Is BN government trying to cover-up its misdeeds?

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Public & Press Statement

Recently, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has decided to block two influential websites which has been critical to the BN government.

The blockade took place after these two websites published a kind of “warning” letter from the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to Tabung Haji over some kind of “fund mismanagement” in the said organization.

The MCMC reasoned that the blockade to these two websites were because of the words and statements published are against the law and order.

We would like to ask the BN government, is reporting or exposing a crime against the law? Why are the authorities apprehending the person who reported or exposed criminal elements within an organization or the government and not going after the culprits who abused their powers and took the public funds for their personal interests?

Is the BN government giving an impression to the public that any persons reporting a misdeed, corruption or any criminal element will also be arrested or apprehended because of their civic-consciousness? Is the BN government also giving an impression to the public that they are trying to cover-up whatever misdeeds, mismanagement, power abuse and corruption within their administration?

We also noticed that the BN government has been very sensitive over reports of misdeeds, mismanagement, power abuse and corruption which has been made public. In many of these occasions, some BN leaders had even vowed to get authorities to go after those who had reported these criminal elements instead of acknowledging it and apprehending the culprits who had drained away the public funds.

Such monstrous tactics are not recent. Previously, the Heat, The Edge, The Malaysian Insider, Malaysiakini, Sarawak Report and some other news portals too experienced various pressures and harassments from the authorities over their reports and exposures on the misuse of public funds by certain leaders or public figures within the administration.

We wish to remind the many security apparatus under this BN government that the real crimes does not come from all these websites. The real crimes and criminals are out there in the streets and within the government trying to amass their fortunes by swindling the public funds under your nose.

Stop wasting time and public resources over these civic-conscious sites and go after all those real criminals instead.

WH Cheng
Director, IRAS

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