Do not presume: One is not guilty until proven so
Who are the NFC scandal whistleblowers?
NFC owners blame two discontented former employees, as well as have lassoed Perkasa boss Ibrahim Ali's help in telling all as well as sundry which it is these "non-Malay" ex-employees who have been out to do them in.
Other NGOs met byMalaysiakiniat a recentdialoguebetween NGOs as well as NFC arch senior manager officer Wan Shahinur Izmir Salleh, hold it's a "beef cartel" which is out to 'sabotage' a genuine Malay business.
Laughing off a beef conglomeration theory, PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli toldMalaysiakiniin a talk last week which a identity is still anyone's guess.
"I did have a PDF (portable request format) copy of a money payouts which is from a whistleblower, whom you still do not know to this day," he said, adding which it ! came in an email from someone with a pseudonym 'lembu' (cow).
He pronounced many people would have had access to a cashbook, including those who had conducted a viability study commissioned by a government after a plan had already started.
Civil servants as well as a many employees who were "in as well as out" of a NFC due to a "high turnaround" of workers could additionally have had a hand in it.
"The NFC is hell-bent to find out who a whistleblowers have been because they do not want any! some-mo re exposes.
"But a approach a emails have been written discuss it me it is not a conglomeration or discontented employees. But you consider it's best you keep it to myself," he said.
Noh Omar opened Pandora's box
Ironically, he said, PKR has Umno apportion Noh Omar (left! ) to tha nk for a cashbook, which was used to source out some-more ban report about a company's dealings.
He pronounced it was usually after a agriculture minister's defence of NFC in Parliament which a cashbook landed in his email inbox.
"So which was a branch point. If Noh Omar hadn't left to Parliament as well as pronounced which 8,000-plus heads of cattle was a national success, it could have died there," he said.
"The next day, Public Accounts Committee chairperson Azmi Khalid pronounced PAC will demeanour during this. So you panicked.
"We were like, 'Okay, if they call us, as well as you do not have anything. It will demeanour unequivocally bad upon us.' That's when you said: 'Okay lah, a slightest you could do is to go down as well as check a plantation site'," he said.
Calling upon a National Feedlot Centre in Gemas, Negri Sembilan, underneath a guise of wanting to buy cattle, Rafizi found out which a centre had! during many 1,000-plus cows.
But nothing they found out there could have had a same impact as a cashbook.
"After Noh Omar's (assertions of plan success), you perceived a cashbook. you glanced through it quickly... as well as attempted to pick up payments which did not fall in to place.
"Payments for condominiums, as well as to high-end skill developers positively did not... make clarity with a association of which sort.
"We usually knew this when you had a cashbook though you went down (to check). you consider you took two or three weeks after a initial press conference to display it," he said.
He pronounced which 50 percent of a work was PKR's own corroborative work, including starting to a skill sites as well as creation searches in open databases.
"So an additional 15-! twenty perce nt of it is actually a tummy feeling as well as a risk which you took... because if you want to have complete documents, you do not consider you will ever get everything," he said.
Since a cashbook, no 'inside document' have been leaked from a NFC as well as they have usually perceived anonymous tip-offs in a form of emails as well as "pieces of papers' dropped," he said.
"(I will continue) until a justice tells me to stop, though even if they do, there have been always alternative people who can speak. It doesn't have to be only me. you do not consider it is starting to have an impact during a rate you have been doing things," he said.
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Open letter to Khairy Jamaluddin - Single Stream Educational System - Is it a wish too far?
Your debate with Rafizi Ramli organized by UKEC (United Kingdom EIRE Council of Malaysian Students) was commendable since it had combined a less cloudier discernment in to a young minds of both a opposition as good as a ruling party.
From this debate, we wish to offer an additional side of a Single-Stream Educational System evidence as good as after in an additional letter, a Shadow Cabinet.
To we as good as advocates of Single-Stream Educational System.
I had invested in your idea 18 years ago when we sent my son as good as daughters to a National School (Sekolah Kebangsaan) in Ipoh.
I do not wish my son or daughters to be a encumber when blending with a Malays as good as a Indians. We have to face a tough actuality of life, when my son as good as daughters go in to a society as an adult, violation away from a protective yolk, he/she must be by then able to mix around comfortably with a Malays as good as a Indians. Most critical of all, he/she must know how to treat Malays, Indians as good as others as brothers as good as sisters as good as not j! ust frie nds.
To begin this letter, my son speaks great Malay as good as upon a initial day of school my son was blending around with a Malays as good as one Malay boy even had his palm around his shoulder, a pointer of close loyalty yet to come. By a second week, he was alone. we asked him where his Malay friends were, with much hesitation, he pointed his finger to a organisation of Malay boys personification near a school canteen. The organisation was exclusively Malays. we didn't aspire to a make a difference further.
Two months later, he was personification with a organisation of Indians as good as it carried upon for quite a little time prior to he ended up alone again. The subsequent time we saw him, he was with an additional couple of Chinese bo! ys. we saw their loyalty lasted by a total of his initial school days. we was unhappy though this did not finish here.
The second beating came when he was in Standard Three. we saw him lagging in his studies as good as we asked him why? He said which a little of his teachers often skipped classes. we admonished him angrily not to use this aged-old excuse for not we do good in school.
I longed for to know a truth, we leafed by all his practice books, to my horror most of his books remained unmarked as good as it had already pass a half symbol of a year. we crossed checked with an additional Malay parent as good as he confirmed what my son was saying. He even quipped which a little of a teachers left from school during a UMNO conventions. This, we did not share his joke.
Instead of complaining, my wife as good as we took over his preparation as good as my two daughters. From which day onwards his studies showed improvements as good as in a finish he scored straight A's in his UPSR.
My youngest daughter as well is carrying a same problem. ! One morn ing, while we was passing her Standard One class, we was dumbfounded to hear her clergyman precision with a kampong jargon as good as not standard Malay. From her slang, we know she is from Southern Perak (Parit area). Honestly Khairy, how many Indian as good as Chinese girls during their initial day in school understand this non standard Malay spoken by ! a teac her?
Anyway, we just smiled during a clergyman when she saw me, though in my heart, we couldn't censure her, we censure a precision she had which is being UMNOised rsther than than Malaysianised.
Now fast brazen to a present, my eldest daughter is in Upper 6, an sheer National School product. She scored straight A's in her UPSR, PMR exams as good as scored 9 A's in her SPM. All these results got her nowhere.
My son is right away in Form 5, he scored straight A's in his UPSR as good as PMR. He will be receiving his SPM this year.
For my youngest daughter, she will be we do her initial major exam UPSR.
At this tender age, unnecessary to contend which they are faced with a being of a discriminatory policies of a BN government which we believe we as good as Rafizi didn't clear good enough. we will not assume upon why both of we didn't verbalise good upon this matter.
In my younger days, we as well had this bad experience, we remembered really clearly while we was in attendance Kesusasteraan Melayu class, a Malay clergyman referred us, a non-Malays as ! 'kawan ' as good as Malays as 'saudara'. Khairy, don't we consider this man was promoting Ibrahim Ali's or Hasan Ali's code of Malay society as against to Malaysian society in a Kebangsaan School?
The BN had instituted astray educational policies long prior to we were born as good as we was a victim as good as so were all a non-Malays then. An! d right away it is my son's as good as daughters' spin to bear a brunt of these astray policies.
Khairy, let's be real, all we can do is speak about it, though we cannot change a citation of these astray educational policies even if we do not similar to it. The policy of precision Science as good as Maths in English is in a mess. Now it is in a limbo. The Education Minister, Muhyiddin is of course, not as splendid as you, though definitely a hint brighter than Ibrahim Ali as good as Hasan Ali, though a actuality is, he does not similar to we as good as definitely will not let we touch these astray policies, even with a 10-foot pole.
Okay Kairy, let's speak for a sake of talking, if we are arguing for a merits of a Single-Stream School complement then be brave enough to foster a idea of a fairer Single-Stream complement right up to University as good as contend no to a upper secondary duo-Stream complement which we have today! And don't dont think about a fairer distribution of scholarship!
Reference
1. The tenure Sophist is referred from a book, "An key to Political Philosophy," A.R.M. Murray, Published by Cohen as good as West Ltd, London, 1953.
Pg twenty-four Sophist or Wise men. Wise group was a original meaning of Sophists though right away it customarily indicates someone who is clever as good as plausible rsther than than correct as good as honest.
Please google leading Sophists - Protagoras, Antiphon Callics as good as Hrasymachu.
It is quite formidable to find a on top of mentioned book.
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PANAS BERAPI! KONSPIRASI UNTUK MEJATUHKAN OSTAT AZIZAN DI KEDAH SEMAKIN MENJADI KENYATAAN!
Apa punya bangsat la mainan yang dimainkan oleh konco-konco Anwar dalam atau lebih dikenali sebagai Anwarinas bak kata YB Zul Kulim. Ostat Azizan dengan begitu lantang menyelar cerita rekaan Anwarinas ni. KLIK SINI
Cuba korang perhatikan Ostat Azizan ni, dia ni memang tak disenangi oleh Anwar yang suka meliwat dan berzina tu. Anwar menggunakan Aziz Bari untuk menghentam Ostat Azizan, dalam isu KUIN juga nampaknya Ostat Azizan keseorangan. Kesian dia, tak lama lagi agaknya dia akan stick on Hassan Ali la gamaknya.
Anyway, kisah MB Azizan ni agak tragik, sebab bukan orang UMNO yang nak jatuhkan dia di Kedah tetapi orang PAS berimamkan Anwar sendiri yang nak menjatuhkan dia. Aku ni bukan apa, kesian tengok orang baik macam Ostat Azizan ni kena buli.
Aku berdoa supaya golongan ulamak dalam PAS akan meninggalkan PAS dan membuat NGO atau parti baru yang takde golongan Anwarinas yang sangat kita ragui akan keimanan mereka ini.
NFCorp to Rafizi: Look at your own backyard
Wan Shahinur cited an FMT inform currently where distinguished blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin claimed which a businessman, with evidence upon purported crime involving silt mining in a Pakatan ! Rakyat-l ed Selangor government, was murdered by hired killers.
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A change of government will work wonders for public services
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First batch of Indonesian maids to arrive in March, says Subramaniam
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 8 The government is optimistic which a initial batch of Indonesian maids will arrive in Malaysia by early March after a lifting of a two-year freeze, Bernama Online quoted a Human Resource Minister as saying today.
Datuk S. Subramaniam told a headlines portal which Malaysia had met all conditions concluded upon by both countries.
A total of 121 Malaysian employment agencies will work with their Indonesian counterparts in a chain of maids from a commonwealth to Malaysia from subsequent month, he added.
The minister, however, could not confirm a actual series of maids approaching as a series of applications in Indonesia is now unknown.
Indonesia officially withdrew a moratorium upon a sending of maids to Malaysia upon December 1 last year.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met in Bali during a end of last year as part of efforts to finalise a issue amicably.
Davos parties amid the gloom
February 8, 2012
The Star-Karim Raslan on Davos 2012-February 7
Davos parties among the gloom
by Karim Raslan
The important deficiency of the vast Chinese commission during the Davos World Economic Forum due to the Chinese New Year deteriorate gave the South-East Asian nations the event to shine.
I'm frequency your quintessential Davos Man though we do enjoy my trips to the World Economic Forum (WEF), where we chair the Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia.It's not usually the probability to hobnob with the global elite, though additionally get the clarity of where the universe is heading.
Davos this year was the blur, though. Perhaps it was since my report was packed, or may be it was since we was recovering from the flu. Whatever the cause, my week in Switzerland was the whirr of images as great as sensations.The clarity of dejection in between the world's players seemed to have become de rigueur after years of delayed growth.
Nevertheless, it didn't put the stop to the vast costly networking parties during WEF. we guess purgation doesn't apply to the rich as great as powerful. Also important was the deficiency of the vast Chinese commission since of the Chinese New Year season.
This gave the probability for other East Asian nations to shine.Thai Premier Yingluck Shinawatra (right) led a large, well-received delegation.After the twin distractions of domestic conflict as gr! eat as h ealthy disaster, Thailand appears eager to promote the idea of the mercantile recovery. Shinawatra's great looks some-more than compensated for the hesitation in her delivery.
Indonesia, too, had the vast contingent despite the deficiency of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the acquire pointer which Indonesia's corporate leaders have been ready to engage the rest of the universe alone.
I additionally outlayed time with the tiny Burmese entourage.They were basking in the country's strong rehabilitation, as great as we done plans to encounter again in the future.
We Malaysians additionally hosted our own breakfast. It was attended by the tiny twenty powerful international corporate as great as domestic leaders.The Malaysian star of the Aung San Suu Kyi biopic The Lady, Michelle Yeoh (left) additionally done an coming to supplement both glamour as great as comprehension to the event though I'm the fan as great as thus biased.
Still, it was great to see which there was interest in Malaysia, particularly as the services hub. we additionally remarkable which the delegations from African nations were vast although they pulled tiny weight compared to India or Brazil.
The events featuring British Prime Minister David Cameron as great as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner caused tiny stir. Conversely, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota had the swagger about him as EU technocrats lobbied the BRICs for assistance to save Europe.
Still, there was an uneasy clarity in the air which Europe's tumble is facilitating Germany's rise.You could see German products everywhere, together with the shiny Audis shuttling the VIPs in between Davos as great as Klosters as great as V! W vans f or everybody else.
I even picked up the special book Stern repository celebrating the 300th anniversary of the bieing born of King Frederick the Great of Prussia, which hailed him as an "uber-Prussian". Indeed, there seems to be the flourishing nostalgia in Germany for Frederick, who solidified Prussia's energy though was additionally eminent for his egghead as great as cultural achievements, together with founding Potsdam as great as patronising Voltaire.
Perhaps he reminds Germans of the time when they as great were on the brink of great power, albeit perfect by fascism.Is it some-more than the coincidence which Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) has described herself as "very Prussian" as great as has not shied away from promoting "German values"?
Whatever the case, Berlin with the Prussian milieu will almost positively take the place as Europe's premier collateral which equates to which this tukang cerita (story teller) will have to dauntless the Brandenburg winter during the tiny theatre to get the clarity of the city as great as German aspirations.
There were additionally encounters, either planned or chance.At Davos' Indonesia Night, we wolfed down nasi goreng with Mukhlis of Antara as great as Uni Lubis of ANTV, discussing the probability of the republic developing the own "soft power".
At the still club after on, we gossiped with my Financial Times columnist friend Gideon Rachman about the awaiting of the Eurozone collapse.I even recollect trying to locate the Occupy WEF igloos. we outlayed the great hour trudging through the snow (which was metres high, by the way), before giving up since of the cold as great as damp.
One afternoon we slipped away from the discussion as great as took the tiny funicular sight to the! Schaltz alp Hotel high above Davos.There among the echoing halls of the fin de siecle "grand" hotel we illusory the universe of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann as great as the immense, enveloping silence of the Alpine scenery, swathed in snow as we stood on the hotel's terrace.
Finally, there was the moment when we was pciking up my overcoat during the Morosani Schweizershof hotel's cloakroom.I paused since we remembered which it was here, last year which we saw Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (left), the son of the late Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi.
Back then, Gaddafi was the gadfly of the Arab as great as African worlds, whilst Saif was his modernising son as great as the toast of process wonks everywhere. Today the father is buried somewhere in the Libyan dried as great as Saif is in the jail in Zintan.
It's the pointer of how times change, though additionally how swiftly Davos moves on. You can be everybody's golden child one notation as great as the renegade in the next. But that's how the universe turns.
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'Johor companies trading palm oil with Israelis'
According to Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) arch Badrul Hisham Shaharin (left), dual companies in Johor have been allegedly exporting palm oil to Israel around Tanjung Pelepas as well as Pasir Gudang.
The palm oil is shipped to a single of Israel's largest ports, Ashdod, pronounced Badrul, popularly known as blogger Chegubard.
Chegubard pronounced he has Customs forms as well as booking confirmations of a Johor palm oil exporting companies to behind his allegations.
"We even have detailed proof which an Israeli supervision official has come to Johor to inspect a palm oil conveyance prior to being shipped to Israel," he claimed.
"By right, this is opposite a law as you do not have tactful ties with Israel," he added.
Chegubard pronounced SAMM is sending a minute to a Ministry of International Trade as well as Industry about his findings as well as hoped which he will embrace a truthful as well as immediate response.
He combined which if he does not embrace a correct reply immediately, SAMM will proceed in dual weeks' time with a revelation as well as announcement of a papers to infer to a open which a Malaysian supervision was "cheating" its citizens.
"They claim to be heroes of Palestinians. They censure others for being pro-Israel though these papers infer which a Malaysian supervision is an ally to Israel, as well as is contributing to their economy," he told reporters in Komtar today.
"They have been traitors to a country, if this is true. Pretending to be heroes of Palestinians though in actual fact, helping Israel," he said, ad! ding whi ch a organisation would go upon to find for revealing papers as well as publish them to raise a awareness of citizens upon a pomposity of BN-Umno government.
SAMM's claim is a recoil to BN, especially Umno's attack upon Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim of being an agent of Israel.
Anwar's recent matter upon Israel has kicked up a charge inside of a Muslim village with Umno leaders bashing a PKR supremo for his pro-Israel stance, which was published in an international newspaper.
Anwar has denied a allegations, observant his remarks were taken out of context.
However, a European Commission of Trade, European Union report upon Jun 8 last year revealed which Malaysia stays a single of a tip 15 out of 50 trade partners of Israel.
On November 9, MITI emissary apportion Mukhriz Mahathir, in his debate during a 2012 Budget debate, had pronounced which a cabinet assembly had approved applications by multinationals to carry out export-import exchange with Israel.
"This raises a subject either a nation is confronting a big crisis where authorised supplies have been set in reserve with a single decision from a cabinet," Er had then pronounced in a statement.
In a associated development, Chegubard claimed which papers in his receive revealed which Malaysia has been exporting no reduction than 100 tonnes of palm oil monthly with Israel.
These exchange have been starting upon for not reduction than a year, he noted.
"What is some-more startling is which upon a single of a companies' websites, it is referred to which a single of a companies provision a palm oil is Felda," he said.
"MITI says which usually MNCs have been authorised ! to trade with Israel, though what about these dual internal companies?" he questioned.
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Davos parties amid the gloom
February 8, 2012
The Star-Karim Raslan upon Davos 2012-February 7
Davos parties between a gloom
by Karim Raslan
The important absence of a large Chinese commission during a Davos World Economic Forum due to a Chinese New Year season gave a South-East Asian nations a event to shine.
I'M frequency your quintessential Davos Man yet you do suffer my trips to a World Economic Forum (WEF), where you chair a Global Agenda Council upon South-East Asia.It's not usually a possibility to associate with a tellurian elite, yet additionally get a clarity of where a universe is heading.
Davos this year was a blur, though. Perhaps it was since my schedule was packed, or maybe it was since you was recovering from a flu.
Whatever a cause, my week in Switzerland was a whirr of images as good as sensations.The clarity of gloom between a world's players seemed to have turn de rigueur after years of delayed growth.
Nevertheless, it didn't put a stop to a countless costly networking parties during WEF.I theory purgation doesn't apply to a abounding as good as powerful.Also important was a absence of a large Chinese commission since of a Chinese New Year season.
This gave a possibility for other East Asian nations to shine.Thai Premier Yingluck Shinawatra (right) led a large, well-received delegation.
After a identical tiwn distractions of p! olitical conflict as good as natural disaster, Thailand appears fervent to foster a thought of a mercantile recovery. Shinawatra's good looks some-more than compensated for a hesitation in her delivery.
Indonesia, too, had a large contingent despite a absence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a welcome pointer which Indonesia's corporate leaders have been ready to rivet a rest of a universe alone.
I additionally outlayed time with a tiny Burmese entourage.They were basking in a country's apparent rehabilitation, as good as you done skeleton to encounter again in a future.
We Malaysians additionally hosted a own breakfast. It was attended by a small 20 absolute general corporate as good as political leaders.The Malaysian star of a Aung San Suu Kyi biopic The Lady, Michelle Yeoh (left) additionally done an coming to add both glamour as good as intelligence to a event yet I'm a air blower as good as thus biased.
Still, it was good to see which there was seductiveness in Malaysia, particularly as a services hub. you additionally noted which a delegations from African nations were large although they pulled small weight compared to India or Brazil.
The events featuring British Prime Minister David Cameron as good as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner caused small stir. Conversely, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota had a swagger about him as EU technocrats lobbied a BRICs for assistance to save Europe.
Still, there was an uneasy clarity in a air which Europe's tumble is facilitating Germany's rise.You could see German products everywhere, including a shiny Audis shuttling a VIPs between Davos as good as Klosters as good as VW vans for everyone else.
I even picked up a special edition Stern magazine celebrating a 300th ! annivers ary of a bieing born of King Frederick a Great of Prussia, which hailed him as an "uber-Prussian". Indeed, there seems to be a flourishing nostalgia in Germany for Frederick, who no longer soft Prussia's energy yet was additionally eminent for his intellectual as good as informative achievements, including first Potsdam as good as patronising Voltaire.
Perhaps he reminds Germans of a time when they as good were upon a brink of good power, albeit untarnished by fascism.Is it some-more than a fluke which Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) has described herself as "very Prussian" as good as has not shied divided from promoting "German values"?
Whatever a case, Berlin with a Prussian milieu will roughly certainly take a place as Europe's premier collateral which equates to which this tukang cerita (story teller) will have to dauntless a Brandenburg winter during a small theatre to get a clarity of a city as good as German aspirations.
There were additionally encounters, whether programmed or chance.At Davos' Indonesia Night, you wolfed down nasi goreng with Mukhlis of Antara as good as Uni Lubis of ANTV, deliberating a possibility of a republic building a own "soft power".
At a still bar later on, you gossiped with my Financial Times columnist crony Gideon Rachman about a awaiting of a Eurozone collapse.I even recollect perplexing to fix up a Occupy WEF igloos. you outlayed a good hour trudging by a sleet (which was metres high, by a way), prior to giving up since of a cold as good as damp.
One afternoon you slipped divided from a discussion as good as took a tiny funicular train to a Schaltzalp Hotel tall upon top of Davos.There between a echoing halls of a fin de siecle "grand" hotel you illusory a universe of No! bel Laur eate Thomas Mann as good as a immense, enveloping silence of a Alpine scenery, swathed in sleet as you stood upon a hotel's terrace.
Finally, there was a impulse when you was pciking up my overcoat during a Morosani Schweizershof hotel's cloakroom.I paused since you remembered which it was here, final year which you saw Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (left), a son of a late Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi.
Back then, Gaddafi was a gadfly of a Arab as good as African worlds, while Saif was his modernising son as good as a toast of policy wonks everywhere. Today a father is buried somewhere in a Libyan desert as good as Saif is in a jail in Zintan.
It's a pointer of how times change, yet additionally how quickly Davos moves on. You can be everybody's golden child a single notation as good as a pariah in a next. But that's how a universe turns.
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NFCorp to Rafizi: Look at your own backyard
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Shahrizat summoned by MACC
According to an eyewitness, Shahrizat - who is a Umno Wanita arch - entered a building around 4pm.
It is believed which she is being questioned in tie with a ongoing review in to National Feedlot Corporation scandal, which allegedly involves members of her family.
The National Feedlot Corporation plan is meant to revoke Malaysia's beef imports though a Auditor-General's Report 2010 settled which a plan is really distant off-target.
Following this, multiform PKR leaders unprotected how a RM250 million soft loan was used for non-cattle rearing related matters, such as financing purchases of oppulance condominiums in Kuala Lumpur, a tract of prime land in Putrajaya and a oppulance car.
In a latestexpose, PKR suspected Shahrizat's family members had misused a soft loan to squeeze two upmarket condominiums in Singapore worth RM34.6 million.
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'Set up RCI to probe Proton's RM3.4bil losses'
"DAP calls for a RCI in to a mismanagement of Proton as well as a billions of ringgit in waste suffered over a years, especially a RM3.4 billion waste in money reserves. This is a really critical matter deliberation which Proton is our national carmaker," pronounced DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng in a matter today.
Yesterday, English dailyNew Straits Timeshad quoted Mahathir as saying which Proton Holding Bhd's money reserves had fallen from a tall of RM4 billion to a towering low of RM600 million to assistance cut association losses.
According to Mahathir, Proton had accumulated RM4 billion during Tengku Mahaleel Ariff's reign as arch senior manager officer, though a money reserves had dropped to RM600 million during his inheritor Mohammed Azlan Hashim's stewardship.
Mahathir pronounced a waste have been partly due to a sale of Italian motorcycle manufacturer MV Augusta to a little-known association called Gevi SpA in 2006 for only a single Euro or RM4.80, even though Proton h! ad paid more than RM300 million for a 57 percent stake.
BMW subsequently paid 93 million Euros or RM446 million for one-third of MV Augusta. Following this, Harley Davidson paid for a rest of MV Augusta for US$ 09 million or RM360 million during a time.
Mahathir also claimed which Proton's downfall is caused by 'bad management'.
In a statement, Lim f! orked ou t which a transactions show which MV Agusta was resold to BMW as well as Harley Davidson for a total of RM800 million.
Hence a exploration should establish either a government should cut waste by cashing out immediately as well as winding up Proton, or risk losing more money as in a MV Augusta deal.
"This is an critical decision which must be studied by a (RCI) as a Malaysian open does not wish Proton to end up as a dedicated money cow which continues to chew (up) cash."
'Review Khazanah deal, too'
Lim, who is also a Penang arch minister, also wa! nts a RCI to demeanour in to either Khazanah Nasional Bhd, a government's investment arm, received a great cost when itdivestedits 42.7 percent interest in Proton to DRB-Hicom Bhd.
"Once again, it appears to be another example of a government understanding gone sour during a taxpayer's expense."
Lim proposed which Tengku Mahaleel be appointed a part of of a royal row as he was a single of a pass persons involved in office building up Proton's money in front of to RM4 billion.
"The exploration must then indicate a appropriate movement to be taken against those obliged for a towering waste incurred as well as a endorsed steps to forestall such future losses, especially when it involves open funds," he added.
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PKR: Shahrizat family used NFC supports as carrot for apartment house loans
PETALING JAYA, Feb 8 PKR claimed today that Datuk Seri Mohamed Salleh Ismail as well as his son Wan Shahinur Izran Salleh dangled RM250 million in sovereign supports to acquire bank loans to buy dual condominiums in Marina Bay Suites, Singapore costing over RM17 million each.The celebration distributed documents from a Singapore Land Authority display that National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) authority Salleh as well as senior manager executive Izran purchased a units using loans from Maybank as well as United Overseas Bank respectively."We believe a loans were authorized since they control supports of RM250 million, that is remunerative for any bank. Any bank would want RM250 million."They put [the RM250 million] in banks to precedence financing for personal purchases. This is a squeeze that contingency be investigated by police," PKR vital executive Rafizi Ramli said.He also reminded reporters of an earlier disclosure that NFCorp, a association owned by apportion Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil's family, had a RM180 million bound deposition with Maybank in 2009."The bigger question is, how does a family compensate behind a monthly repayments? Assuming a twenty-five year-l! oan they contingency compensate RM173,000 any month for these dual condos."And this is not including [other condominium units] One Menerung as well as Orchard's Court," he added, referring to his prior claims of apartment house buys by a Wanita Umno chief's family.Women, Family as well as Community Development Minister Shahrizat has been repeatedly related to NFCorp as a plan was awarded by a Cabinet to her family.The RM250 million publicly-funded cattle-raising scheme was first coined a "mess" in an article in English daily The Star after it done it into a pages of a Attorney-General's 2010 Report for unwell to encounter production targets.The tenure was later repeated by alternative media organisations to report NFCorp after PKR launched a series of exposs to show that a project's supports had been allegedly abused.The company's assets were frozen after investigations were launched by a military as well as a national anti-graft physique following a revelations.Shahrizat returned to ministerial duties this week after receiving 3 weeks' leave to concede a authorities to complete their probe.Today, Rafizi pronounced a dual condominiums units one worth RM17.2 million as well as a other, RM17.4 million were in a "same office building as Brawn Steakhouse, a high-end grill owned by Shahrizat's family.""You speak to people there as well as they say 'ya, ya, my boss has dual units upstairs," he said.Rafizi admitted, however, that PKR lacked documented explanation to show NFCorp had bound deposition accounts with UOB.But he pronounced that since a account in Maybank, "my guess is that income is channelled through layers of companies owned by Shahrizat's family in Singapore". He afterwards called on a family to prove "the loans have nothing to do with open funds.""I dare Shahrizat to come brazen as well as item a income of a family by that they pick up such assets. Your total ho! usehold income contingency be RM500,000 a month to service a debts of all a condos," he said.***********
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