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Malaysians must politically bury the corrupt, thieving Umno in GE16 to save Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4, 2026: Now that the corrupt, disgraced and shameless former Umno president and prime minister Najib “1MDB” Razak has been jailed 15 years and fined a record RM11.4 billion, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) financial scandal is far from over.
There are many complicit players linked to Najib, the jailbird serving his prison sentence in Kajang Prison, who are still not brought to face justice.
With just 26 MPs left in the 222-seat Parliament after the last general election (GE15), the racial and religious bigoted Umno is still unrepentful and arrogant.
The 1MDB saga, the biggest financial scandal in Malaysia and the world, which saw Najib stealing millions, if not billions, of Ringgit from rakyat dan negara (people and country), has also caused Malaysians to settle interests and principle debts until 2052, thanks to the thief/pencuri Najib’s mismanagement of 1MDB, a so-called Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF).
The role of a SWF, all over the world is to save and invest for a country’s people, but to Umno, the 1MDB funds are for it and its leaders to pilfer!
One of the many liars who support the corrupt thieves in Umno.
Malaysians who treasure national unity and harmony must politically bury Umno in the next general election (GE16) to save Malaysia, before it is too late.
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No News Is Bad News reproduces below a damning report by Finance Twitter on the 1MDB financial scandal shared on WhatsApp:
MACC Mole & Traitor – How Azam Baki Was Complicit In 1MDB Scandal
December 29th, 2025
by Financetwitter
Disgraced former Prime Minister Najib Razak has finally been convicted for abuse of power and money laundering in the infamous RM2.6 billion 1MDB scandal. Sentenced to 15 years’ jail on Dec 26, and a record RM11.4 billion fine, it’s hard to imagine why the new King would be foolish enough to follow the footstep of the previous monarch by granting the crook a second royal pardon.
But the story of Najib, whom an Australian tabloid mocked as the “Plundering Idiot” when he was first found guilty in transferring RM42 million from SRC International (a subsidiary of 1MDB) into his bank account, is not the final chapter of 1MDB scandal. On the contrary, the verdict of the High Court has opened a can of worms over others who were complicit in the cover-up.
At the peak of 1MDB scandal in 2015, there was a mad scramble to cook up stories to back up then-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s fairy tales that US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) found in his personal bank account was donation from Saudi Arabia. One of them was a dubious claim from then-Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who said he had met the wealthy Arab family who donated the money.
During a Kepong UMNO division meeting in 2015, Mr Zahid claimed the “king and prince” had donated the money due to Malaysia’s commitment to fighting terrorism and being a moderate Muslim country with a plural society. He also said the donors – “Arab king and prince” and the family – decided to make the huge donation because of Najib’s anti-Jewish stance.
Armed with a fairy tale that the donor wanted to keep UMNO and the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition in power, Zahid said he had also met the investment officer of the wealthy Arab family, who explained how the first US$100 million was given via a cheque under Najib’s name and the rest through other channels. “I saw the documents myself – the original documents, not photostated ones, and I also saw the money trail,” – he claimed.
Desperately trying to hoodwink gullible Malay voters into believing the donation was 100% from the Arab family and not from the Retirement Fund Inc. (KWAP) or 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Zahid urged UMNO leaders to meet the people to explain about the donation so that they would not be influenced by the negative narratives spread like wildfire in social media.
He even argued that as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, he was privy to all information around the country verified by not one but several intelligence agencies. “I obtained the information accurately and did not add or minus the facts. The conspiracy to topple the government would take place if not stopped. This is the truth. Not an attempt,” – said Zahid.
In March 2016, Azalina Othman, then a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, stated in Parliament and to the media that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had confirmed the funds were a “donation” from the Saudi royal family. Defending Najib, she said allegations against her boss were “baseless, politically motivated,” and that any use of the donation was a private matter between Najib and the donor.
Azalina’s statement came just two months after Najib’s newly appointed errand boy -Attorney General Apandi Ali – cleared the PM of any wrongdoings at lightning speed. Apandi unilaterally announced in January 2016 that US$681 million transferred into Najib’s personal bank account was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia and there were no criminal offences or corruption involved.
“I am satisfied with the findings that the funds were not a form of graft or bribery. There was no reason given as to why the donation was made to PM Najib. That is between him and the Saudi family” – A.G. Apandi Ali proudly told a press conference. Then, Najib rushed to gloat that Apandi’s announcement “confirmed what I have maintained all along – that no crime was committed”.
In July 2016, when the U.S. DOJ (Department of Justice) released its investigation papers – documents as thick as 251-page – that linked Najib as the “MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1” and Rosmah as the “wife of MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1” to the embezzlement of US$731 million via 1MDB, UMNO Youth Chief Khairy Jamaluddin immediately urged party members to stand with their president Najib – even if they were ridiculed as minions and lackeys.
Zahid, Azalina, Khairy, and Apandi were just some of the pathetic UMNO-Malay leaders who would do anything to defend an UMNO-Malay crook with lies just to safeguard their power, positions, and perks. Worse, Zahid is now the Deputy Prime Minister and Azalina is the Minister of Law in Anwar Madani government, despite PM Anwar’s promise of reforms and pledge to fight corruption.
But there’s one mole-cum-traitor very few realized – Azam Baki, the Chief Commissioner of MACC. In the same year Zahid claimed he had met with the donors namely “Arab king and prince”, Azam Baki and a team of investigators too claimed that they had met the Arab prince who had allegedly donated RM2.6 billion into former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal bank account.
Azam Baki, who was then MACC investigations division director, said he had met with the donor. The team, comprising four MACC officers and one from the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), made an official visit to Saudi Arabia at the end-November 2015 to verify whether a Saudi prince had generously transferred US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) to Najib’s personal bank accounts in 2013.
However, hilariously, Azam said he could not disclose any details, including the identity of the donor. Instead of grilling Najib, he said the MACC would investigate the leakage of information on social media regarding his officers going to the Middle East. Exactly why was Azam so upset and furious about his trip being exposed? The answer would be revealed only 5 years later in 2020.
During the testimony of a witness in 2020 during Najib’s SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, former 1MDB investigating officer Mohd Nasharuddin Amir told the court the MACC team of four officers led by Azam Baki did not know whether they had actually met the purported donor, Prince Saud Abdul Aziz Abdul Majid Al Saud, at his palace in Riyadh.
That’s because the person whom they interviewed and recorded the witness statement from was Mohammad Abdullah Al Koman, allegedly the prince’s agent or attorney. In short, they had no idea if they had met a “bogus man” sent by Jho Low. So, what were Azam Baki, Nasharuddin, MACC officers Mohd Hafaz Nazar and Fikri Ab Rahim, as well as a representative from the AGC, doing in Saudi?
The best part was Eric Tan Kim Loong, an associate of fugitive businessman Jho Low, was at the palace but the MACC team did not know the reason he was there. Tan was the same man who wrote four fake letters purportedly signed by the dubious Saudi prince, claiming that the funds transferred to Najib’s accounts were donations.
Crucially, Eric Tan controlled Tanore Finance, a company set up as a staging account to allow Jho Low and Najib Razak divert money from 1MDB to fund their lavish lifestyle. While the MACC team acknowledged that Prince Saud did not sign the recorded statement, they somehow believed Tan represented King Abdullah and Prince Turki (who was not related to Prince Saud) just because Tan was also there during dinner at the palace.
When grilled by prosecutors in 2020, MACC officer Nasharuddin admitted in court that after the five of them quizzed Mohammad Abdullah Al Koman, they were offered an opportunity to perform the umrah and flown on a private jet to Jeddah and to Mecca and Madinah to perform the minor pilgrimage. Clearly, the scammer tried to bribe the Malaysian authorities.
But if the MACC-AGC trip had failed to meet the real Saudi prince, why did Azam lie and tell all and sundry in December 2015 that his team had successfully met the Arab prince in the kingdom, which probably led to Azalina telling Parliament and news media that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had confirmed the funds were a “donation” from the Saudi royal family?
Interestingly, Azam Baki was listed as a shareholder of Gets Global Bhd as of April 30, 2015, where he held 1.9 million shares, as well as 1.029 million shares as of March 31, 2016. He also held 2.15 million warrants in Excel Force MSC Bhd from March 2016. When the scandal exploded, he conveniently blamed the share purchases on his brother, Nasir Baki, for using his stock trading account.
Delivering a guilty verdict and slapping Najib with 15 years’ jail on Dec 26, 2025, Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah said the four letters Najib claimed were from Saudi Arabia were forgeries, as the originals were never produced before the court. But why did Azam’s team to Saudi in 2015 falsely declare the four letters were signed by the Saudi prince, claiming that the funds transferred to Najib’s accounts were donations?
Azam Baki was not only a traitor to both MACC and the country, but he was also a mole who leaked the 1MDB investigation to Najib’s circles. When MACC Chief Commissioner Abu Kassim was sacked in July 2016 and replaced with Najib-friendly Dzulkifli Ahmad, Azam too was promoted to the the position of Deputy Chief Commissioner (Operations) of the MACC in 2016.
But a few good apples like the MACC Special Operations Division Chief Bahri Mohamad Zain was mysteriously targeted. In 2015, under the pretext of MACC insider leaks, Bahri’s division office was raided by the police under the leadership of Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar, who was another mole, as Bahri’s team continued to investigate the 1MDB scandal.
However, before the police raided the MACC’s Special Operations Division and confiscated documents – which may consist of crucial evidence, particularly concerning the investigation into SRC International Sdn Bhd – from the possession of MACC personnel, Bahri managed to outsmart the Khalid’s boys by making three copies of the original files, before sending it to three trusted parties for safekeeping.
Under tremendous pressure and threat, Bahri opted for early retirement in 2015 but returned to the agency in May 2018 after being called back by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who led Pakatan Harapan to a stunning victory in defeating Najib government that year. Thanks to Bahri, those safeguarded documents enabled SRC charges to be executed within months, paving the way for Najib to the Kajang Prison.
And Azam Baki has the cheek to claim credit after crooked Najib was jailed on Dec 26 for a further 15 years and fined RM11.4 billion for all 25 charges in the 1MDB case. Blowing his own trumpet, Azam bragged the conviction of Najib in the 1MDB case was a result of years of investigative work, including extensive international cooperation to secure key evidence.
While Azam was a mole in MACC, Dzulkifli Ahmad was a mole in AGC. Dzulkifli, then Deputy Public Prosecutor from the Attorney General’s Chambers, was part of the same five-man delegation to Saudi in 2015. A close confidante of Najib, Zulkifli was the mole who leaked the draft charge sheet prepared by the AGC against Najib, leading to the sacking of Attorney General Gani Patail in July 2015.
Zulkifli was rewarded with a huge jackpot – the biggest promotion in his career – jumping from Deputy Public Prosecutor to the MACC Chief Commissioner in August 2016. But by October 2017, he was caught in an extramarital affair, holding hands with a woman while going into a restaurant at a hotel in Bali. He joined UMNO in June this year.
Azam Baki was subsequently promoted to Chief Commissioner of MACC in March 2020, following promotions as Deputy Chief Commissioner (Operations) and Director of Intelligence/Investigation. Yet, despite his tainted image, the incompetent Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim extended his contract “three times” – even praised him as the “bravest” MACC chief.
After the court’s verdict on Najib, Azam’s service should not only be terminated, but he should also be investigated for complicity – abuse of power, cover-up, treason and possible corruption – in the 1MDB scandal. More importantly, MACC should be placed directly under the Parliament and not as a political tool of the Prime Minister.
