Can Lembaga Tabung Haji break Malaysian laws? Can it commit crimes? Can the directors commit crimes? Yes, it can.
In Malaysia, it is the attorney-general (A-G), the public prosecutor, who has the power of prosecution. He has the power to decide on who to prosecute and who not to prosecute.
The A-G and prosecutor is Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali.
As such, in my opinion, it is very wrong for him to be sitting as a director of any company or organisation, and he must immediately resign as director of Tabung Haji.
As the A-G, he must be and must also be seen as independent, he should not also be receiving any other income save for his income as A-G.
Is Apandi getting income for being director of Tabung Haji? Well, this compounds the problem. Being a public officer, would this amount to corruption? We should think about this.
Note, that in Tabung Haji's website, he is personally a director, not a representative of his office.
Directors there as representatives are so declared. We see that there are directors who are there as representatives of the Prime Minister's Department and the Treasury, but Apandi is there not as any representative.
Was he a director when he was still a sitting judge? – charleshector.blogspot.my, March 5, 2016.
* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.
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