December 22, 2011
MACC Probe upon NFC: Another Political Sandiwara in a Making?
by Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
Amid signs which Prime Minister Najib Razak's UMNO is quick unraveling, hit by vast swindle as well as infighting amongst its tip leadership, a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has announced which a special group will be shaped to examine claims which UMNO Minister Shahrizat Jalil's family had squandered open funds allocated to a RM250 million NFC cattle stock plan upon personal items as well as lush assets.
However, instead of appeasing open anger, all eyes have been right divided upon a play during play in UMNO. While Shahrizat has hinted she was ready to quit, it is unlikely which she will concede herself to be railroaded or be finished an easy victim of by her own party mates.
All eyes have been right divided upon how Najib, himself a subject of a examine by a French supervision over allegations of having taken a 114 million euros or RM570 million kickback from French naval hulk DCN for a squeeze of 2 Scorpene submarines, will deal with a issue. Najib is additionally a UMNO President.
"Tell me, which UMNO personality does not have problem?" was Shahrizat's pointy repartee when asked to criticism whether she would mind a flourishing calls to resign, as reported in a Sin Chew journal a couple of days ago.
Lip use approaching from a MACC
Indeed, open cynicism is inevitable given which a MACC had previously upheld a buck to a military despite receiving reports from Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
The Najib administration department lost further credibility when Deputy Insp! ector Ge neral of Police Khalid 
Bakar publicly spoken there were no elements of criminal breach of certitude during a recent UMNO General Assembly. Khalid, often called a victim for a UMNO-led government, was accused of 'play-acting' in a bid to save a UMNO leaders embarrassment.
"We have acted thus by pciking up evidence as well as statements given a emanate was reported in a Auditor-General's Report. A vast partial of a issues brought up in a latest complaint (against NFC) had already been acted upon," a defensive-sounding MACC investigations executive Mustafar Ali pronounced in a statement released upon Thursday.
The MACC was additionally quick to stress it could not divulge details of investigations as stipulated under Section 29(4) of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009. "We call upon a parties to give their full co-operation by not politicising a issues which could start a investigation," Mustafar added.
Given a tone of a statement, it was transparent to domestic watchers which a MACC was not starting to do much to expose a dirt in NFC or National Feedlot Centre, a plan directed to raise internal supply of beef to up to 40% of consumption as well as keep prices affordable.
The plan was awarded to Shahrizat's husband, Salleh Ismail, as well as her children in 2006 by afterwards afterwards Agriculture minister Muhyiddin Yassin upon a prodding of UMNO Youth Chief Khairy Jamaluddin, a son-in-law of former premier Abdullah Badawi. Najib additionally played a partial in commendatory a plan to Shahrizat's family.
Cynicism is tall which this was a latest 'sandiwara' or play enacted by UMNO to discuss it Shahrizat to give up her Cabinet post as well as take shortcoming prior to ubiquitous elections have been hold subsequent year.
No a single is expecting any major shift in a perspective of a tip UMNO leaders, who have been eminent for their corruption-tainted records as Shahrizat herself alluded to.
"Both Shahrizat as well as UMNO have been shameless. The emanate is because such a loan was given to her family when she was holding a in front of of a Cabinet minister. It is impossible they could have got a loan if she were not a minister. She as well as her family have deprived needy as well as hardworking Malaysians from a good of a fund (meant to supply everyday Malaysians with a cheap source of beef)," PKR vice president N Surendran told Malaysia Chronicle.
"It is additionally purposeless to censure Shahrizat alone. UMNO bears a greatest blame. Benefiting cronies as well as family groups from open funds is a central partial of UMNO's domestic culture."
Victim of a Mahathir legacy of corruption?
Furthermore, those who have called upon her to give up prior to she is "chased out" include former premier Mahathir Mohamad, scandalous for defining as well as expanding UMNO's feudal system of governing body where a ruling chosen have carte blanche over almost each aspect of mercantile as well as domestic life in Malaysia.
In a not long ago released Global Financial Integrity report, Malaysia was identified to be a 4th most hurtful republic in a world, racking up a total of US$ 338 billion (RM1.08 trillion) in illicit outflows over a first decade of a century.
GFI additionally pronounced a Malaysian increase was "at a scale seen in couple of Asian countries." In January, it had reported which RM930 billion flowed out of Malaysia from 2000 to 2008, flourishing to RM218 ! billion per year from an primary RM71 billion in which period.
"This inform should be a wake-up call to world leaders which some-more contingency be finished to residence these damaging outflows," GFI executive Raymond Baker pronounced in a press release.
Upon recover of a GFI's inform in January, it was revelation which a single of a first UMNO leaders to expel disbelief upon a eminent Washington-based body was Mukhriz Mahathir, a youngest son of a former PM. Now 86, Mahathir had ruled Malaysia for 22 years as well as is widely believed to be a a single who has salted divided a greatest fortune during taxpayers' expense.
Malaysia Chronicle
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