It took one full month for Putrajaya to admit Najib is MO1

MO1 is Najib, but why didn’t DOJ name him, asks Rahman Dahlan

Odin Tajué: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and BN strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan, if you have to ask why the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has not named Najib Abdul Razak, and if you state that since he has not been named he is not part of the DOJ’s investigation, then your intellect, your understanding of courtesy, your general knowledge, and your grasp of the English language are very much wanting.

You obviously have not a clue as to what the DOJ’s complaint is all about. Therefore, I will now enlighten you. The DOJ is seeking to seize assets acquired with dirty money passing through financial institutions in the United States, liquidate those assets, and pass the money to Malaysians who are the rightful owners.

It has sufficient evidence to prove that the assets it has listed out have been acquired in the manner already stated. As it has sufficient evidence, it has been able to name the individuals concerned.

If the DOJ has not named certain individuals and, instead, has assigned abbreviations to denote those persons, the possible reasons are that: 1) it has not yet gathered sufficient evidence to either, i) confirm which assets other than those that it has listed out that it may legally request to be seized, or ii) charge the person(s) for money laundering; and 2) no assets in the US are registered under the names of those persons.

All this, however, does not mean that those persons will not face legal action at a later date. The DOJ’s recent action is only its first. Those individuals are still very, very deep in the woods, so to speak.

By the end of last month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has already paid out more than US$100 million to whistleblowers. The largest payout for this year was US$22 million; the largest so far was US$30 million.

US$22 million is about RM90 million. That is a highly tantalising, exquisitely enticing sum by most standards. Someone in the know in Malaysia just might succumb to the temptation. After all, he and his family will be well set up for life, and his anonymity will be guaranteed (by the US government).

Based on the DOJ’s description of the person whom it has denoted with the abbreviation MO1, the individual cannot be anyone other than Najib. You do not have to be an (‘an’ because the first name is pronounced with the ‘H’ silent) Hercule Poirot or a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that.

You and the rest in your camp are merely trying to take the heat off Najib by throwing up one revolting mass of undigested food after another. It is an exercise in total futility attempted only by idiots.

Negarawan: Abdul Rahman indeed revealed himself to be a person with low intelligence. It is clear that the reason why MO1 (Malaysian Official 1) was not named in the DOJ/FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) lawsuit is because the assets seized were not registered under his name, and is therefore not party to the lawsuit at hand.

However, the lawsuit clearly indicates the complicity of MO1.

In the coming weeks, the DOJ will file criminal suits against these perpetrators and their accomplices. One by one, they will be arrested. In turn, those arrested will provide more incriminating evidence and testimonies about the involvement of MO1 to corroborate DOJ/FBI findings.

Let us all continue to pray for God Almighty to serve his swift justice on the perpetrators behind 1MDB.

Kim Quek: So since Najib was not named in the US suits as one of those whose assets are being forfeited, everything is fine and dandy for the PM? Abdul Rahman, how naïve can you be?

Though Najib’s assets are not being confiscated, he was named as one of the main recipients of the billions stolen from 1MDB, blowing to smithereens his lie that the infamous US$681 million was a Saudi royal donation.

He was further identified as the controlling authority of 1MDB, thus implying that he was responsible for the alleged theft of US$3.5 billion from 1MDB that had run through the US financial system.

Abdul Rahman’s claim that Najib was not part of the US investigations is equally fallacious, as MO1 was named 36 times in the indictment documents which stated the precise details of every wire transfer of the 1MDB “stolen” funds to Najib’s AmBank account, including the amounts, dates, payers, payees, and the transacting banks.

The worst indictment comes from Najib himself, as he has completely failed to deny or rebut the allegations in DOJ indictment documents.

Under the circumstances, no self-respecting prime minister in Najib’s position in a democratic country would even dream of hanging on to his premiership for even one more minute.

Anonymous 568201438363345: DOJ confirmed that US$3.5 billion had been misappropriated from 1MDB. It is seeking to recover US$1 billion (not US$3.5 billion) through its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (Kari) because the US$1 billion passed through the US financial system.

Najib’s associate Jho Low and stepson Riza Aziz has been named because of their direct involvement with the US$1 billion that went through the US financial system.

Why MO1 was not part of the suit? You can’t sue him in US because it is not within their jurisdiction as MO1’s money trail did not pass through the US financial system.

However, the money trail has been circling in and out of the Malaysian financial system and yet nothing has been done. Attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali even cleared MO1 of all wrongdoing!

Fairnsquare: In simple terms, bonds underwritten by Goldman Sachs, a US company, for the purchase of power assets and other projects, were allowed to be diverted to personal accounts and used to pay for private assets – the purchase of paintings, yachts, planes, anti-aging treatment, nightclubs and settling gambling debts, etc.

Goldman Sachs should have immediately reported this but chose to abet the alleged crime. If this is not stopped, money can also be raised by the same process and used to fund terrorism. This is the greatest danger and must be checked and stopped.

The US diplomatic protocol does not allow the naming of an active leader of a friendly country, hence the use of the term MO1 in the DOJ’s documents. This is not reflective of the innocence of any party as expressed by our illiterate politicians.

Hibiscus: Abdul Rahman, if Najib is MO1, then isn’t he an embarrassment to Umno, to BN, to the government, to Parliament, to the voters of Pekan who voted him to be their MP, and to those who have supported him?

He was, and still, is in control of 1MDB. So how can he be not responsible for the scandals in 1MDB?

The fact that 1MDB have changed external auditors so many times should have alerted Najib that something was amiss in 1MDB, and he could have done something to prevent further scandals.

No, sir, Najib is fully responsible for the scandals in 1MDB.

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