PAC to summon government reps on NFCorp board



By Shannon Teoh
March 21, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar twenty-one The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will summon a 3 supervision part of upon a National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) board after a directors, embroiled in allegations of abusing a RM250 million sovereign loan, refused to face a panel yesterday.
The Malaysian Insiderhas learnt that a parliamentary panel has motionless to "call everyone involved" notwithstanding NFCorp lawyers insisting a PAC hearings were subjudice to criminal charges faced by a company's senior physical education instructor chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail.
Mohamad Salleh, who is additionally Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's husband, was charged upon Mar 12 with criminal crack of certitude as good as breaching a Companies Act in relation to abusing open funds value RM49 million.
"We have been calling a part of from a cultivation as good as financial ministries as good as a Negri Sembilan government. They have been from a supervision so they have no reason not to spin up," a PAC part of toldThe Malaysian Insider.
Wanita Umno arch Shahrizat as good as her family have been stubborn by allegations of misusing open funds to financial over RM60 million in land, property as good as expenses separate to a National Feedlot Centre (NFC) cattle-farming project.
The plan was awarded to Shahrizat's family in 2006 when she was partial of Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Cabinet.
NFCorp, that is run by Mohamad Salleh as good as his 3 children, sent two lawyers as good as a company's administrative physical education instructor to a PAC hearing currently upon how a RM250 million sovereign loan meant for a cattle-farming scheme was spent.
"But they pronounced they were not ready to answer questions," PAC emissary arch Dr Tan Seng Giaw(picture)said.
NFCorp additionally pronounced in a make a difference yesterday a directors were suggested by their lawyers opposite attending this morning's PAC hearing as a make a difference under examine was still pending in court.
But a source toldThe Malaysian Insiderthe PAC wanted to ask a directors upon alternative claims that Mohamad Salleh is not facing criminal charges.
"But they pronounced a whole thing is formidable as good as intertwined. The lawyers additionally had no answer when we asked because a alternative directors who have not been charged could not appear," he said.
Kepong MP Dr Tan additionally pronounced a directors were still "invited" to face a cabinet but if they unsuccessful to respond, a PAC would use a powers to summon them.
Sections 16 as good as 17 of a Houses of Parliament Act give it powers to sequence witnesses or justification to be presented before Parliament or any of a committees.
"We threw a law during a lawyers who were 'dumbfounded' by a powers of Parliament," an additional PAC part of toldThe Malaysian Insider.
Mohamad Salleh was charged upon Mar 12 with criminal crack of certitude as good as violating a Companies Act after he allegedly used a cattle-rearing firm's sovereign loan for personal expenses.
This came a day after Shahrizat voiced she would step down as women, family as good as community growth minister when her senatorship ends upon April 8.
NFCorp hit a inhabitant headlines after it done it into a Auditor-General's Report final year for blank production targets.
The PAC pronounced upon Monday a NFCorp has nonetheless to pay off a RM250 million sovereign loan notwithstanding a repayment date being due two months ago.
But a organisation responded a same day saying it had created to a supervision upon October 27, 2009 to ask for a moratorium of loan repayments due to building a whole delays related to a NFC in Gemas, Negri Sembilan.
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