Bukit Aman CID chief Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd should accept the offer of veteran investigative journalist R Nadeswaran and engage his friend, who is a practicing lawyer in Melbourne, to retrieve the almost RM1 million which was frozen by Australian authorities on suspicion of money laundering.
Bukit Aman CID director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd may have been “naive” about Australian laws concerning remittances to fund his children’s education, and he may have been “ignorant” about the legal system in Australia. But now, both Lim Lip Eng (Segambut MP) and Malaysiakini columnist R Nadeswaran have confirmed that Australian legal system allows for a no win, no fees arrangement. So why still hesitate?
It is of the utmost importance for him to do so in order to clear his reputation completely. Yes he still needs to fork out some money for his travelling and accommodation expenses to face the inquiry. But, isn’t his reputation worth more than that?
And if the money seized by Australia authorities is really meant for his children education funding in Australia, and now the money is being frozen, so how are his children going to continue their study in Australia?
If costs is indeed the problem, I volunteer to do crowdfunding for him, to aid him to travel to Australia and engage the lawyer friend of Nadeswaran to retrieve his hard-earned dollars, on the condition that he declares his asset publicly (to prove that he really can’t afford the legal action), and show us all necessary and relevant documents to prove the source of the funds (to convince us that the legal action won’t be a futile exercise).
The image of Malaysia is being tarnished by the incident. We already have a PM who threatened to sue Wall Street Journal for defamation but has never done so, a PM being mentioned in DOJ suit, we do not want another CID chief who is being accused of money laundering in Australia but has no intention to clear his reputation.