Pak Lah defends Shahrizat in cattle-farm scandal

KUALA LUMPUR, November fifteen Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pronounced currently apportion Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil need not give up the Cabinet to take the feverishness for her family's purported disaster of the RM250 million National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) cattle-farm scandal.

Abdullah, who was budding apportion from Oct 2003 to April 2009, waded in to the debate currently to urge the Wanita Umno arch after she came underneath attack from the partyman.

Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin had demanded the senator give up the Cabinet as well as take responsibility for her family's purported mishandling of the inhabitant project.

"Ask the individual concerned. What's it got to do with Shahrizat? It's her husband Shahrizat's not involved, so do not ask her," Abdullah (picture) told reporters.

"If Shahrizat were the CEO afterwards certain [you can ask her] though right right away she's not involved as well as it is very astray to tag her as involved," pronounced the ex-PM, popularly known as Pak Lah, echoing Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Shahrizat, who has headed the Women, Family as well as Community Ministry given 2001, is tied together to NFC senior manager executive Datuk Mohamad Salleh Ismail. Their 3 children run the cattle business.

Allegations of monetary incorrectness have dogged the association owned by Shahrizat's family after the Auditor-General suggested last month which the NFC had failed to encounter production targets for 2010 despite benefiting from the RM134.72 million soft loan from the government.

The Malaysian Insider understands the NFC started operations in 2008, during Abdullah's administration. At which time, Muhyiddin was the cultivation as well as agro-based minister.

The Auditor-General's Report additionally criticised the NFC, pointing out which i! t was ri ght away "in the mess".

The report pronounced production in 2010 was usually 3,289 conduct of cattle or 41.1 per cent of the aim set.

But Agriculture Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar responded upon Oct 31 which the plan is the success as well as had met the targets.

He pronounced the sum of RM250 million was earmarked for the NFC plan as well as placed in the special loan account in Maybank which was controlled by the Finance Ministry.

He pronounced RM181 million from which account has already been disbursed to NFC based upon the claims.

But opposition politicians have purported which RM10 million of the income for the cattle plan had instead been used to buy the luxury condominium in Bangsar, the high-end suburb in the capital city.

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