Sunday, January 19, 2025

Malaysia canes women for attempted lesbian sex, but welcomes openly gay LBTQI+ advocate Penny Wong - Penny Wong's business with her country of birth suspicious, demands answers

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


                 Penny Wong and Anwar Ibrahim


In 2018 Malaysia jailed and caned two Muslim women for attempted lesbian sex.  The incident so scandalised the then High Commissioner from Australia to Malaysia, Andrew Goledzinowski  , that he tweeted his disapproval. Goledzinowski was then on a campaign to promote Australia's values of LGBTQI+ inclusion, in Malaysia. 


Into that milieu  has ventured   Australia's Malaysian born  Foreign Minister , the openly gay LBTQI+ advocate Penny Wong., who despite their apparently  conflicting worldviews, seems to have been openly welcomed by  the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, a known Islamist. Anwar  does so despite the likely electoral costs . However, Anwar openly supports HAMAS, and Wong seems to be on a crusade  against Israel.   In addition both Penny Wong and Anwar have shown themselves to be pro-China, Anwar going to far as to deny Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang. 




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Penny Wong's Sabah timber tycoon connections require investigation, may explain in part her China bias

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


This is Penny Wong (seated next to her late father Francis Wong)  in 2013, with some of the most wealthy  members of Sabah's Chinese business community. 



The Daily Express Sabah reported, on January 4 2013: 

Australian Finance Minister, Penny Wong (seated second right) attended the wedding reception of Ellie Hwong (seated second left) to Dr Joey Kong Chung Yin at the Shangrila-Tanjung Aru Beach Resort in Kota Kinabalu. Ellie is the daughter of Sabah Timber Industries Association (STIA) President, Datuk James Hwong (seated left).

Also present were Sabah Publishing House Sdn Bhd Managing Director, Datuk Clement Yeh (standing, fourth left) and his wife Datin Tina Yeh (standing fourth right), Penny's father, Francis Wong (seated right) and former senior police officer, Datuk Henry Chin (standing, second left).

Others present include businessmen Datuk Lau Kok Sing (standing third right), Koh Tiew King (standing right) and his wife and Frankie Liew.

Sabah's Chinese business community is particularly pro-China, as her Penny's brother John demonstrates in word and deed. (see story below), and as Penny has been shown to be.

It would be naive  to not consider that Sabah businessmen, and by extension, business people from China,have funded Penny's political career.  Preservation  of national security demands that Penny Wong's political funds be investigated. 

The money from Chinese sources will of course add to what appears to be ethnic loyalty driving Australia's foreign policy. 




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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Mystery surrounding College Of Law Australia's leadership coincides with growing list of unanswered questions about the College 's misconduct in Malaysia, and CEO Neville Carter's abuse of of his power to issue Rule 19 certificates in an attempt to prevent any investigation into that misconduct

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 




Who leads The College of Law Australia ?



First this published  in  Lawyers' Weekly February 2024:
Angie Zandstra, the acting chief executive officer for the College of Law Australia, shared her insights on leadership in the legal profession and the significance of actively supporting and showing up for one’s staff members.


Then this , also in Lawyers' Weekly in  August 2024:

‘There seems to be greater enthusiasm and confidence’: Acting CEO of the College of Law on current law students

Ann-Maree David, the acting CEO of the College of Law, delineates the remarkable shift she is witnessing in law students’ mindsets, dynamics, and attitudes.

However Angie Zandstra still describes herself as CEO The College of Law Australia on her LinkedIn profile.


Meanwhile the The College of Law Australia website site still says:

Neville Carter AM
Chief Executive Officer and Principal, Executive Governor


This mystery is seen in context of the   matter of  CEO Neville Carter's attempt to demand that questions  raised  by this writer , as a journalist, about The College of Law Australia and his own  conduct in Malaysia be withdrawn. 

As previously reported, Carter attempted to do so in a letter to this writer ,who was then a student at the College Of Law,  demanding that questions about his conduct and that of the College in Malaysia (or questions that could be construed as threatening and intimidating ,as he put it ) be withdrawn  before he released this writer's PLT certificate of completion of The College of Law Australia's PLT course.

His letter was made public, and remains in the public domain ,but there is no indication that the matter has been disclosed in The College of Law Australia annual reports, and to its insurers given the implications for the College and its directors' operational and legal risks. The matter of the College's Malaysian scandal was made public in Malaysia in 2019.

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Bar Council education ‘JV’ must be clarified

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 – The Malaysian Bar Council launched its first education venture, a LLM in Malaysian Legal Practise (LLM), last year in collaboration with the College Of Law Australia.

The LLM does not seem to have the approval of Malaysia’s Legal Professional Qualifying Board (LPQB) but the website for the course, which is hosted in Australia, prominently displays the Bar Council crest.

bar council

The crest has not been used before to promote a course of study, and queries put to Bar Council President Fareed Gafoor about the use of the crest have been acknowledged but remain unanswered.

NMT has however sighted an email from Fareed dated Friday, May 24, 2019 with regards the LLM and the use of the crest where he states:

Dear Rajen,

We can’t remain silent on this.

Abdul Fareed Bin Abdul Gafoor

Sent from my iPad

It is understood that “Rajen” refers to  Rajen Devaraj, Chief Executive Officer of the Bar Council Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur.

The Bar has remained silent for nearly 2 months since.

Key person suddenly retired during extensive query

The College of Law used to be represented in Malaysia by its Director, Peter Tritt. Tritt have been queried extensively about the LLM and about the College’s business in Malaysia but has refused to provide answers. Tritt has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2017 but announced on Friday that he had “retired” from the College on 30 June 2019.

It is understood that Tritt has forwarded queries sent him to his head office in Sydney and hence it appears that Tritt is under orders from his Chief Executive, Neville Carter, to remain silent.

Questionable advertising claims?

In advertising on the College’s website Carter has claimed that he had established a Professional Legal Training course for Malaysian Law students seeking admission to practise in Malaysia. There seems to be no evidence of such a course, or of any national level training course for the existing Certificate of Legal Practise.

Carter has also claimed to have produced the “inaugural” Handbook in Legal Practise for Malaysia, in the late 80s. A search of the main law libraries in Malaysia directed by the Chief Registrar, Federal Court Malaysia, has not found any such handbook.

He has also claimed to have, during that time to have identified and addressed “gaps” in Malaysian legal practise, but not even those in practice during that period and since have ever heard of him. Nor are senior practitioners aware of  “gaps” that needed that to be addressed by external consultants.

As CEO of the College Carter  has ultimate responsibility for the College’s Malaysian operation headed by Tritt and variously named the “College Of Law Asia Pacific” and the “College Of Law Asia”. A search by NMT has not revealed any entities registered under those names in Malaysia or in Australia, not even a foreign entities registered to conduct business in Malaysia.

Meanwhile the College, in collaboration with the Bar Council continues to sell its LLM and other courses in Malaysia, deriving a fee income from Malaysian courses.

-NMT

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Maxis, Astro, Bumi Armada refusal to inform market of changes in shareholdings raises serious questions about their related party transactions with the late Ananda Krishnan and his associates

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 
  
     Donations to the Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar's Ibrahim's Madani Fund does not change the fact that rules are being breached 






Two months have passed since Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan passed away and yet the boards of Maxis, ASTRO, and Bumi Armada have yet to inform the Bursa Malaysia of the inevitable, even if unfortunate, change in substantial shareholder.



Bursa Malaysia continuing disclosure rules require that Maxis, ASTRO, Bumi Armada and any other company that he may have an interest of 5% or more make immediate disclosure of changes in shareholdings given the demise of controlling shareholder Tatparanandam Anandaa Krishnan.As it stands the directors of theose companies are in breach of Bursa rules , for there has yet to be any announcement to the Bursa Malaysia.


Additionally ,all three companies are required to gain shareholder approval for related party transactions, which they have, and all the resolutions concerning the related party transactions feature with a high degree of frequency the name Tatparanandam  

Anandaa Krishnan ( or TAK for Tatparanandam Anandaa Krishnan). His demise and the existence of the resolutions approving the transactions in his favour remain in place, and hence there is now a question as to who gains from those related party transactions.

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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

Friday, January 10, 2025

Credit Corp Ltd (ASX: CCP) has undisclosed privacy issues -Credit Crop says the law is on its side, and it is permitted to access private phone numbers to interrogate anyone , not just debtors. in furtherance of its business

by Ganesh Sahathevan 



 


In the weeks before Christmas this writer received a call from a person who did not identify herself, and refused to say how she got my number.  She went on however demanding details about another person who I do not know. After much questioning the caller told me that  I was being contacted because that person  and I share the same apartment block  address. 

The call was then passed on to someone else who also refused to say where he was calling from, and then agreed to identify his company only if I promised to provide the information provided. I did not and he then reluctantly admitted that he was calling on behalf of the ASX listed debt collector, Credit Corp Ltd (ASX: CCP).

Credit Corp's representatives  were  aggressive in their approach, refusing to  to say  how and from whom  my contact details were obtained. 
Credit Corp were not pursuing this writer on behalf of a client, and Credit Corp's representatives insisted that they had a legal right to information about me, and to  demand the information requested.

The callers refused to say how and from whom they obtained my contact details and it was only when I complained directly to Credit Corps Chairman, Board and Chief Executive that I received an explanation in writing, in which Credit Corp  named another company,iD4me as its source. Credit Corp says iD4me collects data by consent but this is false, for this writer cannot ever recall being contacted by iD4me.


It is obvious that Credit Corp has exposed itself to liability for breach of privacy as as result of its aggressive approach to debt collection. The ASX and its investors have not been informed of this quite significant risk.
  

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Monday, January 6, 2025

Apple says iPhone 11 cannot handle iOS 18.2 update, admits that loading iOS 18.2 update will destroy phone -a problem for Telstra and other carriers who offer iPhones, Telstra and others must inform users of the useful life of any iPhone they try to sell

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 









Apple has admitted to this Apple iPhone11 user that its iPhone 11 should be "upgraded" for it cannot handle the iOS 18.2 update. In fact Apple "Genius Bar" techs made this user's iPhone 11 inoperable after trying to load the update multiple times.

Tim Cook and Apple never disclosed that the iPhone 11 had a 5 year life span when the "11" was launched. He has misled consumer worldwide. Apple iPhones are also sold by carriers such as Australia's Telstra, and they too would be guilty of misleading customers if they fail to inform customers of any iPhones useful life. 

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