Updates: Commentator Lim Seng did so detective work, producing the above picture of Amin Pipet from the Selangor website, showing his Datukship in 2004.
I was thrilled today to see the frontpage of theSun, which told the tale of a truly shameless land scam.
I happened to have met the victim, and want to offer deeply felt thanks to theSun for their efforts in helping to expose this blatant injustice and advocate on behalf of the voiceless.
The victim, 70 year old Mr. Lye Piang Yin (pictured above), whose grand nephew is a friend of mine, is a former RTM technician, and a soft spoken gentleman with a very kind and humble demeanour. He is a bachelor, lives alone, eats two meals a day (breakfast and dinner) and gets around either via public transport or a motorbike that has malfunctioning brakes. (”How does he stop, then??” I asked my friend, “Umm, using his feet”, “His feet?!?”, “Yeah. He rides really slowly.”)
The story is well written, and as far as I understand goes like this.
One day a few years ago (during the reign of Khir Toyo, who recently had an incredibly bizarre beard pulling incident O_o !!), Mr. Lye was informed by a lawyer he did not know that someone was trying to sell his land.
This Good Samaritan lawyer had recently handled an almost identical case on a neighbouring plot of land, which he eventually succeeded in exposing as a fraud. Said lawyer discovered that something similar was going on on Mr. Lye’s land.
Mr. Lye was shocked of course, to hear that his land was being put up for sale.
When Mr. Lye tried to look into the case at the Selangor Land Office, he got another shock when he was informed that the documents indicated that his land, worth about RM 17 million, had been sold for RM 4 million to a company called Propaxis (a RM 2 company), in which he had been appointed a director (but not a shareholder).
The paperwork detailing Mr. Lye and his brother’s appointment as a director as well as on the transfer deed was also a brilliant piece of work. theSun:
• Their identity cards were forged and the transfer deed had mistakes –- Lye Piang Yin @ Lai Lock was spelt as Lye Phang Yin @ Lai Hock, although the identity number was the same, the photograph was that of a woman, while Lai Kim was spelt as Lai Lim and his identity number was different;
You would think even conmen would do a better job than getting the gender wrong. theSun continues to narrate the other irregularities:
• The brothers are listed as directors of Propaxis from March 11, 2005 – which they deny – but were later stated in company records as having “resigned” on Sept 13, 2005 and replaced by Cheng Yit Sang and Yow Chee Kong – the registered shareholders of Propaxis;
• the shares of Cheng and Yow and their “interest” in the Lye brothers’ land were then transferred via a sale and purchase agreement on Oct 11, 2005 to Lavish Land Sdn Bhd whose directors are Datuk Mohd Amin Pipet and Nooriah Yahya, for RM4 million;
• On the same date, Mohd Amin and Nooriah were appointed directors of Propaxis;
• the lawyer who attested the transfer deed, Nur Hafizah Ismail, is not registered as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.
• Ahmad Rizal Abd Hamid, the lawyer who witnessed the share transfer between Cheng and Yow and Mohd Amin and Nooriah, also witnessed a fraudulent transfer of the land belonging to ABM Holdings to Mohd Amin. (ABM Holdings had taken an injunction against Mohd Amin and several others, which was not contested. The title has since been transferred back to ABM’s name.)
Fake lawyers, fake nominees, fake fake fake!
Apparently, this Datuk Mohd Amin Pipet is a very key, central figure to the whole scam. An initial Google search and tips from friends turn up some interesting leads, but I think I’ll need to investigate more before writing further. I’m especially keen to know of what links exist between him and Khir Toyo.
If you have any insight into this man, do let us know.
So anyway, I understand that Nik Nazmi and the MB’s office will be looking into this, which I applaud. Hopefully we’ll get to see some decisive, hard-hitting action.
If I understand correctly, the state government has the power to remedy the situation, and return ownership to Mr. Lye. That will hopefully happen soon, and even better, be followed up with legal/criminal proceedings against the culprits.
Viva justice!!
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