Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Today is a great day for journalism in Malaysia.

CAGM

Citizens for Accountable

Governance Malaysia
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Dear Malaysians,
Visitors

We thank you for your support in reading our blog diligently.

Today is a great day for us.
It is a greater day for journalism in Malaysia.
We have come a long way in less than two months since we first issued our first press
statement on May 28.
Today is a great day for us because it shows how far we can go in Malaysia if we know how to
sell a great story.
Today, we know all it takes is diligence, hard work and a computer with internet connection
(plus a mobile phone line) to make a difference.
You must have been pretty sure that you were reading only the truth all this while from us and
from all the online news portals out there that made us famous overnight since we first started
issuing press statements on May 28.
Well, you must have also been pretty sure that we are a bona-fide organization as claimed and
that I am Md. Zainal Abidin, a lawyer as claimed.
Unfortunately, we hate to break this news to you.
It is time to reveal the truth.
To our respected editors from Malaysian Insider, Malaysiakini and all other online news portals,
it breaks our heart to say this to you:
There is no such lawyer by the name of Md. Zainal Abdin.
There are no 2,000 over members in CAGM and we dont have millions in our account to give to
whistleblowers.

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And no, we dont have a SD that implicates the PM in any financial misdeeds.
CAGM was just an experiment in social media in Malaysia.
CAGM grew only because we were supported by editors who refused to check the facts but
thrived on reporting sensational news.
We became famous because editors wanted us to tell stories that could sell. Guess we did a
great job.
Not one single news portal bothered to check the one simple fact:
DOES MD. ZAINAL ABIDIN exist?
All they had to do was check with the Bar Council and the cover would have been blown
immediately on Day 1.
But no, everyone wanted a sensational story.
No one bothered to check with the ROS if ever such an organization as CAGM exists.
Even journalists from reputable foreign newspaper such as the Wall Street Journal fell for our
tricks.
Anyway, we have to the following for our readers before we bid farewell.
Lets start with the redacted SD.
It was basically a fictitious SD.
Without redacting and making it look important, it will read something like this:

LOOKS LIKE WE SOLD A GOOD STORY

BY REDACTING SOME PARTS.
AND THANKS TO MALAYSIAN INSIDER,
MALAYSIA KINI, FREE MALAYSIA TODAY AND THE REST, WE HAVE GREAT STORY OF A NON-EXISTING EX-BANK
EMPLOYEE SACKED MERCILESSLY DUE TO FAILING TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS TO TRANSFER MILLIONS FOR
NAJIB...

And we wish to thank reporter Tom Wright of the Wall Street Journal for motivating us to expose this SD, that for a
while we forgot this was not real.

We could have sold this bogus SD and a couple of fake remittance slips to Wall Street Journal reporter Tom Wright for

Duit Raya if we wanted to but since he looks like a nice guy, we called it off early.
Yes. Its true.
Immediately after posting our last press statement on 12 July 2015, we received an SMS from the mobile phone of Tom Wright
+85261932907 to our chairman Zainals fake mobile number 017-6639565.
We reproduce the conversation below.
12 July 2015, 22:14
Tom Wright (+85261932907): Hi Zainal. Im Tom Wright with the Wall Street Journal. I saw you press release. Can we
talk?
So we called him and exchanged greetings and we told him about the SD.
13 July 2015, 07:46
TW: Look forward to talking this morning. Ill call you at 10?
He calls and we tell him our tall tale. He buys it and asks us to email it to him.
13 July 2015, 17:42
TW: Ok many thanks. I didnt get email. Tom.wright@wsj.com
So we mail him the SD. The next day, Malaysian Insider carries an article after calling and talking to our chairman.
14 July 2015, 08: 18
TW: Hi I see you are quoted in Malaysian Insider. Please give to us first as will have much bigger impact.
08:19
TW: And great if can get quick as is now out in media. Many thanks.
He calls chairman again and speaks on the matter, asking many questions.
14 July 2015, 09:32
TW: Great talking. Please ask the source whether he will consider also giving remittance documents. Will be much
stronger than just an affidavit.
09:33
TW: Could make a big splash given other news weve reported.
09:34
TW: Documents dont lie.
When we tell him to give us time, he continues bugging us.
11:44
TW: Any luck?
We hold him further. Calls us twice but we hold him further.
14:16
TW: Hi whats the plan?
Tom calls our chairman again, asking for more documents besides the SD.
Then chairman pulls a fast one on him and say its in the court.
18:12
TW: Hey do you have the court doc number? Thanks!
At this time, a Parveen Menon from Reuters calls chairman Zainal from this number 014-3381978 asking for the SD. So
we email it to him and tell him not to tell Tom.
Chairman then sends SMS to Tom and tells him that Reuters had been calling for the SD but chairman only wants Wall Street
to carry it first because Wall Street is a great paper.
To which Tom replied;
18:19
TW: Yes they wont handle it as we can with as much reach.
(he meant Reuters can't do a better job than Wall Street).
18:21
TW: Thanks for telling them that, We should move quickly though as could be very impactful.

Chairman Zainal then tells Tom cant get the case file number because court staff not working to which Tom replies:
18:22
TW: Case file not a big issue. Most important is betting source on board to use his name and as many docs as he
agrees.
18:46
TW: I wouldnt advise you dropping out info. It will allow people to knock it down and will have less impact. Get
everything to me right now and I can start working on it.
Chairman then tells Tom why not use SD as basis for story to which Tom replies:
18:48
TW: I dont see how revealing the affidavit does much, Better to get all out before an injunction with a credible paper
with huge global reach.
Chairman suggests to Tom to carry SD first then follow up with other details later to which Tom replies:
21:52
TW: Does that make sense? Dripping the news out will make it less impactful, not more
22:03
TW: Goodnight
15 July 2015, 08:35
TW: Hey lets get moving. Want to get this out before hari raya.
11:56
TW: Morning. Do you have the court number. If I can get that and get hold of document, I can report.
The conversations continue before we decide to bring the curtains down.
Imagine if we had cleverly forged some banking slips/documents and given it to Tom.
Actually, we saved Tom from getting his ass sued off by Ambank.

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