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SPECIAL REPORT: Maika - the failed venture
Sep 3, 07 4:07pm









MIC investment arm Maika Holdings, a brainchild of long time president S Samy Vellu, was established in 1982 purportedly to enable Indian Malaysians to have a share in the country’s economic growth.

The company raised RM106 million in 1984 from 66,000 investors but some shareholders after seeing little returns on their investments have since accused the company of squandering the capital through dubious channels.

Many Maika shareholders were estate workers who had pawned their family jewellery and withdrew their life savings to invest in the company. The investment company, however, has been a spectacular failure with many of its business ventures failing to take off.

Promises were made, time and again, that Maika shareholders will get their hard earned back. But not a penny was paid. At each Maika's annual general meeting, the shareholders continue to press for answers. Often the meeting degenerates into violence as 'thugs' linked to the company rough up those who dare ask questions.

This year’s meeting is no different with many shareholders priming themselves to grill Maika CEO Vell Paari who is son of Samy Vellu and his board of directors on the proposed sale of the company’s cash cow the insurance division of Oriental Capital Assurance Bhd to an engineering firm for RM129.8 million.

Malaysiakini files the following reports in the run up to the controversial Maika AGM.

Sept 1

Subra lodges report against Maika 'thugs' 

Aug 30

Subra roughed up at Maika meet 
A pandemonium in the shape of a meeting 
Maika investors will get money back: CEO 

Aug 28

Maika shareholders want gov't bailout 

Aug 27

Keep ‘golden goose’ in Indian hands, says Subra 

Aug 23

Why kill Maika's golden goose? 

Aug 21

Maika accounts: Not all of it figures 

Aug 20

Maika shareholders take dispute to CCM 

Aug 17

Company sale necessary for Maika’s survival 

Aug 15

Maika AGM date a ploy: shareholders

 
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