National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) chairperson Mohamad Salleh Ismail said he and his son could afford to buy the eight KL Eco City office lots without using the RM250 million soft loan given to the firm for the feedlot project.

He said this when grilled by lawyer Razlan Hadri Zulkifli at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in the defamation suit brought against the latter's client PKR's Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli.

Last Tuesday, Salleh had told the court that the deal did not happen as the bank had withdrawn the loan's offer letter in January 2012 following Rafizi's vicious attack on the National Feedlot Centre.