Noh admits holding stake in prawn farm


Agriculture Minister Noh Omar has certified carrying a stake in a Tanjong Karang prawn tillage business, insisting that there was zero wrong in you do so.

According to aSin Chew Dailyreport today, he had claimed that when a 30-acre land in Bagan Tengkorak was his, he had yet to be allocated cultivation minister.

"Furthermore, a land didn't belong to me personally. Yes, I'm you do prawn plantation commercial operation together with other businessmen, this additionally cannot?" he retorted when asked by journalists after launching an Agriculture Bank programme yesterday.

"I must emphasise, this commercial operation is shared with others. It was something we did prior to apropos minister. we landed a commercial operation not since of a Agriculture Ministry, so what's wrong with that?"

NONENoh Omar (left) additionally laughed off Sekinchan state assemblyperson Ng Sw! ee Lim's regard that should he become Selangor MB, more land would be siphoned off by BN politicians.

"I haven't become MB, yet he is already worried. In any case, we am not meddlesome in apropos MB."

On either a prawn plantation commercial operation would lift a dispute of seductiveness emanate given a inlet of his portfolio, Noh Omar rebutted: "So a housing apportion cannot buy house. Is that additionally dispute of interest?"

His reason for receiving to a prawn plantation commercial operation was a enterprise to experience a farmer's life as well as he was privately meddlesome ! in farmi ng.

Joint try claim denied

Meanwhile, Pristine Agrofood Sdn Bhd director Chu Bak Teck denied claims that it had teamed up with Noh in a joint-venture prawn tillage project.

Contradicting Noh, Chu had earlier toldMalaysiakinithat a apportion was merely a owner of a portion of a 100-acre prawn plantation in Tanjung Karang, of that his association is a tenant.

The plantation had claimed that it hasno linkswith a sovereign government, but conceded that a association did secure a loan from a Agro Bank under a Fund for Food (3F) scheme.

Agro Bank is run by a Agriculture as well as Agro-based IndustryNONEMinistry, headed by Noh.

On Wednesday, Ng told a Selangor legislative public that Noh had been intent in a joint-venture with Pristine Agrofood since last year, that he charged was in dispute with his ministerial position.

Documents granted by Ng showed that Noh had acquired a land in 1995, a year he became MP for a Tanjung Karang parliamentary seat. He was allocated cultivation apportion in 2009.
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