TMI - PKR claims NFC funded RM10m Shahrizat family condo

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.


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FMT - Khairy, Saifuddin spar over cattle project

KUALA LUMPUR: The controversial National Feedlot Centre (NFC) project continues to draw flak as members of the opposition and the government sparred over the matter.

Last week, Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Noh Omar defended the project, saying it is a success as it met its target of producing 8,000 head of cattle by 2010.

PKR promptly hit out at Noh, saying that under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the NFC farm in Gemas, Negri Sembilan, alone should have slaughtered 60,000 head of cattle a year.

Earlier today, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin jumped to the defence of the NFC project, saying that the Attorney-General’s Report stated that the project had met its objective.

Khairy, the Rembau MP, also criticised the opposition for making “wild allegations”.

He cited an allegation that the farm in Gemas was allocated 5,000 hectares of land when in reality it was allocated only 1,500 hectares (which was a revised estimate by the ministry).

“Besides, the 1,500ha was leased from the Negri Sembilan Menteri Besar Incorporated,” Khairy told reporters at the Parliament lobby, adding that PKR had got its facts wrong.

But PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution today pointed out that PKR obtained its figure (5,000ha) from the ministry’s website.


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