Anwar and Wikileaks exposure

1. Claims: “This information went viral on the Internet. And when I read this, I wondered where this money comes from”, Liang Teck Meng said when debating the motion of thanks on the royal address.

A statement like this is very volatile in nature because the public would easily swallow it up since it has been mentioned by a prominent figure.


2. Findings: Such a statement without substantial proof shows how gullible BN’s MP Liang Teck Meng is towards information retrieved from blogs and the social media. There is no evidence from WikiLeaks that suggests that Anwar has stashed RM 332 million in 20 offshore bank accounts. Liang was also brave enough to name countries such as United States, China, Singapore and Israel.

Let’s take a look at WikiLeaks (refer to picture)


There is no information on Anwar’s “bank accounts”

Anwar was fast in rebutting Liang statement by claiming that these allegations had first appeared on Pro-UMNO blogs, whom apparently insinuated that their information was retrieved from WikiLeaks. (refer to picture)

“In fact there are no such reference being made in any WikiLeaks entry on Malaysia,” he told the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.

3. These are examples of accounts, which have been extracted from a blog, which is clearly PRO-UMNO. The writer includes detailed information, which can be rather convincing to the public. In Malaysia bad news spreads quickly as wildfire. We urge the public to step out of their line of thought that our opposition leader swindled and stashed billions of Ringgit during his reign as deputy Prime Minister. The deluge of wrongful information can cause an eruption of protests, unnecessary protests.


We are not saying that Anwar’s hands are clean when it comes to financial matters, but the public should not come to a conclusion if there’s no substantial proof backing it up.

Peculiarly, some of these banks do not exist. We are no experts on banking but our dear friend Google would suggest that our blogger has failed to do his homework before fabricating the list. What a shame.

As a conclusion we believe that this information was made up to cause confusion among the public. Liang should do more research before making such a claim. A person holding such a position should take the initiative to question the information rather than believing it just because it can be used against the Opposition Party.