Datuk Zaid jawab Rafizi budak bodoh

KENYATAAN MEDIA

Saya merujuk kepada kenyataan media yang dibuat oleh Ahli Parlimen Pandan, Rafizi Ramli semalam (26 Feb 2014), yang mendedahkan kepada umum, dua e-mel-e-mel saya kepada beliau pada tahun 2010, yang mana dalam e-mel tersebut, saya meminta beliau memajukan kepada Menteri Besar Selangor agar dapat mempertimbangkan permohonan syarikat tersebut.

Salah sebuah syarikat mempunyai masalah kelulusan untuk memajukan tanah mereka seluas 26 ekar kerana Kerajaan Negeri memberikan syarat yang ketat.

Sebuah lagi syarikat mahu membuat 'Joint Venture' dengan anak syarikat PKNS untuk terbabit dalam sektor pembinaan perumahan.

Sukacita untuk saya maklumkan hari ini bahawa kedua-dua syarikat ini tidak ada kena mengena dengan saya atau keluarga saya. Malah mereka juga bukan kawan. Mereka adalah orang business yang datang meminta pertolongan kerana mereka fikir saya boleh menolong.

Amalan orang business meminta pertolongan atau sokongan daripada ahli politik adalah amalan biasa dalam sistem kita dan ia diamalkan oleh UMNO, Pas, DAP dan lebih-lebih lagi PKR.

Tukar pengerusi SGMM tindakan melampau - Zaid

Tindakan Kementerian Pendidikan menukar Pengerusi Penaja Suara Guru Masyarakat Malaysia (SGMM), Mohd Nor Izzat Mohd Johari ke sekolah luar daerah berkuatkuasa serta merta adalah suatu keputusan yang tidak bijak.

Perbuatan seperti itu tidak akan sekali-kali menakutkan guru yang bersuara menentang dasar tidak betul kementerian, sebaliknya memberikan lagi semangat kepada semua guru untuk bersatu dan membenci kerajaan.

Bekas Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim berkata, beliau terkejut dengan perkembangan terbaru dihadapi pengerusi penaja SGMM yang bangkit membantah pelaksanaan Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS).

Katanya, beberapa kelompok guru datang mengadu dan meminta membantu mereka untuk menyampaikan suara tidak puas hati guru kepada Kementerian Pendidikan dan beliau sedang mengumpul beberapa maklumat sebelum ke Putrajaya.

10 Sebab Facebook Beli Whatsapp

1. Whatsapp mempunyai kehadiran mudah alih lebih banyak dari Facebook. Berbanding Facebook, Whatsapp kini mempunyai 419 juta pengguna aktif di seluruh dunia berbanding Facebook iaitu hanya 145 juta.

2. Data. Whatsapp menyimpan nombor telefon, nama, emel, log sembang dan banyak lagi data yang sebenarnya lebih bernilai daripada sejumlah USD16 bilion yang ditawarkan bagi membeli Whatsapp.


3. Mahu kalahkan Google. Sebelum ini, Google menawarkan angka USD10 bilion untuk membeli Whatsapp tetapi ia ditolak, tidak mustahil, tawaran baru akan dikemukakan dengan senang. Jadi sebelum Google berbuat demikian, lebih baik Facebook membelinya.

Akhbar penyebar fitnah 'Suara Keadilan' buat ralat silap fitnah pemimpin sendiri

Pengarang akhbar Suara Keadilan menafikan ralat artikel kolumnis Hishamuddin Rais yang disiarkan pada bilangan 161 bertarikh 18 Februari 2014 ada kaitan dengan arahan daripada kepimpinan parti.

 

Sidang pengarang Suara Keadilan berkata, perkara itu tidak pernah menjadi isu dan ia tidak patut diperbesarkan, lapor The Malaysian Insider.

 

"Tidak ada kena mengena langsung dengan arahan parti, ia keputusan pihak pengarang.

 

"Ia sepatutnya tidak menjadi isu kerana sekarang ini kita fokus pada Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN)," kata sumber yang enggan didedahkan namanya.

Padan muka Teresa, pejabat kena simbah cat

Polis mengesyaki kejadian menyimbah cat merah dan meninggalkan bangkai seekor ayam di pejabat Ahli Parlimen Seputeh, Teresa Kok di Kuchai Entreprenuers, di Kuala Lumpur mempunyai kaitan dengan penerbitan video 'Onederful Malaysia CNY 2014' yang tersebar melalui YouTube.

 

Pemangku Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur, Asisten Komisioner Khairi Ahrasa berkata, kejadian yang berlaku pada 9.20 pagi tadi di pusat perkhidmatan Ahli Parlimen itu kini disiasat mengikut Seksyen 506, Seksyen 352 dan Seksyen 427 Kanun Keseksaan kerana ugutan jenayah, serangan jenayah dan menyebabkan bencana.

Anwar main peranan penting jayakan Ops Lalang, kata Tun Dr Mahathir

Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata, Anwar Ibrahim turut memainkan peranan penting menjayakan Operasi Lalang pada 1987 menggunakan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA).

 Sambil menafikan tuduhan Anwar bahawa beliau bertanggungjawab sepenuhnya dalam operasi yang menyaksikan 108 pemimpin politik dan aktivis ditahan, Tun Dr Mahathir berkata, sebagai seorang anggota Kabinet ketika itu, Anwar perlu bertanggungjawab.

"...kecuali kalau beliau berkata, saya meletak jawatan kerana tidak bersetuju. Dia tidak pernah berkata seperti itu. Beliau setuju, sokong semua termasuk ISA," katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan seminar pemikiran Kassim Ahmad "Suatu Penilaian" anjuran Jawatankuasa Sahabat Pena Pak Kassim di Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana di Putrajaya hari ini.

Sultan of Brunei's ex-wife admits reckless gambling sprees 'chasing the money'....

Mariam Aziz gives evidence in the trial of her bodyguard accused of theft

Fatimah Lim is said to have stolen two gems and a bracelet worth £12m

Ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei told the court she sold jewellery worth £1m to pay off gambling debts but denied telling Lim to sell the gems

Court heard Ms Aziz blew £500,000 in one night gambling at various casinos

Lim denies theft, claiming Ms Aziz asked her to sell the jewellery to pay off debts after the casinos threatened to sue her employer

 

The former wife of the Sultan of Brunei admitted selling items of jewellery to pay off £1million in gambling debts after indulging in sprees at a string of London casinos.

Telling Isleworth Crown Court that the mentality of gambling was 'chasing the money, chasing the money', Mariam Aziz rejected claims she once blew £3m in a single spree.

The court heard the 57-year-old lost £500,000 in one night, playing the tables at London's top venues.

She was giving evidence at the trial of her bodyguard Fatimah Lim, accused of stealing diamonds worth £12m from her employer, replacing them with near-worthless replicas.

Lim claims she sold the gems to pay off gambling debts accrued over a 20-month period when Ms Aziz visited casinos around the world with her huge entourage.

The 35-year-old former international badminton player said she was driven to sell the jewellery after the casinos threatened to sue Ms Aziz.

The former wife of the world's richest man would regularly visit venues in Singapore, Macau and London - including the Clermont Club in Berkeley Square where she had a £2.5m credit limit.

Jurors were told that Ms Aziz persuaded her female Muslim bodyguards to gamble despite their faith and that she would each provide them with gambling chips worth £1,500 a time.

The court heard Ms Aziz once blew £500,000 in one night gambling in London, but the Sultan’s ex-wife rejected claims that she once lost £3m in a single crazed spree.

Lim claims that her former boss struggled to pay off her gambling debts and that she was told to sell her gems for the cash.

But Ms Aziz insisted: ‘No I never asked anyone, especially Fatimah Lim, to sell the diamonds because I would do it myself.'

The former air stewardess would visit two or three casinos in one night, including Les Ambassadeurs, Aspinalls, and Rendezvous, all near Park Lane.

Rupert Pardoe, defending, suggested to Ms Aziz that she gambled at more than one casino a night because she repeatedly maxed out her credit limit.

But Ms Aziz told jurors that she would move between different casinos depending on whether she felt lucky or not.

‘The mentality of gambling is chasing the money, chasing the money’, she said.

‘It would be the defendant’s suggestion. When the defendant said "you are not lucky here" we would go to another one’.

Ms Aziz, who owns property in Leicestershire, Kensington, and Singapore, claims that she had ‘no problems’ with her gambling debts.

But jurors heard that Ms Aziz transferred swathes of cash into Lim’s bank account in order to pay off her own casino owings.
 

She also sold some of her jewellery in January 2009 for around £1m to pay off her debts, the court was told.
‘There were people in your wider circle not as enthusiastic about gambling as you - there was a perception that it was not in accordance with the activities of a Muslim’, Mr Pardoe said.

‘You have hatched a plot to blame Fatimah Lim for the theft of these rings and this diamond bracelet’.


But Ms Aziz replied: ‘No never, she’s the one who’s stolen from me. I never asked her to sell the diamonds.'


Lim was eventually confronted for the alleged thefts by Ms Aziz’s nephew Idris Ja’afar in Brunei where she was arrested in January 2010.

She initially denied being in London in December 2009, but came clean when Miss Abdullah arrived at the meeting and asked 'if Ms Aziz might forgive her and pardin her.'
 Jurors heard that Lim sent Ms Aziz a letter dated January 28, 2010 in which she claimed that the casinos were intending to sue the Sultan’s ex-wife if her gambling debts were not paid off.

Lim allegedly grabbed the jewellery from Mariam Aziz from her Kensington mansion in west London.

The bodyguard, who won a silver medal in badminton at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, is accused of taking a pear-shaped 12.71 blue diamond worth £7.6 million and a rectangular 27.1 carat yellow diamond worth £600,000.

She is also accused of stealing a £3.3 million diamond bracelet.

The Singaporean allegedly sold the gems and then replaced them with replicas made out of glass and mineral tanzanite.

Lim had been hired by Ms Aziz to be her badminton coach before becoming her bodyguard.

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world’s richest men, and Ms Aziz, divorced in 2003 after 21 years of marriage and having four children together.

Wearing a headscarf throughout her evidence, Ms Aziz, 59, told jurors at Isleworth Crown Court that she first met Lim through their shared love of badminton.

Fatimah Lim, left, is accused of stealing diamonds worth £12m from Mariam Aziz, right, the former wife of the world's richest man, the Sultan of Brunei

Mariam Aziz with her former husband, the Sultan of Brunei. Ms Aziz's bodyguard Lim is accused of stealing gems valued at £12m, replacing them with near-worthless replicas

‘I met her through playing badminton, we played as partners - I travel a lot and play badminton everywhere for my exercise.

‘Her role developed beyond badminton - I later appointed her as my bodyguard before my divorce because I had trust in her.

‘I have a few bodyguards - they travel with me, applied for visas, book travel tickets, they assisted me in many ways.

‘I treated most of my staff as family, we were all very close to each other - in the early years I had no reason to doubt the defendant’s trustworthiness.'

'THE CASINOS WANT TO SUE YOU', SAID LIM IN LETTER TO AZIZ

‘I would like to wish you a happy 55th birthday. All these years in Brunei I never missed celebrating your birthday with you - sadly this year is an exception’, Lim wrote.

‘I have been under a lot of pressure from casinos to repay casino owings, believe me.

‘The casinos say they want to sue you if the casino owings are not paid. I am under great pressure.

‘As a result things have turned for the worse so I turn to Idris to convey to you that I wish to make amends and return the money in your bank account as I always intended to.

‘Everyone in Brunei knows your compassion, your leniency. You are a lady with a big heart, who is always kind and sympathetic to all around you.

‘I beg to you to sympathise with my plight and help with the civil proceedings in Singapore and the criminal proceedings in London.

‘Please be merciful and kind to me as I am looking after my parents and I am the only breadwinner for them.'

Ms Aziz told the court how her diamond bracelet, worth over £3m that she bought from a jeweller on Bond Street, went missing in May 2008.

‘It is valuable, a very valuable piece of jewellery’, she said.

‘I needed it resized - the bracelet was catching on my sleeve. I lost another bracelet this way so, on this occasion, I decided to take it off.

‘I needed help from my bodyguard and on this occasion, Fatimah was with me on duty so I gave it to her and she put it in her bag.

‘Two to three weeks later, I can’t remember the date, I decided to wear it but couldn’t find it.

‘I asked my maid to find the bracelet. I was racking my brains ‘what happened to my bracelet?’ then I remembered I gave it to Fatimah.

‘She said she knew nothing about my bracelet, I conducted a search but couldn’t find it.'

Asked if she had told Lim to sell the bracelet, Ms Aziz replied: ‘Never. I never asked anyone to sell any of my jewellery.

‘If I wanted to sell any of my jewellery I’d sell it myself’.

Three months after the bracelet went missing, Lim resigned for health reasons and claimed she had to return to her native Singapore for eye treatment, the court heard.

Lim then returned to work Ms Aziz in January 2009 where she continued her close relationship with Ms Aziz’s adopted daughter, Afifa Abdullah.

The court heard that Lim twice asked Miss Abdullah to borrow the blue and yellow diamonds as collateral on a property deal on the promise to return them in a short time.

Ms Aziz said: ‘The blue diamond, a gift from His Majesty, is a rare piece of intense colour, flawless, and it’s a valuable piece of jewellery.

‘The yellow diamond was worth $900,000 to $1m, a gift from my ex-husband.

‘I didn’t want to sell either diamond - I intended it to go to my daughters’.
Jurors heard that when Ms Aziz wanted to wear the blue diamond for New Year’s Eve 2009 she discovered that it was made of mineral tanzanite.

‘I needed it resized, so on December 30 I asked Afifa to take it to Mrs Mussai at the 
Hilton Hotel in Park Lane.

Ms Aziz made hundreds of visits to casinos across the world, in Singapore, Macau and London

‘I was on my way to the theatre in London, we were on the bus when Afifa called and said the ring isn’t a blue diamond but a tanzanite one.

‘I was horrified, shocked, puzzled. I had lost the bracelet and now the diamond - I had no idea what had happened.'

The Sultan’s former wife told jurors that her daughter Afifa came to her hotel room on the same night to make a ‘confession’.

‘She came in and said she had lent the blue diamond and the yellow diamond to the defendant because she said she needed it for ‘business purposes.' Ms Aziz told the court.

‘She said she had financial difficulties and that her mother was not well and that she needed the diamonds as collateral.

‘Afifa said she had borrowed it on two occasions, first in July 2009 and in early December 2009.

‘She said that she trusted Fatimah and that she lent it because she was emotional and under pressure, that Fatimah was very frightened.

‘I was horrified, shocked, panicky. I just couldn’t believe what I heard.

‘I trusted these people and they betrayed me, doing things behind my back.'

The court heard that an examination of the yellow diamond proved that it was also a replica, made of glass.

Jurors heard after stealing the gems Lim took them to a jeweller in London’s famous Hatton Garden where she claimed they had been a gift from Ms Aziz to her mother - for 28 years of service as her PA.

They were eventually sold to a buyer in Geneva for around £5m, the court was told.

Lim was eventually confronted by Ms Aziz’s nephew Idris Ja’afar in Brunei for the alleged thefts where she was arrested.

Lim, of no fixed address, denies three counts of theft.

The trial continues.

Tampar 'Teresa Ayam' dapat RM1,200

Majlis Jemaah NGO Islam Malaysia berkata, tawaran bagi menampar Ahli Parlimen Seputeh, Teresa Kok kini dinaikkan daripada RM500 ke RM1,200 kerana pemimpin DAP itu dikatakan kurang ajar dan mencabar kedudukan orang Melayu.

Menurut Seketariat Majlis Permuafakatan Ummah Malaysia, Zulkfli Sharif, tawaran dibuat itu terbuka kepada semua warganegara Malaysia agar penghinaan yang seringkali dibuat Kok menerima pembalasan.

"Tawaran ini terbuka kepada semua. Maksudnya, siapa sahaja yang dapat menampar Teresa Kok dengan disertakan gambar sebagai bukti, kita akan beri ganjaran sebanyak RM1,200," kata Zulkifli kepada The Malaysian Insider apabila dihubungi di Kuala Lumpur.