In their latest expose yesterday, which other media portal assisted to viral, not only it is over exaggerating the Hungarian government spending of ventilators, MalaysiaNow's reported contract to Vinod Sekhar yesterday was not consistent with the contract size reported in June this year.
Another to put it is their report was unclear and confusing.
Can Azmin get Latheefa Koya's brother, Abdul Rahman Koya to get their facts right before any attempt to slander or make any allegation?
Browsing through the links on Nucearbursaman's take on the so-called multiagency raid, which is only NFCC visit to Vinod's office 2 weeks ago, it is found that MalaysiaNow wrote in their June 16 posting below:
Vinod Sekhar, who operates a chain of companies and organisations under the Petra Group, has secured some RM2.5 billion worth of contracts to supply ventilators to the Hungarian government, among dozens of purchases amounting to billions of dollars by the east European country at the early stage of the Covid-19 crisis.
MalaysiaNow repeated the same subsequent claim from the June report in yesterday's report but this time claimed to have possession of the documents, as follows:
Documents obtained by MalaysiaNow from Hungary showed Budapest agreeing to pay Vinod a total of US$559,600,000, which at the time of the contract in May 2020 converted to about RM2.43 billion, through several bank accounts.Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) has urged Hungary to release specific details related to the contracts to Vinod, saying there are questions on whether GR Technologies had fulfilled transparency regulations in the country.
The Hungarian government agreed to pay Vinod RM2.43 billion for contract worth of RM2.5 billion. What the eff is that?
Is RM2.43 billion the commission for RM2.5 billion contract? Or is it meant as only RM2.43 billion paid for a RM2.5 billion contract worth which in other words, Vinod was short paid by RM70 million?
If either or is true, it is non-issue for any business transaction and perfectly legal. The former is possible because the pandemonium to secure ventilators then may have caused the price or mark-up to be as high. If the due commission is the usual percentage from the value of ventilator purchased, the numbers is not realistic as highlighted by yesterday's posting here.
And, in the latter case of short payment, it would mean Vinod has not got his money yet.
One has to take into consideration that this is an offshore China-Hungary business transaction which that has nothing to do with Malaysia. NFCC has no jurisdiction on the transaction and the visit is hardly alarming. Has MalaysiaNow ascertain that before making the report?
Hands of Soros
Nurclearbursaman provided link to an Al Jazeera report of incumbent Prime Minister Victor Urban claiming foreign powers backing left wing for their 2022 general election soon.
In the report, Victor alleged that George Soros has a hand in his old country's politics. George Soros and Transparency International only rings a familiar bell. The ventilator supplied by Vinod to Hungary government is made into a political issue by the Hungarian opposition.
Its the typical modus operandi in foreign interference to turn alleged corruption into an election issue. Malaysia has gone through that path before. The 1MDB was made into an issue from 2015 onwards that managed to topple the perennial government of BN in 2018.
In the latest expose slightly more than 1 week before the SRC decision by the Court of Appeal, it is now known that former BNM Governor's husband was colluding with Jho Low to make hay while the sunshine.
In the meanwhile, the wife, Zeti Aziz was monitoring situation and making the decisions from inside. Later she was involved to investigated alleged wrongdoings of Najib. It is an almost similar modus operandi to the Recovery Fund for abandon project in the 90s handled by a former BNM Governor while the spouse was cutting deals with developers.
George Soros was believed to have had a hand as funder to Sarawak Report, Malaysiakini and Bersih. Azmin was together with Mahathir and Muhyiddin in Pakatan Harapan in hot pursuit of Najib. Sarawak Report had an active role to assist Mahathir.
The Zeti expose could cause the start of cases set-up against Najib to fall one by one. Mahathir, Lim Kit Siang, Sarawak Report, and MalaysiaNow seemed to be in a state of panic to incesssantly attack Najib and create issues to divert attention from Zeti's husband money laundering in Singapore.
This attack against a close ally of Anwar is interesting. Its an open secret that Azmin role is to destabilise Anwar and prevent him from taking a crack at the Prime Ministership. With the Hungarian opposition and TI cooperating with MalaysiaNow, does it mean Soros has abandon Anwar and backing Azmin?
Back then in PKR, Azmin and Anwar used to be closely associated with Soros. Dato Lokman Noor Adam has exposed Azmin and Tian Chua meeting Soros to seek for funding to help Anwar's cause.
Interesting also as to who could have invoked the DMCA on MalaysiaNow?
It is a US law on intellectual property laws on the internet. A complainant claimed the online content on MalaysiaNow committed plagiarism or infringed on copyright.