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Well done, mato, the cro.ks are shitting bricks. What a stupid response from s stupid dr.
Note: just a minor edition to avoid unnecessary problems.
so obvious that the share swap is finish Firefly first then MAS later. Dr Wafi why are you so jittery? you are working for MAS or Tony? Please make up your little mind!
Are you really an expert in Competition Law? Gaji butalah.
Good for you Matdiah from MASE. Keep on questioning the gaji buta Dr. Until he piss in his pants. Such a stupid e-mail that showed his low mentality. He is definitely not acting in the best interest of MAS.
YB, Thank you for sharing this. This is typical of him. He will hide behind external lawyers or his ‘counsels’ in “Group Legal Practice” and not ever take a stand on issues or to give advise on his own standing. It’s his modus operandi – not take accountability, only credit.
I find it laughable that he can use the line “a substantial part of their wealth is now in MAS.” as a basis to explain his systemwide memo. What is that supposed to mean?
Dr Wafi please give your view why must Collaboration coupled with share swap? Are these two characters like TF and KM not the head of AirAsia? How can you ensure that these two characters will look after the interests of MAS/Firefly? From what had happened to MAS/Firefly so far, it is quite obvious that best interest has not be taken care of. Don’t be so stupid Wafi!
MAS Loyalist
You are right that this Dr is no different from Azman Mokhtar and Mohammed Rashdan Yusof. They all love to hide behind the Con-sultan when things went wrong. What is the point of employing such idiots..
“TF and KM now hold shares and directorships in MAS. As directors and by law, they have certain rights and obligations, including the right to MAS
MAS is being use as a pawn in TF game of monopoly. Dr Wafi is saying that the staff should not divulge any information to AK. TF have blatantly told the crew when he traveled on board MH to London about the future plans of MH. That includes separating the B737 fleet in an entirely new airline codenamed Sapphire. Integrity – NO. Anti Trust – YES!!!!
AK is not rescuing/bailing MH. It was otherwise. With the share swap, AK or TF now has access to Khazanah coffers which was created for GLC.
To all those questioning the Union in MAS, now you know why MAS needs the Unions. The Union is a counter balance to the sometimes vague issue’s shove down the employees throat. AK/TF battle cry has always been ‘Kill MAS’. Why we should trust otherwise?
Wow Dr Buta Gaji e-mail was a fantastic reply. What a reply from a Competition Law expert! No wonder he can afford to own a Porshe Panamera with a single digit registration no: WEB 5.
Must be loaded. The 2 e-mails confirmed that he is a dead wood in MAS. He and Rashdan will make a good pair and MAS will nose dive faster.
Hope the SC will probe into the insider trading. PAC will grill them including Dr Gaji Buta, Rashdan the super consultant.
Hope MACC to interviw this Dr buta Gaji.
Another bahlol bites the dust. Cabut cabut cabut now now now MAS unions in battle mode.
what a bullshit advice? No wonder MAS is in deep shit. The 3 e-mails clearly sowed that the share swap and collaborative framework are just a scam. I hope that KLSE, SC, PAc and MACC will start to investigate into this dirty deal which involved public fund.
Sapphire???firefly=kunang-kunang… Sapphire=whats that mean???xde bunyi Malaysia langsung…i believed TF will left MAS terkontang kanting as he did for RAS…YA ALLAH sesungguhnya Engkau lebih mengetahui segalanya…gaji buta=haram…mencuri=haram…tak adil=haram…so???think…
Heyy you mother fuc****!!! why r u all saying bad Things to this guyyy…. You all are Just sore losers..!!!you just condemn doc wafi’s great achievements because you all failed in life.. Lifeless stoopid people!!! You guts will be forever losers if you act like this… Khe knows whats he is doing so MIND YOUR OWN FREAKING BUSINESS STOOPID!,!!
Dear Ingat Azab, they are unhonorable people who don’t give a damn to other people nor Allah. They are like vultures preying on a buffet of opportunity. MAS is unfortunate because it has become a pawn in their dirty game.
Will anyone investigate the connections between all the royals in MAS?
Tg Azmil, Raja Nordiana (http://www.geni.com/people/raja-nor-diana-binti-raja-zainal-karib-shah/6000000010157024843), Raja Zamilia Raja Dato’ Seri Mansur
Head of Communications, CEO’s Office
(http://www.geni.com/people/Raja-Zamilia/6000000008413518711), Raja Azura Raja Mahayuddin
Head of Human Capital
….,…,
What achievement? He was brought into MAS by Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof, who was trying to save MAS under WAU then. WAU was the first project done by BinaFikir Sdn Bhd. Rashdan and Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar were the founders. WAU was a total failure thats why they need a share swap.
Was he brought in based on his own achievement or by virtue of his father the late Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Othman, who was aMinister then.
Look at the 2 emails of the Dr Gaji Buta and you will see that he was trying to circumvent the Competition Act rather than performing his professional role as Head of Legal/Risk. He should be advising the management whether the share swap have contravened the Act or prior to decisions made, he should tell the management whether they are ok or not.
Not trying to control the outflow of information to AA. More outflow of informations are in the Board of MAS where Tony and Kamarudin are sitting pretty there. silly boy! The two e-mails just show that he is just an office boy carrying out instructions instead professionalism.
Ptui! to the WEB 5 Porsche Panamera.
Dear YB
I have to repeat what I said earlier:
You are only putting Dr Wafi high up to get ‘roasted’.
Did you ever bother to read the public statements that are in the relevant websites on what this deal is all about?
You said – Dr Wafi should be more concerned about the outflow of information to the competitors of MAS unless he knew that the spirit of the secret share swap and the so-called
Dear Parameswara
Thank you for your comments and reading my blog.
Firstly, I have to give credit where credit is due. Surely you must agree with me that Dr Wafi has high credential coupled with his known expertise in Competition Law. Even the government gave him the recognition by appointing him as the advisor to the Malaysian Competition Commission. Obviously, I will have to put him highly otherwise it will most unfair on my part not to do so. Of course, I did not expect the responses that we got but that were the personal views of those within and outside MAS. I really am glad that you are the few brave ones that defended Dr Wafi. That goes for freedom of speech.
You must bear in mind that Dr Wafi is not a normal employee of MAS. He belongs to the top management of MAS and he rubs shoulder with people like Rashdan. In his e-mails he appeared to have full knowledge of the secret share swap and the so-called “Collaborative Frameworks”. Obviously, he also have access to and appraised of all the previous decisions and plans of MAS/Firefly of the old management headed by YM Tengku Azmil.
With that backdrop, Dr Wafi as an expert in Competition Law should have already knew in his mind whether the secret share swap and the collaborative frameworks have violated the Competition Act. If the spirit of the share swap is to genuinely save MAS then Dr Wafi should not be worried about the outflow of informations by employee because it will not affect the genuine exercise of co-operation between MAS/AA. Unless, of course, what he knew that we don’t know about the actual intentions of the share swap then I can understand his concerns as expressed in his two e-mails.
Quite frankly, the timing of the share swap is irrelevant. The intentions and spirits of the secret share are of material importance.
Perhaps you should ask Dr Wafi whether the six decisions that MAS made recently under the management headed by Rashdan have violated the Competition Law. They are as follows:
1. the announcement of changing Firefly
Someone from inflight Services told me that this questionable deals went as far as TF coming twice to KLIA to meet up the team led by Datuk Salleh T. This ST instructed the team to put up a good presentation to TF macam nak bodek TF. kesian the team sampai stayed up until 2 am to prepare the presentation. This presentation includes detailed costing of all IFS initiatives. Tolong selamatkan MAS staff lahhh…
Hey Param, you are still missing the point.
We know who are the real c….ks but is it not the responsibility of all staff to fight for their company just like any citizens to fight against any invaders?
This Wafi being an “anti trust’ expert should be the first defence and not further open the gates to the barbarians.
See my earlier comment.
Sir Tony wrote in his blog on 13 Oct 2011
Parameswara
Please tell your boss (the gaji buta Dr) to consider the 6 decisions in the light of Competition Act. But he has no time for such matters. He was more instructed in circumventing the law. Too many of such characters that have been left to run MAS. It was for this reason that MAS is in the shit today.
The two e-mails showed that he is one of the dead wood around. Please advise him to forget about MAS leave it to more competent people to handle MAS. The gaji buta can just join Datuk Azman Mokhtar running around with his Porsche Panamera. Another directionless guy.
Parameswara
The boss was blur so the macai must also be blur too. The union’s emails clearly tells us that “mere mortals” means TF and KM and not the staff of MAS. The union’s clearly expressed their hidden unhappiness about the deal and Dr Wafi’s e-mails. You must be be in the state of deny syndrome. Please carrying on to polish Wafi’s Porsche Panamera.
I do hope that MACC will ask him to declare his assets. Dr Gaji Buta is part of the “Kumpulan Dead Wood”. He is parr of Tan Sri Md Nor’s legacy.
Yang komen ni tak de keje lain kah?? Macam anak sial je datang perli orang yang belajar penat2 dapat gaji lagi bagus daripada semua anak2 yg komen kat sini! 90% yg ada kat blog ni semua orang yg GAGAL dalam kehidupan diri sendiri… Dah GAGAL , berusaha lagi laa… Ini datang ejek orang yg berjaya sebab nak dia gagal sekali dengan korang….. Nampak sangat semua dengki !!!! Kalau sikap camni, sampai korang MAMPOS masih GAGAL .. tak berjaya langsung dalam kehidupan… DR. Ini tahu la keje dia… Bersusah payah nak protect the company and the board of directors daripada masuk penjara!!! Pastu korang perli dia! Anak jahanam!
Parameswara
All the six decisions made by MAS under Rashdan were not in the best interest of MAS. It was clearly to stop competition with AirAsia. kau buta jugakah? Lebeih kurang kot! Satu Gaji Buta dan pak turutnya Buta terus.
Amir,
You are very focused.
At least you know that it was not Dr Wafi who decided or collaborated on these matters.
Dr Wafi hanya beri panduan sikit supaya kakitangan MAS tidak terperangkap dalam hal berkongsi maklumat dengan LCC itu.
Yang di syorkan oleh Dr Wafi adalah, ikut peraturan untuk mengelak tindakan undang-undang.
Yang harus memberi keterangan lanjut kepada orang awam dan pembayar cukai adalah pemegam saham AirAsia dan MAS. Bukan pengurusan MAS.
We the employees of MAS know about this Dr Wafi. Just incompetent. If not he wouldn’t have came out with such e-mails. He would have advised the management before all decisions are made or carried out. We all know that Rashdan is just an eager beaver with no knowledge whatsoever about airline. It was for that reason why WAU failed. Wafi knew about it because he was brought into MAS at that time by Tan Sri Md Nor. Therefore, he was duty bound to advise Rashdan and the other Bard of Director on all decisions made on whether they will contravene the provision of Competition Act. But he was more interested in passing matters to the hands of consultants so that he can hide behind.
I agree with YB that the 6 decisions were made not in the interest of MAS but others. Stupid decisions. Head of Legal is also stupid. so they made a good pair.
Forget about this guy. I don’t he knew what he was doing. He is just taking orders blindly.
For the benefit of readers of this blog, here is something about Air France and KLM.
KLM
Parameswara, what you put out there is on the surface. The circumstances under which MAS is under and the “collaboration” is vastly different from the AF-KLM merger. And the regulatory process they underwent and the patterns occuring here are totally different.
Read between the lines. There are rules when it comes to anti-competitive behaviour, most of which appear to have been broken/on the verge of being broken here than in the AF-KLM merger. If you ask any competition law practitioner, I am willing to bet my bottom dollar that they can draw clear distinctions between the AF-KLM merger and this situation.
It’s like saying Star Wars and Star Trek are the same thing when the only thing in common is that they are both stories about adventures in outer space.
The issue here is not about whether what can be done or can’t be done. It’s about whether the people in the positions they are have adequately carried out their responsibility.
As a MAS shareholder, I demand the proper management team members, ie Dr Wafi clarify to us exactly what is the basis on which he feels that the airline/AK are not offending the competition laws. We should NOT accept “because the external counsels say so”. He as head of legal can overrule external counsel advise if he has a strong enough argument (it has been done in many companies, including MAS. The internal counsels can vouch for that). Likewise, if he is in agreement, to give the basis of his concurrence to support his issuance of that notice to MAS employees. As a proper officer of the company, it is his DUTY to advise top management on whether a plan is lawful, unlawful or even “dodgy”. You can’t go opinion-shopping to support a conclusion that you want to see and then tell the employees that the external lawyers say so.
Failure of properly explaining only serves to make investors like us lose our confidence in the leadership of the company. Tie that to the insider trading allegations prior to the share swap, what we have here is blatant disregard to not only the interest of the company but also the shareholders.
As a corporate lawyer, I would like to know whether they have breached any of their contractual covenants on shareholding structures and “material adverse effect on the operations of the company”-type of clauses, which are ubiquitious in financing and project documents, with the share swap. Did the parties do proper due diligence?
YB, I feel you are the only one who actually cares about us.
Parameswara, if the people in MAS can satisfactorily clarify the questions raised, I’m sure we would all be happy to back down from all the questioning.
Parameswara
Please don’t avoid the reply from YB. The 6 questions for your boss or friend – the Dr Gaji Buta. Please don’t compare Air France and KLM with AirAsia and MAS. Compare Apple with Apple. Please read the Little Bird comment here and YB Wee. Stop shifting the goal post just for the sake of defending that Dr whom we know in MAS as one of the dead wood. He is only good for driving the Porsche Panamera and kow tow to Rashdan, Azman Mokhtar and Tony.
If he is worth his salt, he would have take the bull by the horn and deal with the problems as tell the management whether the share swap and the silly co-operations have contravened the Competition Act. Like what YB Wee has said in his reply to you. “Dr Wafi should call a spade a space”. But he was not.
I am wondering whether he is an expert or that qualified after all. We all in MAS have our doubts! Thank you Parameswaran that you are just as good as your boss or friend the incompetence Dr.
Parameswaran / Dr Wafi
Jangan cakap banyak. Baca komen LittleBird di atas. Perengan di bawah adalah penting untuk awak atau Dr Wafi menjawab:
“As a MAS shareholder, I demand the proper management team members, ie Dr Wafi clarify to us exactly what is the basis on which he feels that the airline/AK are not offending the competition laws. We should NOT accept
Salam YB Wee,
In our opinion, Dr. Wafi Nazrin is very hardworking lawyer for MAS. He has saved MAS from being found guilty of violating the European anti-trust law before. Please goto this site for details of airlines being fined by EU : http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-10/air-france-klm-ba-among-airlines-fined-1-1-billion.html
Many airlines were fined up to Euro 1.1 billion including SIA but MAS was spared and we can safely say Dr. Wafi is a hero who saves MAS from the huge fine.
Not only that, Dr. Wafi has been appointed to help our “weak” government to enact our very Malaysian Competition Law that comes in force by 1st January 2012. In fact, Malaysia is the slowest country in ASEAN to have enacted such “Anti-trust/Competition Law”.
Thanks to Dr. Wafi for our victory as Malaysian.
My second opinion is that please do not respond to those negative feedback as they are clearly from …’s staff who are merely good at busting those who told the truth.
… is big snake as we all know. The whole country knows he is in huge debts and finding ways to sell his aircrafts and screwing people’s rice bowl and making bucks at the cost of the national carrier. He clearly shows uneducated in anti-trust law and ignorantly violating it without conscientious that is because he couldn’t careless as he only cares to become the Billionaire and next to be the Trillion-aire.
Those crooks are the …, … and … who exploit the workers’ rights from forming a union. They are also adopted union busting strategy in their business to maintain Union-Free airlines.
For your information as in the past, … had whistle-blowed against British Airways for violating anti-trust law. If Dr. Wafi didn’t stop this in time, MAS would have been charged by anti-trust regulatory and can be fined up to billions of US Dollars.
So in plain sight, Dr. Wafi Nazrin is a hero.
God bless Dr. Wafi and his team but evil bless those of the heartless soul who told lies in this blog.
note: minor edition to avoid unnecessary problems.
LittleBird and others
You struck the nail on the head. This Parameswaran and MAS are just ignorant of the problems in MAS that’s why they were in supportive of Dr Porsche Panamera. Parameswaran should answer the 6 questions posted by YB and LittleBird.
Relying on external consultants and hiding behind them called achievements? They are million of them everywhere in the corporate world. Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar and Rashdan are two of those for a start. Only the otak udang will appoint consultants on almost everything and hide behind the reports.
Yb Wee has said that Azman Mokhtar had declared that the AirAsia X sdn Bhd is a dodgy deal and yet he instructed investment banker morgan Stanley to do a valuation exercise. If it is dogy why waste time and good money to do it. Brainless isn’t it? So there goes for Dr Posrche Panamera.
the e-mails from Dr Wafi showed that he is good for nothing in MAS. The e-mail telling MAS staff how to circumvent the law. He should be telling people like Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof, Rashdan and the new Mas directors Datuk Azman and Tony Fernandes whether the objectives of the share swap were against anti-trust law.
He was relying on Bain & Co Allen Overy for cover. Just a pariah Dr. Top executive like this and the Salleh Tak Brani are the dead wood in MAS.
MAS nampaknya adalah tempat untuk orang kaya dan berpengaruh terus membuat duit dari hasil peluh dan darah rakyat. MAS dipergunakan semaksimum mungkin untuk diperah harta kekayaannya. MAS adalah sebuah syarikat yang jelas sekali mampu menjana berbillion ringgt setahun dan sedang diratah dengan lahap dan lahoba orang manusia2 zalim dan tamak haloba. Gendang perang sudah bermula, PRU13 menanti kamu pentadbir zalim. Satu persatu harta rakyat kau punggah demi tempolok kamu. InsyaAllah kamu akan tumbang dengan izin Allah. Dan kami akan terus berusaha untuk melindungi harta negara.
YB, please allow me to speak from my personal opinion and experience as the staff in MAS for nearly two decades.
I understand many would like to see both Dr. Wafi and Dato Salleh to do something against the collaboration framework. The lady “Parameswara” above (whom I do not know and do not associate with) just my pure honesty has repeatedly said the whole collaboration plan was the “green thumb” from both MAS BODs and Tune Air. Thus, it has nothing to do with either Dato Salleh ke or Dr. Wafi as both are the top management of MAS. The only person who can voice their dissatisfaction is the union itself.
Now back to Matdiah, Secretary General of MASEU; what he did not understand is that what has been elaborated by Dr. Wafi.
Now please carefully read this :
(1) Dr. Wafi said technically AA has the rights to even withdrawing some documents belong to MAS because they are the now MAS BODs.
(2) The circular sent out by Dr. Wafi concerning the anti-trust regulatory and our very own Malaysian Anti-Trust Law that will be enforced by 1st Jan 2012; is that the JCC (Exco Committee) between two competitors are a violation to anti-trust regulation in certain country particularly the CARTEL LAW.
(3) Now, the question is why Dr. Wafi issued such circular if he has no balls as you all have branded him well in this blog?????
(4) Do you all know who is Matdiah in MAS???? My personal experience with him is that he is “an unsound” union secretary general. But truly he is sincere type of person. It’s just that he’s a little over-reacted most of the time and quite egoistic person too.
(5) Dato Salleh, as in my experience is a very effective person and for two decades with MAS, I finally know a few people who has a good leadership skills. He is doing very good and because of that, there are many who envious of him. Let’s go into a little detail about politics in MAS – Cabin Crew and Pilot, both have different budget and the Pilots are eyeing at Cabin Crew’s budget to enlarge the size of their pie. What is Dato Salleh’s task? He is ensuring the cabin crew budget will be protected and so some of the Pilots who do not like what Dato Salleh is doing has started to attack him politically by asking around the cabin crew – “How’s your Dato Salleh” and of course, add poisons to cabin crew’s ears. That’s so sadly how MAS is so politicalized internally and externally.
(6) For Dr. Wafi, he has saved not only MAS from huge fine. If MAS were found guilty and fined USD2 billion, where do you think MAS would be now? Dr. Wafi also saves this country by helping the STOOPID government to establish a new law to protect the Malaysians’ rights i.e. Akta-Akta Persaingan – The Malaysia Competition Law.
Now question to some of you above who do not know either Dr. Wafi or Dato Salleh, what do you know about them in the first place. What you said is not true about them and please do not spread lies in the name of god for your karma will be increasing for each word of lies that you added with intention to smear another good person.
Who am I? I am a neutral party who whacks MAS management until they tremble and shit in their pants. For the record to share with many who do not know who is Matdiah – he only knows how to pressure people but he himself loves to sit duck. That is Matdiah. I know he is pressuring Dr. Wafi to do something about the collaboration so that Matdiah can sit in his comfort zone.
FYI, MESA got no balls to go down to the street to picket…that’s why he applies “Corporate Pressure” against Dr. Wafi.
To Dr. Wafi, I don’t speak for you but please do what you can in your knowledge and power to protect MAS.
THANK YOU YB for sharing this with the public.
Dear YB, please allow me to answer your six questions :
YB said “Perhaps you should ask Dr Wafi whether the six decisions that MAS made recently under the management headed by Rashdan have violated the Competition Law. They are as follows:
1. the announcement of changing Firefly
Dear MAS Staff
Your replies seemed to show that you were doing it on behalf of someone else. Let me take your first answer.
Q 1-3 are decisions made by the new CEO/MD
Sick of this…I dont know what will be my fate after this…dengar2 ada nk kena buang and ditamatkan kontrak…betol kew???takut…sedih…hak negara jadi pertaruhan orang yang hanya fikir nak jadi billionaire…keuntungan sendiri mengatasi segalanya…TF hanya bercakap pasal 9000 AK staff…how about more than 19000 MH staff???
Dear YB, I am defending NO ONE as in this case but merely state the truth within the insider.
I mean to say that Dr. Wafi only covers the contract/legal practice and does not act as an advisor to MAS/FIREFLYZ in terms of operational requirement. Dr. is under MAS and any operational issues pertaining to Fireflyz comes under MD/CEO of Fireflyz who reports directly to MD/CEO of MAS. Dr. Wafi has no say in this because the advisor is still Badawi for MAS.
I have to say this, I am not connected to Dr. Wafi but he has done a greed deed of work for MAS which I recognized and I believe the truth should be told.
Now everyone’s pointing finger at him is because he has done the necessary step to avoid the anti-trust law.
This is called a politic attack against the collaboration framework that has to channel to another avenue. For now, at least MAS and Air Asia cannot be communicating directly and AA or AAK cannot trespass into MAS premises to withdraw sensitive documents.
YB, I admire your work and courage for publishing this episode in your blog and I thank you very very very much for your genuine care in us – MAS Staff and I can produce evidence of the fact I have said concerning Dr. Wafi.
A few days ago, I have been approached by another opposition party about this episode. I am not interested to meet them at all because you already acted fast concerning the collaboration matters. Just to state that many opposition parties are trying to be like “YOU”, YB because now, the whole nation is reading your blog and so you must be ‘just’ when speaking about someone whom you have yet to know. All I want to say I don’t want good people go away from MAS.
Tengku Azmil knows what is Dr. Wafi’s background. Why don’t someone interview Tengku Azmil for inner truths than speculating in this blog with inaccurate comments?
Thank you and no pun intended when sharing the inner truth.
Dear MAS Staff
I do appreciate what you were saying but you seemed to be defending the indefensible.
You stated that all the decisions under my Question 1 – 3 were made by the new CEO. In actual fact, he came in well many weeks after the decisions were made right in front of the very learned Dr Wafi. Assuming that he didn’t know then. By now he should have known or ought to have known. If he still didn’t know, he could have have asked the management about it. I do not appreciate the fact that you were trying to pass the buck to the new CEO when the three decisions were made by the management headed by the whizz kid ex-BinaFikir boy known as Rashdan. So what is your very learned Dr Wafi’s advice on these three Questions. Is he going to say that well no one asked me about them so I will leave it. Or is he going to tell us that as an expert in the Competition Law he will pass the buck to the external counsels or consultants and hide behind them. For heaven sake, just answer whether the three Questions 1- 3 of mine whether they have contravened the Competition Law or please convey this to whoever you are doing these tasks for.
Since you finding excuses for the very learned Dr Wafi which I do know from the market that he is one of the few experts in the world for Competition Law and other laws too I believe.
Please ask me why is MAS still having problems in getting the lease rentals worth almost RM40 millions from Alwafeer Air in Saudi. Why rentals are not paid for almost two years and MAS ws still unable to repossess all the jumbo jets? Are you going to tell me that this is the job of hte new CEo or the previous MAS management.
FAX or AIrAsia X Sdn Bhd has cannibalised one of the 7 Foker aircraft for spare parts leaving the other six being un-airworthy. MAS spent RM35 millions in refurbishing them before resuming the Rural Air Service in Sabah and Sarawak. What did you do about this? or you are going to tell me that it is the CEO’s problems and nothing got to do with the very learned Dr Wafi. or you are going to tell me that this is not about Competition Law so he is not responsible.
Please take note that the secret share swap and so-called Collaborative Framework have been inked but it is not cast in stone. It is now examined by Bursa KL and Sc because of non disclosure as required under the Bursa Rules. The investing public have been misled by these BinaFikir boys and certain personalities in MAS to do things at their whims and fancies. It will also be points for discussion at the PAC, which I believe is deliberating on the matter. This secret share swap will also be a subject matter for Malaysian Competition Commission for action of which the very learned Dr Wafi is the ADVISOR!
In view of this isn’t it his duties to advise based on those decisions that have been made by the management headed by the whizz kid. Dr Wafi is also part of that management that made those stupid decisions were not in the best interest of MAS. Please don’t tell me that Dr Wafi was not part of the team.
Even if you want to defend your very learned Dr Wafi, please do it professionally and dispassionately. Please don’t fight against facts. The Alwafeer Air matter speaks volume. I will definitely speak up re the above in Parliament. Defend as much as like but the facts speak for themselves.
I really sorry that I will not respond further your e-mail because you are defending blindly against facts. Furthermore, I am quite busy now because Parliament is in session. A lot of things had to be exposed with regards to this secret deals. However, I will still publish your comments if they are not defamatory in nature.
Thank you. Have a nice day.
With kindest regards
wee choo keong
YB, guess you already can see why MAS is always in trouble. Everyone thought the group legal practice is the advisor which is not – but Badawi is the advisor. HOPE the new MD/CEO reads this blog and that “LIttleBird” if truly is the board of director, will do something good out of this piece of information by first changing the advisor.
To AJ, NOW is the time to change the system in MAS (refer above) and to Dato Eddy Leong, please revert the plans for Fireflyz with urgency. Eddy is closed to Bernard F who is friend to Tony F.
MAS Staff, you’re mistaken. FY doesn’t have its own legal advisor. Kalau ada pu, ia ada “invisible line” ke DW, yang menerajui GLP, which is a centralised legal department. I am very familiar with the structure of the legal department at MAS. The legal advisor of a company has to ensure that MAS’ operational and business activities are within the confines of the law. Itu tugas internal legal adviser. Dia kena advise wholistically, bukan pick and choose issues. Paklah bukan advisor dari segi perundangan. Get the picture?
Kalau FY ke MASWings ke MAE ke MAS Berhad nak buat apa-apa, it is in the company’s interest to run it through the legal department to ensure ia tak menyalahi undang-undang. Selalunya, for major matters yang walaupun operational in nature tetapi ada implikasi ke atas MAS sebagai entiti korporat, Dalam pengalaman saya, GLP sering dipanggil untuk membantu dan memberi pandangan dalam banyak hal. Itu caranya semasa Tg Azmil sebagai CEO dan juga semasa Idris Jala, malah zaman sebelumnya juga, seperti Datuk Fuaad Dahlan, TS Md Nor Yaakub dsbg.
Instead of kita bergelut pasal karakter dalam cerita ini, mcm LittleBird cakap – issue dia is whether orang yang berwajib telah menjalankan tanggungjawab dia. Without the personal attacks, the answer masih belum terjawab.
Tak ada makna kalau seseorang itu baik dengan sesiapa, atau kereta apa yang dia bawa, apa qualification dia, how much dia telah “save the company” dalam cartel issue, Matdiah tu baik ke jahat ke, Datuk Salleh tu berani ke tidak ke, ataupun samada seseorang tu pro-AA ataupun tidak.
Pokok pangkalnya, DID THE PEOPLE INVOLVED DO THEIR JOBS THEY WAY THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO AND IN THE INTEREST OF ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED?
Let’s cut the personal attacks, tubthumping and spinning the issues, shall we? Mature-lah sikit.. MAS is not getting in any better shape with everyone trying to posture this way.
orang upahan = orang dr wafi = orang TF = orang KM = orang Binafikir =????fikirlaa sendiri
YB and Pemandu Panamera
Thank you to both of you who have put the mater properly tot that pseudo MAS Staff, who is a licker to that Dr Gaji Buta. If he is an expert then the situation will not arise. Then there is no need for him to sent out the e-mails that evident of him hiding behind external counsels like what the LittleBird put it.
1. the announcement of changing Firefly
YB, heard Alwafeer Air is bankrupt. Guess not need to go deeper.
Just to express my gratitude – thank you for your letter to SC.
Please note I argue based on rationality and evidence. The only one thing is that I overlooked the date of new MD/CEO joining MAS. I have learned to hold my tongue if I am not the witness in the crime scene so I say it is up to an individual on how they would like to perceive the situation.
After all, this is just a clear debate and nothing more of an apple polisher or lousy speculators.
Given the clear one-sidedness of the 6 acts of MAS and the detriment these acts brought to Firefly and the pubIic specifcally; and fair trading generally, one can only infer that the acts were done either with pressure from the beneficiary i.e. Air Asia or from the pure intent to please their “masters” by certain parties within MAS, or both.
In any case, if they are not seen as in contravention to the very basis of anti-competion, then we are all deaf, dumb and blind. If they are, then why do our learned friend not speak out and make a stand. After all he is supposed to be man of high principles and morals. He has failed at least in his feduriary as a person from the legal profession or am I too idealistic and his self-preservation instincts are too strong.
Dr Gaji Buta is one of the dead wood in MAS that must be got rid of in MAS otherwise MAS will always be in deep shit.
YB….just to update you on the status of the B747-400 leased to Alwafeer Air….the 02 aircraft registration AWA1 and AWA2 left JED for KUL on the 09th OCT.
AWA3 has always been in KUL, since January 2011, ferried students from Cairo ex-JED on a rescue mission flight paid for by Malaysian government and did not return to Jeddah.
Maria Hassan
Thank you for the information. I don’t know whether you are sending in this comment on behalf of MAS or based on your unverified information.
As far I know there are three aircraft leased to Alwafeer. Assuming that what you have said are true then what is the status of the other one. What is the status of the outstanding debts amounting to about RM40 million? These questions had to be answered. I have already tabled these questions in Parliament and is awaiting for an official reply.
The crux of the matter is why was MAS put in such a state in the first place. The situation showed that there was no due diligence done by MAS before signing the contract. With the legal department headed by the very learned Dr Wafi, who is an authority in competition and other field, surely MAS interest must have been protected and the moment Alwafeer Air defaulted in payment of rental MAS should have taken appropriate actions. I believe that no positive actions were taken by MAS management until recently. Perhaps you can enlighten us on the above.
Thank you.
With kindest regards
wee choo keong
Maria Hassan
Thank you for the information. I don’t know whether you are sending in this comment on behalf of MAS or based on your unverified information.
As far I know there are three aircraft leased to Alwafeer. Assuming that what you have said are true then what is the status of the other one. What is the status of the outstanding debts amounting to about RM40 million? These questions had to be answered. I have already tabled these questions in Parliament and is awaiting for an official reply.
The crux of the matter is why was MAS put in such a state in the first place. The situation showed that there was no due diligence done by MAS before signing the contract. With the legal department headed by the very learned Dr Wafi, who is an authority in competition and other field, surely MAS interest must have been protected and the moment Alwafeer Air defaulted in payment of rental MAS should have taken appropriate actions. I believe that no positive actions were taken by MAS management until recently. Perhaps you can enlighten us on the above.
Thank you.
With kindest regards
wee choo keong
MAS Staff: Alwafeer Air is not bankrupt….you heard wrong…it has not operated since the last Hajj season and now with all 03 aircraft back with MAS it is ‘an airline without aircraft’!
The CEO is still trying to get new investor/s….for the last 10 months!! Employees and ex-employees’ salaries remain outstanding and so are other overhead, just to give you an insight…so RM40 million owing to MAS…only time will tell???
Al wafeer is not the only debacle.
Try the SITA PSS and Wirecard deals and see who got rich from them.
Dear YB…I am no longer an employee of MAS, I was a management employee of Alwafeer Air, until recently. I posted the aircraft status update for you just so you are aware of the current situation. I am in full support of your efforts, hence just want to make sure you get the facts right.
As earlier stated, AWA3 was flown back to KUL in Jan 2011 on a rescue mission and never flown back to Jeddah. I believe they’ve changed the livery to MAS’ and is now flying the hajj flights for them.
Thank you very much for the information.
I will definitely take note of it during this Budget Debate in Parliament.
With kindest regards
wee choo keong