Is the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and Director of Barisan Nasional Strategic Communications, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan regretting having admitted at the BBC interview last September that “MO1” is Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and that only an idiot does not know that “MO1” is Najib?

I am sure all the other Cabinet Ministers, who have virtually been condemned as “idiots” by Abdul Rahman, are gleefully condemning the BN Strategic Communications Director as a real idiot for having made such an admission, now that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the Los Angeles court to put on hold civil forfeiture lawsuits against 1MDB-linked assets to allow criminal investigations into the 1MDB scandal to proceed without any hampering.

In the DOJ‘s court filings to stay its civil forfeiture suits on 1MDB-linked assets, there is no mention of Malaysian Official 1 (MO1), his spouse, or any transfers or gifts made to them.

The BN Strategic Communications Media team under Abdul Rahman immediately pounced on this yesterday and was the first to come out with a response, virtually claiming that the DOJ’s action to stay its civil forfeiture lawsuits to permit criminal investigations to continue unhampered was virtually a victory for the Malaysian government on the baseless ground that the DOJ’s latest action was tantamount to admission that its earlier 250-page civil forfeiture suits were baseless and groundless.

I do not know how the BN Strategic Communication team under Abdul Rahman could come to such a ridiculous conclusion, as the DOJ’s announcement has in fact brought DOJ investigations into the 1MDB scandal to a more serious level, requiring the putting on hold of the DOJ’s civil forfeiture actions so as not to hamper the DOJ’s criminal investigations.

All the allegations in the DOJ’s civil forfeiture suits and all the references to the 1MDB culprits, including “MO1”, remain as valid and relevant as ever – crying out for satisfactory explanations by the persons named as 1MDB culprits.

In any event, the Malaysian authorities cannot pretend that there is no reference to “MO1” or ignorance of the identity of “MO1” as Abdul Rahman has admitted to the whole world in the BBC interview last September that “MO1” is none other than the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Who is now the “idiot” in the Malaysian Cabinet?

The question is whether Najib will now step forward and follow Abdul Rahman’s example to admit to theh world that he and he alone is “MO1”?

(Media Conference Statement at the third day of wake for Kerk Kim Hock in Malacca on Saturday, 12th August 2017 at 5 pm)