MCA Terengganu: Take action on ex-AG Tommy Thomas & ex-MACC head Latheefa Koya for failing to act on Zeti & family



Action must be taken on former Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Tommy Thomas and former Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) head Latheefa Koya for failing to act on immediate past Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Aziz and her family.

This follows Tommy's recent claim in an interview last week that it was “public knowledge” that Zeti and her spouse Dato’ Dr Tawfiq Ayman had “facilitated” Jho Low, believed to be the mastermind of the 1MDB scandal.

Tommy's answer that it was “public knowledge” is outrageous as it was never made known to the public that Zeti had conspired or facilitated Jho Low.

On the contrary, Zeti was appointed a member of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government's Council of Eminent Persons and Chairperson of Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) that is responsible for over RM300 billion of public funds.

No doubt, many Malaysians now feel that there were deliberate attempts to conceal Zeti and her family's key role in 1MDB from the courts and from the public.

Tommy had also claimed that MACC during his time was slow to investigate despite almost RM700 million paid by Jho Low to various overseas accounts linked to Zeti's husband from the year 2007 to 2013 including funds directly traceable to 1MDB.

The fact that such payments started in 2007 is significant as this is before 1MDB or its predecessor the Terengganu Investment Authority ever existed and also predates when Dato' Sri Najib Razak became Finance Minister or Prime Minister.

Another revelation that is of a great shock is that MACC official statement had said that the balance of RM65 million was returned by Singapore government to Malaysia by Cutting Edge Industries Ltd which is jointly owned by Zeti's husband Tawfik Ayman and Samuel Goh.

Samuel Goh had previously testified in the Singaporean courts in the year 2016 that he was paid US$4 million to set-up various fake offshore accounts including the bogus Aabar Investments PJS (BVI).

The vast majority of 1MDB's funds that went missing was after it was transferred to these bogus bank accounts during the tenure of Zeti as BNM Governor.

Therefore, Malaysians deserve to know why Zeti's husband would co-own a Singaporean company with Samuel Goh who set up such bogus accounts since Zeti as head of BNM then would ultimately be responsible for giving approvals to 1MDB to transfer funds to such bogus offshore accounts.

Chew Sir Boon
MCA Terengganu State Liaison Committee Chairman

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