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http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/01/05/let-musa-aman-kin-face-fraud-charges-govt-urged/
PETALING JAYA: PKR today urged the government to facilitate the quick repatriation of suspected scam mastermind Manuel Amalilio to the Philippines to face fraud charges there next month. In a press statement expressing anxiety that the government might not cooperate with Philippine authorites because Amalilio is related to Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, PKR Members of Parliament, R Sivarasa, Tian Chua and Darell Leiking reminded the goverment that Amalilio remained on Interpol’s list of wanted criminals. “We must not be seen to be harbouring wanted criminals,” they said. “We must also not be seen to continue to frustrate the wishes of the Philippine people who want justice for the crimes of Amalilio.” According to recent reports in the Philippine press, the Philippine Department of Justice is sending a legal team to Malaysia soon to arrange for Amalilio’s extradition to face a string of syndicated fraud charges next month. The PKR MP’s said they went on a fact-finding trip to Manila in February 2013 and established that Amalilio, also known as Mohammad Kama bin Said, was sought by Filipino authorities for allegedly cheating 15,000 investors of 12 billion pesos (about RM935million) in a Ponzi-type investment scheme under his company Aman Future Group in 2012. “The 15,000 victims include many Malaysians, particularly from Sabah,” they added. In January 2013, Philippine law enforcers were prohibited from boarding a plane with Amalilio from Malaysia back to the Philippines. Sabah police stopped his extradition on the grounds that he was a Malaysian citizen and that there was no extradition agreement between Malaysia and the Philippines. According to the PKR statement, Sabah police could have acted under instructions from Chief Minister Musa and Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail. Amalilio was subsequently charged in Kota Kinabalu with holding a fake Philippine passport. He peaded guilty and was sentenced to two years’ jail. “At that time,” said the PKR MPs, “we questioned why the Malaysian authorities would be so interested in prosecuting Amalilo purportedly for having a fake Philippine passport. If Amalilio did in fact have a fake Philippine passport, the aggrieved party would have been the Philippine government and he should have been handed over to them. “Was Amalilo’s prosecution for the so-called fake passport simply done in order to frustrate the Philipppine government’s efforts to repatriate him? “Although Amalilio was released in October this year, our government has yet to hand him over to the Philippine authorities for prosecution.”
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/01/05/let-musa-aman-kin-face-fraud-charges-govt-urged/
PETALING JAYA: PKR today urged the government to facilitate the quick repatriation of suspected scam mastermind Manuel Amalilio to the Philippines to face fraud charges there next month. In a press statement expressing anxiety that the government might not cooperate with Philippine authorites because Amalilio is related to Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, PKR Members of Parliament, R Sivarasa, Tian Chua and Darell Leiking reminded the goverment that Amalilio remained on Interpol’s list of wanted criminals. “We must not be seen to be harbouring wanted criminals,” they said. “We must also not be seen to continue to frustrate the wishes of the Philippine people who want justice for the crimes of Amalilio.” According to recent reports in the Philippine press, the Philippine Department of Justice is sending a legal team to Malaysia soon to arrange for Amalilio’s extradition to face a string of syndicated fraud charges next month. The PKR MP’s said they went on a fact-finding trip to Manila in February 2013 and established that Amalilio, also known as Mohammad Kama bin Said, was sought by Filipino authorities for allegedly cheating 15,000 investors of 12 billion pesos (about RM935million) in a Ponzi-type investment scheme under his company Aman Future Group in 2012. “The 15,000 victims include many Malaysians, particularly from Sabah,” they added. In January 2013, Philippine law enforcers were prohibited from boarding a plane with Amalilio from Malaysia back to the Philippines. Sabah police stopped his extradition on the grounds that he was a Malaysian citizen and that there was no extradition agreement between Malaysia and the Philippines. According to the PKR statement, Sabah police could have acted under instructions from Chief Minister Musa and Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail. Amalilio was subsequently charged in Kota Kinabalu with holding a fake Philippine passport. He peaded guilty and was sentenced to two years’ jail. “At that time,” said the PKR MPs, “we questioned why the Malaysian authorities would be so interested in prosecuting Amalilo purportedly for having a fake Philippine passport. If Amalilio did in fact have a fake Philippine passport, the aggrieved party would have been the Philippine government and he should have been handed over to them. “Was Amalilo’s prosecution for the so-called fake passport simply done in order to frustrate the Philipppine government’s efforts to repatriate him? “Although Amalilio was released in October this year, our government has yet to hand him over to the Philippine authorities for prosecution.”
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