The saga continues with this Bernama report:
August 19, 2009 00:18 AM
Rohaizat Was Not Involved In Transaction, Says Umno Information Chief
BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug 18 (Bernama) — The Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate in the Permatang Pasir by-election, Rohaizat Othman, was not involved in any land transaction handled by his legal firm partner on behalf of Koperasi Pekebun Getah Negeri Pulau Pinang Berhad, said Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan.
Instead, he said, Rohaizat became a victim of circumstances after the partner left the law firm and had to bear the burden of resolving problems arising from the transaction.
He said, in 2002, the cooperative had hired Messrs Saif Ariff T.Jayaraj & Rohaizat to represent it in a property purchase in Penang.
He said the cooperative handed over the money for the purchase to the law firm but later the transaction had to be cancelled.
“At all material times, the transaction was handled by the partner who had been with the firm from 1999 to 2003,” he told a press conference at the BN’s election operations room here tonight.
He added that the money paid by the cooperative was received exclusively by by the partner, who was handling the client’s accounts at all material times.
“Rohaizat’s partner was the authorised signatory for the accounts and Rohaizat had no involvement or knowledge about the property transcation,” he said.
Ahmad said at the time the cooperative lodged a complaint with the Bar Council’s disciplinary board over the transaction, Rohaizad’s partner had already left the firm and he (Rohaizat) was named as the respondent in the complaint, making him a victim of circumstances.
He added that Rohaizat appeared before the board for the first time on Sept 11 2007 and on that the day, the board had only questioned a representative of the copperative.
He said the hearing was then postponed to Sept 14 to enable Rohaizat cross examine the representative of the cooperative and explain his side of the story.
However, on that day, Rohaizat did not attend the hearing because he was sick and a medical chit on his illness was submitted to the board, he said.
Following that, he said Rohaizat never received any notices from the board until March 14 2008, when he received a letter stating he had been disbarred.
Ahmad said in discharging his firm’s responsibilities, Rohaizat had refunded monies due to the cooperative and following this, the cooperative had written a letter to the disciplinary board on March 28 2008 to retract all complaints made against Rohaizat as all their claims had been settled.
This, he said, showed Rohaizat was a leader of quality and did not run away from problems, unlike his partner, and thus could be deemed a “hero”.
As such, he said, allegations by certain quarters that Rohaizat was a person without integrity were not true and hoped this clarification would put to rest the accusations that had been hurled about the BN candidate.
The press conference was also attended by Penang Umno legal advisor Abu Bakar As-Sidek Mohd Sidek, Rohaizat, Penang Umno deputy chief Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman and a representative of the cooperative.
The BN is involved in a straight fight for the state seat. Polling is on Aug 25.
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I’ve highlighted three paragraphs in ‘red’. Keep in mind the pertinent dates are September 11th and 14th in 2007.
Now, let’s go over to this blog called called “Pisau” and its relevant posting entitled “n11-permatang-pasir-dokumen-membuktikan.html” in which seven images were shown.
Reproduced below is the image for the medical certificate obtained by Rohaizat Othman indicating his inability to be present for the Displinary Board second inquiry on 14th September 2007 (as stated in the above-mentioned Bernama report) .
Can you see the date on this medical chit? It shows “14/11/07” i.e. 14th NOVEMBER 2007.
Someone’s definitely fibbing, eh folks.
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August 19, 2009 at 6:00 pm
zorro
Just updated my yawning post with your fumbling-findings. Trust you to come out with timely sinister scoop. Cheers walker!
August 19, 2009 at 7:44 pm
wira
Good one !
Maybe someone should get the medical chit and subject it to some forensic study.
The paper on which the medical chit was printed could have been made in 2009.
August 19, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Mad
Medical ‘Cheat’!
August 19, 2009 at 7:59 pm
kattan
Great work! Tripping over his own delusion! One lie too many obviously.
August 20, 2009 at 12:27 am
Habib RAK
hahahahaaha…..
August 20, 2009 at 3:12 am
johanssm / khun Pana
They already ” updated ” their statement to match the one found on the medical “cheat” .
” Aduan tersebut telah ditangguhkan bicaranya ke 14 / 11 / 2007 ”
To be exact with the Medical “Cheat” No. 29639 dated 14 / 11 / 2007
please refer to
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Thank you, Johanssm. I believe you’re referring to this particular Bernama report which was ‘updated’ to match the medical chit’s date – http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newspolitic.php?id=434310.
But did you notice the non-reference to the medical chit in this ‘new’ Bernama report? No worries, I’m following another angle to verify their claims – shar101.
August 20, 2009 at 9:58 am
sing
People tell more lies to cover up lies.
“[H]e who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” –Thomas Jefferson
“The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.” –Rabbi Wayne Dosick
http://pruning-deformed-branches.blogspot.com/
http://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/
August 20, 2009 at 11:25 am
mauryaII
As usual more and more lies to cover the initial lie. Lying comes naturally to born liars. Keep it up UMNO. You will be served your just desserts at PP. UMNO/BN is synonymous to incorrigible liars.
August 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm
voronin
Same with the BN Ulama trying to cover their Bosses faults
August 20, 2009 at 2:50 pm
voronin
What happen to Najis ? Five days disappeared, no news, not heard at all, if not everyday on the air. The rakyat 1Malaysia rindu laaaa.
August 26, 2009 at 6:00 pm
ruyom
It is clear that Najib and BN can no longer win any open and fair election in Malaysia, and so they have fallen back on the same rotten formula used to engineer the illegal coup in Perak – deploy their MACC thugs on a witch hunt to harass Pakatan reps with potentially problematic backgrounds and combine this with a large bribe to entice the reps to crossover.
A few black sheep within the Pakatan fold may indeed succumb to this pressure, but the people eyes are open and they will not forgive nor forget another transgression of our democratic process by Najib and his goons. There will not be another Perak.