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Buku yang ditulis Mahathir, tak ada satu pun yang boleh dipercayai kata Zaid Ibrahim

SHAH ALAM - Datuk Zaid Ibrahim mahu bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menulis sebuah buku yang benar-benar boleh dipercayai kandungannya dan menggambarkan situasi sebenar mengenai Malaysia Airlines System (MAS), salah satu syarikat berkaitan dengan kerajaan (GLC).


Ketua Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (Kita) ini berkata, setiap orang mahu mengetahui mengapa MAS diswastakan khususnya kepada bekas pengerusi eksekutif MAS, Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli hampir dua dekad yang lalu tetapi banyak pihak mendakwa gagal membantu syarikat tersebut.

"Di sini, saya merasakan Dr Mahathir perlu menjelaskan apa sebenarnya berlaku (ketika itu). Beliau telah menulis banyak buku, tetapi tidak ada yang boleh dipercayai," kata beliau lagi.

Katanya, sekurang-kurangnya Dr Mahathir perlu menceritakan apa sebenarnya menyelubungi kontroversi MAS yang belum diselesaikan sehingga sekarang.

Pada 14 Februari lalu, Tajudin dan Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd mencapai penyelesaian luar mahkamah berkaitan satu saman yang difailkan enam tahun lepas membabitkan hutang RM589 juta tokoh korporat itu dalam pembelian saham MAS.

Peguam Lim Kian Leong yang memaklumkan perkara itu kepada panel tiga hakim Mahkamah Rayua. Bagaimanapun tidak mendedahkan terma penyelesaian tersebut dan ia disahkan Tommy Thomas yang mewakili Danaharta.

Sehubungan itu, Kian Leong berkata Tajudin berhasrat menarik balik semua rayuan terhadap Pengurusan Danaharta, dua anak syarikatnya serta 24 responden lain yang dinamakan dalam tuntutan balas beliau.

Pada 2009, Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur memerintahkan Tajudin membayar RM589 juta kepada Danaharta yang menguruskan pinjaman tidak berbayar akibat hutang yang ditanggung tokoh korporat itu dalam pembelian saham MAS.

Jumlah itu merupakan baki pinjaman berjumlah RM1.79 bilion yang diberikan kepada Tajudin oleh sekumpulan peminjam bagi membiayai pembelian 32 peratus kepentingan dalam MAS pada 1994.

Tajudin diperintah membayar jumlah asas pinjaman pada 31 Disember 2005 sebanyak RM589,143,205.57 serta faedah dua peratus atas kadar pemberian pinjaman asas Malayan Banking Bhd mulai 1 Januari 2006 sehingga tarikh penyelesaian penuh kes itu kepada Pengurusan Danaharta dan dua anak syarikatnya.

Mahkamah Tinggi turut membatalkan tuntutan balas Tajudin, yang berjumlah RM13.46 bilion, terhadap 24 responden termasuk Danaharta, dua anak syarikat serta pegawainya, Datuk Azman Yahya, Datuk Abdul Hamidy Hafiz, Datuk Zukri Samat dan Datuk Kris Azman Abdullah.

Dalam buku terbarunya berjudul A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad diterbitkan tahun lalu, Dr Mahathir yang menjadi Perdana Menteri selama 22 tahun menafikan beliau dan bekas Menteri Kewangan, Tun Daim Zainuddin telah memaksa Tajudin menyelamatkan MAS dengan membelinya pada 1994 dengan harga RM1.8 billion.

Dr Mahathir bersara pada Oktober 2003. MAS merupakan antara beberapa GLA menyaksikan masalah kewangan di sebalik kegawatan ekonomi 1997/98.

Zaid, bekas Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri berkata, sementara kes membabitkan Tajudin sedang berjalan, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz telah mengeluarkan satu arahan kepada Danaharta dan GLC agar tidak meneruskan kes ke atas tokoh tersebut meskipun mereka menang di peringkat Mahkamah Tinggi.

"Nampaknya, Barisan Nasional tidak mengiktiraf bahawa syarikat-syarikat ini adalah bebas daripada kerajaan dari segi pengurusan mereka. Syarikat-syarikat ini ada lembaga pengarah masing-masing dan pemegang-pemegang saham yang perlu diwakili," katanya.

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Ini pula kata Mahathir

Dr M says sees no need to explain MAS deals

By Shannon Teoh

February 23, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad brushed off today Datuk Zaid Ibrahim’s call that he “write a book” on why Malaysia Airline System (MAS) was privatised to Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli in 1994, saying he was not in charge of the loss-making national carrier.

“I’m not in charge of MAS, how can I write a book? I can make some comments, that’s all,” the former prime minister told reporters today.

Zaid, who was de facto law minister in 2008, wrote in his blog today that Dr Mahathir (picture)must explain by “writing (a book) that is believable, that at least reflects the true situation surrounding the MAS saga that has still not been resolved until today.”

Zaid, who resigned from Umno in September 2008 to join PKR but is now estranged from Pakatan Rakyat (PR), has backed the opposition’s criticism of recent confidential out-of-court settlements between Tajudin and several GLCs.

“Since the settlement was conducted in secret, allow me to guess the terms of the deal: Tajudin was not required to pay a single sen to Danaharta or any of the GLCs; instead, the government will pay Tajudin RM6.5 billion (or half of what he had claimed).

“Tajudin will then be generous in his contributions to the party coffers for the upcoming general election,” he said.

Tajudin’s settlement with Pengurusan Danaharta Bhd (Danaharta) on February 14 came after a lengthy legal dispute following a High Court decision in December 2009 ordering the ex-MAS chief to pay the state asset management manager RM589.14 million plus two per cent interest per year, backdated to January 1, 2006.

But Dr Mahathir, who was PM from 1981 to 2003, insisted today “the government is very sensitive to these things because it may affect the image of the government and the support in the next election.”

“If they have evidence that there was blatant abuse of power they can make a case for it,” he added.

Tajuddin, who was MAS chairman until 2001, was also a poster boy of former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin’s now discredited policy of nurturing a class of Malay corporate captains on government largesse during the Mahathir administration.

The case between Danaharta and Tajudin arose after he executed a facility agreement on July 13, 1994 to borrow RM1.79 billion from a group of syndicated lenders to finance his purchase of a 32 per cent stake in MAS.

However, from 1994 to 1998 he failed to service the original loan, causing it to become a non-performing loan (NPL).

In 1998, Danaharta acquired the NPL from the lenders but Tajuddin also failed to settle his debt to Danaharta until it was in default of RM1.41 billion as at October 8, 2001.

As part of a settlement agreement, Tajudin was to pay RM942 million in four instalments over three years and that he was permitted to redeem his charged shares at a minimum price per share.

Tajudin, however, defaulted in the payment of the quarterly interest payable under the settlement agreement and on April 27, 2002, the plaintiffs terminated the settlement agreement and demanded RM1.61 billion from him.

On April 29, 2002, Danaharta, together with its units Danaharta Urus Sdn Bhd and Danaharta Managers Sdn Bhd sold part of the charged shares consisting entirely of Technology Resources Industries (TRI) shares at RM2.75 per share, resulting in total proceeds of RM717.39 million.

As at December 31, 2005, the amount outstanding was RM589.14 million and on May 11, 2006, Danaharta and the subsidiaries commenced action to recover the money.

Tajudin had alleged in his affidavit that it was Dr Mahathir and Daim who directed him in 1994 to buy a controlling stake in MAS to bail out the government.

Tajudin claimed that his purchase was a forced “national service”, disguised as an arm’s length commercial deal, because the government wanted to appease the investment community and the public.

Dr Mahathir, however, denied in his autobiography published last March that he and Daim had forced Tajudin to bail out MAS in 1994 for RM1.8 billion, claiming instead that Tajudin was “elated” over his purchase.

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