Kenyataan Media Ahli-Ahli Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara yang Mewakili Pihak Pembangkang Parlimen Mengenai Laporan PAC Terhadap 1MDB

1. Laporan Ketua Audit Negara Mengenai 1MDB 

Kami  ingin  menegaskan  sekali  lagi  supaya  Pengerusi  PAC  memberikan  jaminan  bahawa Laporan Ketua Audit Negara mengenai 1MDB akan dibentangkan kepada Parlimen.

Keengganan  Pengerusi  PAC,  Datuk  Hasan  Arifin  untuk  mengulas  sebab  Laporan  tersebut tidak dibentangkan  bersama  Laporan  PAC  terhadap  1MDB  telah  menjejaskan integriti Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara sebagai sebuah institusi yang dipertanggungjawabkan oleh Parlimen untuk menjaga penggunaan hasil kerajaan.

Apatah  lagi,  Pengerusi  PAC  telah  memberikan  gambaran  kepada  media  bahawa  Laporan PAC   tidak  mempersalahkan  Perdana  Menteri,  maka  tiadalah  keperluan  lagi  untuk merahsiakan Laporan Ketua Audit Negara.

2. Hansard Prosiding PAC Laporan

PAC  telah  mengandungi  Hansard  prosiding  PAC  yang  merakamkan segala  soalan, jawapan dan pembentangan oleh saksi-saksi yang dipanggil oleh jawatankuasa.

Akan tetapi, Hansard yang merekodkan

• pembentangan  dan  perbincangan  Laporan  Ketua  Audit  Negara  antara  Jabatan Audit Negara dengan PAC
• perbincangan  antara  ahli-ahli  PAC dan  juga  pegawai-pegawai  kerajaan  bertugas semasa menyediakan Laporan PAC 

tidak diterbitkan dan dibentangkan kepada Parlimen.

Hansard-Hansard  ini  merupakan  rekod  yang  penting  untuk  mendapatkan gambaran  yang lebih menyeluruh mengenai siasatan PAC ke atas 1MDB.

Tambahan  pula,  segala  mesyuarat  PAC  merupakan  mesyuarat  rasmi  di  bawah  Peraturan Mesyuarat  Dewan  Rakyat  di  mana  Hansard  atau  buku  penyata  rasmi  mesyuarat  perlu diterbitkan.

Peraturan  Mesyarat  10(1)  menyebut  bahawa sebuah  buku  penyata  rasmi  mesyuarat mengandungi  semua  ucapan-ucapan  yang  dikeluarkan  dalam  Majlis  Mesyuarat  dan  dalam Jawatankuasa sebuah-buah Majlis Mesyuarat, hendaklah disediakan...͟

Oleh  itu,  kami  menggesa  supaya  Pengerusi  PAC  akan  menerbitkan  kesemua  Hansard  yang tertunggak sekurang-kurangnya di dalam laman web Parlimen.

3. Perbezaan antara Laporan PAC yang diluluskan dengan Laporan PAC yang diterbitkan 

Kami  telah  mendapati  bahawa  Pengerusi  PAC  telah  membuat  penyuntingan  yang sirius  ke atas Laporan yang telah diluluskan oleh mesyuarat PAC pada 4hb April 2016.

Laporan  PAC  pada   mukasurat  25,   menyebut   bahawa berdasarkan   dokumen   yang dikemukakan  oleh  Datuk  Shahrol  Azral  pada  5  Jun  2015  dan  kenyataan  beliau  semasa mesyuarat  Jawatankuasa  Kira-Kira  Wang  Negara  (PAC)  pada  25  November  2015,  akaun tersebut  adalah  milik  Good  Star  Limited  yang  merupakan  subsidiari  Kumpulan  PetroSaudi sejak 1 September 2009.

Akan  tetapi,  Pengerusi  PAC  telah  memotong  sepatah  ayat  lagi  yang  telah disetujui  dalam mesyuarat.  Ayat  tersebut  berbunyi Bank  Negara  Malaysia  (BNM)  telah  dimaklum  secara sukarela  oleh  pihak  berkuasa  negara  berkenan  bahawa  Good  Star  Limited merupakan sebuah syarikat  yang dimiliki  oleh  seorang  individu  yang tiada berkaitan dengan Kumpulan PetroSaudi.

Tindakan Pengerusi PAC untuk memotong ayat yang telah dipersetujui  oleh mesyuarat PAC merupakan  satu  tindakan  yang  jelas  melanggar  peraturan  mesyuarat  dan  menimbulkan kecurigaan  terhadap  niat  Pengerusi  untuk  menutup  kes.Datuk  Hasan  Arifin  tidak  pernah membincang perkara tersebut dengan kami, sama ada secara rasmi atau tidak rasmi.

Pada  masa  yang  sama,  atas  permintaan  PAC,  Datuk  Hasan  Arifin  juga  memaklum  bahawa beliau  telah  menulis  surat  kepada  Bank  Negara  untuk  mendapat  maklumat  tambahan mengenai  pemilik  individu  tersebut. Kami  belum  tahu  sama  ada  balasan  daripada  BNM telah diterima oleh Pengerusi.

Kami  menyeru  supaya  Datuk  Hasan  Arifin  memperbetulkan  Laporan  PAC  dengan  serta-merta melalui satu kertas pembetulan kepada Parlimen.

4. Pembatalan Perjanjian Debt-Asset Swap dengan IPIC 

Dengan   berita   terbaru   semalam   bahawa   pihak  International  Petroleum  Investment Corporation (IPIC)  telah  membatalkan  perjanjian  debt-asset  swap  dengan  1MDB,  kami meminta supaya Datuk Hasan Arifin akan memanggil mesyuarat PAC secepat mungkin untuk membincang perkara ini.

Ia  adalah  kerana  1MDB  telah  memberikan  gambaran  palsu  bahawa  pelan  rasionalisasi syarikat telah berjalan dengan lancar dan 1MDB  tidak akan memerlukan sebarang  bantuan daripada kerajaan untuk menyelesaikan pinjaman-pinjamannya yang melebihi RM50 bilion.

Akan  tetapi  semalam,  Kementerian  Kewangan  telah  mengeluarkan  kenyataan  bahawa kerajaan Malaysia akan menanggung kesemua obligasi 1MDB yang tidak dapat diselesaikan oleh syarikat.

Ahli-ahli  PAC  Pembangkang  bersedia  untuk  bekerjasama  dengan  ahli-ahli PAC  penyokong kerajaan untuk mendapatkan maklumat sebenar daripada siasatan tambah terhadap 1MDB.

Dikeluarkan oleh:
Tan Seng Giaw, Timbalan Pengerusi PAC
Datuk Kamarul Baharin
William Leong
Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan
Tony Pua

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Delloite, 1MDB's (not so) Invisible Shield

Dato’ Seri Najib Razak needs to stop using Deloitte auditors like an invisible shield which will be able to deflect all bullets and start giving some real answers.

The Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Najib Razak has been touring the country to defend his flagship investment baby, 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) in the light of heavy criticisms pouring in against the company and his leadership in managing the company.

While Dato’ Seri Najib Razak, who is also the Finance Minister, pleaded for the critics to wait for the investigation reports by the Auditor-General before judging 1MDB, he himself have no qualms to immediately absolve 1MDB from any wrong-doings, embezzlement and misappropriations.

Last Saturday, he had the nerve to tell UMNO Selangor members in Klang that "the [1MDB] RM42 billion is not lost. There, the 70 acres TRX and 500 acres Bandar Malaysia lands." That argument is ridiculous because 1MDB only paid RM1.86 billion for these pieces of land.

Yesterday, he tried to convince the UMNO former lawmakers’ club, Mubarak, that RM42 billion could not have disappeared “because the accounts were audited by Deloitte. Auditors will not sign if even RM1 million is missing. Now it is said that RM42 billion has vanished. How can it vanish? It hasn't vanished, there are assets, there are liabilities."

This argument takes the same line as the one taken by the 1MDB Board of Directors where they stressed last week “that 1MDB accounts are audited by an international audit firm, Deloitte”. It said that Deloitte signed off 1MDB’s 2013 and 2014 accounts without qualification.

For the well-informed, the attempt to use Deloitte as a shield is clearly misleading and disingenuous.

Firstly, Deloitte could very well have abetted or assisted 1MDB in producing their “unqualified” accounts. Such complicity would not be the first as we have seen how the world’s largest auditing firm, Arthur Andersen collapsed overnight over their role in the multi-billion dollar Enron financial scandal in the United States.

Deloitte has at the very least been negligent because 1MDB failed to produce the necessary funds to repay a RM2 billion loan at the end of November 2014, despite the auditors signing off the accounts in the first week of the same month. Surely a firm with facing such imminent going concern crisis should never have had their accounts signed off without even an “emphasis of matter”.

Alternatively, the management of 1MDB could very well have misled Deloitte. For example, it was recently exposed by The Sarawak Report that 1MDB’s bank statements in BSI Bank, Singapore were purportedly forged and circulated by the top management of 1MDB to secure loans from lending banks.

Secondly, while Deloitte did sign off the 1MDB accounts for March 2013 and 2014, it did not mean that there were no questionable elements highlighted in the financial statements.

While the balance sheet of 1MDB in 2014 would show that it has RM51.4 billion of assets which is more than its RM50.0 billion of liabilities, the Auditors classified 26% of these assets or RM13.4 billion as “Level 3” assets. “Level 3” assets are where “fair value measurements are those derived from valuation techniques that include inputs… that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).”

In other words, the Auditors have put on record that they are unable to vouch for the veracity and accuracy of these numbers which were supplied by the 1MDB management. Therefore even a mere 20% shortfall in the above “Level 3” asset valuation would trigger a severe liquidity crisis by 1MDB, as we witness today.

The RM13.4 billion “Level 3” assets doesn’t even include another questionable US$1.4 billion (RM5 billon) pledged to Aabar Investment PJS as collateral for the guarantee provided by the latter’s parent, International Petroleum Investment Corporation (IPIC).

If 1MDB is as healthy as Dato’ Seri Najib Razak insists it is, then there would have been no need for the company to beg local billionaire, Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan to arrange for a RM2 billion loan to assist 1MDB to repay its matured debt. There would also not have been a need for the Cabinet to approve an emergency RM950 million “standby credit facility” for 1MDB to service its outsized loans.

Therefore, the Prime Minister must stop misleading the people of Malaysia with half-truths and lies by claiming that being audited by Deloitte is proof that 1MDB is in the pink of health. While the UMNO brethen may not know any better, such attempts to absolve 1MDB and himself from the monster scandal only serve to worsen his credibility and reputation in the financial community.



Tony Pua

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