Akhbar Australia Dedah Isu Penipuan Pegawai "Atasan" Mara di Melbourne...
Hari ini, Malaysia dikejutkan dengan pendedahan dari sebuah akhbar di Australia yang mendedahkan seorang pegawai 'atasan' MARA, seorang pegawai kanan dan seorang bekas ahli politik yang menggunakan dana kerajaan bernilai jutaan ringgit bagi membeli satu blok pangsapuri, Dudley International House, di Melbourne Australia.
Di dalam laporan dari akhbar The Age, satu kumpulan yang disifatkan oleh kumpulan tersebut sebagai "sangat kaya" menggunakan AS$4.75juta(RM13.8 juta) sebagai "kos tambahan" untuk membeli pangsapuri terbabit pada 2013.
Kumpulan tersebut didakwa membayar pangsapuri terbabit dengan harga yang lebih mahal iaitu AS$22.5 juta (RM65.2juta) daripada harga asal iaitu AS$17.8 juta, yang mana lebihan duit tersebut digunakan untuk merasuah di Malaysia, lapor akhbar terbabit.
Selain dari itu, akhbar tersebut turut mendakwa pemaju pangsapuri tersebut telah mengeluarkan invois palsu yang tertulis kononnya ia mendapatkan perkhidmatan jururunding dan nasihat dari firma Malaysia.
Selain itu, akhbar yang sama turut mendakwa kumpulan tersebut terlibat dengan pelbagai pembelian hartanah seperti satu blok pangsapuri dan pejabat di Melbourne yang bernilai AS$80juta.
Urusan pembelian ini melibatkan dua orang lelaki dengan gelaran "Dato". Mereka didakwa memudahkan perjanjian itu melalui rangkaian kenalan berhubung dengan Mara.
The Age turut berkata, kumpulan warga Malaysia sama juga terlibat dalam pembelian pelbagai hartanah seperti blok pangsapuri dan pejabat di Melbourne bernilai A$80 juta.
Dudley International House merupakan sebuah asrama pelajar dibeli Mara, badan kerajaan yang memberi biasiswa dan pinjaman pendidikan kepada pelajar Bumiputera.
Mara telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1965 dengan tujuan murni untuk membantu golongan miskin di luar bandar.
Keputusannya untuk membeli Dudley House melalui anak syarikat, Mara Inc, menunjukkan sejauh mana ia telah sesat dari nilai-nilai terasnya, The Age mengulas.
Point2 utama...
1. Beli aset/hartanah guna agensi kerajaan. Dalam kes ni - MARA.
2. Lepas tu tingkatkan nilai hartanah atas paper.
3. Kemundian lebihan wang tersebut konon2nya digunakan untuk membeli hartanah menggunakan 'shelf company'
4. Urusniaga terjadi dan syarikat pemaju Australia dan pegawai tinggi Malaysia yang terlibat mula menukar2 invoice bagi menghalalkan 'wang rasuah' keluar dari Australia.
Hebat. Tahap rasuah Malaysia dah sampai peringkat international. Bukan cikai2 punya rasuah. Didedahkan juga bagaimana wang pembayar cukai digunakan sewenang2nya bagi melakukan aktiviti rasuah dan salahguna wang kerajaan di luar negara.
Mara boss on Aussie scam: Can't say 'yes' or 'no'...
Top Malaysian government officials and a former politician were alleged to spend RM65 million of public funds to purchase an apartment block in Melbourne, Australia, overpaying by RM13.7 million to allow for kickbacks back home.
Australian newspaper The Age, which made the allegations in an exclusive report today, also claimed the involvement of Mara, a government investment agency, which purchased the property in 2013.
The Age's investigative report said that a group of Malaysian officials, using the Malaysian government's investment funds, bid up the price for the Melbourne apartment block from A$17.8 million (RM51.5 million) to A$22.5 million (RM65 million).
The extra $4.75 million (RM13.7 million) was then laundered out of Australia and allegedly paid as bribes in Malaysia.
"The Malaysian firms that received the alleged kickbacks are closely linked to a senior figure at the Malaysian government investment agency, Mara.
"Another figure involved is a senior Malaysian official and former politician with close links to a Malaysian cabinet minister," said the report.
Malaysiakini has e-mailed Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal under whose watch Mara falls, Mara's director-general Ibrahim Ahmad and its deputy director-general Salmah Hayati Ghazali for their responses to the corruption allegations.
The student hostel apartment bought by Mara was called the Dudley International House apartment block, located at the suburb of Caulfield.
The Age said about 150 Australian creditors, including tradesman and builders, have been left out of pocket or are facing bankruptcy after a company linked to the deal collapsed.
The Malaysians: Mohammad Lan Bin Allani says
he cannot recall the Dudley House dealings...
Two businessmen, Yusof Gani and Ahmad Azizi, appeared keen to keep a low profile in Australia.
"We knew they were influencing things behind the scenes, but I never met them," says Bond. "All I know is that they are powerful back in Malaysia."
In Malaysia, Gani and Azizi have a much bigger profile. Each has been anointed a "Dato" by the Malaysian government -- the Malaysian version of a knighthood.
Facebook posts show Azizi and his two sons, Erwin and Erwan, mixing with the elite and getting around in Porches and Ferraris. Erwan hangs out at the Kuala Lumpur Porsche club. There is plenty of international travel, including a family trip to Paris.
Erwan Azizi, the son of a Malaysian “Dato”,
helped facilitate the property deal using his network of contacts...
In Malaysia, where wealth and political connections go hand in hand, the Azizis didn't just have the funds to invest in a multi-million dollar Australian property development. They also had the contacts to pull off a remarkable deal: the sale of this development to the Malaysian government at a massive mark-up.
According to confidential documents, it was Dato Azizi's Porsche-loving son Erwan who facilitated this deal via a network of contacts connected to a multi-billion dollar Malaysian government institution called MARA.
Created in 1965 with the noble aim of helping the rural poor, MARA is a household name in Malaysia. But MARA's decision to buy Dudley House through a subsidiary, MARA Inc, shows how far it has strayed from its core values.
Money-laundering hub
The same group of high-ranking Malaysians were implicated in a deal involving A$80 million (RM231 million) worth of Australian property, including office or apartment blocks in Swanston, Queen and Exhibition streets in Melbourne's CBD.
The newspaper said this was the first hard evidence of Australian property prices being inflated as real estate is used as a safe haven or money laundering hub by corrupt Malaysian government officials.
In May last year, Bernama reported that several Mara board directors and executives, headed by its chairperson Annuar Musa (photo) were in Melbourne to inspect two properties Mara had acquire, at a cost of about A$60 million, to house its students.
The 12-storey building at 746, Swanston Street, minutes away from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University, has 281 apartments, while the five-storey Dudley International House in the suburb of Caulfield, will accommodate 113 Mara students attending Monash University. The Swanston Street building was formerly a hostel for nurses.
Spokesman for the Mara group, Zainal Zol said Mara had more than 1,000 students in Australia with 309 based in melbourne and more than 500 in Sydney.
He said the visiting Mara leaders were pleased with the agency's property acquisitions here.
The Bernama report also said executives from UEM Sunrise Berhad, one of Malaysia's largest property developers and an arm of UEM Group Berhad, which is owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, were also in Melbourne to negotiate the development of two prime land parcels it had acquired in Melbourne's CBD, in LaTrobe Street and MacKenzie Street.
Led by UEM managing director, Izzaddin Idris, they met the Victorian State Planning Minister Matthew Guy, Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle and Malaysian-born Ken Ong, head of the Melbourne City Council planning committee, to brief them on the projects.
Mohd Rameez said he was confident that both apartment developments will go ahead, thus enhancing Malaysia's presence in Melbourne.
Malaysiakini has also e-mailed and texted Annuar who is also Umno supreme council member and BN Ketereh MP for his comments. - mk
Aussie paper links MARA’s ‘elite’ officials to A$4.75m
Lebih baik Mat Sabu sertai DAP...
Bekas Setiausaha UMNO Bahagian Bandar Tun Razak, Zaharin Mohd Yasin mencadangkan agar bekas timbalan presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu menyertai Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) daripada membuang masa menubuhkan parti politik baharu.
Zaharin yang lebih dikenali dengan nama pena Sang Kelembai memberitahu bahawa, beliau menyokong Mat Sabu berserta beberapa bekas ahli jawatankuasa (AJK) PAS yang disisihkan untuk menyertai DAP dan sekaligus menjadi calon DAP pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-14.
“Saya cadangkan mereka semua bertanding di kawasan calon Barisan Nasional (BN) dari MCA kerana parti itu tidak lagi berfungsi sebagai satu parti politik yang mewakili suara orang Cina.
“Dia gagal sepenuhnya dan bergantung dengan undi orang Melayu dalam kawasan yang dimenangi. Jika calon-calon serpihan PAS ini bertanding di kawasan majoriti 50-50 atau 70 peratus Cina dan 30 peratus Melayu, saya percaya undi Melayu akan diberikan kepada calon DAP Melayu,” katanya seperti yang dipetik dari laman Facebook miliknya.
Jelasnya, berdasarkan fakta di Pandan, Raub, Bukit Bendera, Telok Kemang, Lumut dan Kuantan, calon-calon Melayu menang walaupun atas tiket PKR atau PAS.
“Masa jumpa Mat Sabu, saya beritahu dia, jangan tubuh parti baru. Alasan saya, kenapa hendak disahkan apa tuduhan oleh kelompok ulama kepada kelompok progresif.
“Masuk DAP adalah terbaik, akan bertambahlah lagi Ahli Parlimen Melayu di Parlimen,” katanya.
Mat Sabu kalah dengan perbezaan undi yang besar dalam usaha mempertahankan jawatan timbalan presiden PAS kepada pencabarnya, Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.- therakyatpost
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