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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bimmerholic" data-source="post: 610176" data-attributes="member: 16686">From Hot Pan into the Fire....champion larr!!!Former Perak MB slammed for criticising royalty’s winning bidJOHOR BARU: Former Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin has come under fire for criticising the Johor royalty’s winning bid for the WWW 1 number plate.His Twitter postings that the RM520,000 spent for the bid could have been utilised for the poor has led to calls for a public apology to the royal family.Johor Umno information chief Datuk Samsol Bari Jamali blasted Mohammad Nizar, saying he needed to check before making his comments.He said Johor Rulers had always generously donated to Yayasan Iskandar and Yayasan Ibrahim to help the development of the state and improve the living condition of the people.“Besides that, the Johor royal family has also donated plots of land such as in Kampung Bakar Batu to build houses for the poor,” he added.He said Mohammad Nizar’s comments were hurtful not just to the royal family but also to the people of Johor.It was reported yesterday that the Sultan of Johor was the owner of the WWW 1 number plate, with a winning bid of RM520,000.Johor Council of Royal Court secretary Datuk Abdul Rahim Ramli declined to comment.Checks on the Kesultanan Johor Facebook page showed more than 400 comments had been posted by those who voiced their support for the royal family, and expressed discontent over Mohammad Nizar’s claims.Meanwhile, Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim tweeted that the royal family does not take any money from the Government.“The money allocated to my father and me every month as the Sultan and Tunku Mahkota is put into Yayasan Iskandar and Yayasan Ibrahim. The purpose of these foundations is to help the rakyat and to assist the state government,” he said.He stressed that he had never taken a single sen from the Government, adding that “before you open your mouth, do your research.”Mohammad Nizar said he was unaware of the tweet by the Tunku Mahkota.”I reserve my comments until I have read it,” Nizar said. Follow-up calls and an SMS sent to Nizar went unanswered.Meanwhile, in Petaling Jaya, the general manager of a car dealership admitted that his company had placed a bid by mistake for the WWW 69 number plate in the name of Deputy Education Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.Noble Twin (M) Bhd general manager Ahmad Azmi Noordin said a company runner was supposed to submit a bid for the number on behalf of a customer at the Road Transport Department on May 14.In a statement issued yesterday, he said the runner had to rush to submit tender applications for several customers before the noon deadline on that day and, in the process, he had made a mistake.“We would like to confirm that we have never been given any directive by the deputy minister to submit a bid for that number.“We would like to apologise to Dr Puad for our mistake and any difficulty that we have put him through. We take full responsibility for the error,” Ahmad said.Dr Puad had issued a statement denying that he had placed a bid for the number, which was sold for RM30,000.source:<a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/30/nation/11383017&sec=nation" target="_blank">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/30/nation/11383017&sec=nation</a>WWW 1 bid: Nizar being investigated under Sedition Act over remarks about Johor Sultan:<a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/30/nation/20120530112044&sec=nation" target="_blank">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/30/nation/20120530112044&sec=nation</a></blockquote>

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