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RM160 Juta LTAT : Kerabat Akan Lapor Polis
Kenyataan Pengerusi Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT), Tan Sri Dato' Sri Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor bahawa urusan pembelian Astacanggih dan Awan Megah oleh Boustead Holdings Berhad ("Boustead") merupakan satu pelaburan yang baik adalah tidak masuk akal.
Sekiranya LTAT benar-benar berminat untuk mengambilalih syarikat ini, ada dua perkara penting yang perlu dipertimbangkan dalam menentukan nilaian syarikat-syarikat ini, iaitu:
1. Tanah yang dimiliki oleh Awan Megah yang menentukan bayaran kepada Awan Megah. Nilaian yang dibuat oleh Boustead adalah RM130 juta kononnya untuk membeli tanah 223 ekar yang didakwa milik Awan Megah
2. Nilai projek penswastaan dan keuntungan yang bakal diperolehi dari projek penswastaan Puspahanas. Nilaian yang dibuat oleh Boustead adalah RM30 juta untuk membeli saham Astacanggih dan RM130 juta kepada Awan Megah
Saya telah meneliti dokumen-dokumen yang diserahkan kepada saya untuk menentukan nilaian yang adil bagi urusan ini, jika LTAT dan Boustead benar-benar berminat mengambilalih syarikat ini berdasarkan pertimbangan komersil.
Nilaian tanah 223 ekar
Saya merujuk kepada surat bertarikh seventeen Julai 2009 dari Jabatan Ketua Pengarah Tanah dan Galian (Persekutuan) kepada Pengarah Tanah dan Galian Negeri Selangor yang dilampirkan bersama.
Kandungan surat tersebut menyatakan rayuan Kerajaan Persekutuan di bawah pentadbiran Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak kepada keputusan Kerajaan Selangor yang menolak permohonan Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk memindahmilik tanah seluas 223 ekar kepada Awan Megah.
Ini bermakna, tanah seluas 223 ekar yang kononnya dibeli oleh Boustead itu masih lagi hakmilik Kerajaan Persekutuan ! dan tert akluk kepada kebenaran Kerajaan Selangor bagi kelulusan pindahmilik dan kelulusan pelan pembangunan.
Status terkini tanah 223 ekar itu adalah jelas: ia bukan hakmilik Awan Megah dan Kerajaan Selangor telah menetapkan bahawa ia tidak boleh dibangunk! an kecuali bagi tujuan pembinaan markas, seperti mana tujuan asal tanah itu dipohon oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan dahulu.
Oleh yang demikian, pembayaran RM130 juta oleh anak syarikat Boustead kepada Awan Megah yang dimiliki Raja Ropiah Raja Abdullah, Ketua Wanita Umno Selangor samalah dengan memberi wang RM130 juta kepadanya tanpa ada apa-apa hasil kepada Boustead.
Jika urusniaga ini tetap berlaku, Boustead akan menyalahgunakan RM130 juta dana pencen anggota tentera untuk membayar 223 ekar tanah kepada Awan Megah yang tidak mempunyai hakmilik tanah itu.
Projek penswastaan Puspahanas
Boustead terpaksa menyiapkan Puspahanas yang kini tergendala mengikut perjanjian dengan Astacanggih dan Awan Megah. Salah satu pertimbangan nilaian berjumlah RM160 juta (iaitu RM30 juta kepada Astacanggih dan RM130 juta kepada Awan Megah) adalah kos projek yang telah dilaksanakan oleh Awan Megah.
Tanggungan Awan Megah kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk menyiapkan projek ini boleh dirujuk kepada Perjanjian Penswastaan muka surat 13, Perkara 3.3 mengenai Bon Tanah ("Land Bond") yang perlu dibayar oleh Awan Megah.
Bon Tanah ini adalah satu bentuk jaminan kewangan yang bersamaan dengan jumlah keseluruhan projek penswastaan, iaitu pembinaan Puspahanas yang perlu dilaksanakan oleh Awan Megah.
Sekiranya Awan Megah gagal menyiapkan projek, Kerajaan Persekutuan berhak menuntukan Bon Tanah ini untuk digunakan bagi menyiapkan projek tersebut.
Perjanjian Penswastaan secara jelas menyatakan bahawa Bon Tanah sebagai jaminan Awan Megah untuk menyiapkan Puspahanas hanyalah RM72.5 juta sahaja.
Ini bermakna, kos keseluruhan Puspahanas hanyalah RM72.5 juta sahaja.
Dalam keadaan Puspahanas masih belum disiapkan dan nilai! nya RM72 .5 juta sahaja, pembayaran RM160 juta oleh Boustead sudah tentu satu harga yang tidak masuk akal.
Oleh yang demikian, jelas bahawa urusniaga membabitkan RM160 juta ini hanyalah bayaran rasuah oleh Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak untuk menut! up mulut ! Deepak dan memadamkan skandal ini.
Pembayaran sedemikian rupa bagi membeli tanah yang hakmiliknya tidak wujud dan projek yang jumlahnya jauh lebih rendah adalah satu pengkhianatan kepada anggota tentera dan penyelewengan yang melibatkan kepimpinan tertinggi negara.
January 9, 2013
by W Scott Thompson
I am rereading Alexis de Toqueville's astonishing 1835 Democracy in America. Even afterwards in his travels he appreciated which a southern slave-owning high society were entirely aware which a North would get richer compared with them precisely interjection to a augmenting lack of harmony in a South. But it couldn't be discussed.
The slave owners was profitable for a non-productive childhood as well as old age of his slaves. The workers had no incentive to furnish some-more or innovate. In a North, almost everybody worked, as well as larger distinction came from innovation as well as larger productivity. Formal equivalence done we richer as well as richer. Or as we saw as a child in a border state, a local makers had only half a market, as a African Americans were hold down still too most to add to a shopping public.
Tocqueville goes on, wrongly as it happens, to predict a despondency of a "negroes". There could never be equality, so ingrained was a prejudice, as well as a blacks had zero to do though accept their degradation as well as base status, uselessly aping a hold up of their master. He would not have believed a Barack Obama could be boss in 10 centuries. But afterwards he was right it has taken almost dual centuries to get past halfway towards genuine equality.
Today, a biggest complaint in a march to equivalence (apart from a march divided from it in a US as well as to a lesser border in alternative abounding countries) is in lenient women. True, perhaps a a single good thing which came out of communism in Russia as well as China was a during slightest theore! tical eq uivalence determined in in between a genders. India's rape final month has during final awakened a nation to a daunting problem, as well as in a really large way. But in a dual biggest countries, India as well as China, a complaint in maintaining demographic ratios of equivalence is a preference still for male babies. There would be about 40 million some-more women in India currently had no such stairs termination of womanlike foetuses or even death for womanlike babies been taken, according to demographic estimates.
Africa has few bright lights. A United Nations investigate found which women, measuring relations work contributions by caloric output, did over three-fourths of a work, not even including birthing. There have been NGOs springing up all over hostile womanlike circumcision it's utterly a opposite thing for them than for men, as well as has no positive health benefits. It's all to keep them in their place. It's brutal.
Someone did a association in in between per capita income as well as a purpose of women. Guess what, a larger a equivalence a higher a PCI (Japan being a curious exception). And a glaring black area of a globe was a Middle East, and, to a most lesser extent, South Asia. Things have been changing constructively in Southeast Asia. The Philippines has had dual women presidents, though both "heirs". And we note in my encampment which upon weekends a group still lay outside slanderous as well as celebration rough really rough gin, whilst their asawa labour in a kitchen to move them plates of food to nibble on. Little need be said of a macho enlightenment of Latin America.
In a march towards industrialisation, it is natural for lack of harmony to grow for a time, in a singular sense. The innovators who emanate a brand new resources lot themselves a large chunk of a pie, until those upon whom a little of a cache trickle down climb up as well as demand a bigger share for themselves. From afterwards upon it's a subject of either ! a state has receptive to advice process for swelling a resources by satisfactory elections, improved schools, hospitals as well as infrastructure, minimum wage, as well as so forth.
The remarkable change from autocracy to democracy during fast resources accumulation is nowhere some-more notable than in Korea as well as Taiwan. The middle category grew right to one side a fast climb of gross national product. Successfully industrialising states which have confirmed democratic strides brazen have been regularly a result of receptive to advice policy.
America was for so prolonged a measuring hang of democratic growth to one side resources accumulation, which it has taken 40 years for people to realize which it's been starting a alternative approach during this period.
Unenlightened leadership, blindness to a trend or blind determination to strengthen it, have contributed. It's wearisome though required to note which Obama, as in so much, is a initial boss to try to do anything about it. Someone finally foresaw a apocalyptic straits such flourishing lack of harmony was leading to most appropriate with pictures by a Washington disharmony caused by a excessively well-financed Tea Party obstructionists. You can't have democracy without nutritive democracy.
*W Scott Thompson is emeritus highbrow during a Fletcher School of Law as well as Diplomacy, Tufts University, United States