Ex-AG wanted bounty on Jho Low
Former attorney-general Tommy Thomas, in his latest memoir, revealed that he had wanted a bounty put on fugitive businessperson Low Taek Jho.
Thomas said he was sceptical about the capture of Low, widely known as Jho Low (above), as he could bribe his way out of troubles using the large amount of 1MDB funds he allegedly stole.
As such, Thomas said he proposed for a bounty to be put on Jho Low, but the government and police were not receptive to the idea.
“I recommended that Malaysia offers a bounty for his capture and return to face justice.
“After all, that was how Jesse James was captured in the 19th century.
Thomas said he was sceptical about the capture of Low, widely known as Jho Low (above), as he could bribe his way out of troubles using the large amount of 1MDB funds he allegedly stole.
As such, Thomas said he proposed for a bounty to be put on Jho Low, but the government and police were not receptive to the idea.
“I recommended that Malaysia offers a bounty for his capture and return to face justice.
“After all, that was how Jesse James was captured in the 19th century.
“The British colonial authorities also offered a bounty in the mid-1950s for Chin Peng, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party,” he said in his memoir “My Story: Justice in the Wilderness”.
Thomas said the law did not prohibit the payment of money to whistleblowers or informants who provide information that leads to the arrest of an alleged criminal.
“I made my recommendations to the prime minister, finance minister and inspector-general of police, but regrettably I did not receive a favourable response.
Then inspector-general of police Mohamad Fuzi Harun had publicly floated the idea of a bounty in 2019 but it never materialised.
His successor Abdul Hamid Bador lamented that foreign authorities had been uncooperative in the hunt for Low.
A bewildered Abdul Hamid said among the excuses given was that Low had undergone plastic surgery and now “resembled a bear”.
Criminal cases against Low’s associates in the US revealed that he maintains a wide network, despite being a fugitive.
He paid a US lobbyist to help convince the US Department of Justice to drop the 1MDB case against him.
US court filings also revealed his links to the communist government in China.
Low reportedly lobbied on behalf of a minister from China for the deportation of Chinese dissent Guo Wengui from the US.
Beijing has maintained that it was not harbouring Low.
Low reportedly lobbied on behalf of a minister from China for the deportation of Chinese dissent Guo Wengui from the US.
Beijing has maintained that it was not harbouring Low.
Of course Beijing can deny it is harboring Jho Low.
ReplyDeleteHe travels under a passport issued in the name of Goh Poh.... wakakaja
Must be from the know!
DeleteIs that how u travelled oversea?
could it be jho low get the wuhanvirus from paris n spread in wuhan? florence must find out the truth, we may rename it parisvirus so the origin hv nothing to do with usa or china.
ReplyDeleteNo no NO!
DeleteSARS-CoV-2 is an idea from Formosa & lab cultivated in Derrick.
So its actually nomenclature should be Formosa fart virus!
Very funny this Tommy make joke liking Jho Low with Jesse James....ha ha ha...he oso write in his book (same chapter different verse ha ha ha again)...
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Shortly after Tun Mahathir became Prime Minister in May 2018, the Police received a tip-off about the assets of Najib and Rosmah. The police raided their homes. They discovered hundreds of millions of ringgit in cash, jewelry, watches, handbags and other luxury goods. Nearly all of them were branded goods of the highest value. Inventories were made and the seized items taken by the sack-loads by lorries to the national vault in Bank Negara.
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Wow !!!
Sounds like a chapter from Bonnie and Clyde....ha ha ha, in our case it would be Rosie and Jibby....ha ha ha again....
And if we remember the day after GE14 Rosie and Jibby tried to make a run for it, via Peter Sondakh's private jet at Subang Airport but was stopped by ordinary citizens from making their escape.
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Najib cancels flight to Indonesia as angry crowd stands guard outside airport
Saturday, 12 May 2018
By May Robertson and Thasha Jayamanogaran
SUBANG JAYA, May 12 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah won’t be flying to Indonesia today, a police source told Malay Mail.
According to the source, the private flight that was supposed to depart from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport here for Jakarta at 10am has been cancelled pending further instructions, following the appearance of a crowd earlier....
....Some 100 people gathered outside the airport at about 9.30am today, waiting for the arrival of Najib and Rosmah who were to be fly on a private jet operated by Premiair and owned by Indonesia’s 14th richest man and head of PT Rajawali Corp, Tan Sri Peter Sondakh, to Jakarta.
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