Khairy Jamaluddin - Questions continue

A Malaysiakini reader, Rombau Man, wrote the following letter:

(unedited and without KTemoc’s comments)

I refer to your report PM: Let party decide his future.

Looks like Khairy Jamaluddin, deputy chief of Umno Youth, investment banker cum PM's son-in-law, is getting away with his so-called answers to all the allegations against him by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as well as some others.

Now he says that if he is a liability to Umno he would step down. A brave overture indeed but first he will consult the 'grassroots' of the Pemuda to see whether he is now looked upon as a liability.

This is quite ridiculous because since becoming deputy leader, Khairy has already placed his men in all the Umno Youth divisions who will be his eyes and ears. This men will deliver whatever Khairy wants.

So, sorry. No prizes for the right guesses on the outcome of a survey of Pemuda grassroots on whether Khairy is a ‘laibility’.

Khairy now also does not deny he is now worth several million through the good fortune of ECM-Libra. Khairy says he bought the three pe cent stake in the company with the loan from ECM Libra directors themselves. Such kind souls.

But what we want Khairy to explain is the merger of ECM-Libra with and Avenue Capital, a Ministry of Finance-owned company.

Khairy's father-in-law is the finance minister and the deputy finance minister is Nor Mohamad Yakcop who knows ECM-Libra director Kalimullah Hassan (also deputy chairman of NST).

This deal does not go down well with the people for so many reasons. If the government wants to sell off Avenue Capital, how ECM-Libra qualifies to be the buyer should be very transparent. And Khairy should explain his hand in this too.