demolition broom unlucky....Khir Toyo gets 12 months’ jail for graft

Dr Mohamed Khir Toyo was found guilty today of abusing his influence to buy a luxury home and land at a discount of up to RM3 million.

The High Court here ruled that the RM3.5 million the former Selangor mentri besar paid for the property was “inadequate consideration.”

“The defence failed to raise reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case,” said judge Datuk Mohtarudin Baki

The judge sentenced Dr Khir, who appeared calm, to 12 months’ imprisonment and ordered the seizure of the property.

Mohtarudin agreed with deputy public prosecutor Masri Daud, who argued that the conviction under Section 165 of the Penal Code also invoked Section 36 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which mandates that the court seize property that is the subject of a graft offence.

“When public and private interests meet, public interest must be given priority. The accused abuse his position as the highest executive in the state. A fine will not be sufficient,” he said when delivering the sentence.

Defence lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamarudin had failed to convince the judge to give Dr Khir a lighter sentence in light of “his contributions as mentri besar of Selangor all these years which is not in dispute.”

However, Mohtarudin granted Dr Khir a stay of the execution pending an appeal that his lawyer, M. Athimulan, said would be filed this afternoon.

Dr Khir and his wife, Siti Zaharah Kechik, were all smiles as they left the courtroom and the former MB took time to shake the hands of dozens of supporters before getting into his car.

However, he granted Dr Khir a stay of execution pending an appeal that must be filed within 14 days.

Dr Khir was charged with illegally obtaining for himself and his wife two lots of land and a house at No. 8 and 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1L here from Ditamas Sdn Bhd through its director Datuk Shamsuddin Hayroni.

The property was purchased at RM3.5 million although Ditamas had bought it tfor RM6.5 million on December 23, 2004.

Dr Khir, the state assemblyman for Sungai Panjang, was alleged to have committed the offence at the official residence of the Selangor mentri besar at Jalan Permata 7/1, Section 7 here on May 29, 2007.

 

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Remember how Khir Toyo badly humiliated a civil servant on the broom incident? Now somebody should present him a bigger broom as he well deserved it.

I feel that this sentence is way lenient on Toyo, 12 months jail term in comparison to what a mother who got 24 months for stealing a tin of milk to feed her hungry child.

Here you have a guy who abused his power as the top man in a state, that means abusing the trust of millions of people of Selangor, getting 12 months only. No wonder he could walk out smiling.

This is a fake conviction. We have to see the result of his appeal. We have seen too many cases like this before where a lower court came with a guilty conviction only to be dismissed by a higher court.

I only hope that the higher court would impose a higher sentence in his appeal for justice to be served.

'found guilty of abusing his influnce as a Mentri Besar' - this is not as grave as corruption in our eyes, we are more interested to know:
1) how he can get that kind of bank loan?
2) the pay slip he used in his loan application?
3) how he can BLOODY afford this mansion with his MB pay!!!?
4) why he was not charge in court for corruption but abuse of power?

project saved the family cow minister....MACC raids seizes desktop PC, documents from NFC office

Anti-graft officers raided the National Feedlot Corporation’s (NFCorp) headquarters today in connection with the alleged abuse of federal funds by its management.

At least five Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers were seen entering the offices of NFCorp at Solaris Mont Kiara here at 2.55pm.

NFCorp runs the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) in Gemas, which has been at the centre of a storm of controversy ever since the Auditor-General highlighted the publicly-funded cattle raising project as “a mess” in his report this year.

It is headed by Datuk Seri Dr Mohamed Salleh Ismail, husband to Women, Family and Community Minister and Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil. Their children are also directors in the company.

Today’s raid follows an announcement by MACC yesterday that it would investigate allegations the NFC had misappropriated government funds, despite previously saying it would not probe the matter.

The national anti-graft body had earlier referred the case to the police, who are now conducting an investigation into possible criminal breach of trust.

The MACC also confirmed yesterday it had remanded a businessman, said to be a Datuk, for questioning in relation to the case.

The 45-year-old suspect had earlier been detained by police for allegedly trying to bribe senior CCID officers believed to be involved in the NFC probe.

Following a series of exposés on the scandal-hit NFC project, PKR renewed demands earlier this week for the MACC to investigate the scheme for alleged financial abuse.

The opposition party first latched onto the issue after the RM250 million federally-funded cattle project made it into the pages of this year’s Auditor-General’s Report for failing badly to meet production targets.

PKR has since made several revelations relating to the scandal, including NFC’s purchase of two multi-million ringgit condominium units in Bangsar and the alleged use of project funds to finance Shahrizat and her family’s personal expenses and trips abroad.

It also claimed there was a transfer of resources to unrelated companies in Singapore, as well as the purchase a Mercedes-Benz CLS350 for RM534,622 and two plots of land in Putrajaya’s Precinct 10 for RM3,363,507.

The latest disclosure by PKR, made on Tuesday, further alleged that some RM10 million had been diverted towards the purchase of a luxury condominium unit in Singapore for Shahrizat’s family.

Shahrizat has sought to deflect away attention by stating she was “only the wife” of the national cattle farming project’s chairman and had nothing to do with the NFC.

The senator has faced calls to quit as minister from within Umno, including from influential former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

 

MACC seizes desktop PC, documents from NFC office

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers carted away a desktop computer’s central processing unit (CPU) and four documents from the National Feedlot Corporation’s (NFC) office here at the end of their raid today.

Supt Wan Abdul Rahman Wan Mohd Salleh, along with seven other officers from Putrajaya MACC, left the offices of the scandal-hit company at Solaris Mont Kiara here at 4.50pm after questioning staff for two hours.

NFC runs the National Feedlot Centre in Gemas, which has been at the centre of a storm of controversy ever since the Auditor-General highlighted the publicly funded cattle-raising project as “a mess” in his report this year.

NFC is headed by Datuk Seri Dr Mohamed Salleh Ismail, husband to Women, Family and Community Minister and Wanita Umno chief, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil. Their children are also directors in the company.

Today’s raid follows an announcement by MACC yesterday that it would investigate allegations the NFC had misappropriated government funds, despite previously saying it would not probe the matter.

The national anti-graft body had earlier referred the case to the police, who are now conducting an investigation into possible criminal breach of trust.

The MACC also confirmed yesterday it had remanded a businessman, said to be a Datuk, for questioning in relation to the case.

The 45-year-old suspect had earlier been detained by police for allegedly trying to bribe senior CCID officers believed to be involved in the NFC probe.

Following a series of exposés on the scandal-hit NFC project, PKR renewed demands earlier this week for the MACC to investigate the scheme for alleged financial abuse.

The opposition party first latched onto the issue after the RM250 million federally-funded cattle project made it into the pages of this year’s Auditor-General’s Report for failing to meet production targets.

PKR has since made several revelations related to the scandal, including NFC’s purchase of two multi-million ringgit condominium units in Bangsar and the alleged use of project funds to finance both Shahrizat’s and her family’s personal expenses and trips abroad.

It also claimed there was a transfer of resources to unrelated companies in Singapore, as well as the purchase a Mercedes-Benz CLS350 for RM534,622 and two plots of land in Putrajaya’s Precinct 10 for RM3,363,507.

The latest disclosure by PKR, made on Tuesday, further alleged that some RM10 million had been diverted towards the purchase of a luxury condominium unit in Singapore for Shahrizat’s family.

Shahrizat has sought to deflect attention by stating she was “only the wife” of the national cattle farming project’s chairman and had nothing to do with the NFC.

The senator has faced calls to quit as minister from within Umno, including from influential former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

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Why so many media there? Have they been waiting at the NFC office all this time, or were they called to come down by the MACC officers?

Earlier call for MACC to act on NFC, they wash their hands and pass the buck to the PDRM and the PDRM said no CBT. Now after opposition started pointing more evidence NFC, MACC raided the NFC office. Why this MACC is clowning around? It shows MACC is not independent body they are under UMNO’s orders to charge or not charge.

Actually the first offices should be raided are ministers' offices. You don't have to be a genius to know this NFC project involving such huge amount of rakyat's money should never have been awarded to an inexperienced company run by minister's family members.

Who were the ministers involved in approving the project? They must be brought to book.

And what about the so-called tight condition and monitoring for disbursement of funds in stages after proof of project progress as mentioned by Noh? How can the minister in charge of monitoring fund disbursement allow rakyat's money to be used for purchases of multiple luxury condos, luxury car and to fund minister's family privately owned companies in Malaysia & Singapore? This minister must also face the music.

Rakyat is waiting for MACC to act according to its responsibilities. And rakyat do not have anymore patience in this case.

I'm sure this case will be another loss case just like Teoh Beng Hock. With MACC only taking action now after so long since it's been revealed by opposition. I'm sure all the files and documents already destroy or amend by now.

It is hard to believe and trust MACC on how they handle these cases after what happened to Teoh case. What they are doing now is just a show.

Looks like BN just treat us like puppet and fools on how they played us out all this while.

and dont forget...

we must sympathise the cows. Due to the warm weather in Malaysia throughout the year, I have to put them up in air-conditioned condos. As transport cost is high, what better way than to store them up in the singapore apartment. Too much travelling to the abatoir is inhuman. the cows need proper rest before being slaughtered. I Malaysia 1 NFC

another laughing stock from UMNO/BN ....!!!!