Kata Arul ada banyak lagi cerita. There is more than meet the eyes. Berikut temuramah dengan Bloomberg TV:
Namun tiada default atau bailout. Tempuh sudah diberi. Insya Allah ada jalan keluar.
1MDB ready to cooperate with any foreign authority regarding investigation
KUALA
LUMPUR: 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) reaffirmed its readiness to
cooperate with foreign authorities to assist with any investigation
involving the company.
However,
at the moment, the company has not been contacted by any foreign
authority regarding the investigations, said President and Group
Executive Director Arul Kanda Kandasamy.
"We
have very clearly and openly stated that if we are being contacted or
asked to help, we will fully cooperate, subject to any international
protocol, relating to such matters," he said in a Bloomberg TV Malaysia
interview on Tuesday.
He
was asked whether 1MDB would provide assistance or clarity to any
international authority if approached, after several countries were
reportedly probing the state investment fund.
To
a question on its financial obligation, Arul Kanda said he expected an
interest payment to be made to its bondholders as it entered the
five-day grace period.
Facing
the risk of a bond default, he contended that 1MDB's current cash
surplus stood at about US$550mil (RM212bil) or 11 times the US$50mil
(RM192.5mil) due as interest that was payable on April 18.
The
company is in dispute with Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund,
International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), which earlier agreed
to pay interest on the bonds.
Arul Kanda said he expected an "amicable resolution". – Bernama
And that is why Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign) need to keep harping on the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion-donation issue. They know that if they stop barking then Malaysians will soon forget about these issues and will move on. So they need to repeat, again and again, the stories surrounding the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion issues.
ReplyDeleteBut the problem with this is, it is like playing ‘A little bit of soap’ and ‘I will follow him’ over and over again. Those two songs may have been nice in their time and I did not tire of hearing it five or six times a day on the jukebox in Kuala Kangsar while I sipped my ais kacang. But that was in 1963, 53 years ago, long before many of you were born. I doubt they can sell a million records if they re-launched those singles today.
Mahathir and the ANC need some new hits. People are already suffering from information overload lethargy. The 1MDB and RM2.6 billion stories are beginning to sound like yesterday’s hits. You need to play some new hits or else listeners are going to change stations.