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Monday, January 5, 2015

National Feedlot Corporation head denies using government loan to buy properties

NGCorp chairman Daruk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail said the 'lies' by the opposition at a press conference in March 2012 had destroyed him, his family and his business. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 5, 2015.NGCorp chairman Daruk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail said the 'lies' by the opposition at a press conference in March 2012 had destroyed him, his family and his business. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 5, 2015.
National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) executive chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail today denied using a government loan deposit as leverage to purchase 8 properties.
Salleh, the husband of former cabinet minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, was testifying in the trial of his defamation suit against PKR leaders.
He said neither he nor NFCorp had ever taken any loan from Public Bank to buy the 8 office properties in a mixed development project called KL Eco City.
Salleh said the "lies" by the opposition at a press conference in March 2012 had destroyed him, his family and his business.
"I wish to state that no loans had ever been taken from the bank for the purchase of the eight units in KL Eco City.
"As a result of the March 7 press conference and the 110 news reports generated  from it, everybody was angry with my wife, my company and me, and four days later, my wife announced her resignation and one day after that, I was arrested and two days later, my assets were seized by the government," he said of his wife, Shahrizat, who resigned from the Cabinet on March 11, 2012.
Salleh was testifying at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today in his defamation suit against Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar and Datuk Saifuddin Nasution, who was PKR secretary-general at the time.
NFCorp is the second plaintiff in the suit filed in December last year, over the press conference by Nurul Izzah on the purchase of the eight properties in KL Eco City
Then PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli was also at that press conference, but he is being sued by Salleh separately together with MalaysiaKiniDotCom. The suit was filed on June 3 last year and will be heard this August.
In the suit against Nurul Izzah and Saifuddin, Salleh and NFCorp as plaintiffs, are seeking general, exemplary, and aggravated damages from the defendants.
Salleh also told the court today during the examination-in-chief by lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah that the attack on him and NFCorp was part of an attempt to discredit his wife and the government just before the 13th general election.
Shahrizat was at the time the Women, Family and Community Development minister.
"I was very sad that the project, my family and the business were completely destroyed by the lies of the opposition.
"I don't think people should go to such extent to destroy a family or even to take over the government," Salleh said.
He also charged the defendants with misleading the media and the general public when they alleged that NFCorp was audited by the Auditor-General and had underperformed.
Instead, he pointed out that the A-G's report had focused on the government project known as the NFC, the farm, for which the government had allocated a budget of RM73.6 million.
He further explained that NFCorp was merely an integrator to NFC, a project undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro Based Industry, adding that it was NFC that had been audited.
Salleh stressed that he had nothing to do with NFC.
The hearing today continues with cross-examination to take place this afternoon.
- TMI

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