Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng (centre) and Serdang MP Dr Ong Kian Ming (second from right) after lodging a police report against the president of Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin, who is a bankrupt. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, July 26, 2015.Police and the Registrar of Societies (RoS) have been urged to investigate Ramesh Rao Krishnan Naidu for violating the Societies Act by giving interviews to media as the president of a little-known non-governmental organisation despite being declared a bankrupt in May 2012.
DAP MPs Lim Lip Eng and Dr Ong Kian Ming said Ramesh Rao has portrayed himself as the president of Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin (PMSP) in several interviews with some media organisations like Utusan Malaysia and Bernama since December 2012.
"Only three days ago, he admitted he is a bankrupt since 2012, and this shows that he knows he is a bankrupt but still continued with interviews as the president of this organisation," Lim said after lodging a police report on the matter at the Jinjang police station today.
In the police report, Lim, who is Segambut MP, also named Tan Chee Chong, or Tony Tan, who is also a bankrupt but listed as committee member of the same organisation in the RoS online e-ROSES database. Ramesh Rao is listed as the chairman of PMSP in the database.
Under the Section 9A (1)(d) of the Societies Act 1966, a person is disqualified from being an office-bearer in any registered society if he is an undischarged bankrupt.
Serdang MP Ong said the police report would allow RoS to initiate an investigation into the matter.
"This person has come out and made certain claims against the opposition, he used his position as president of this organisation, now we know he has gone against the law.
"The fact that he recorded the testimony of Lester Melanyi shows that this person could possibly have been used by other people to carry out attacks against the opposition," Ong said, referring to Ramesh Rao's admission to being the man behind the videos of former journalist Lester Melanyi's video confession regarding the tampering of documents on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Ramesh Rao attracted more controversy when he admitted he was a bankrupt but said this was proof he was not being paid for his expose.
Melanyi's credibility has also been questioned, as his claims to have worked for Sarawak Report were denied by Rewcastle-Brown and a video footage of a person Melanyi claimed was the web graphic expert who tampered with the documents for Sarawak Report also ended up to be wrong and was, in fact, the photo of a UK railroad manager.
Sarawak Report was blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission on July 19, a few days after Melanyi's video. – July 26, 2015.
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