193. Go on and let them in and give them IC

Published: Wednesday October 23, 2013 MYT 10:24:00 PM
Updated: Wednesday October 23, 2013 MYT 10:55:31 PM

Guard kills bank officer with shot to head, flees with loot (updated)

by nicholas cheng

A picture of the suspect from CCTV footage.

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PETALING JAYA: A bank in Subang Jaya was robbed and its operations officer shot in the head by a security guard stationed at the bank, killing her instantly.
Bank officer Norazita Abu Talib, 37, a mother of two children, was opening the door to a safe with a colleague in the bank along Jalan USJ Sentral 2 at around 6.18pm Wednesday when the suspect shot her in the face with a pump gun.
The man then forced the other terrified staff member to load a bag with cash from the safe.
He then made his escape on a motorcycle with a yet-unknown amount of cash.
Selangor deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Rahim Jaafar said the suspect was the only male staff member among the five stationed at the bank.
"According to the security firm he was meant to be a replacement guard and had worked in another bank next to the crime scene.
"He had been employed by the firm for about a year," he said.
However, he raised concerns over facts of the suspect's identity.
"Checks on his I.C. reveal that it was a fake. We are going to look into this more and find out how he was employed with a fake I.C," he said, adding that cops were also investigating the CCTV footage of the bank and nearby shops.
"I advise the public to be cautious as the man is still on the loose and is armed. I urge anyone with information on him to come forward," he said.
Subang Jaya deputy OCPD Supt Tan Ah Chua revealed that the suspect was identified as Ardi Hamza (770818-12-6721) from Tawau, Sabah.
The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

192. one confession not enough

from Borneoinsider 
http://borneoinsider.com/2013/08/16/rci-sabah-main-player-in-project-ic-names-names/

August, 16, 2013 - 11:34 am

RCI Sabah: “Main player” in Project IC names names

KOTA KINABALU: A former bank manager told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into illegal immigrants in Sabah that he was the man who laid the foundation for United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) to triumph in the Borneo state.
The RCI’s 200th witness, Mat Swadi Awi, said he met USNO founder Tun Mustapha Harun in London in the late 1980s, according to a report in the Malaysian Insider Thursday.
Tun Mustapha allegedly told Mat Swadi (photo) about the planned Project IC and the plans for USNO to defeat Parti Bersatu Sabah in the general election.
“I was the main player in Project IC as I was given the main role and task of engineering the project. I set up the operation and drew up the strategy before presenting the plans to both Tun Mustapha and the then defence minister Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen Ismail,” Mat Swadi said.
He said between 1989 and 1990, he received about 20,000 copies of identity cards which had been issued to illegal immigrants in Sabah.

An internet photo of the late Tun Mustapha. Dead men tell no tales, unfortunately.

He submitted the names to the Election Commission to be entered into its database.
“I studied the various districts in Sabah where PBS had won to determine where it would be most beneficial to place these voters so that USNO would be able to win.
“For example, if in Papar PBS had won by 1,000 votes, then additional names would be added into the electoral rolls there to ensure USNO would win the next time round.”
Mat Swadi, a former manager with Bank Pembangunan Malaysia, insisted that he did not do anything wrong as PBS was “anti-Malay and anti-peninsular Malaysia”. He said as a Muslim, he wasn’t doing anything wrong.
“However, I became disillusioned in early 1990 when top EC officers visited me and typed in an identity card number. Up to 50 names came up, linked to a single identity card number, I could not accept this kind of abuse of power.”
Mat Swadi said he went to see Tun Mustapha and told him that he was going to abandon the project as the abuse of power was beyond what he could tolerate. He said he was going to leave and further his studies.
Asked why PBS still won the 1990 state elections, Mat Swadi said, how could USNO win when one identity card number threw up 50 names?
“My activities were widely known to the Special Branch, the National Registration Department, the Immigration Department and, of course, the EC. Otherwise, how else could so many copies of identity cards have been sent to me?”
He said besides the illegal immigrants, he also redirected the details of policemen, soldiers and teachers to be placed in certain districts around Sabah to assist USNO in the elections.
He said it wasn’t just a matter of illegal immigrants being issued identity cards indiscriminately.
Mat Swadi said he had come forward to testify before the RCI panel, led by former Sabah and Sarawak Chief Justice Tan Sri Steve Shim Lip Kiong, because he had been subpoenaed and also to defend former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Describing himself as a staunch supporter of ‘Pak Lah’, Mat Swadi said he was angered when former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad attempted to drag Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim into the Project IC mess, who then implicated Abdullah.
“I can’t keep quiet when those who had nothing to do with Project IC are being dragged into it. I feel it is right to come forward and shed light on the entire issue, which was the brainchild of Dr Mahathir, as was told to me by Tun Mustapha.”
Asked why he had been chosen by Tun Mustapha to lead and mastermind the project, Mat Swadi replied that he didn’t know why either.