Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Singapore charges Zulfikar Shariff with passport offences : More complications for PM in waiting Anwar Ibrahim, adviser Rahim Ghouse

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


ChannelNewsAsia has reported: 

A man who was detained in 2016 under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was charged on Thursday (Oct 8) with lying in his passport application.


Mohamad Shariff Zulfikar (aka Zulfikar Shariff) , a 49-year-old Australia citizen, was charged in the State Courts with one count of making a false statement in connection with a Singapore passport application.

He is accused of falsely declaring that he had not acquired another citizenship while applying for a Singapore passport on Dec 11, 2013. The declaration was made via an electronic application, the charge sheet said.

Shariff was detained under the ISA in July 2016 for terrorism-related activities, the Ministry of Home Affairs said then.

He influenced others with radical messages and material he propagated online, including “numerous Facebook postings glorifying and promoting Isis and their violent actions, while exploiting religion to legitimise the terrorist activities of ISIS”.


He had embarked on the path of radicalism as early as 2001 after reading jihadi-related material, said MHA, supporting terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah, and advocating Muslims to take up arms in Afghanistan after the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US.

According to MHA, Shariff resettled his family in Australia in 2002 and continued to pursue radical ideology.



Readers of this blog will be familiar with the works of Zulfikar Shariff, going back to the matter of Commercial IBT, Anwar Ibrahim and Rahim Ghouse.


TO BE READ WITH 



Friday, June 14, 2019

Singapore's custody of Zulfikar Shariff provides leverage over Rahim Ghouse,adviser to Wan Azizah,and Anwar Ibrahim

by Ganesh Sahathevan

11:04 PM - 19 Aug 2013-Tweet from Saifuddin Nasution,happy that he is buying durian in the
company of Dr Rahim Ghouse(left).

This writer noted recently that Singapore holds a vital part of Malaysian PM In Waiting Anwar Ibrahim's succession plans,as a consequence of its custody of one Zulfikar Shariff.

It was reported that while in Melbourne Zulfikar was second-in-command to one Dr Rahim Ghouse who he helped manage the USD 8 Billion Commercial IBT.

These days Ghouse spends more time Kuala Lumpur where he  is  adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, but of  course Ghouse is better known as PM In Waiting Anwar Ibahim's adviser, manager and closest confidante.

Zulfikar himself was actively by involved in the '98 Reformasi movement, having at that time a job in Kuala Lumpur.It is understood that he was introduced to Ghouse and associates during that time,and that it was those connections that made his escape in 2002 ,with wife and family, to Melbourne, a possibility. 

Ghouse has not been sitting idle while in exile,keeping himself busy plotting Anwar's returnamong other things. He has nevertheless kept a low profile, so there is much that the Singaporeans can learn from Zulfikar Shariff.
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