Negri Umno warlords seek to unseat MB

Negri Sembilan Umno warlords are using allegations of an illegal money transfer to unseat the unpopular Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, whose aides denied the mentri besar is under central bank probe.

“We believe that there is no point letting the issue being exploited by the opposition, the leadership must take action, now we are just waiting for the president's return,” a Negri Sembilan division chief told The Malaysian Insider.

Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak is now attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2009 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Mohamad, who became mentri besar in 2004, is currently under Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) probe for allegedly transferring funds amounting to RM10 million to London through a money changer, Salamath Ali.

An aide to Mohamad said the BNM probe has nothing to do with his employer.

“The investigation is against the money changer and not against Datuk,” the aide told

It's  understands that Mohamad has privately blamed his staff for making him use the services of the money changer.

Pakatan Rakyat's Batu MP Chua Tian Chang revealed the matter after the central bank said Salamath Ali Money Changer had contravened Section 30 of the Money Changing Act 1998 and its licence had been revoked on Oct 26.

State Umno warlords are making their moves now to prevent the issue from being further exploited by the opposition.

“He is already not liked by 80 per cent of the Umno members here, so this case will not be ignored,” said the division chief.

The state Umno warlord pointed out that despite the blackout by the English and Bahasa Malaysia mainstream press, the issue has found its way to the party grassroots via text messages.

“Umno members in Jempol, Kuala Pilah, Rembau they don't access the Internet, so initially only civil servants talked about it, later people started sending SMS on 'kes duit haram MB',” he said.

Mohamad came under fire from Negri Sembilan opposition leader Loke Siew Fook during the state assembly sitting over the issue but the Rantau assemblyman kept mum and refused to give an explanation.

Opposition lawmakers have also called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to conduct a probe into the scandal.

Mohamad had also refused to talk about the matter openly at a press conference early this month.


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At the rate corrupt practices by the Government are being uncovered, the MACC will collapsed !! Good riddence to a corrupt MACC the !!

Holy cow head! Mohamad is already being set up by his party colleagues to be sacrificed. He is the last leftover of the Badawi era. His mistake - he overstayed his welcome.

There should be more political sacrifice like this.

This RM10 million duit haram case is too huge for MACC to investigate.
First MACC will say,there is no police report and secondly,MACC can
only investigate case amount of RM2500-00.EVen RM112-00 involving
PR Selangor reps. is better and less headache..

What about The Sunday Star Headlines Billions Siphoned ..up to 60%
of Govt.allocations..running into Billions of ringgit..meant for vital infrastructure
projects between 2002 and 2008 have been misappropriated.No wonder the
richest man in Sarawak, who is a high profile BN politician, can own a bank and
palm oil plantations.

As a gift to poor malaysians and senior citizens,PM Najib
introduced a RM50-00 credit card charges and a 5% Property gain tax during his
2009 budget.Now PM Najib wants to introduce 4% GST within the next 24 months
to cover his deficit budget..

PM Najib,most if not all UMNO/BN politicians are corrupted,
all you need to do is just plug all these leakages,the billions saved will be many folds
more than what you are asking Malaysian to pay for Credit Card,Property Gain TAx and
GST.Malaysians,you deserved what you get when you elected all these monkeys to handle
bananas,just make sure that come 13 General Election,we need to elect a novice pool
of politicians to cleanse the cancerous rot,after 52 yrs of UMNO/BN rule.

Funny how efficient some people can be when the moment they find out their leader is tainted and wants immediate actions against him/her, but can barely move like an ant with asthma when the a higher leader is tainted with murder.