Probe for outside interference in Felda's EHP acquisition decision, police urged
The police have been urged to investigate whether there was outside interference in Felda's decision to acquire a 37 per cent stake in Indonesia’s PT Eagle High Plantations.
PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli said he had provided information regarding this matter to the police during his questioning at the Dang Wangi police district headquarters today.
"I have given information to assist authorities so that they can commence investigation into whether or not there was interference or instructions from superiors, whether at the board level or from politicians or government to Felda to proceed with the acquisition of Eagle High.
The police have been urged to investigate whether there was outside interference in Felda's decision to acquire a 37 per cent stake in Indonesia’s PT Eagle High Plantations.
PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli said he had provided information regarding this matter to the police during his questioning at the Dang Wangi police district headquarters today.
"I have given information to assist authorities so that they can commence investigation into whether or not there was interference or instructions from superiors, whether at the board level or from politicians or government to Felda to proceed with the acquisition of Eagle High.
"Because given the financial position of Felda, no board member would have agreed to the acquisition," he said in a press conference today after being questioned by the police following his police report against Felda on Thursday.
Therefore, he is urging the authorities to go through all of Felda's management and board meeting minutes from 2012 till today, to see whether there was any interference in their decision on Eagle High.
He also brought two other issues related to Felda to the attention of the police.
Felda's housing projects, he claimed, showed signs of mismanagement and misappropriation, as Felda's financial statement ending year 2014 revealed that RM193 million that was supposedly being pumped into that project had been "written-off".
"That means that RM193 million was spent on housing that auditors could not find any proof of, or could not be proven with actual housing," he said.
Another issue he brought up to the police was Felda's replanting scheme, which he said had the highest spending at RM25 billion a year.
This exposed the scheme to various risks of abuse and corruption, he said.
He claimed that over the past few years, whistleblowers from Felda had consistently approached him with concerns over corruption and mismanagement of the replanting scheme.
The investigating officer who took his statement today appeared keen to investigate further into this issue and Rafizi said he would be handing over all relevant documents in his possession to the authorities.
However, he said he would continue to hold press conferences to reveal more about his concerns over Felda to the public.
On Thursday, Rafizi had pointed out that Felda would not have any control over access to Eagle High's 425,000 hectares of land, despite acquiring a 37 per cent stake in it.
He said that decisions surrounding access to Eagle High’s land and other issues would still be determined by Indonesian billionaire Peter Sondakh, who would remain in control of EHP, despite having a reduced stake of 31.6 percent via his Rajawali Group.
Later that same day, he lodged a police report against Felda's board of directors and management from 2013 till today for the agency's losses.

