Family Pun Gaduh?

This is that report from the Asia Sentinel. You can read the whole thing here.

• Acrimonious Split Rattles Malaysian Premier’s Family
• February 11, 2015 By John Berthelsen 
• Feud reportedly sparked by PM Najib’s wife
• announcement by Nazir Razak to file defamation charges against bloggers believed connected to a close friend of his brother, Najib Razak, has laid bare what has been whispered about for months 
• There is growing, acrimonious rift in the Razak family
• much of it over deeply indebted 1MDB
• Najib’s siblings’ relationship with Rosmah, partly because of her flaunting enormous wealth.  
• Rosmah believed to have convinced her husband to initiate 1MDB 
• questions circulating is whether family feud might result in problems for CIMB
•  “The brothers openly criticize Rosmah at dinner functions and family events"
• “I have heard them myself. Nazir’s family has moved to Oxford, where he spends 60 to 70 percent of his time. 
• elder brother Nizam spends time with his family in Boston. 
• two elder brothers Johari and Nazim also cannot get along with Rosmah
• some of the family spent Hari Raya in Phuket & Spore to avoid PM's open house
• squabble broken into open at time when Najib is under attack 
• including Dr Mahathir Mohamad
• 1MDB subject of a long and critical New York Times article on Feb. 8.  
• article since  served as red meat to Mahathir forces and Muhyiddin Yassin
• deputy prime minister who eyeing Najib’s job
•  rift began in January 2014, when Nazir wrote article in Kinibiz highly critical of  govt
• Nazir wrote a remembrance of his father, “Remembering My Father, Tun Razak.” 
• father refused to use public funds to build a swimming pool for his children 
• personally paid his family’s expenses on government trips, Nazir said
• article obvious public rebuke to PM 
• remodeling PM's residence at vast public expense at urging of wife
• using government’s public jet for private junkets 
• “Nazir has long worried about the negative influence of Rosmah, in particular, on Najib and has complained to friends and associates about it,” said a longtime western political analyst in Kuala Lumpur. 
• “Of course, Rosmah knows this and despises Nazir in return and badmouths him to Najib.  So it goes.”
• Nazir said anonymous attacks began on his family and his children from bloggers believed to be connected to Taek Jho Low
• and embroiled Najib in government debt generated by 1MDB, the subject of an extensive Asia Sentinel report on Dec. 8, 2014
• Jho Low became a friend of Rosmah’s son Riza Aziz 
• to start a sovereign investment fund, Jho Low turned to Najib, then the defense minister. 
• On Jho Low’s advice, 1MDB appears to have invested vast amounts in a series of misguided adventures
• In Kinibiz last week, Nazir said the attacks, constituting “lies and slander,” cross the line. 
• businessman and publisher Tong Kooi Ong, also been subjected to anonymous blog attacks that Tong claimed were due to The Edge's  extensive and biting coverage of 1MDB.
• The Edge Malaysia is part of The Edge Media Group, which Tong owns. 
• On Feb. 6, Tong said he had ascertained the identity of the blogger going by the name ‘ahrily90’ and had served a legal letter to Jho Low

My comments : Tak ada class. No class.