PKR menggesa National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) milik keluarga bekas
menteri wanita Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil disiasat atas dakwaan terlibat
dalam aktiviti penggubahan wang haram.Pengarah strateginya Rafizi Ramli mendakwa, NFC terlibat dalam transaksi menggunakan syarikat lain dengan pemilik sama untuk pembelian lembu dan melibatkan pelanggaran Akta Pencegahan Penggubahan Wang Haram.
Beliau mendakwa, surat kredit yang dikeluarkan NFC digunakan oleh National Meat & Livestock Corporation (NMLC) untuk membayar pembelian lembu.
Bagaimanapun, pembelian ini, dakwa Rafizi, dibuat oleh Global Biofuture Pte Ltd, sebuah lagi syarikat milik anggota keluarga Shahrizat.
"Bagaimana sebuah syarikat boleh membuat pembayaran terhadap invois syarikat lain?" soal Rafizi.
PKR wants NFC probed for money laundering...
Opposition
party PKR wants the controversial National Feedlot Corporation (NFC),
which is owned and operated by the family of former minister Shahrizat
Abdul Jalil, to be investigated for money laundering.
NFC,
said strategy director Rafizi Ramli, was involved in illegal
transactions using sister companies to pay for cattle purchases and that
this involved violation of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism
Financing Act 2001.
He claimed that a letter of credit issued by NFC was used by sister company National Meat & Livestock Corporation (NMLC), to pay for a cattle purchase.
However, this purchase, Rafizi said, was made by Global Biofuture Pte Ltd, which is another company also owned by the family of Shahrizat.
"How can a company make payments on the invoice of another company? This is an illegal transfer of funds between NMLC and Global Biofuture.
"I am pretty sure that this is a breach of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act," Rafizi added.
He furnished the members of the media present with copies of documents detailing the purchase of 1,275 live cattle by Global Biofuture in 2010.
This included copies of emails between NFC's Singapore agent to the company's finance department requesting a letter of credit for just under US$1 million and a request for payment from NMLC.
The same letter of credit, with the same reference number, was listed in an invoice to Global Biofuture from the Australian cattle supplier as being the mode of payment.
No free movement of monies
Speaking at a press conference at party headquarters in Petaling Jaya today, he explained that each company was a separate entity, with separate accounts and there should not be any free movement of monies among them, despite these being owned by the same people.
The
Act, Rafizi said, was put in place for that very purpose, to prevent
companies from transferring funds among one another improperly, as this
could be abused by terrorists, criminals and those who swindle funds.
What was more serious, he said, was that in the case of NFC, it involved public funds, since the company was funded by the government.
Rafizi contended that if the government was serious about enforcing financial laws such as the Banking and Financial Institutions Act (Bafia), under which he himself has been hauled up for allegedly releasing confidential NFC financial details, then it should enforce the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act as well.
He said that PKR would be lodging a police report on the matter soon and may also file a complaint with Bank Negara against the controversial firm.
Malaysiakini has contacted NFC's representative for comments and is waiting for a response.
Four NFC assets worth RM49.7 million have already been frozen to assist a Bukit Aman special task force investigating the company under Section 4(1) of the Act.
Bernama reported in June that deputy public prosecutor Anselm Charles Fernandis issued the order to freeze the assets under Section 51(1).
The four assets frozen were two units at One Menerung condominium, Bangsar (Unit B1-2 and B1-1) and two land parcels at Lot 4 and Lot 5, Precint 10, Putrajaya.
source:malaysiakini
PKR man reveals new twist to NFC saga
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NFC,
said strategy director Rafizi Ramli, was involved in illegal
transactions using sister companies to pay for cattle purchases and that
this involved violation of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism
Financing Act 2001.He claimed that a letter of credit issued by NFC was used by sister company National Meat & Livestock Corporation (NMLC), to pay for a cattle purchase.
However, this purchase, Rafizi said, was made by Global Biofuture Pte Ltd, which is another company also owned by the family of Shahrizat.
"How can a company make payments on the invoice of another company? This is an illegal transfer of funds between NMLC and Global Biofuture.
"I am pretty sure that this is a breach of the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act," Rafizi added.
He furnished the members of the media present with copies of documents detailing the purchase of 1,275 live cattle by Global Biofuture in 2010.
This included copies of emails between NFC's Singapore agent to the company's finance department requesting a letter of credit for just under US$1 million and a request for payment from NMLC.
The same letter of credit, with the same reference number, was listed in an invoice to Global Biofuture from the Australian cattle supplier as being the mode of payment.
No free movement of monies
Speaking at a press conference at party headquarters in Petaling Jaya today, he explained that each company was a separate entity, with separate accounts and there should not be any free movement of monies among them, despite these being owned by the same people.
The
Act, Rafizi said, was put in place for that very purpose, to prevent
companies from transferring funds among one another improperly, as this
could be abused by terrorists, criminals and those who swindle funds.What was more serious, he said, was that in the case of NFC, it involved public funds, since the company was funded by the government.
Rafizi contended that if the government was serious about enforcing financial laws such as the Banking and Financial Institutions Act (Bafia), under which he himself has been hauled up for allegedly releasing confidential NFC financial details, then it should enforce the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act as well.
He said that PKR would be lodging a police report on the matter soon and may also file a complaint with Bank Negara against the controversial firm.
Malaysiakini has contacted NFC's representative for comments and is waiting for a response.
Four NFC assets worth RM49.7 million have already been frozen to assist a Bukit Aman special task force investigating the company under Section 4(1) of the Act.
Bernama reported in June that deputy public prosecutor Anselm Charles Fernandis issued the order to freeze the assets under Section 51(1).
The four assets frozen were two units at One Menerung condominium, Bangsar (Unit B1-2 and B1-1) and two land parcels at Lot 4 and Lot 5, Precint 10, Putrajaya.
source:malaysiakini
PKR man reveals new twist to NFC saga
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