YOURSAY ‘We are not interested and don't care when your account was open.’

Law firm confirms Rosmah's bank account

Malaysia Ku: Instead of investigating the huge sums deposited into the personal accounts of privileged individuals, Umno's normal SOP (standard operating procedure) when confronted with such financial shenanigans is to use the Financial Services Act to threaten the whistleblowers.

When even the central bank, through their silence, is involved in such shady deals, what hope is there for the nation's reputation?

Perhaps Malaysia, under Umno, wants to achieve another first - as world's No. 1 for money laundering.

Goodness knows how massive the amounts must have been laundered through its banking system all these years without any intervention from Bank Negara. Trillions perhaps?

Abasir: Messrs Noorhajran Mohd Noor, thank you for confirming that the account belongs to your client - a simple housewife with a "profile on the national and international level".

Could you now advise her to tell other simple housewives in Malaysia how she managed to make RM2 million in the course of two months?

Given that millions of simple housewives in Malaysia are tearfully struggling to cope with the GST (Goods and Services Tax), it would be appreciated if she, as the nation's First Simple Housewife, conduct a crash course on how she managed this feat ... and whether she paid taxes on that amount.

On a related note, the simple rakyat of Malaysia would also like to know what a moonlighting warrant officer - who apparently does not know her or her husband - was doing with her daughter's identity card.

Please help clarify so that all speculations may cease forthwith.

Fairnsquare: It is sad that the lawyers are focusing on punishing the whistleblower than defending Rosmah and explaining the vast amount in the account and its source.

We need some straight answers to all of this. Same way PM Najib Razak has to explain what the 1MDB money was doing in his accounts, instead of saying that he did not use the money for his personal benefit.

Just explain what it was used for and help stop speculations that are detrimental to his reputation as PM.

Anticonmen: All the false facade about caring for kids, orphans and Permata and charity causes, etc, ring so hollow and hypocritical.

Would it not be deemed genuine and better for all the kids and all the poor of the country, regardless of colour or creed, if she fought to reinstate all the checks and balances in government dismantled by BN politicians over the years, instead of allegedly taking maximum advantage of unjust enrichment from the weaknesses in the system?

Mosquitobrain: Rosmah, we're not interested in when your bank's account was set up and your working stint with property firm I&P in 1984.

Now that it has been exposed, we just want to know where the millions came from. Can we also give you 14 days to reply?

Homesick: Indeed, we are not interested and don't care when the account was opened. We want to know who gave you the RM2 million?

Bank Negara should act to keep its house in order first, before acting against the whistleblower (who is a hero to most Malaysians).

Such a huge sum of money deposited in a matter of a few weeks and no one batted an eyelid? Absolutely disgusting and shameful.

Jesse: A bagman depositing cash into someone else’s personal bank account, who claims not to know that person despite evidence demonstrating otherwise. What does all this suggest?

This is not ‘chicken feed’ money. Someone, or more than one person, is feeding the hen. The onus is on her to show Malaysians that this is not corrupt money going into the PM's wife's account.

Ryuujunri: Bank Negara to act? Bank Negara should clean up its own act first. It should be prosecuted for allowing these individuals to circumvent the central bank’s rules.

This is the nation's security and future we are talking about. Who can we prosecute for jeopardising our future?

Sincere Citizen: Under the law, a money laundering conviction requires the prosecutors to show the concealment of money was intended to hide the "ownership, source, or control" of the money.

If convicted for money laundering, you could face a fine of up to RM500,000 or double the amount of money laundered, 20 years in prison, or both.

So did Bank Negara take action against the PM's wife for doing that?

Kudaku Kari: Saya pun ada akaun bank, lagi lama dari akaun Rosmah . (I too have a bank account, even older that Rosmah’s account).

I opened the account in 1970 when I was first employed by an international company. But I don’t see anyone depositing RM2 million cash into my account.

How can a ‘housewife’ earn RM2m in cash?

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