The Cabinet has heard and accepted the home minister’s explanation on the letter he wrote to the Federal Bureau of Investigation advocating for gambling kingpin Paul Phua, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman.
Malaysiakini reported Anifah as saying that Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi provided an explanation at a recent cabinet meeting.
In the letter, Zahid cleared Phua of being involved in a triad, and vouched for him as a "government asset" for national security projects.
"We listened to the explanation put forward by him and we had agreed to accept the explanation given," Anifah was quoted saying by the news portal.
Anifah declined to reveal what Zahid said, adding that the media should question the home minister on the subject.
Phua, a former Macau casino junket operator, faces illegal sports betting charges in Las Vegas, Nevada, after being arrested during last year's FIFA World Cup football in Brazil. His son also faces the same charges.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday told the media that the cabinet was not aware of Zahid's letter dated December 18, 2014.
The letter only came to light when it was exposed in an article by the South China Morning Post.
No Putrajaya official has commented on the letter and Zahid himself has kept mum.
But, Umno lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, claiming that Phua's lawyers in the US had contacted him, held a press conference to say that Zahid wrote the letter at the request of the lawyers to "correct" information given by the Malaysian police to the FBI in 2008.
The police are upset as the letter contradicts their intelligence work on Phua, who they have found to be involved with the Hong Kong 14K triad.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar defended the police by saying that although the 14K did not exist in Malaysia, "there are Malaysians abroad who are known to be members of the triad".
The police also feel Zahid failed to follow procedures by not checking the facts on Phua, not obtaining legal advice before sending it, and not going through the foreign ministry as required.
Zahid has been severely condemned by opposition politicians and Malay right wing group Perkasa for acting unilaterally and abusing his office. – January 14, 20/
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admin: berdasarkan laporan berita tersebut maka benarlah surat di atas yang dihantar oleh Menteri Dalan Negeri Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi kepada FBI berhubung kes Paul Phua . In bukan cerita dongeng, ini betul-betul
Sekadar mencari penjelasan, benar dan sahih kah surat ini? Yang dikatakan dari DR Zahid Hamidi kepada FBI berhubung kes penahanan rakyat Malaysia iaitu Phua Wei Seng aka Paul Phua yang dikatakan antara 'King Of Gambler' yang dikatakan terlibat dengan Kumpulan 14K Triad yang dikaitakan dengan jenayah perdagangan dadah, pengubahan wang haram serta perjudian haram. hasil selidikan google, ini adalah Phua Wei Seng aka Mr Paul Phua:
When FBI agents went into Villa 8882 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on the afternoon of July 9, they found Wei Seng Phua and his son watching the World Cup semifinal between the Netherlands and Argentina.
Phua, a regular at the Poker King Club inMacau where seven-figure pots are common, had flown in from the former Portuguese colony on his private jet two weeks earlier. He travels on a diplomatic passport from San Marino, hobnobs with the world’s top professional poker players, and according to the FBI, he’s a high-ranking member of a Hong Kong-based triad.
When the FBI entered their villa, the father and son and a third man had their laptops switched on to betting websites showing the live odds for the game and instant messaging windows. In two of the hotel’s adjacent villas, which rent for a minimum of $25,000 a night, investigators discovered other members of Phua’s group amid clusters of computers and monitors and three large-screen televisions showing soccer games.
During the Federal Bureau of Investigation raid, a woman working on a laptop was ordered to put her hands up. She raised one hand and continued typing on a betting website with the other, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S.
Photographer: Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg
Wei Seng Phua, a Malaysian citizen who also goes by Paul Phua, and his son are due… Read More
Phua, 50, a Malaysian citizen who also goes by Paul Phua, and his son are due today in federal court to answer to charges they ran an illegal gambling business out of the Caesars Palace villas. Phua and his associates, six of whom are set to be arraigned Aug. 7, were using the SBOBet and IBCBet sports betting websites, neither of which is licensed to operate in Nevada, to monitor odds and place bets, according to federal prosecutors.
Sport Betting
Those are the two biggest online sport betting commission businesses in the world, according to Chris Eaton, former head of security at soccer’s governing body FIFA. Eaton, now a director at Doha, Qatar-based International Centre for Sport Security, estimated that each company turns over about $2 billion a week.
Of more than 8,000 operators offering sports betting worldwide, most do so without obtaining authorizations required in the countries where their clients are located, making about 80 percent of all sports bets illegal, according to a May 2014 report by the Sorbonne University and International Centre for Sport Security.
David Chesnoff, Phua’s lawyer, said his client will plead not guilty “as loudly as possible.”
“He intends to vigorously defend the case,” Chesnoff said in a phone interview.
Poker Players
Phua and his 22-year-old son, Wai-kit Phua (aka: Darren Phua), are out on bail after two professional poker players posted $2.5 million in cash bonds and Phua’s $48-million Gulfstream G550 was secured as collateral. The poker players, Andrew Robl and Phil Ivey, who has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, are friends of Phua, Chesnoff said.
Phua’s lawyer described him as an “entrepreneur.” The Justice Department said in a court filing that he’s a high-ranking member of an Asian organized-crime group, the 14K Triad. Triads are involved in the illegal drug trade, money laundering, illegal gambling and extortion rackets.
Chesnoff denied the allegation, saying he wasn’t going “to dignify it with a response,” and said his client was a “complete gentleman.”
Phua at one point provided so-called junket services to the Macau subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) He was the owner of Sat Ieng, a licensed operator that brought high rollers to the casino’s VIP rooms in exchange for a share of the turnover, according to a 2006 filing by Teem Foundation Group Ltd., a Hong Kong company that invested in Phua’s business.
When he was arrested last month, Phua told federal agents he was betting on the World Cup through someone in the Philippines named “Foo.” He also told them he has invested $200 million in the IBC website and that he had bet “between $200 million and $300 million in Hong Kong money” since arriving at Villa 8882 on June 23, according to the complaint. In a separate interview, Darren Phua said his father owns IBC.
Macau Run-In
The FBI raid in Las Vegas wasn’t the Phua’s first run-in with law enforcement over alleged World Cup betting.
He was arrested in June in Macau, together more than 20 other people, for operating an illegal sports book gambling business, U.S. prosecutors said. Phua and his associates handled “hundreds of millions of dollars” in illegal bets on World Cup games, the government said.
After his June 18 arrest, Phua posted bail in Macau and flew to Las Vegas on his private plane. He has a diplomatic passport from the Republic of San Marino, for which he is the ambassador toMontenegro, according to a July 14 court filing by his lawyer.
Phua and his associates from Malaysia, China and Hong Kong already had set up shop in Caesars Palace by then, according to U.S. prosecutors. They had rented Villas 8881, 8882 and 8888 earlier in June. The number 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture and the tail number of Phua’s Gulfstream is N888XS, according to the complaint.
Electronic Equipment
The group aroused suspicion when they asked for an unusually large amount of electronic equipment and technical support, according to court documents. After casino electrical engineers had gone into one of the villas to set up equipment, they told security that it looked like an illegal gambling operation, with computers displaying betting odds similar to the screens at the casino’s sports book.
An undercover FBI agent went along with an IT technician to Villa 8882, the one occupied by Phua, on July 4 to set up a new laptop computer. The butler, also a hotel employee, refused to let them enter beyond the pantry, saying the guests didn’t want anyone to “see their business,” according to the criminal complaint.
The following day, two undercover FBI agents went to the villa, after an urgent request for help with the DSL connection right before the Belgium vs. Argentina game, and saw Phua clicking on the odds shown on the SBOBet site, which is licensed in Asia and Europe but not in the U.S.
In a search of his laptop after the raid, the FBI found a message from someone using name “byronchia” to Phua that said “Hi Boss.” It listed what agents calculated was a grand total of HK$2.75 billion ($357 million) in gambling for the World Cup through July 5, according to the criminal complaint.
Self-Surrender
Phua wasn’t immediately taken into custody after July 9 raid. He was arrested four days later in the lobby of the Palazzo hotel even though he had agreed to surrender, according to the July 14 filing by his lawyer.
Phua and his associates face as long as five years in prison if convicted of running an illicit gambling business and two years for unlawful transmission of wagering information, according to the U.S.
Gary Thompson, a spokesman for Caesars Entertainment Inc., declined to comment on the alleged gambling hub at the villas, which the government said was set up without the consent of the casino.
SBOBet said in a July 17 statement that neither Phua or the other defendants have any association with the ownership or management of the company. The company also said it doesn’t accept bets from the U.S. and that any alleged wagers placed by the accused on its site “could only have been made illegally.”
Representatives of Firstright Developments Ltd., a Philippine company that owns IBCBet according to its website, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on Phua’s involvement with IBCBet and his alleged use of the website in Las Vegas.
The case is U.S. v. Phua, 14-cr-00249, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada (Las Vegas). dan ini juga lagi maklumat berkaitan beliau "Free at last, free at last. Malaysian national Wei Seng ‘Paul’ Phua, the high-stakes poker player and reputed owner of Asian online gambling giant IBCbet, was (finally) released on bail late Monday. Phua, his son Darren and six other individuals had been arrested in Las Vegas earlier this month after reportedly running a FIFA World Cup online betting operation out of three high-roller villas at Caesars Palace. The indictment claims the ring handled as much as $360m in wagers – primarily from Asian bettors but at least some from US residents – before police turned off the taps.
Although Phua’s high-stakes poker buddies Phil Iveyand Andrew Robi had put up $2.5m in cash to enable Phua & Son to make bail, the accused pair was quickly re-detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials ahead of an expected deportation proceeding. Late Monday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Phuas had been released from ICE custody. The pair will reportedly wear GPS ankle bracelets while residing at the home of a Las Vegas doctor until there’s some kind of resolution to their legal difficulties. In addition to the $2.5m cash, the elder Phua has put up his $48m Gulfstream jet as collateral.
Many observers have wondered why Phua, who was among those arrested in June in Macau for what authorities called the biggest sports betting bust in the SAR’s history, chose to immediately fly to the United States (of all places) in order to continue his activities. The tantalizing suggestion has since emerged that Phua might have been relying on diplomatic immunity to ward off any fallout from his sports betting escapades.
On Tuesday, the South China Morning Post reported that Phua had been serving as the Republic of San Marino’s non-resident ambassador to Montenegro since February 1, 2011, an appointment that allowed him to hold a diplomatic passport. In June 2011, San Marino’s foreign minister told online news portal Libertas that Phua’s gaming ties would help bring about construction of a luxury hotel project in the Italian city-state, although no hotel was ever built.
It seems Phua’s diplomatic undoing came about because his status was never formalized, as Phua apparently never submitted his credentials to the appropriate authorities in Montenegro for approval. That ship has now sailed following Phua’s arrest in Macau, which prompted San Marino to rescind the nomination and ask Phua to return his passport.
Meanwhile, Ivey has reportedly pledged between $500k and $1m to bail out another suspect in the case. Court filings say Ivey is going to bat for 22-year-old Malaysian poker player Wai Kin Yong, whose 56-year-old father is also among those charged. Seng Chen ‘Richard’ Yong, who placed eighth in the inaugural Big One For One Drop super-high-roller tourney, is also a junket operator in Macau and is willing to post his own bail, provided the authorities allow him access to the $2m he reportedly has stashed in a Caesars Palace safe. US Magistrate Judge Bill Hoffman is expected to issue a decision on the Yongs’ incarceration later this week.
sumber: http://www.thewhistleblowers.org/
Admin sengaja mempaparkan cerita asal dalam Bahasa Inggeris bagi memastikan maklumat asal tidak disalah tafsirkan tentang maklumat yang didapati.
Cuma kemusykilan adalah, jika surat di atas adalah SAHIH, apa sebenarnya motif pembelaan Kerajaan Malaysia terhadap Mr Phua ini jika benar latar belakangnya adalah perjudian.
Tentu ada hubungan yang penting di antara orang penting kerajaan dengan Mr Phua ini.
Have you pieced together the puzzle of missing flight 370 to Beijing China ?? If not, here are your missing pieces. In this bizarre case of the missing Malaysian airliner, one plus one is starting to equal two. I found these facts to be very fascinating and may add a bit more into your own thoughts on what could have happened to this plane.
Interesting Developments:
On September 15, 2006, Freescale agreed to a $17.6 billion buyout by a consortium led by Blackstone Group and its co-investors, Carlyle Group, TPG Capital, and Permira. The buyout offer was accepted on November 13, 2006 following a vote by company shareholders.
The US technological company, Freescale Semiconductor, who shared its rights with Rothschild, had twenty senior members on board who had just launched a new electronic warfare gadget for military radar system’s the day before the plane went missing. (The patent on this was not approved until after the flight went missing!)
The Semiconductor company develops microprocessors, sensors, and other technology including stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions.
Freescale previously confirmed that the 20 employees — 12 from Malaysia and eight from China — were among 239 people on flight MH370. The company has not released the names of those employees, and again declined to do so on Monday.”, as reported by Brian Gaar, the American Statesman, Mar. 24.
It has also been mentioned in a statement by a company spokesperson that the employees who were aboard MH370, were extremely talented and valuable in the technological field.
Of the 239 people aboard flight MH370, most of them were engineers and others working to make the company’s chip facilities in Tianjin, China and Kuala Lumpur more efficient.
“These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people,” Haws said. “It’s definitely a loss for the company.” Mitch Haws vice president of global communications and investors relations
According to the Freescale’s website, operations for the company began in 1972 and covered an eight hectare site that tests and manufactures microprocessors, digital signal processors and integrated radio frequency circuits.
Furthermore it owns Freescale RF which is involved in making solutions for Aerospace and Defense including: Battlefield communications, Avionics, HF Radar – Band L and S, Missile Guidance, Electronic Warfare, and Identification (IFF).
In fact it’s been reported that Peid Ong Wang, Suzhou, Zhijun Chen, Suzhou, Zhihong Cheng, Suzhou and Li Ying, Suzhou, Freescale employees from China who were said to have been onboard flight 370, were each 20% holders of U.S. Patent #US008671381B1. Shockingly, the remaining 20% has been reported to be held by Freescale Semiconductor Ltd., which now after the disappearance of flight 370 becomes the sole patent holder. In laymen’s terms, Lord Jacob Rothschild is now the patent holder by virtue of invested interest into Freescale Semiconductor Ltd.
To bring things further into perspective, putting the icing on the cake, the Rothschild dynasty owns the Malaysian Central Bank which in-turn is heavily invested into the Malaysian government and Malaysian Airlines.
Is this just another coincidence?
Join us in praying for the passengers and their families as we try to make sense of this mystery.
As the conventional news coverage of Flight 370 becomes increasingly delusional and detached from reality, for the sake of all those families and loved ones still suffering I thought it important to publish a reality check that can help bring the discussion back to some common sense.
Let’s cover five indisputable facts about governments, radar and aircraft:
Fact #1) Every modern nation tracks air traffic with military radar systems
All the key nations involved in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 run military radar systems 24/7. This includes Malaysia and India, of course. These radar systems are operated for purposes of national defense, making sure each nation can identify aircraft entering its air space.
If you don’t believe that military-grade radar systems can track the altitude, direction and speed of a Boeing 777, then you don’t believe in radar at all.
Fact #2) Every modern nation runs civilian air traffic control “passive” radar systems that work even without aircraft transponders
Beyond the military radar, modern nations also run air traffic control radar systems which work in both “active” (transponder) modes and “passive” mode (requiring no transponder). Although civilian air traffic control systems are generally not as powerful or accurate as military systems, they are nonetheless fully capable of detecting and tracking a Boeing 777.
In fact, as any air traffic controller will tell you, their radar systems are fully capable of tracking flocks of birds and other airborne objects which are far smaller than a Boeing 777.
Fact #3) A Boeing 777 has a massive radar signature
Unless equipped with some sort of exotic technology we’ve never heard of — like a radar “invisibility cloak” borrowed from the Klingons of Star Trek — a Boeing 777 has a massive radar signature. The cylindrical fuselage, curved wings and surface controls (flaps, ailerons, rudder) all reflect radar waves with very high efficiency. A commercial Boeing aircraft is not a stealth bomber.
The explanation that this Boeing 777 “vanished” from radar simply doesn’t hold water. And if the explanation is that “the pilot flew the aircraft at very low elevation to evade radar,” then it makes no sense that the pilot would carry out this complex evasion for 4-7 hours and then plunge the aircraft into the Indian Ocean.
Furthermore, a suicidal pilot has no need to evade radar in the first place! If he wanted to crash the plane, he could have done it immediately after takeoff, or at any point during the first few minutes of flight. There is no need to evade radar if you wish to consciously crash the aircraft.
Fact #4) Boeing 777 aircraft cannot survive a collision with the ocean and remain intact
One of the most ridiculous theories currently being floated around the mainstream media — and written by journalists who apparently have no education in fundamental physics or flight mechanics — is that Flight 370 “crashed” into the Indian Ocean and somehow magically remained fully intact!
Although it’s comforting to think that airplanes are made of incredibly strong steel that can withstand high-velocity impacts with bodies of water, the far more sobering truth is that aircraft are flimsy structures made primarily of aluminum. Aircraft are not rigid; they flex and bend, even during flight. If you’ve ever watched the wings during flight, you’ve no doubt noticed that they have a surprisingly wide range of movement, almost as if the wings are flapping. An aircraft fuselage moves, bends, expands and compresses due to changes in temperature, ambient pressure and structural stress.
A large commercial aircraft that crashes into water simply cannot remain intact. While there are some miraculous water landings where skilled pilots were able to “land” aircraft on water thanks to near-stall speeds, flaps and amazing flying skills, a full-speed crash into water can never result in the aircraft remaining fully intact. The nose, wings, fuselage and tail would all be torn apart by impact with a body of water.
Even many attempted “water landings” still result in huge structural failures of the aircraft, as seen in this photo of a relatively gentle water landing of a flight headed for Bali:
An actual crash into water would produce a massive amount of debris, including seats, bodies and other debris easy to spot from satellite imagery or rescue searches.
Fact #5) A vanishing of Flight 370 would have taken the cooperation of governments
Here’s the most astonishing fact of all: because of all the facts stated above, the vanishing of Flight 370 must have required intentional planning and action from at least one government (and possibly more). Somebody is covering up the truth of what happened to MH370, and it looks almost certain that the Malaysian government is part of this cover-up, as I previously reported.
The mainstream media is extremely reluctant to ever report on any sort of government cover-up, preferring to pretend that governments are always transparent and honest with the people of the world. Although such an idea is utterly laughable, it remains the default position of the conventional media. That’s why the media prefers to run with other theories such as “pilot suicide” or “flight accident,” neither of which withstand scrutiny of the facts. (Case in point: If it crashed into the ocean, the black boxes would have been transmitting their location for weeks now, and they would be easy to find.)
World governments routinely lie and deceive the public, of course. As a simple example of that, the U.S. government has now been exposed as spying on all the other governments of the world with an above-top-secret NSA spy program revealed by Edward Snowden. Before his revelations, anyone suggesting the government was “listening to your phone calls” was immediately called a crackpot by the clueless conventional media. Now, of course, we all have come to realize that the NSA really is recording all your phone calls, text messages, social media posts and financial transactions. This is no longer a secret. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s business as usual at the highest levels of government. And yes, it’s wildly illegal, but it goes on nonetheless.
That’s why the idea that a government “couldn’t possibly have lied about Flight 370″ is preposterous. Of course a government could lie about Flight 370. It is far harder for any government to tell the truth than to lie, in fact. And the government of Malaysia no more adheres to truth and transparency than the U.S. government, the Russian government or even the government of China. All governments routinely lie to the public almost by default. To expect a government to tell you the truth about anything is to live in fantasy land.
But if you are crazy enough to believe that governments never lie, then I’m happy to report to you that Obamacare now has 6 million enrollees who have all paid their insurance premiums, the national debt of the USA is rapidly shrinking by the hour, nobody in Washington D.C. ever abuses power, the gun-running conspiracy by California Democratic Senator Leland Yee never happened and your tax dollars are always put to a positive purpose for the betterment of society.
Conclusion
Flight 370 most likely did not crash; it was almost certainly taken over (possibly by remote control) and flown to a destination with all passengers alive and the aircraft in one piece.
What happens from there is anyone’s guess, but the most likely use of such a stolen aircraft is to turn it into a massive airborne weapons delivery system to be outfitted with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. Believe me when I say this is the real scenario being discussed behind closed doors at the Pentagon. The “pilot suicide” explanation is merely the sucker’s version of events for public consumption.
