Malaysia Chronicle
Vowing to defend the Armed Forces pension fund from being pilfered by
top government leaders, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s PKR party has
demanded that the Najib administration come clean on a RM160million
deal to buy back land belonging to the Ministry of Defence.
The PKR response follows news a day ago that a unit of the Armed
Forces’ pension fund (LTAT) had agreed to pay RM30 million to a
controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan and RM130 million to a firm
controlled by Raja Ropiaah, the Selangor Umno Women’s chief.
PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli accused Prime Minister Najib
Razak and Defense Minister Zahid Hamidi of “gross abuse of power”,
describing the latest transaction involving 223 hectares of Defense
ministry land in Bukit Raja, Selangor as “outright bribery” and the
“worst-ever case of bad investment I have seen”.
“It is plain and simple that the RM30million to acquire 80% of
Astacanggih (Deepak’s firm) and the RM130 million paid (to Raja
Ropiaah’s firm) for almost non-existent land is clear abuse of power by
Zahid Hamidi. I dare say that Najib had tasked Zahid to handle this by
whatever means necessary,” Rafizi, a UK-trained auditor, told a press
conference on Saturday.
You have already lost RM250mil to one minister and now you are going
to lose RM160 mil of pensioners’ money to another minister.”
Rafizi was referring to the RM250mil NFC cattle-breeding fiasco that
the family of Umno Women’s chief Shahrizat Jalil has been accused of
being involved in.
Copied & pasted from http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2012
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