Terkini : Raja Petra Dedah Kegiatan Rasuah Azmin Ali

"Kes pertama melibatkan ipar Azmin Ali, Johan Taharin. Johan menemui seorang pemaju yang menghadapi masalah kelulusan sejak Pakatan Rakyat menguasai empat tahun lalu."

The Selangor government wants me to come forward and reveal the conflicts of interest, abuses of power and transgressions in the state administration. I will do just that. In the meantime, while I gather some of the evidence to enable the state to get to the bottom of things, maybe they can start investigating these first two cases. (Kerajaan Selangor mahukan saya tampil dan kemukakan bukti konflik kepentingan, penyalahgunaan kuasa dan salah laku pentadbiran negeri. Saya akan buat. Pada masa yang sama, saya akan kumpulkan bukti bagi kerajaan negeri tersebut melihat hingga ke dasar, namun wajar mereka melihat dua hal ini dulu.)

The first case involves Azmin Ali’s brother-in-law, Johan Taharin. Johan approached one developer who has been having problems getting certain approvals since Pakatan Rakyat first came to power almost four years ago. (Kes pertama melibatkan ipar Azmin Ali, Johan Taharin. Johan menemui seorang pemaju yang menghadapi masalah kelulusan sejak Pakatan Rakyat menguasai empat tahun lalu.)

Now, I have known this developer personally for some number of years. In the past, he had always voted MCA. For the first time in 2008 he supported Pakatan Rakyat. He even organised talks in his house for me to speak to his neighbours, friends and family so that I can campaign and swing them over to Pakatan Rakyat. Some of this person’s friends even flew back from Australia, Canada and the US at his behest just to vote for Pakatan Rakyat. (Saya mengenali pemaju ini beberapa tahun. Dulu dia adalah pengundi MCA. Pertama kali pada tahun 2008, dia mengundi Pakatan Rakyat. Dia pernah memberi peluang untuk saya berucap kepada jiran-jiran, sahabat handai dan keluarganya di rumahnya sendiri supaya undi akan diberi kepada Pakatan Rakyat. Hasilnya, ada sahabat handainya yang pulang dari Australia, Kanada dan Amerika Syarikat semata-mata untuk mengundi Pakatan Rakyat.)

This developer complained to me that Johan approached his firm and said that he (Johan) is aware that they (the developer) is facing problems getting approval from the state. Johan offered to help them overcome their problems, for a fee.(Pemaju ini mengadu si Johan datang ke syarikatnya setelah mengetahui dia menghadapi masalah dalam mendapatkan kelulusan untuk membantu, dengan bayaran tertentu.)

The developer asked Johan how can they be assured that they would get approval once they paid the money? Can they instead pay after the approval has been obtained rather than pay upfront? After all, they are talking about a few million here, not a small amount of money.(Pemaju ini bertanya kepada Johan apakah kepastian kelulusan diperoleh selepas dia membayar kepada Johan? Adakah boleh dia membayar selepas kelulusan diperoleh, daripada membayar sebelum kelulusan? Ini kerana urusan projek tersebut ini melibatkan jutaan ringgit.)

Johan told the developer that he is representing Azmin Ali and if required he can bring them to meet Azmin so that Azmin can personally give them his assurance. They replied they will think about it. The developer then phoned me, cursing and swearing. “We voted Pakatan Rakyat because of you,” the developer said. “Before that we were MCA supporters. But because of you for the first time we all supported Pakatan Rakyat.” (Johan menyebut dia hanya mewakili Azmin Ali dan jika mahu Azmin boleh didatangkan untuk kepastian lanjut.Para pemaju ini hanya menyebut mereka akan fikirkan tentang itu. Pemaju tersebut menelefon saya memaki hamun saya. "kamu undi PR sebab kamu. Sebelum ni kami penyokong MCA. Sebab kamulah pertama kali kami sokong PR.")

“What’s the difference between Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional if they also ask for bribes?” the developer screamed. The developer then asked me what he should do. “Should I pay the money?” he asked. “Can I get a guarantee that I will get my approval after I pay?” I told the developer that we kicked out Barisan Nasional and replaced it with Pakatan Rakyat because we wanted to end corruption. If we now pay under-the-table money to Pakatan Rakyat, then why the hell did we bother to kick out Barisan Nasional? We might as well have just retained Barisan Nasional. ("Apa bezanya PR dan BN kalau mereka juga mintak rasuah?". Pemaju itu kemudian bertanyakan saya apa yang patut di lakukan. Perlukan mereka membayar permintaan itu. "Adakah saya dijamin mendapat kelulusan selepas membayarnya?". Saya memberitahu si pemaju itu, kita undi Pakatan Rakyat untuk menamatkan rasuah. Tapi jika kini kita perlu membayar suapan bawah meja kepada Pakatan Rakyat, mengapa susah-payah kita perlu menendang BN? Kan lebih baik kekalkan sahaja BN?)

The developer did not pay the money and, of course, his project is now in tatters. But he swore he was going to campaign against Pakatan Rakyat in the coming general election.(Si pemaju tidak membayar rasuah tersebut dan sudah tentu kini projeknya tersangkut. Dia bersumpah akan berkempen menentang Pakatan Rakyat dalam PRU mendatang.)

Bacaan lanjut : Malaysia Today