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KUALA TERENGGANU 3 Feb. – Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan memutuskan pelaburan dalam Amanah Saham Nasional (ASN) dan Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) serta penerimaan dividen dengan bonus pelaburan itu diharuskan dari segi hukum syarak.

Pengerusinya, Prof. Datuk Dr. Abdul Shukor Husin berkata, pihaknya mendapati pelaburan berkenaan dibenarkan dalam Islam selepas meneliti dan mempertimbangkan maslahatnya (faedah).

Katanya, ia turut meliputi dividen atau bonus yang diberikan kepada mereka yang melabur dalam ASB dan ASN.

‘‘Masyarakat Islam kini tidak perlu ragu-ragu lagi dengan status pelaburan dalam ASB dan ASN serta dividen yang mereka terima hasil daripada pelaburan ini,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas mempengerusikan Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Majlis Kebangsaan bagi Hal Ehwal Agama Islam Malaysia Kali ke-80 di sini hari ini.

Muzakarah yang berlangsung selama tiga hari dan berakhir hari ini turut dihadiri Setiausaha majlis itu, Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz dan 14 mufti dari seluruh negara.

Abdul Shukor berkata, muzakarah itu juga memutuskan pembangunan ke atas tanah wakaf am dan khas diharuskan jika ia mengekalkan niat asal pewakaf.

‘‘Pembangunan tanah wakaf khususnya, masjid dengan tambahan projek pembangunan serta beberapa penambahbaikan dibolehkan tetapi ia hendaklah berdasarkan keperluan yang ditentukan oleh wali amri iaitu majlis agama atau kerajaan negeri terbabit,” katanya.

Dalam pada itu, beliau memberitahu, muzakarah itu turut memutuskan pemakaian lambang agama lain oleh masyarakat Islam adalah dilarang.

‘‘Umat Islam dilarang memakai atau menggunakan lambang-lambang agama lain jika ia dinyatakan atau tertera dengan jelas,” katanya.

I received a message from one of my friends recently with the URL referred to this news. After a long silent, the news of SwissCash appear again but not pretty sure how true it is. I can’t verify the URL given on swisscash since it is not accessible from my country. Anyway, read the whole news pasted below from the source

SWISSCASH RELAUNCHING ITS PHASE I WITH THE PARTNERSHIP OF

ASIA PACIFIC CAPITAL AND SUN FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

THE NEWS IS AMBROSIA FOR THE DYING INVESTOR OF SWISSCASH/SWISSMUTUALFUND.

Addressing the community of Swisscash Investors Michael Mansfield, ex-CFO of Swisscash and Hector W.Sidberg, Group Partner Representative through Swisscashguide website, once again assured that Swisscash is neither gone nor they are run away.

Earlier Mr. Mansfield promised that Swisscash would return in 9 phases. Now the Phase I of that assurance is going to take a shape and the US investors may see their sites from 15th October 2007 again after a span of 55 plus days.

They have given 31st October 2007 for the investors of Asia (excluding Malaysia where currently the civil case is pending), Middle East and Africa as well 15th November 2007 for European and Australian investors to get back their websites.

Further, this Phase I is for Collecting Historical Data & Initializing Websites only. Now, we do not know whether the monies are lying within the sites and whether they allow the investors to withdraw the epoints from their ebank accounts because according to the technical team much of the data is ‘corrupted’ due to ‘legal forces’.

The profiles of ASIA PACIFIC CAPITAL INVESTMENT LIMITED (APC) and SUN FINANCIAL SYSTEMS are little known. May be these are de-listed companies and managed by their parent companies as a part of the group concerns.

The message was silent in providing the profiles of these new partners. Now it is to the guess of the investors. If the APC belongs to the Asia Pacific Capital Group, a Hong Kong based asset management company that was established in 1992, and then the chance of swisscash’s revival would be high.

The APC Group is headed by Ashok S. Kothari and W. Gage McAfee as Managing Directors.

If it were the new partner then to some extent the original Swisscash investors would be bailed out the loss of their investment. And the legal battle with Malaysian Securities Commission may not have much impact on majority of the Asian and especially the Indian investors.

Asia Pacific Capital (HK) Ltd. and the Managing Directors individually are registered with and licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission.

Asia Pacific Capital also holds a SEBI approved FVCI license for investment in India. It is to be remembered that both Reserve Bank of India and SEBI were silent till today without expressing their view on the legality of Swisscash in India. If APC becomes the new partner and the Plans of original Swisscash are modified, Swisscash may not be the subject of illegality in India.

However, since the above-mentioned companies like Asia Pacific Capital Investment Limited and Sun Financial Systems were not having enough data in the web, we doubt that these companies may be fake ones. The names sound and logos resemble the flagship companies like APC and Sun Microsystems. These companies are authentic and genuine and involve in similar activities like corporate finance and financial system providers. Until and unless something comes from their parent companies, it is still a challenging task to believe.

Surprisingly, another Asia Pacific Capital that claims to be established in 1982 providing asset management and other services from Los Angels and Taipei give little thought. It is headed by Mr. Richard Alter and Mr. Eddy Chao.

Now, which one, Asia Pacific Capital (HK) Ltd of Ashok S. Kothari or Asia Pacific Capital of Eddy Chao, is associated with Swisscash?

Swisscash says that it is restructuring the group activities in order to cope up the present legal crises. If the Swisscash goes into partnership and comes out legal several thousands of investors from all over the globe feel a sigh of relief.

Anyhow, it is a good sign for the Swisscash investors to hear such news after long silence.

For those who wanted to try to check on the site, please go to http://www.swisscashguide.com and see it yourself. It is said that the site contain information of the swisscash phases (Phase 1 to Phase 9)

Satu prosiding mahkamah telah berlaku semalam dengan Suruhanjaya Sekuriti Malaysia telah berjaya mendapat perintah mahkamah supaya wang di luar negara dibawa balik ke Malaysia. Di bawah berita yang dikeluarkan oleh Utusan Malaysia Online dan TheStar Online.

Pindah RM35j ke Malaysia — Defendan SwissCash diarah bawa balik wang dari akaun luar negara

KUALA LUMPUR 27 Sept. – Mahkamah telah mengeluarkan arahan supaya seorang defendan dalam skim pelaburan Internet SwissCash memindahkan semula kesemua wang berjumlah kira-kira RM35 juta dalam akaun bank miliknya di luar negara ke Malaysia.

Defendan terbabit, Amir Hassan diarahkan memindahkan wang tersebut yang kini disimpan dalam enam akaun bank di Hong Kong dan lapan akaun bank di Singapura.

Perintah mahkamah itu merupakan kejayaan Suruhanjaya Sekuriti (SC) dalam kes penguatkuasaan sivilnya terhadap skim pelaburan Internet itu.

SC dalam satu kenyataan hari ini memberitahu, wang yang dibawa balik itu akan dibekukan menerusi perintah Mareva, tertakluk kepada prosiding sivil yang difailkan oleh suruhanjaya itu pada awal tahun ini terhadap Amir Hassan, Albert Lee Kee Sien, Kelvin Choo Mun Hoe, Dynamic Revolution Sdn. Bhd., Swiss Mutual Fund (1948) S.A, SMF International Ltd. dan SMF (1948) International Ltd..

“Kejayaan dalam tindakan sivil SC ini memastikan wang SwissCash itu disimpan dengan selamat, dan dalam bidang kuasa mahkamah Malaysia, jadi wang itu tertakluk kepada sebarang perintah yang dibuat dalam prosiding itu.

“Pelabur-pelabur sekali lagi diingatkan bahawa kedua-dua Swiss Mutual Fund dan SwissCash tidak diberikan lesen oleh SC,” kata kenyataan itu.

Kegiatan SwissCash yang menjanjikan dividen 300 peratus selepas pelaburan selama 15 bulan terbongkar kira-kira setahun lalu.

Skim itu dikatakan telah menerima deposit antara RM380 juta dan RM3.8 bilion daripada kira-kira 100,000 pelabur Malaysia.

Menurut SC, SwissCash merupakan sindiket Internet antarabangsa dan suruhanjaya itu sedang bekerjasama dengan pihak berkuasa di tujuh buah negara bagi memeranginya.

Katanya, sehingga kini, SC telah menyekat empat laman web berkaitan SwissCash iaitu http://www.swisscash.net/, http://www.swisscash.biz/, http://www.swissmutualfund.biz/ dan http://www.swisscashguide.com/ 

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SC gets order to recover funds 

KUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission (SC) obtained a court order yesterday to retrieve RM35mil in SwissCash money held in 14 overseas banks and have it sent back here.

After the money is transferred to Malaysia, it would be frozen pending the outcome of a civil suit brought by the SC against Amir Hassan, Albert Lee Kee Sien, Kelvin Choo Mun Hoe, Dynamic Revolution Sdn Bhd, Swiss Mutal Fund (1948) S.A. SMF International Limited and SMF (1948) International Limited, the SC said in a statement.

Swisscash is a worldwide online investment scheme that promises high returns. It is illegal in Malaysia and the SC has described it as a scam.

The High Court ordered Amir to transfer the money, held in six banks in Hong Kong and eight banks in Singapore, back to Malaysia within seven days.

“This is to ensure the Swisscash money is held safely and within the jurisdiction of the Malaysian courts should any order be made in the proceedings,” the statement said.

In June, the SC obtained a worldwide Mareva injunction against the three people and the four companies for their alleged involvement in the Swisscash investment scheme to prevent them from disposing their assets.

The SC and Bank Negara say SwissCash has no licence to collect such funds and, as such, it is illegal.

The SC is working with seven other countries to curb the illegal activities.

Ini bermakna, kes masih belum selesai dan perkembangan terbaru kes ini pasti akan ada lagi kelak. Till then, stay tune

Still remember investment scheme called PIPS? They have a paycard call picpay. Last time they are a kind of successful program with many kind of real business running using investors’ fund. Below is the latest news about them

Suami isteri dituduh ambil deposit tanpa lesen

KUALA LUMPUR 25 Sept. – Seorang warga Britain dan isterinya, warga tempatan masing-masing mengaku tidak bersalah atas dua tuduhan menerima deposit daripada pendeposit-pendeposit melibatkan wang tunai RM650,000 tanpa memiliki lesen yang sah.

Bryan John Marsden, 59, turut menghadapi dua lagi tuduhan tambahan sebagai pengarah Syarikat PicPay Dot Com Sdn. Bhd. dan New Mark Business Centres Sdn. Bhd. yang kedua-duanya beralamat di P.T. 7323 Tingkat 2, Jalan BBN 1/2E, Bandar Baru Nilai, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.

Menurut pertuduhan tersebut, Bryan serta isterinya, Phan Sew Ken, 52, menghadapi tuduhan yang sama yang merupakan satu kesalahan di bawah Seksyen 6(4) Akta Bank dan Institusi-Institusi Kewangan 1989 untuk menjalankan perniagaan bank, bank saudagar, syarikat kewangan atau syarikat diskaun.

Suami isteri itu didakwa sebagai pengarah dua syarikat yang disebutkan dan kedua-duanya didakwa di bawah 25(1) Akta Bank dan Institusi-Institusi Kewangan 1989 (Akta 372) dibaca bersama Seksyen 106(1) akta yang sama dan boleh dihukum di bawah Seksyen 103(1)(a) akta yang sama dan Nombor Siri 20 dalam Jadual Keempat akta yang sama.

Timbalan-Timbalan Pendakwa Raya dari Bank Negara, Fahmi Abd. Moin dan Mohd. Shukri Ahmad Mansor mengendalikan pendakwaan di hadapan Hakim Rozana Ali Yusoff.

Fahmi menawarkan jaminan masing-masing RM500,000 dengan seorang penjamin dan dokumen perjalanan diserahkan kepada mahkamah terhadap kedua-dua tertuduh memandangkan mereka telah melakukan satu kesalahan yang serius dan melibatkan kepentingan awam.

Katanya, wang jaminan yang tinggi dan pasport diserahkan kepada mahkamah bertujuan memastikan mereka hadir di mahkamah pada hari perbicaraan.

Fahmi turut memberitahu mahkamah bahawa kedua-dua tertuduh masih direman atas lima puluh tuduhan di bawah pengubahan deposit (wang) hasil dari aktiviti yang dijalankan secara haram di Mahkamah Sesyen Seremban.

Peguam bela J. Kuldeep Kumar yang mewakili kedua-dua tertuduh yang membuat rayuan supaya mahkamah mengurangkan jumlah wang jaminan berkata, semua aset bernilai RM8,348,560.65 miliki pasangan ini sudah dibekukan oleh Bank Negara.

Jelas Kuldeep, kedua-dua tertuduh sudah tiada sumber kewangan, lagi pun tiada sesiapa yang yang dapat mengeluarkan wang jaminan yang sangat tinggi untuk mereka.

Beliau berkata, setakat ini pasangan berkenaan telah memberikan kerjasama ketika penyiasatan dijalankan ke atas mereka.

Rozana membenarkan Bryan yang menghadapi empat pertuduhan dijamin RM400,000 sementara isterinya ditawarkan jaminan RM300,000 sementara tarikh perbicaraan ditetapkan 6 Mei tahun depan.

Menurut laporan akhbar, Bryan dan isterinya merupakan individu pertama yang dihadapkan ke mahkamah (Mahkamah Sesyen Seremban) atas kesalahan melakukan pengubahan wang hasil aktiviti haram yang didakwa dilakukan hujung tahun 2003.

Difahamkan kesemua aktiviti yang dijalankan syarikat pajakan tersebut di mana pasangan berkenaan menjadi pengarahnya yang melibatkan pelaburan online bernilai AS$70 juta.

Kes tersebut juga adalah yang pertama di negara ini yang melibatkan urusan pengambilan deposit haram melalui talian (online). 

If I’m not mistaken, there is another similar case ~ SwissCash will be in the court soon.

Last Friday, another news released by Securities Commission (SC) related to SwissCash investment program. There is another website appeared on the internet and linked to SwissCash has been block by SC. Read the full news from TheStar online below

SC blocks another Swisscash website

KUALA LUMPUR: As part of its efforts to combat illegal investment schemes, the Securities Commission (SC), together with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, and CyberSecurity Malaysia, has blocked access to a new Swisscash website which offers an illegal investment scheme promoted by Swiss Mutual Fund. 

The website, www.swisscashguide.com, recently surfaced on the Internet.

This brings to four the number of websites related to Swisscash that have been blocked. 

Earlier in June, the SC blocked three such websites namely www.swisscash.net, www.swisscash.biz and www.swissmutualfund.biz.

In a press statement yesterday, the SC reminded investors that neither Swiss Mutual Fund nor Swisscash are licensed by the SC. 

It said the activities of Swiss Mutual Fund/Swisscash had also been declared illegal in several other countries such as Jamaica and China. 

The commission said it would continue to take all measures to combat investment scams, including blocking access to more websites, and taking appropriate enforcement action against its operators and agents.