A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) high-level panel wants the controversies surrounding the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) to be “resolved quickly” to be “fair” to all parties involved in the scandal.

"The case has been highly politicised... MACC has to be decide whether the Women and Family Development Minister Shahrizat (Abdul) Jalil was involved in the decision-making process regarding the funding of the project," said its operations review panel chief Hadenan Abdul Jalil.

He told reporters that MACC has completed its investigations and submitted the papers to the Attorney-General’s (AG) Chambers.

However, the AG had reverted the investigation papers, requesting for a further probe into the matter.

NONE Hadenan ( left ) explained that MACC was only investigating Shahrizat’s role in the award of the cattle-farming project, the National Feedlot Centre, to the members of her family to be managed.

The project is meant to reduce Malaysia’s beef imports but the Auditor-General’s Report 2010 stated that the project is very far off-target.

Following this, the opposition, with PKR in the lead, had exposed how the RM250 million soft loan was used for non-cattle rearing-related matters, such as financing purchases of luxury condominiums in Kuala Lumpur, a plot of prime land in Putrajaya and a luxury car.

NFC chairperson Mohamed Salleh Ismail, Shahrizat’s husband, as well as her children who are the company's directors, have been accused of mismanaging the funds.

 

Hadenan told reporters after the panel’s first quarterly meeting of the year that issues pertaining to the company and its directors are being investigated by the police.

“The longer it drags on, the more it becomes a problem for all of us,” he said, reiterating that the matter should be wrapped up soon.

Meanwhile, Hadenan said that the MACC had received 13,325 tip-offs but only 50 percent were graft-related.

“(However) as of 2011, 1,300 investigation papers were opened and 967 cases were completed, most of them in six months,” he said, adding that MACC had frozen assets worth RM24.5 million.