Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

One of Malaysia’s highest ranking police officers has been stripped of more than $320,000 by the Australian Federal Police, which suspected his Sydney bank account held laundered money or proceeds of crime. Wan Ahmad Najmuddin bin Mohd, now the head of Malaysia’s criminal investigations department, opened a Commonwealth Bank “Goal Saver” account in 2011, listing his address at Bankstown and then Glebe in Sydney. One week after the decorated public official concluded an Australian trip in 2016, the account received a flurry of suspicious cash deposits. Unknown depositors visited branches and ATMs around the country, from Biloela in country Queensland to Devonport in northern Tasmania to Lakemba in Sydney’s west and Melbourne’s CBD. The account balance grew by nearly $290,000 in a month, mostly in structured deposits below $10,000, the threshold above which law enforcement agencies receive mandatory notifications. Mr Najmuddin has not tried to wrest the money back from authorities, sa...

We have been observing the manner Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) Angus Houston handles the Australian-based Joint Agencies Coordinating Centre (JACC) in their effort to track the missing Malaysian Airlines (MAS) plane MH370. All his actions demonstrated during the entire situation are of utmost professionalism. Ever since his appointment to head the JACC, a joint international search and rescue (SAR) effort to track the missing MH370, Marshal Houston has done a lot to convey his message to the families and the press in a very professional manner. Certainly no one, not even our nation's prime minister, defense minister, air force chief, the armed force chief, the inspector-general of police, the director-general of the department of civil aviation or the MAS chief executive officer cannot be compared with Marshal Houston. The retired Australian chief of defense force has indeed done well in the current crisis management. His details, statements and explanations are indeed straight...