Illicit affairs and nepotism: Malay serial Megah Holdings was right all along, netizens jest

WITH juicy details being revealed in the corruption trial of ex-Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in the US over the 1Malaysia Development Board (1MDB) scandal, netizens took to social media to say that the Malay drama serial, Megah Holdings, had portrayed real life all along.  

Leading the series of ridicule was PKR vice president Rafizi Ramli, who said that the public should stop making fun of the drama series when it was clearly showcasing what happens among the “elite business community”. 

(You people make fun of Megah Holdings where as it portrays the shenanigans of the “elite business class” in Malaysia. There are illicit affairs, the lover getting married to another person and even get a house in London for RM40 mil. Unfortunately, the one who paid for it was the people)  

Echoing to Rafizi’s sentiments, user Izaan Fly added:

(And we have a father who looks for jobs for his children while common people queue up everywhere for interviews)  

To this, Rafizi responded:

(That’s right but the daddy is so proud, arrogant and shameless) 

Yesterday, star prosecution witness of the 1MDB trial in the US, Tim Leissner admitted to the court of having used the money he received from 1MDB to buy a US$10 mil (RM41.8 million) house in London for his then Malaysian lover, Datuk Rohana Rozhan. 

Rohana was serving the CEO of Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd back then, Bloomberg reported. 

“Ms. Rozhan [sic] was very upset that I was ending our relationship to be with my future wife, with Kimora. 

“If I didn’t buy her a house, she would tell the authorities about my involvement in the 1MDB scandal. She was threatening to expose me. At the time, 2013, I was very fearful of that,” Leissner was quoted as saying when questioned if he had given Rozana any money from the Malaysian investment fund. 

Leissner eventually married US TV personality Kimora Lee Simmons in 2013. 

On the same case, Bloomberg reported that ex-Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein met then Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2009, just ahead of big bond deals for the country’s 1MDB fund — and that the meeting came with an agenda. 

Still trust Najib?  

In return for the lucrative business, Goldman was to get Najib’s three children jobs at the bank, former Southeast Asia chairman Tim Leissner told the jury on Tuesday in his second day of testimony about the 1MDB scheme. 

Leissner, 52, was describing the lengths he said he, his subordinate Ng and a tight circle of Goldman partners went to in order to loot billions of dollars from the Malaysian wealth fund. 

“Just met PM’s three children with Jho (businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low) at his apartment,” Leissner read to the jurors in the Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York from an email Ng sent him. “We’ll work on getting them to join GS (Goldman).” 

Leissner replied to Ng: “Sounds good my friend. Get them in.” the report stated.  

Responding to the details being exposed, user Sharan Pretam Singh (Mrs) lamented that there were still people who believe in Najib despite the glaring evidence stacked against him.  

Netizen Jomblo retorted by saying: 

“This is surreal. It even has plots on business transactions taking place after a steamy scene. The Dallas and Empire series is nowhere near this). – Feb 24, 2022.  

 

Main photo credit: Nikkei Asia

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