VOXPOP ‘ Sarawak Report and the Bruno Manser Fund have provided enough details of Taib Mahmud's financial empire. MACC, show us some enthusiasm as you did in the Teoh Beng Hock case'.

Taib family fortune 'RM4.6bil in Malaysia alone'

Queenie: MACC Chief Commissioner Abu Kassim Mohamed, if you can't make a move on Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud because you have been instructed not to do so, just say so.

Sarawak Report and the Bruno Manser Fund have provided enough details on this guy's financial empire for you to work on. Show us some enthusiasm, as you did in the Teoh Beng Hock case.

Daseen : Remove this corrupt leader, his sister Rosiah, brother-in-law Robert and all their cronies. The state is being raped, yet the poor bumis are still supporting this regime. Wake up brothers.

Tailek : Taib's relatives are very rich but they are neither "good nor clever" as Taib claims. So how did they amass such wealth, other than by corrupt means? Even a schoolboy can figure it out.

Onyourtoes: You see, Taib is a very frugal person and he has imparted this value to all his siblings and family members. If you add up all the salary and perks he and other family members earned over the years, the amount RM4.6 billion is about right.

EC set to use indelible ink for GE13

Ksn: Election Commission (EC), now that you have received the Fatwa Council's gracious clearance, which is absolute nonsense to start with, are you not going to say that you will need clearance from Ibrahim Ali of Perkasa, the mufti of Perak, Hassan Ali of PAS, Jais, Mahathir etc, before using the ink for the next general election?

What you do with the attorney-general is your internal arrangement. Now that you, the EC, have decided to accept the recommendations of the PSC, just instruct the AG to amend the regulation, not wait for him.

He is the government's draftsman and in this case, the EC's obedient servant. Show some spunk, EC.

Hateyou : EC will eventually make a purchase of the ink at a sky high price so that BN can make some money out of it, just watch. Standard operating procedure of BN. Pakatan Rakyat should now make some prices inquiries first so we can compare them later.

Lim chong leong : So what has changed from the eve of March 08? Nothing. Then the EC had already promised us the use of indelible ink, but used some frivolous excuse and avoided it.

With the EC indebted to and enslaved by Umno, nothing good will happen. Since when did it do anything that really served the people?

Sewajarnya : Pakatan, you're not worried that the genuine indelible ink will be switched during polling day?

Zz2XX: Don't trust Umno's Election CON-mission. Remember what happened in 2008, when it said it would use it and even spent so much money getting the indelible ink. And what happened? The EC poured all the ink into the drain.

Note what Wan Ahmad said "...but there are still some things which need to be done..." and that is the excuse they will give on the eve of GE13.

The use of indelible ink cannot be done because of all sorts of problems. Umno's EC, don't try to stop Bersih v.3.0 by making empty promises.

Only in Bolehland is the use of indelible ink treated as if it is an insurmountable problem. All is done so that Umno can cheat and win the coming election. People, once bitten twice shy. Bersih v3.0 now.

Gerakan: MACC should report to Parliament

Quigonbond: All talk no action. Gerakan should do the right thing and disengage from the next election and quit BN to show it means business on reform. Maybe some of its principled leaders can be absorbed into Pakatan.

Queenie: Yeah yeah, like they would respond positively to a party in its death throes. Waste of time. You guys started off well by kicking MCA in the teeth.

You then had a mandate to run Penang, but after nearly two decades, you fellows mucked it up and got bashed up by the DAP in 2008.

A comeback in Penang would be an exercise in futility, so don't further embarrass yourselves. Gerakan is no longer relevant and I suspect even my one-time hero Lim Keng Yaik would agree with me.

Masu Otaku: The paradox is that this anti-corruption agency is perceived to be corrupt to the core. It practices selective persecution and seems to be a lawless organisation unto itself. High time it becomes answerable to Parliament and the rakyat.

Rick teo : A corrupt government would not want to relinquish the power to prosecute the corrupt because then it would be the first to be prosecuted.

And because of that power it can decide who to prosecute. This government is rotten to the core and that is why Malaysians must kick it out or we are doomed.

Abasir : That will not happen so long as a corrupt Umno decides what is corruption, who to persecute and when to close both eyes.

MACC urged to fully probe Alstom allegations

FellowMalaysian: This French company has been getting lucrative multi-million ringgit projects from IPPs as well as TNB for the past 20 years.

Many a power plant has been built using its generators, turbines, rotors and motors, etc, and its involvements in power plants stretches from Perlis to Sarawak.

The contracts were awarded in a highly suspicious manner, where the prices were negotiated rather than through open tender.

Had it not been for the French activists, these Machiavellian business dealings would have been quietly swept under the carpet.

In this country, shady deals are being carried out with the government keeping its eyes closed, since it too is the benefactor.

Rick teo: When can Malaysians expect all these corrupt practices to end? How much longer can our economy sustain such pilferage without suffering any consequences? The only outcome is to turn this country into another Zimbabwe.

Changeagent: Unfortunately, the term "to leave no stone unturned" has no more meaning in Malaysia after the botched fiasco that was supposed to be the thorough investigation into Teoh Beng Hock's cause of death.

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