美國司法部長公開向全世界撕開大馬首相納吉的醜陋真面目，納吉最後一塊遮羞布也被脫光光了！這也形同狠狠摑了納吉兩隻看門狗總檢察長和總警長幾個響亮耳光！但大馬主要媒體卻全部噤聲企圖封鎖新聞！助紂為虐，連一點新聞自由不懼強權的風骨都完全看不到！
美國官方調查結果顯示，納吉羅斯瑪和他的油瓶子還有契子劉特佐，將從大馬匯到美國的數十億美元巨款盡情揮霍享受，包括去拉斯維加斯豪賭；購買紐約加州還有倫敦的豪宅，購買豪華遊艇；購買豪華私人專用飛機。。。
這是美國史上最巨大的充公案。轟動全世界。但是馬來西亞的各語文媒體卻統統不敢據實報導！
美國司法部門昨晚8點就已經通過所有主要的國際通訊社發出詳細文件，但是今天早上，馬來西亞的馬來報章《馬來前鋒報》Utusan Malaysia、《每日新聞》Berita Harian，《每日晨光報》Sinar Harian、《都市報》Metro；還有英文《新海峽時報》New Straits Times，馬華控制的《英文星報》The Star，《馬來郵報》The Malay Mail；還有號稱中文第一大報的《星洲日報》都不敢報導這件國際大事。即使一向比較大膽的《中國報》也只敢在內頁第五版簡短報導，同時附上一馬公司否認的聲明。
當然，由國陣政府控制的RTM、TV3集團也完全不敢觸碰這個勁爆新聞。
這麼重大的消息，為什麼他們全部不敢報導？當然是因為害怕被納吉的看門狗吊銷出版准證、用惡法對付咯。
美國司法部長林奇在美國星期三早上11點半召開記者會，形容在一馬發展有限公司（1MDB）的案件上，貪污的官員，將1MDB當作自己的私人銀行戶口。
她強調說，美國不會容許他們的國家，變成洗黑錢的平台。
她指出，美國司法部已經提出一項訴訟，要找回一筆價值10億美金，涉嫌一個挪用錢的陰謀。
一名美國聯邦調查局官員表示，大馬人已經受到巨大規模的騙局。
一馬公司從上到下都是充滿了欺詐；他們從馬來西亞把公款挪到美國，美其名曰投資，實際上是供私人揮霍。他們把數十億美元從大馬匯到美國，供納吉的養子和幾個特定的特權認識揮霍消費。這包括拿去拉斯維加斯豪賭；購買豪華遊艇；購置價值3500萬美元的私人豪華專機；分別在比華利山和紐約購買豪華房產，在倫敦買超級洋房等等。
尤其是在拉斯維加斯豪賭這件事最吸引大馬人的眼球，不是說穆斯林不能涉及賭博的咩？不能喝含有酒精的飲料的咩？
林奇表示，本身希望可以把沒收的回來的資金，歸還給大馬，同時也補充將會檢查更多通過美國銀行交易的大馬的資產。
美國司法部在當地時間周三入稟法院，扣押一馬發展公司（1MDB）旗下價值35億美金（約141億令吉）的資產，原因是該公司涉及不當行為。
根據《路透社》的報導，美國司法部在拉斯維加斯提出這項訴訟，扣押一馬公司資產，是基於1MDB資金被非法濫用的不當行為。
根據訴訟指出，這涉及多名人士，涉嫌人士涉案已經4年，當中包括大馬官員和其夥伴，而他們都是涉及挪走1MDB的數十億美金。
被點名的人士包括了首相納吉的繼子、首相夫人拿汀斯里羅斯瑪兒子裡扎（Riza Aziz）、在1MDB多筆交易扮演重要角色的劉特佐（Jho Low）及阿爾巴基金（Aabar Investment）前主席兼國際石油投資公司（IPIC）前董事經理卡迪（Khadem Al Qubaisi），以及莫哈末阿末巴達維。
報導說，雖然大馬首相拿督斯里納吉並沒有在訴書中被提到。但是訴書中列出《大馬第一高官》，全世界都明白，指的就是納吉。《路透社》的報導指出，美國司法部的訴訟指1MDB的資金，以不當的方式轉移到Petrosaudi公司的聯合創辦人，之後再被轉去大馬政府一名高官。這些資產包括了洋房、藝術作品和私人飛機。
「挪用的行為發生在幾個階段，已經有好幾年的時間。」美國《華爾街日報》昨天也引述消息報導指出，美國聯邦檢察官最快或在當地時間周三（20日）早上提出民事訴訟，以扣押一個大馬發展公司（1MDB）屬下的資產。
報導引述知情人士稱，這些資產包括挪用1MDB資金來購買的不動產及物業。
報導稱，1MDB相關人士早前對美國地產及企業投資數百萬美元，而美國聯邦調查局旗下的國際腐敗調查部門特工隊也一直都在調查1MDB相關人員及機構。
一旦展開這項訴訟的話，將是美國史上規模最大的資產扣押行動之一。
新加坡總檢察署和商業事務局發布了有關一馬公司調查的最新結果，當局查封的銀行帳戶和交易總值達2億4000萬新元，其中約1億2000新萬元屬於劉特佐（Low Taek Jho或Jho Low）和他的直系家庭。
星展銀行、渣打銀行新加坡分行以及瑞士銀行新加坡分行，被發現在反洗黑錢工作有疏漏，包括監控不力，接受客戶和監督交易的過程有疏漏，並沒有及時察覺可疑交易並做出彙報。
新加坡金融管理局有關一馬公司的調查發現以上初步結果。這些疏漏出現在某些過程中，涉及個別銀行員工，「這些疏漏本質嚴重，（金管局）將對銀行採取嚴厲的監管措施。」
瑞士安勤私人銀行（Falcon）則被發現嚴重違反洗黑錢條規，包括沒有評估客戶帳戶的不尋常活動並作出報告。
錢幣兌換商Raffles Money Change被發現管理欠缺，風險管理和內部監控不足。
'M'sians defrauded on enormous scale, 1MDB funds used to pay gambling debts'
1MDB funds were used to pay for gambling debts in Las Vegas, said US investigators.
"Funds were stolen under the pretense of a 1MDB investment in oil exploration.
"On paper the US$1 billion was for resource rights, instead (it was) used for personal enrichment...(including) gambling debts in Las Vegas casions, a luxury yacht, interior decorators in London, millions in property including a Bombardier jet costing US$35 million," said Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Andrew McCabe.
He said this at a US Department of Justice press conference on the civil complaints lodged by the department to seize approximately US$1 billion of assets linked to 1MDB.
"The Malaysian people were defrauded on an enourmous scale (in) a scheme which tentacles reached around the world," he said.
Other assets listed by the department in its lawsuits filed today include:
Artworks from Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh;
About US$250 million investment in Parklane Hotel, New York;
US$176 million invested in EMI Music;
US$100 million worth of real estate in the US, United Kingdom and elswhere, including a mansion in Beverly Hills, a condominium in New York and a townhouse in the United Kingdom; and
Proceeds from the film 'The Wolf of Wall Street' which Red Granite Pictures has rights to.
Below is the press statement from the US Department of Justice in full:
Attorney General Loretta E Lynch announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than US$1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
Today’s complaints represent the largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.
Attorney General Lynch was joined in the announcement by Assistant Attorney General Leslie R Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, US Attorney Eileen M Decker of the Central District of California, FBI Deputy Director Andrew G. McCabe and Chief Richard Weber of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
According to the complaints, from 2009 through 2015, more than US$3.5 billion in funds belonging to 1MDB was allegedly misappropriated by high-level officials of 1MDB and their associates. With today’s complaints, the United States seeks to recover more than US$1 billion laundered through the United States and traceable to the conspiracy.
1MDB was created by the government of Malaysia to promote economic development in Malaysia through global partnerships and foreign direct investment, and its funds were intended to be used for improving the well-being of the Malaysian people.
Instead, as detailed in the complaints, 1MDB officials and their associates allegedly misappropriated more than US$3 billion.
「The Department of Justice will not allow the American financial system to be used as a conduit for corruption,」 said Attorney General Lynch.
「With this action, we are seeking to forfeit and recover funds that were intended to grow the Malaysian economy and support the Malaysian people.
"Instead, they were stolen, laundered through American financial institutions and used to enrich a few officials and their associates.
"Corrupt officials around the world should make no mistake that we will be relentless in our efforts to deny them the proceeds of their crimes. 」
「According to the allegations in the complaints, this is a case where life imitated art,」 said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell.
「The associates of these corrupt 1MDB officials are alleged to have used some of the illicit proceeds of their fraud scheme to fund the production of 'The Wolf of Wall Street', a movie about a corrupt stockbroker who tried to hide his own illicit profits in a perceived foreign safe haven.
"But whether corrupt officials try to hide stolen assets across international borders – or behind the silver screen – the Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that there is no safe haven."
「Stolen money that is subsequently used to purchase interests in music companies, artwork or high-end real estate is subject to forfeiture under US law,」 said US Attorney Decker.
「Today’s actions are the result of the tremendous dedication of attorneys in my office and the Department of Justice, as well as law enforcement agents across the country.
"All of us are committed to sending a message that we will not allow the United States to become a playground for the corrupt, a platform for money laundering or a place to hide and invest stolen riches.」
「The United States will not be a safe haven for assets stolen by corrupt foreign officials,」 said Deputy Director McCabe.
「Public corruption, no matter where it occurs, is a threat to a fair and competitive global economy.
"The FBI is committed to working with our foreign and domestic partners to identify and return these stolen assets to their legitimate owners, the Malaysian people. I want to thank the FBI and IRS investigative team who worked with the prosecutors and our international partners on this case.」
「Today’s announcement underscores the breadth of the alleged corruption and money laundering related to the 1MDB fund,」 said Chief Weber. 「We cannot allow the massive, brazen and blatant diversion of billions of dollars to be laundered through US financial institutions without consequences.」
As alleged in the complaints, the members of the conspiracy – which included officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates – allegedly diverted more than US$3.5 billion in 1MDB funds.
Using fraudulent documents and representations, the co-conspirators allegedly laundered the funds through a series of complex transactions and fraudulent shell companies with bank accounts located in the Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United States.
These transactions were allegedly intended to conceal the origin, source and ownership of the funds, and were ultimately processed through U.S. financial institutions and were used to acquire and invest in assets located in the United States.
In seeking recovery of more than US$1 billion, the complaints detail the alleged misappropriation of 1MDB’s assets as it occurred over the course of at least three schemes.
In 2009, the complaints allege that 1MDB officials and their associates embezzled approximately US$1 billion that was intended to be invested to exploit energy concessions purportedly owned by a foreign partner.
Instead, the funds were transferred through shell companies and were used to acquire a number of assets, as set forth in the complaints.
The complaints also allege that the co-conspirators misappropriated more than $1.3 billion in funds raised through two bond offerings in 2012 and $1.2 billion following another bond offering in 2013.
As further detailed in the complaints, the stolen funds were laundered into the United States and used by the co-conspirators to acquire and invest in various assets.
These assets allegedly included high-end real estate and hotel properties in New York and Los Angeles, a US$35 million jet aircraft, works of art by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, an interest in the music publishing rights of EMI Music and the production of the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.
The FBI’s International Corruption Unit and the IRS-CI investigated the case. Deputy Chief Woo S Lee and Trial Attorney Kyle R Freeny of the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Kucera and Christen Sproule of the Central District of California prosecuted the case. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided additional assistance.
The Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative is led by a team of dedicated prosecutors in the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, in partnership with federal law enforcement agencies to forfeit the proceeds of foreign official corruption and, where appropriate, to use those recovered asset to benefit the people harmed by these acts of corruption and abuse of office.
Local papers 『ignore』 DoJ action against 1MDB-linked assets
Mainstream media choose not to report on US Department of Justice suit over misappropriated funds in 1MDB, in their print versions.
PETALING JAYA: Local newspapers have ignored stories on the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) civil suit to seize assets linked to 1MDB, in their print versions.
A check by FMT revealed that all Bahasa Malaysia (BM) and English mainstream dailies did not report on the matter, despite a foreign news wire sending out the report before 8pm last night.
Umno-owned New Straits Times front-paged a story on vaccination while MCA’s The Star, and The Malay Mail chose to go with a story on the possible snap elections in Penang, as did BM daily, Utusan Malaysia.
The only daily which reported the news was vernacular publication, China Press – albeit on the fifth page.
However, the online portals of some of the dailies carried newswire reports on the initial US DoJ announcement, as well as follow-up statements by 1MDB and Umno ministers on the matter. These were all in the World or Business sections, and not under the Malaysian news section, despite 1MDB’s relevance as a hot news item in the country.
The statements released by opposition party leaders in response to the DoJ’s action were not given any coverage in online news portals of the mainstream media.
Former Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said he was not surprised that most of the mainstream media did not report on the actions taken by the US』 DoJ.
「It’s a norm. No suprises here and it has become a tradition,」 he told FMT, adding that he refuses to read the newspapers as it carries propaganda.
Meanwhile, NST’s former group editor Mustapha Kamil commented on his Facebook that mainstream media editors 「have missed a very big story yesterday」.
「Your international counterparts have 『scooped』 you right under your noses. How are you to face, first your reporters, your advertisers and ultimately, the public?
「Who is lying now? The way I look at it, the mainstream media institution has been destroyed. Its all over boys. This is a good time to compose your resignation letters,」 he said.
The US DoJ filed lawsuits yesterday, saying that over US$3.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB, over a period of four years and by multiple individuals, including Malaysian officials and their associates.
In its lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles, US DoJ said it sought to seize assets 「involved in and traceable to an international conspiracy to launder money misappropriated from 1MDB」.
It specifically named Riza Aziz, who is Najib’s stepson, Jho Low, and Abu Dhabi government officials Khadem al-Qubaisi and Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny.
The DoJ’s seizure of more than US$1 billion worth of assets, the single largest seizure in US history, was expected to include properties and other assets purchased with money allegedly misappropriated from 1MDB.