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Today, Abdul Rahman Maidin revealed in the High Court (see here) that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told him that Realmild Sdn Bhd, the shadowy company behind conglomerate Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB), belongs to Umno. Now, Tajuddin Ramli also admits that he was merely the front for Umno to plunder Malaysian Airlines (MAS).

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Yesterday, I wrote an article called ‘Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!’ regarding the Selangor Royal Family’s opposition to British colonial rule. Today, I want to publish chapter 34 of the book ‘Malay Nationalism Before Umno: The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain’ to show that Umno was not involved in the early moves to gain Merdeka for Malaya. 

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Ibrahim Ali says that Malcolm X was assassinated for preaching Islam to the Christians. I wonder what ITM has been teaching its students. I would like to educate Ibrahim Ali so that he knows that Malcolm X was assassinated by Muslim members of the US Chapter of Perkasa (Black Power movement) for ‘murtad’ (apostasy) when he left the Nation of Islam.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Since 15th August 2010, Malaysia Today published nine reports on how Tajudin Ramli plundered MAS and reduced this airline company from a surplus of more than RM600 million to a deficit in excess of RM8 billion. Malaysia Today also showed documents to not only prove this but also to prove that there was collusion between the AG Chambers, MACC and PRDM to sweep this entire episode under the carpet. But that is not the whole story. Today, we are going to show you how else MAS was plundered.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Anyway, whatever it may be, the damage may already be done. Will PKR Sabah be reduced to a ‘Muslim party’ and the ‘natives’ (read 'non-Muslims') move on to form a new party? And would this then mean we can kiss goodbye the idea of marching into Putrajaya?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

On 2nd August 2010, the lawyers for MAS wrote to the MACC to complain about them revealing the identity of the whistleblowers. The MACC refused to investigate the report lodged with them and instead sent the case back to the police (PDRM) -- who had already declared the case NFA -- whereas the report made to the MACC clearly stated that there is collusion between the police and the AG Chambers. This act by the MACC has exposed the whistleblowers to great risk.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

On 20th May 2009, Shahari Sulaiman, the Managing Director of MASKargo, lodged a report with the MACC alleging, amongst others, that when Tajuddin Ramli took over MAS it had more than RM600 million in cash reserves and when he left seven years later the national airline company had accumulated losses of more than RM8 billion. He also gives details of Tajuddin’s various fraudulent dealings plus he raises allegations of collusion between the Malaysian police (PDRM) and the AG Chambers.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Datuk Ramli Yusuff, the head of the CCID, managed to untangle the web of deceit and presented to the prime minister the corporate and organisation chart of Tajuddin Ramli’s holdings and cross-holdings plus that of his family, his cronies and his mistress, Wan Aishah Wan Hamid. The prime minister decided to do nothing. Was this because his own family would also be implicated if the shit were to hit the fan?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

In seven years, Tajuddin Ramli turned a profitable airline company that had more than half a billion ringgit in cash reserves into a company that was RM8 billion in deficit. In March 2007, the head of the CCID, Ramli Yusuff, wrote to the Prime Minister, going into great detail about what happened. But it was Ramli and not Tajuddin who was dragged before the courts on various fabricated charges -- where he was acquitted without his defence being called.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

In May 2005, Dato’ Ong Jyh Jong, the Senior General Manager Cargo of MAS, made a police report (12532/05) at the Dang Wangi Police Station alleging that Tajuddin Ramli entered into many fraudulent contracts. The police report was made on the instructions of MAS’s Board of Directors. One such contract involves Advanced Cargo Logistics of Germany, which is a company owned by Tajuddin himself.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin