MACCgiven two weeks to act against NFC head...

PKR has given the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) two weeks to arrest and charge National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) chairperson Mohamad Salleh Ismail over a bribery allegation..

Failing this, the opposition party has threatened to pressure the government to set up a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the possibility that the MACC is protecting NFC.

Yesterday, PKR had revealed a police report in which businessman Shamsubahrin Ismail (left) had claimed to have been pressured to pay bribes to put the police off investigations into scandals involving the NFC. While Shamsubahrin has named Salleh as having instigated this, the latter has dismissed the claim.
                    
Taking this further, PKR Subang MP R Sivarasa and Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin lodged a report today at the Kuala Lumpur MACC office.Their report is based on claims by businessman Shamsubahrin Ismail that Salleh had asked him to bribe the police as inducement to call off the on-going probe into the NFC.
 
Zuraida said the MACC, which had arrested Shamsubahrin on Dec 22 last year, has been holding his mobile phone in which text-messages from Salleh are stored.

She therefore questioned the MACC’s failure to act against Salleh up to now.

PKR, she added, will next lodge a report at the MACC headquarters n Putrajaya.

'Cops should be probed as well’

Sivarasa claimed that several other personnel of  NFC had repeatedly sent text-messages to Shamsubahrin, ordering him to bribe the police. However, he declined to reveal the names of those allegedly involved.

He said the RCI, if set up, should also investigate the conduct of the police.

"We put a challenge to MACC to investigate Salleh (left) just as Shamsubahrin was investigated, and to arrest and charge Salleh," he told reporters.

Sivarasa said PKR supports DAP leader Lim Kit Siang's intention to set up a RCI to look into alleged abuse of a RM250 million government soft loan to NFC, if Pakatan Rakyat takes over Putrajaya.
Shamsubahrin, who has been charged with four counts of cheating, is being remanded at Sungai Buloh prison as he has refused to post bail for reasons of personal safety.

NFC tolak memo NGO

Usaha sebuah NGO menghantar memorandum kepada National Feedlot Corporation berhubung dakwaan perbelanjaan kredit kad RM600,000 yang didakwa menggunakan wang daripada dana kerajaan hanya sampai di muka pintu.

Rombongan kira-kira 10 aktivis JINGGA 13 pulang hampa apabila kehadiran mereka di Kuala Lumpur gagal mencapai matlamat apabila pegawai syarikat itu enggan menerima memorandum itu.

"Walaupun Saudara Fariz Musa selaku ketua koordinator menyatakan bahawa JINGGA 13 mewakili kehendak rakyat untuk dapat penjelasan, namun pegawai itu bertegas untuk mengikuti arahan atasan dengan alasan NFC adalah 'entiti perniagaan'," kata setiausahanya Saifuddin Shafi Muhammad.

Menurut Saifuddin, pegawai itu juga menyatakan tidak mahu mengganggu tugas pihak polis yang sedang menyiasat kes itu walaupun pengarah eksekutifnya Wan Shahinur Izmir Salleh didakwa berkali-kali membuat kenyataan menafikan dakwaan itu.

JINGGA 13 sebelum ini membuat laporan polis terhadap empat anggota menteri pembangunan wanita Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil yang didakwa membelanjakan hampir RM600,000 pada tahun 2009 dengan kad kredit yang wangnya dari dana NFC.

Dalam kenyataannya hari ini, NGO yang dekat dengan PKR itu juga mempersoalkan keistimewaan kumpulan pendesak Melayu PERKASA dan 11 NGO yang dijemput khas untuk diberi penerangan oleh NFC sebelum ini.

Justeru, Saifuddin mempersoalkan kenapa JINGGA 13 yang melaporkan perkara itu kepada polis dan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) tidak dilayan jika benar tiada fakta mahu disembunyikan.

(An attempt to hand over a memo demanding the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) to account for its credit card expenses of RM600,000 was refused at the door today at its office in Kuala Lumpur. A delegation of about 10 members of the PKR-linked NGO Jingga 13 were met by the NFC's corporate communications manager outside its office, but he refused to accept the memorandum.

He said the company's executive chairperson Mohamad Salleh Ismail had given instructions not to accept the memo as he did not want to affect the ongoing police investigations.Speaking to reporters later, Jingga 13 coordinator Fariz Musa, who led the delegation, expressed disappointment over the refusal.

"We want transparency because it involves public funds. Therefore we are disappointed that we couldn't hand over the memo," he said)

source:malaysiakini

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