November 10, 2011
Shahrizat’s husband and children control the RM250 million NFC project. — File pic
KUALA
LUMPUR, Nov 10 — The National Feedlot Centre (NFC) paid for a RM10
million condominium belonging to National Meat and Livestocks
Corporation (NMLC), a company wholly-owned by Datuk Seri Shahrizat
Jalil’s family, PKR said today.
Its secretary-general, Saifuddin Nasution, said the luxury apartment
at One Menerung, Bangsar, was recorded by NFC, a cattle farming project
managed by the minister’s family, as part of a RM83 million “loan” to
NMLC.
“They said the RM250 million loan for the project was in a
tightly-controlled account. Is the condominium for cows to live in?” the
Machang MP told a press conference in the Parliament lobby.
Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin had said yesterday that funds from
the soft loan could only be drawn after NFC tables a working paper and
is approved by the finance ministry.
Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Datuk Seri Noh Omar
also said that only RM135 million had been drawn by the NFC as the funds
have been placed in an escrow account.
PKR also alleged on Tuesday that over RM84 million was siphoned off
from NFC to companies controlled by Shahrizat’s husband, Datuk Dr
Mohamad Salleh Ismail, and her children, Izran Mohamad Salleh and Izmir
Mohamad Salleh.
Members
of PKR and the NGO, Jingga, hold up photographs of the One Menerung
condo, after lodging a report with the MACC. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Saifuddin
said today that the RM9,758,140 was transferred from NFC’s CIMB account
in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur to Bandar Raya Developments Berhad
on December 2, 2009 as full payment for the property.
“It was not from a special trust account. So the Umno Youth chief and minister’s explanations are false.
“If strict monitoring had occurred, surely RM9.8 million cannot be
transferred to buy a luxury condo that has nothing to do with cattle
farming. This is a clear breach of trust by Shahrizat’s family,” he
said.
He also questioned Khairy’s defence of the project, asking if the
“Rembau (MP) was involved in approving the project” in 2006 “when he was
a powerful Fourth Floor Boy” under his father-in-law Tun Abdullah
Badawi’s administration.
PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli also asked how NFC had
slaughtered 1,600 cows in 2009 and still made a loss of RM11 million
that year “but can afford a luxury condo.”
The Auditor-General’s Report released last month had criticised the NFC, pointing out that it was now “in a mess”.
The report said production in 2010 was only 3,289 head of cattle or 41.1 per cent of the target set.
But Noh responded on October 31 that the project is a success and had
met its targets “as the total number of cattle brought into the farm
was 8,016 between 2008 and 2010.”
He has also said half of a RM13 million grant and RM115 million of
the soft loan, to be repaid at a two per cent interest rate over 17
years, has not been disbursed to NFC.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat said
yesterday that “the minister has answered at length and clearly. I am
happy that the ministry will continue to monitor the success of this
project.”
Is Shahrizat going to sue her detractors in order to clear her name and that of her family?
As usual, she will deny all these claims and sweep them under the carpet.
If the claims are untrue, then Shahrizat's family is truly filthy rich because they work like hell!
What if the claims are true? If they are, then Shahrizat's family is as guilty as hell!
What if the claims are true? If they are, then Shahrizat's family is as guilty as hell!
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