Australia's position on Israel is now in alignment with that of HAMAS supporting, Israel denying Malaysia - Penny Wong consulted Malaysia about recognising a Palestinian state, issues concerning Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong's Malaysian connections, questions about her Malaysian citizenship require re-examination

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                                       

Hamas Terror Cell Received Advanced Training in Malaysia

The Guardian and others have reported, with regards the UN General Assembly vote on Tuesday , 3 December 2024:

Australia has split with the US and voted with 156 other countries at the UN to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.

The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades.

Australia's position is now in alignment with that of Malaysia,which is unapologetic about its support for HAMAS. As previously reported, Australia's Foreign MinisterPenny Wong consulted Malaysia about recognising a Palestinian state. It is in Australia's national interest to determine who Wong represents, and therefore  issues concerning Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong's Malaysian connections, questions about her Malaysian citizenship require re-examination. As previously, reported, Wong and her Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's pro-Palestine, pro-HAMAS decisions may empower jihadis against Australia.

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Penny Wong has not renounced her Malaysian citizenship, only "any rights (she) may have had to Malaysian citizenship "

by Ganesh Sahathevan 


As reported by The Daily Telegraph,14 August 2017, quoting Senator Penelope (Penny) Wong Yin Yen: 

“I was well aware when I stood for parliament I would have to renounce any rights I may have had to Malaysian citizenship and did so prior to nominating, as is confirmed in the statement by the ALP national secretary,” Ms Wong told The Daily Telegraph yesterday, yet still refused to release the documentary proof.


However, as previously reported on this blog, Penny Wing is a Malaysian citizen; she has more than mere rights to Malaysian citizenship. Penny Wong is a lawyer, and would know well enough the distinction between renouncing "any rights (she) may have had to Malaysian citizenship", and actually renouncing Malaysian citizenship.

She needed to have renounced her Malaysian citizenship, not merely renounce any rights to Malaysian citizenship. In fact there does not appear to be any mechanism within Malaysian law to renounce a right to Malaysian citizenship.


Her parents would  have been required by law to register her birth at the nearest Malaysian and/or Sabah State Registry office. She is a Malaysian citizen,and has more than a mere right to Malaysian citizenship.The reason is simple.As far as Malaysia is concerned, you are either a citizen, or you are not. 

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realpolitikasia

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Penny Wong:born in Malaysia to a Malaysian father ,lived as a local for 8 years ,recalls "feeling like I didn't belong (in Australia) for some time," but insists there is no prima facie evidence of Malaysian citizenship

by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Senator Penny Wong has been reported to have said that she has nothing to prove for the there is no evidence of her Malaysian citizenship.

Meanwhile; from the Penny friendly SBS:

When Penny Wong moved to Australia, it was summertime and her parents had just separated.

It was 1976. She was eight years old.

“I think Australia smelled dusty,” she said. “It just looked different and smelled different and the light was different.”

“I remember the first time I jumped into the sea here, and how cold it was," she said. “Obviously, in Malaysia it’s near the equator and pretty warm there, and me thinking, 'what’s wrong with the sea?'”

But she says she remembers "feeling like I didn't belong for some time," especially at her new school.

And , as reported here before:

Penelope Wong Ying Yen, aka Senator Penny Wong, was born in Kota Kinabalu ,State Of Sabah, Federation of Malaysia. Her father Francis Wong is a Malaysian citizen,which makes Wong a Malaysian citizen by birth.
While she moved to Australia in  1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.

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REFERENCE 

realpolitikasia

Friday, July 14, 2017

Senator Penny Wong born in Malaysia,and born a Malaysian citizen-Has she officially renounced Malaysian citizenship, and can we see proof?

by Ganesh Sahathevan






Penelope Wong Ying Yen, aka Senator Penny Wong, was born in Kota Kinabalu ,State Of Sabah, Federation of Malaysia. Her father Francis Wong is a Malaysian citizen,which makes Wong a Malaysian citizen by birth.


While she moved to Australia in  1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.
Many Malaysians who later in life took up citizenship  of other countries assumed that by doing so Malaysian citizenship was lost  automatically, but this is not the case.

There is ,provided for in the Malaysian Constitution and arising laws a process which requires citizens who wish to renounce their citizenship to make a formal application to do so.It is up to the Malaysian Government to determine if the application should be accepted.

If the Government determines that the application is to be accepted, then the applicant is issued a formal notice of that fact,with a copy of his or her Malaysian birth certificate marked with  words in Malay and/or English  ,"No longer a citizen of Malaysia (paraphrase)".

None of this has ever been provided the public in the case of Penny Wong. Indeed the question has never been put. We are simply expected to accept  that Wong is not a citizen of Malaysia, despite the facts.
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Australia's decision to resume funding UNRWA must be viewed in the context of Foreign Minister Penny Wong's contact with a Malaysian intelligence officer, and Malaysia's defiant support for HAMAS

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

 Foreign Minister Penny Wong meets Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim in Kuala Lumpur on 27th February 2023

Thus spake Australia's Foreign Minister Penny  Wong, justifying her decision to restore funding to the HAMAS linked UNRWA:
"the best available current advice from agencies and the Australian government lawyers is that UNRWA is not a terrorist organisation........"
https://lnkd.in/gDxfZnnh

Meanwhile, Wong has still provided no explanation for her contact with  a Malaysian intelligence officer.This fact is especially relevant in the matter of Australia's UNRWA funding given  Malaysian Rime Minister Anwar Ibrahim  defiant support for HAMAS.:

 "I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue"-Anwar ibrahim's admission renews concerns about Malaysia's support for jihadis and Anwar and his IIIT's funding of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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Detail in Al-Jazeera interview with hitman Sirul Azhar compared with information on Malaysian High Commission Canberra website suggests that Penny Wong contacted an undeclared Malaysian intelligence officer -Wong and DFAT have not denied Sirul's statement to Al-Jazzera 

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Al-Jazeera reported that hitman Sirul Azhar had meetings with  a Malaysian police intelligence officer at Malaysia's "embassy" in Canberra.In the interview  Sirul  describes meetings with a male officer (see screenshots above).

However, the declared Malaysian police intelligence officer at the embassy(actually high commission) is quite likely  Mdm. Szabrenna Pou Abdullah , a long serving police officer who held the rank of Deputy Superintendent Of Police (DSP) in 2020, who is designated First Secretary.

It is therefore likely that Wong's reported contact was with an undeclared Malaysian intelligence officer, and that raises even more serious questions about Wong's conduct in office. As Foreign Minister Wong is also the Minister in charge of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).

 Three weeks have passed since Sirul's revelations but Wong and DFAT have yet to issue any comment with regards Sirul's statement to Al-Jazzera.

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Friday, November 24, 2023

Malaysian hitman Sirul Azhar Umar tells Al-Jazeera Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong spoke to a Malaysian Police intelligence officer at the Malaysian y High Commission in Canberra, Australia - Very serious allegations against Penny Wong, complicated by her connections to Malaysia

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Malaysian hitman Sirul Azhar Umar says Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong spoke to a Malaysian Police intelligence officer at the Malaysian y High Commission in Canberra, Australia to determine if Sirul was a danger to the Canberra community.

Any Minister of State, even a Foreign Minister, who has personal connections with a foreign intelligence officer should be considered a threat to national security.

Very serious allegations against Penny Wong, complicated by her connections to Malaysia.


See from 19:30 onwards

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2023/11/24/murder-in-malaysia-world-exclusive-interview-with-sirul-azhar-umar

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Penny Wong:born in Malaysia to a Malaysian father ,lived as a local for 8 years ,recalls "feeling like I didn't belong (in Australia) for some time," but insists there is no prima facie evidence of Malaysian citizenship

Ananda Krishnan's death casts a frightful shadow over the ownership of his quasi-GLC assets in Malaysia, and the conduct of his lieutenants

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

    Ananda Krishnan circa 1968.Photo courtesy of former business partner and blood brother,Ken                   McMahon of Minsec. Photo taken at the McMahon's home in Seaforth, Sydney

While much is being made of the waelth and death of Malaysia's second richest man, Ananda Krishnan, the issue of who takes charge of his very substantial assets in Malaysia which include MAXIS, Asto, MEASAT and Bumi Armada , mostly held via his private company, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd, is being left unsaid. In fact, his death casts a frightful shadow over the ownership of these assets, given their quas-GLC status, either having substantial Malaysian Government shareholding, and almost invariably dependent on licenses from the Malaysian Government. WHile Ananda and his partners did very well out of that status, his demise means that it will be for his lieutenants to attempt and emulate the charisma of their master. As the photo above and the story behind it suggests, that would be a very difficult thing to do.

Then, as previously reported (see story below) are various adverse findings against them, made at a time when they enjoyed the shield of his virtual immunity, which is of course no more. 

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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Ananda Krishnan is dead, review of trustee Chan Chee Beng's position long overdue, action by regulators in Malaysia should no longer be forestalled

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Photo from 1959 of the Melbourne University SRC. Ananda standing at far left.He was presidnet of the SRC while at Melbourne University,at the height of the White Australia Policy

Billionaire Ananda Krishnan's death  raises questions of succession, and in particular about control over his assets, nominally held via a series of trusts. In Malaysia his  trustees and   managers have been regarded as above the law, given Ananda's standing, and given the inextricable link between politics  and business in  Malaysia. Among them is Chan Chee Beng, whose position as trustee has been intenable for quite some time. Given Ananda's death , Chee Beng departure should follow. 

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Usaha Tegas' Chan Chee Beng: Are there trust law issues given PanOcean Management Limited's position as trustee ,and Chan's regulatory settlement for insider trading in Maxis warrants, which are trust assets.

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

The following are excerpts from the Bumi Armada 2018  Annual Report: 

Chan Chee Beng has more than 39 years of experience in general and financial management, investment banking and accounting including stints with Ernst & Young and Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd prior to joining the Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd (“UTSB”) Group in 1992 as Head of Corporate Finance. He is currently a Director of UTSB Management Sdn Bhd.

Usaha Tegas Sdn. Bhd. (“UTSB”) is a party related to the Company by virtue of its substantial equity interest in Objektif Bersatu Sdn. Bhd. (“OBSB”), a substantial shareholder of the Company. The ultimate holding company of UTSB is PanOcean Management Limited (“PanOcean”). PanOcean is the trustee of a discretionary trust, the beneficiaries of which are members of the family of Ananda Krishnan Tatparanandam (“TAK”) and foundations including those for charitable purposes. Although PanOcean and TAK are deemed to have an interest in the shares of the Company through UTSB’s deemed interest in OBSB, they do not have any economic or beneficial interest in such shares as such interest is held subject to the terms of such discretionary trust.

A director of a wholly-owned subsidiary of  a trustee may  well have duties to the trust and its beneficiaries that are subject of legislation in  the jurisdiction of incorporation, and the jurisdictions in which it conducts its business. 

These legal questions arise given Chan's regulatory settlement for insider trading in Maxis shares, which are trust assets. 

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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Chan Chee Beng remains a director of a number of listed and private companies despite a "regulatory settlement" with the SC with regards insider trading of Maxis warrants:Is the leniency 1MDB related? .

by Ganesh Sahathevan