Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan’s decision to choose foreign legal channels to put pressure on Malaysia over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) issue can be deemed as sabotaging the country, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.
He said the actions of the former vice-head of the Batu Kawan Umno division were clearly seen as aimed at challenging the Malaysian legal system.
“It also tarnishes the credibility of the local enforcement agencies and invites foreign intervention in the democratic system of this country.
“His actions are a form of sabotage that can affect the economic stability and sovereignty of this country,” he said in a statement late tonight.
Khalid also said police would carry out detailed investigations on allegations that the information supplied by Khairuddin to the foreign agencies concerned was false.
The statement was issued in response to a media statement … condemning Prime Minister for using the police force to arrest Khairuddin.
The job of the IGP is to carry out the law, not to make it up as he goes along.
Increasingly, the man has started to impersonate the mad and imperious Queen of Hearts from the scenes in Alice in Wonderland, who barks “off with their head!” in all directions – logic and law cast aside as irrelevant annoyances.
If something disturbs his ‘boss’, then it has to be illegal, according to this IGP, even though he has just been snubbed by his own High Court in the matter of The Edge and by Interpol with respect to Sarawak Report.
Despite such rebuffs, he remains willing to make a consistent fool of himself in front of the sniggering media (well they would be sniggering if his behaviour were not so egregious to the well being of the individuals whose rights he is abusing) by coming up with all manner of off-the-cuff ‘legal justifications’ for his various abuses.
True, Najib’s recent laws have a delectable catch-all quality to them, in order to justify imprisoning anyone he likes in the name of catching terrorists.
However, to complain that foreign agencies have no right to investigate crimes in their own jurisdictions which relate to 1MDB and therefore that Khairuddin is ‘criminal’ to report to them, is beyond even Queen of Hearts poppycock.
Najib Razak, himeself chose to put 1MDB under the jurisdiction of others when he decided to deal in dollars and to use the banks of foreign nations and invest in foreign countries, all of whom he was well aware had signed up to international regulatory and anti-money laundering rules.
These entities are obliged to investigate abuses of those regulations, so Najib should stop locking up locals who alert them and start worrying about indulging in so much foreign travel!