Plotting the Mohd Nazifuddin uFun Club timeline…
After it was revealed that Mohd Nazifuddin had likely profited from uFun Club, he took to Facebook to issue a denial.
This was met with the revelation that Nazifuddin was a primary shareholder in Sagajuta, a Malaysian construction uFun Club affiliates first began claiming was working with uFun Club back in 2013.
The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding last month at a gala bash, which will see an undisclosed amount of funds flow into Sagajuta’s Gateway Klang project.
Now, in an increasingly desperate bid to distance himself from the $1.17 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, Nazifuddin has been issuing statements of denial to the Malaysian media all day.
There’s just one problem… the timeline accompanying Nazifuddin’s denials doesn’t add up.
As reported by the Malaysia Chronicle, Nazifuddin claimed yesterday that
he first heard of the group (uFun Club) when he received an invitation to the launch of a joint-venture between Ufun and reputable developer Bina Puri Holdings Bhd.
“At first I thought of going but then I heard they were selling my name, saying that the prime minister’s son is coming to officiate the development and therefore people should invest in Ufun’s Utokens.
uFun Club and Bina Puri held the event Nazifuddin refers to above on the 11th of November, 2013:
Nazifuddin was not in attendance.
Three and a half weeks earlier however, this happened:
What you’re looking at there is Nazifuddin on stage, handing a winners check over to a Miss Wilayah Kebaya winner on October 18th, 2013.
Here he is on stage at the event, all smiles and standing next to uFun Club Founder, Warren Eu:
Despite claiming to have not been aware of uFun Club prior to receiving an invitation to the Bina Puri event, Nazifuddin was wined and dined by uFun Club executives almost a month earlier:
Athitwat Soonpan is uFun’s International President. He and Warren Eu are prominent uFun Club executives:
Rather than address any of the above, Nazifuddin instead is claiming this all to be some sort of political conspiracy targeting his father.
Mohd Nazifuddin is the son of Malaysian PrimeMinster, Najib Razak.
“They are trying to defame everybody involved with the prime minister, including the children and all, they are attacking everybody.”
“This is really uncalled for and I hope action will be taken against whoever is involved,” (Nazifuddin) told Malaysiakini when contacted.
“The person who is defaming me is putting this fabrication of information in video content and spreading it throughout Malaysia.”
“It is to smear my reputation and trying to attack me and probably my family,” he said.
So politically explosive is Nazifuddin’s connection to uFun Club, that we’ve also seen anyone even remotely connected to the scheme in Malaysia publicly denounce involvement.
Despite Nazifuddin being Sagajuta’s largest shareholder, yesterday saw the firm issue the following statement:
Sagajuta (Sabah) Sdn Bhd has never sold any property to UFun Club nor sold any UFun tokens. Any insidious link created by anyone is pure malice.
Whether or not Sagajuta consider Nazifuddin’s links to uFun Club “insidious” or not was not clarified.
Meanwhile the latest denials regarding the Nazifuddin political scandal has come from uFun Club itself.
In a video published a few hours ago Daniel Tay, credited as uFun Club’s Marketing Director, issued the following statement:
My main message for recording this video message tonight is to respond to the misleading news that was broadcasted by some of Thailand’s TV networks a few days ago.
In that inaccurate news it falsely reported that uFun Group and Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s second son, Mr. Mohb (sic) Nazifuddin Najib have business relationship together.
I would like to clarify that uFun Group has never appointed Mr. Mohb Nazifuddin Najib any position within uFun.
Tay does not clarify whether or not uFun Club funds have flowed between the scheme and Sagajuta. Nor does he elaborate on whether Nazifuddin has personally directly or indirectly received funds from the scheme.
This is something Nazifuddin himself has yet to issue a statement on (he’s too busy playing the political persecution card and hoping nobody asks).
Meanwhile I don’t recall any Thai media reporting that Nazifuddin was appointed a position in uFun Club directly, so why Tay felt it needed clarification is unclear.
Did the Office of the Prime Minister tighten the screws on uFun Club once the links between Razak’s son and uFun Club were made public?
No idea.
But what we do know is that uFun Club has been openly operating in Malaysia since at least July 2013. We also know that Malaysian police were made well aware of the $1.17 billion dollar Ponzi scheme on April 16th, 2015.
One month later to the day, Malaysian authorities are still yet to take any action against uFun Club, those running it, insiders who have assisted its operations or any of the scheme’s investors.
The problem here Oz, is the “wine and dine” picture should be the SAME DAY as the Miss Kebaya Malaysia award event, as both Warren and Nazifuddin were in the SAME OUTFITS. Logically it is on the SAME DAY, within hours of each other.
The middle picture, with Warren Eu in black shirt and white jacket/pants, seems to be a different event altogether.
The wine and dine picture is at the event itself. How is that a problem?
Nazifuddin was a guest seated at the uFun Club executive table.
Yes the black shirt and white pants photo is a completely different event. I’ve included it only for reference (that Eu and Soonpan are indeed executives within uFun Club).
This is also true of the “Dato” photo of Eu and the rest of uFun Club management.
We’ve been following uFun Club for some time but I was trying to cater to our newer readers who might have just tuned in.
I guess throwing in that black shirt white jacket picture in the middle is redundant and confuses the narrative.
People know who Warren Eu and Soonpon are. If they don’t you can explain it later who they are rather than confusing the Nazifuddin “Ufun who?” narrative. 🙂
You already have a picture of Warren Eu credited as co-founder, so you don’t really need a picture of they together at an event.
Nazifuddin can still wiggle and claim I just met with a former general and a Dato, I didn’t know they were scamming, but the picture of him, both in front of UFUN banner at Miss Kebaya Malaysia, THEN sitting with with Warren and Soonpon should make for a better narrative about the question whether he knows about UFUN or not. (in other words swap the two pictures)
My recommended order: the two Miss Malaysia Kebaya pictures, then the wine and dine, and finally Warren’s Saturday Night Fever impression picture. 😀
Alright, how’s that read now?
I hope behindmlm continue to publish news related to UFUN in Malaysia.
Major newspapers here now slowly realized that they cannot ignore the scam anymore. I have seen more and more news coverage the past few days. Keep up the good work.
so, while the malaysian police is engaging in ‘ufun scam’ meetings with the thai police in phuket, and the PM’s son stating he has made a police complaint against ufun, danial tay sits safely ensconced between his golden pyramids, and makes statements clearly addressed to saving nazifuddins ass.
the malaysian press has really come to life, littering nafizuddin’s and sagajuta’s statements everywhere.
the malaysian press did not find it worthy at all, to comment on the ufun ponzi for over a month, while ufun executives were hiding in plain sight in kuala lumpur.
this in itself tells us, that nazifuddin is bullshitting, and has gotten His Press to back him up. ha ha, he’s even got danial tay of ufun , shielding his ass. this would be funny if it wasn’t a shocking commentary on the connections between malaysian politics and crime.
nazi baby, thou art bullshitting and the world can see that.
As far as I can see, the photos are from Miss Wilayah Kebaya 2013 Grand Final (not Miss Malaysia Kebaya).
HD video (starts 5 seconds earlier):
Production = Aurorize Production:
youtube.com/user/AurorizeProductionTV/videos
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Location – Concorde Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Event – Miss Wilayah Kebaya Final
Published: October 26 2013
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that video is a good find norway.
nazifuddin is clearly present and staring.
hey, is that daniel tay at 1:19 mins?
i’m not trusting my eyes! is it tay or not!!??
nazifuddin has said he has never met any of the three ‘wanted men’ involved with ufun. yet there is was very comfortable in a ufun function, with danial tay on stage and ufun plastered on the backdrop!!
Cheers for that M_Norway, appears to indeed be a local event that then feeds into Miss Malaysia Kebaya:
facebook.com/MissMalaysiaKebaya/posts/385438091558863
I’ve edited the article to reflect that.
I’m confirming that’s Daniel Tay on stage:
That Nazifuddin would have met Tay that night is a given at this point (who took the photo of Nazifuddin sitting at the uFun Club executive table?).
how can nazifuddin continue with his blatant lies in the face of this^^^ !!
we have clear evidence that he knew of ufun, before the binapuri/ufun signing.
we have clear evidence he was present at a ufun function which predates binapuri, with a ‘wanted man’ danial tay on stage. nazifuddin was seated at the table with ufun/umatrin execs.
what More does anyone need?? c’mon press people, expose this LIE.
Athiwat Soonpan was on stage when the Nazifuddin photo was taken:
Short man that he is, couldn’t see him from the other angle.
Nazifuddin’s got some strong “I’m gettin laid tonight!” vibes going on…
But how do we know that the guy on stage really is Nazifuddin?
He CAN be Dato’ Bright Lee, one of the founders.
One of the photos used in a recent article:
A guy in a similar shirt, identified as “Bright Lee” in a photo, Miss Wilayah Kebaya semi-final 2013:
So uh, how bad is your eyesight then? 🙂
really norway, REALLY??
go find your glasses or something.
nazifuddin looks like nazifuddin and bright lee looks like bright lee!
Great write-up! Very informative. Thank goodness we have a free press on this side of the pond to expose these people.
I was primarily talking about the photo in the BehindMLM article. It shows 4 guys in Dato’ uniforms, identified to be those 4 guys I listed.
He may look like Nazifuddin in that photo, but he is identified as “Dato’ Bright, founder”.
Citizen Journalists Malaysia was just about “a guy in a similar shirt, identified as Bright Lee”. I didn’t say he looked like the guy in the other photo. None of the people in that photo looked like the organizers in the other photo.
“Independent quality sources”
I’m trying to find some independent “quality sources” where he clearly is identified and connected to Ufun. The Aurorize Production video was a source like that, but he wasn’t identified as Nazifuddin in that video.
@M_Norway
That’s not Nazifuddin in the Dato photo. The only individual of relevance in that photo is Warren Eu, to demonstrate him being credited as a uFun Club Founder.
Incase anyone is confused, this is the photo M_Norway is referring to:
Dato Sri Dr. Warren Eu looks like this when he receives a “Most Impactful Award 2014” for Umatrin. High quality video from independent source “Asia Success, Inc.” / Astv Asig, published January 28 2015.
youtube.com/watch?v=aUvBZrznfq8
youtube.com/channel/UCXSDuAkfrLZjyrK1YfBgAUg/videos
Some of the Ufun organizers seem to come in different shapes and sizes (e.g. age).
“Dato Sri Dr. Warren Eu” has probably appointed himself to that title.
According to his Bloomberg background profile, he was appointed DIMP (Datuk) in 2013, and was appointed to SSAP (Datuk Seri) in 2014.
In 2014, 199 people received awards from the Sultan of Pahang:
The 4 SSAP (Datuk Seri):
There is no Golden State University in California. There is a Golden GATE University in San Francisco downtown and they do offer a finance program.
That didn’t surprise me. 🙂
I quoted his Bloomberg bio to be able to check the correctness.
Golden State University seems to be a degree mill (online scam). Found a Degreeinfo thread from 2004.
degreeinfo.com/general-distance-learning-discussions/14737-golden-state-university.html
The Miss Wilayah Kebaya titles …
“Miss UFun” will be a nice title to have in the future. 🙂
Jason Hee seems to be the main organizer, the ones who receives checks from sponsors.
well norway if it’s any consolation to you, a former miss malaysia kebaya of 2012, sharmisttha yoogan, is now a top recruiter with ufun.
after the ufun thailand raids, she accompanied eddy tan to the philippines for a ufun seminar.
in feb, 2015, she was in india, pushing her ufun recruitment.
you could award her with your ‘miss ufun’ title, without waiting for the future at all 🙂
eltonfoto.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/miss-malaysia-kebaya/#jp-carousel-2099
You may be onto something there, M_N. JusticeAlwaysLate got me this “honorary title search engine” that is sourced from the Malaysian PM’s office, and I’m not finding ANYTHING on Eu.
I found Tay, and I found another ponzi pimp Jessie Tang of YSLM (part of Zhang Jian’s backers) but no Eu, and I can’t find “Bright” Lee either.
NOLINK://www.istiadat.gov.my/v1/index.php/component/semakanlantikanskp/ I suspect I just had the wrong spelling or something, but the engine searches for partials too, so I don’t know.
I had to give up that search engine after a couple of tries, when I didn’t find anything. I tried the Chinese name for Bright Lee.
Bright Lee can be Lee Kuan Ming (from the initial wanted list after the UFun raid in Thailand). He was listed as a director.
Daniel Tay = Tay Kim Leng / Tae Kim Leng. Listed as shareholder and director.
A third person = Wong Ching Hua / Wong Ching Hlia. Listed as shareholder and director.
Partial search worked much better.
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Daniel Tay may be one of these two.
Tay Kim Kee DIMP Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang
Tay Kim Leong KMN Kesatria Mangku Negara
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Bright Lee / Lee Kuan Ming may be this one.
Kuan Ming Liong DIMP Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang
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The third person, Wong Ching Hua, may be this one.
Wong Ching Hee DIMP Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang
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I think JAL said before that all these titles were from Pahang.
I think Bright Lee is “Mr Lee Ming Kong” from 2012, DIMP / Dato. It sounds like a mix of Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation. Cantonese is Lai Mang Guong
According to JAL, Warren’s Chinese name is 杨幸财, ir Yang XingChai (approx.) In Cantonese, it’s Yeong HingChoi. I am not finding any variations in that DB at all.
Warren Eu has clearly made up his credentials. That’s why we started to check those others, to see if they were real.
He made a big mistake when he added that “Sri” to his title. Dato’ Sri is much less common than Dato’, and much easier to check.