Shahrizat Jalil mohon cuti tiga minggu...

Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil telah memohon bercuti rehat selama tiga minggu mulai esok daripada menjalankan tugas sebagai menteri pembangunan wanita, keluarga dan masyarakat.

Dalam satu kenyataan kepada Bernama hari ini, Shahrizat berkata beliau telah mengemukakan permohonan itu kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

"Saya berharap pihak Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) akan dapat menjalankan siasatan sama ada saya terlibat atau tidak di dalam apa-apa keputusan yang dibuat oleh kerajaan mengenai National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) di mana suami saya Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail memegang jawatan sebagai Pengerusi Eksekutif," katanya.

Shahrizat berdepan isu NFC, yang diterajui Mohamad Salleh, apabila Laporan Ketua Audit Negara 2010 pada Oktober lalu merumuskan projek itu berdada dalam keadaan kucar kacir.

NFC ialah projek 'Lembah Daging' di Gemas, Negeri Sembilan bagi meningkatkan pengeluaran daging tempatan dan mengurangkan pergantungan negara terhadap daging import. Isu itu semakin panas berikutan dakwaan pembangkang bahawa wujudnya penyelewengan peruntukan kerajaan berjumlah RM250 juta yang disalurkan kepada NFC.

Antara mereka yang secara terbuka mendesak Shahrizat supaya melepaskan jawatannya, adalah ahli parlimen Kalabakan Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh dan ahli parlimen Kinabatangan Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin.

Meskipun diasak pelbagai pihak yang menuntut perletakan jawatannya, tetapi Shahrizat bertegas tidak mahu berbuat demikian dengan alasan apa yang dilakukan oleh suaminya tidak ada kaitan dengan dirinya. Berikutan itu, PKR membuat pendedahan demi pendedahan yang mendakwa berlaku penyelewengan terhadap dana berkenaan.

Antara pendedahan mereka, dana itu antara lain digunakan untuk tujuan berikut:

1. Membeli dua unit kondominium mewah 'One Menerong' (RM13.8 juta)

2. Membiayai Umrah atas nama suami dan anak lelaki (RM31,580)

3.Perbelanjaan peribadi (RM26,400)

4.Membeli Mercedes Benz CLS350 (RM534,622)

5.Membeli dua lot tanah di Putrajaya (RM3.36 juta)

6.Percutian mewah (RM455,423)

Pada pilihan raya umum 2008, Shahrizat gagal mempertahankan kerusi parlimen beliau di Lembah Pantai. Ketua Wanita Umno itu tumbang di tangan naib presiden PKR Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Beliau bagaimanapun, kemudiannya dilantik sebagai senator dan diangkat oleh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebagai Menteri Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat.

Shahrizat applies for leave pending NFC probe

Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said today she has applied for three weeks' leave from tomorrow from her duties as women, family and community development minister.

She said in a statement that she had put in the leave application to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"I hope the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will be able to undertake the investigation to determine whether I was associated with or not in any of the decisions made by the government on the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), in which my husband Mohammad Salleh Ismail is the executive chairman," she said.

The NFC issue cropped up after the 2010 Auditor-General's Report issued last October said the corporation's cattle-breeding project in Gemas, Negeri Sembilan, to boost local beef production and reduce its import had failed to meet the target.

The issue heated up following allegations by opposition political parties about irregularities in the use of the government allocation of RM250 million to NFC for the project.

source:malaysiakini

Megat Najmuddin confirms he wrote NFC email

Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Megat Khas has confirmed that he authored the email which PKR presented earlier today as proof that a top National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) official had allegedly tried to bribe the police.

However, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) advisory board member said the email — in which he had related an NFC lawyer’s account of how an official with the cattle raising scheme allegedly tried to influence the police with money — was entirely speculative.

“It was a personal email and a personal opinion based purely on conjecture on my part as no investigations had started then. A lot of hearsay here. The MACC is already investigating the matter,” he told The Malaysian Insider via email.

Megat Najmuddin (picture), who also sits on the Umno disciplinary committee, added that he was “very upset” that PKR strategic director Rafizi had used his private email unethically.

Rafizi had earlier disclosed the existence of the email to reporters, which he said proved that the NFC had tried to bribe CCID officers probing the cattle scheme for alleged abuse of funds.

The email was sent by Megat Najmuddin to a large private group on December 31, 2011, following his dinner with an NFC lawyer.

source:malaysian insider

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