Anifah named in MACC probe into Sabah timber graft



Foreign Minister Anifah Aman (below) has been the tip beneficiary of remunerative joist licences in Sabah interjection to his elder brother, Chief Minister Musa Aman, saidSarawak Report.

NONEThe whistleblower website pronounced it has in the receive leaked Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) documents display the investigators had concluded which the Sabah arch apportion had corruptly issued joist licences to his hermit value tens of millions of ringgit.

According toSarawak Report, the documents form partial of the major review by the MACC in to joist crime after an agent as well as nominee for Musa Aman, Michael Chia,was caughtattempting to smuggle RM16 million out of Hong Kong in 2008.

"However, the review has been shut off during the tip levels as well as the findings kept secret, until now.

"Our informants say which the brothers' relative as well as fellow Sabahan, attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, has refused to concede charges to be brought as well as PM Najib Razak has scandalously incited the blind eye to the affair."

NONESarawak Reportclaimed which Abdul Gani (right), who is closely continuous to the Aman family, has refused to pursue the case.

"Indeed the attorney-general has forced the MACC to shelve the entire review in Sabah, which was one of the largest as well as many endless ever undertaken by which body, as well as concerned sums amounting to billions of ringgit siphoned out of the state by crime during the tip level."

Last week, MACC deputy commi! ssioner (operations) Mohd Shukri Abdull lamented which Attorney-General's Chambershad refusedto bring many "valid cases" the commission had investigated to justice due to "insufficient evidence".
Major conflict of interest

The website pronounced with Abdul Gani's close ties with the Musa family, the AG should have opted out of creation the decision on the investigations.

"In such cases where there is the plain conflict of interest, the government's tip law military officer has to be seen to be acting from the position of impartiality."
The website detailed documents in their receive which declared Anifah as well as the nephew, Hairul Aman as beneficiaries of dual major joist concessions by dual companies allegedly related to them.

One, Aktif Syabas Sdn Bhd, had licence to harvest 4,336 hectares of joist in land belonging state-owned group Yayasan Sabah, as well as purchase residual joist from an additional 3,000 hectares.

NONE"The other deal, done with the association Para Era Sdn Bhd, is even more shocking. It allows the concessionaire to extract joist from 2,000 hectares of virgin timberland during the Pinagah Forest Reserve (right)," it said.

Sarawak Reportlamented which the timberland reserve was "totally razed by 2007".

Recalling the "headline-grabbing case" in 2007 where MACC had detained 20 lorries as well as 5,000 logs value millions allegedly harvested from virgin forests, the website noted which not the single detain had precipitated.

NONE"Tragically, our report is which the timberland reserve was totally razed by 2007, despite the stri! ctures a bout only felling trees over 60cm.

"This MACC report substantiates complaints from within the industry which Musa Aman has incited existing crime in Sabah's joist commercial operation in to the full-scale rape of the remaining forests in the state."

The Anifah connection

Sarawak Reportadded which it was noteworthy which both deals were awarded before long after Musa became arch apportion as well as chairperson of the house of curators of Yayasan Sabah in 2003.

It pronounced while Musa was not declared without delay in any of the companies' public documents, the practice of employing nominees was the "standard" practice in Sabah.

"...insiders explain which the make use of of nominees is standard in the Sabah joist commercial operation as well as obviously the review by MACC officials led them to conclude, after months of investigation, which the unfamiliar apportion was the true concessionaire," it said.
It added which the leaked writings in their receive uncover which the MACC investigators "did hold there was such the hurtful link as well as which Aman was the beneficiary".
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