Bukit Aman Police report

The first paragraph in my post yesterday of the email from John SF Ho is:

 “The police in Bukit Aman and Travers have already advised me to initiate legal action against LM for these allegations. I am holding back because I doubt he has enough money to pay if he loses.”

It is interesting that Marcia Hong, the spokesperson of John Ho said the following in a comment yesterday:

Luqman Michel  “…..John went to Bukit Aman Police and gave the signed statement. ….
S182 of the Penal Code for false reporting carries a maximum fine of RM1500 or up to 2 years imprisonment or both.
S233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 carries a fine of up to RM50,000 (will be increased to RM500,000 in March 2018) and up to a year's imprisonment or both.
You are living so dangerously and yet you are blissfully enjoying your ills. Better shut up or you may be "SHUT UP"

In another comment she had said:  

"You have already lodged all those in your police report in December 2016. Now is 2018 and police have investigated and there is no case. Now you want ROS to investigate? Take over the duties of the Police? Aren't you barking up the wrong tree? The basic legal principle in any civilized country is a person is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It is NOT for KK Host and its members to prove their innocence."

My comment now: I did not know about the penal code S182 for false reporting. Perhaps I should write to Bukit Aman and find out if the couple had informed the police at Bukit Aman about what the Lions Club Officers Manual says about project funds.

The manual on page 11 under club financing says: 

‘Clubs should have 2 budgets for their fiscal year (1) an administrative budget and (2) an activities budget. The administrative budget is what finances club operations. Its income comes mostly from club dues. The activities budget finances the club’s activities and projects. Its income should come from special fund raising projects held by the club in the community. Income from the club’s fundraising projects cannot be used to defray the club’s administrative costs, even if the club advertises that the funds raised will be used for the club’s own purposes. The club can, however, deduct the direct operating expenses of the fundraising project from the funds raised.’

The International Association of Lions Club's

Constitution and By-laws

Article XI , Club Funds Section 1 says

Public (Activity) Funds: All funds raised from the public must be returned to public use, including money accumulated from invested public funds. The only deductions that may be made from the activity account are the direct operating expenses of the fundraising activity. Money accumulated from interest also to be returned to public use.

Section 2: Administrative Funds: Administrative funds are supported through contributions from members through dues, fines and other individual contributions.

My question now: If money from project was used to buy the office unit, as informed by one of the past presidents, would that amount to misappropriation of club funds? I am sure Bukit Aman would be willing to interview a few of the long standing Past Presidents of our club like Dr.Arabi Wazani, Dr. Muthusamy Palanisamy, Mr.Visvalingam Suppiah, Ms. Jessie Chong, Dr. Andrew Chong, Mr.Chong Kiew Loi,  Mr.CCPung (JP), Mr. Joseph Chai (JP), Tan Chong Hon and many others to find out if the office lot was purchased from project funds. If that is not misappropriation of funds than what is?  See my post tomorrow for how else money was misappropriated.

Time that I should be spending learning my Chinese and Tamil is now spent (I won't call it wasted) writing these posts and commenting on Facebook. But nothing is wasted as all these are educational. Lions throughout the world will learn from this episode.