation in the world is experience and skilled in Haj operation.
More so, post-Covid Haj operation will be more meticulous. Coming out of PM's Saudi Arabia trip, it was announced there will be 10,000 additional allocation for Haj.
Its a surprise because it is unfathomable for Saudi to return to the 6 million pilgrims per season. With social distancing and strict health SOP, it could be reduced to 1.5 million.
Perhaps, PM need to save face with some takeaway from the trip. When Najib visit Saudi, he got Aramco to invest in Pengerang.
Other private and unofficial envoy of past PMs (note the plurality) received better reception from Saudi King. PM official visit seemed more private umrah trip at government expense. It is justified by a virtual pay of respect to the King Salman.
However, the reception at Riyadh Airport by the Joe Joe Biden snubbed Prince Muhammad Bin Salman does auger well for Malaysia's post second term Mahathir diplomatic restart.
Hmm ...by going virtual, is King evading request for political donation? 🤣