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PM favourite Syed Mokthar buys stake in Utusan
Published:  Jun 4, 2003 8:12 AM
Updated: Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM

Business tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary - a close associate of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad - has bought a 20 percent stake in the bestselling Malay daily Utusan Malaysia .

According to Singapore Straits Times , this is the 51-year-old businessman's second major investment in a newspaper. The first was in the country's leading English daily The Star , owned by Chinese-based political party MCA.

His RM400 million worth of shares in the daily were forcibly sold in 1998 - at the height of the regional financial crisis - by his bankers when he failed to provide extra collateral on loans taken.


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