As much as you want, for free, my son!
By Sarawak Report
As PM Najib Razak conducts his evaluation of BN’s record in Sarawak over this weekend, we recommend that he considers the shocking information revealed by our latest investigation into Taib’s Land Grabs. Over the past 3 years alone the Chief Minister has handed his own son, the fashion-dandy Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, Native Customary Rights Lands totalling the area of Singapore – and all for FREE!
Much of the land has gone to the company set up for Mahmud called Titanium Management. Titanium Management has been the subject of numerous recent scandals because of the enormous number of public contracts that it has been handed without any tendering process by Taib’s government.
Titanium Management was even originally located in the office buildings of Taib’s own company CMS, which has itself scandalously stolen all Sarawak’s most profitable businesses. The fact that Titanium has now moved into its own fancy new office block called ‘Titanium Tower’, demonstrates the huge wealth it has absorbed in recent years owing to profits from these state contracts and also the Land Grabs which we have now identified, which are all worth hundreds of millions of ringgit.
However, besides Titanium Management, we have also identified numerous other companies that have received vast tracks of land which are also clearly controlled by Mahmud and his business partners Chris Chung and the former Director of Public Works Michael Ting. These are companies that are registered under the names of one or other of the three men and which, even more tellingly, are operated out of the same offices and use the same telephone number as Titanium Management!
In the case of my son the land should be given for FREE!
On file, some of the companies that operate out of Titanium’s H Q, the new Titanium Tower in Brighton Square, Kuching
We have identified a raft of at least 14 companies which are clearly controlled by Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib’s Titanium Management, which have been secretly handed lands totalling more than 70,000 hectares. This is greater than the entire land mass of Singapore and much of the land is also in higly valuable urban development areas.
Even more scandalously in each and every case these lands have been handed to the companies under the category of so-called “Payment in Kind”. This is a polite way of saying that it has been given to Taib’s son for free!
Very few other hand outs of land have been quite so blatantly offered for free. Most beneficiaries of the Chief Minister’s Land Grab hand-outs are at least required to make a nominal payment at some future date. But when it comes to Taib’s son in every case the payment is waived!
“PAYMENT IN KIND” – ie FREE!!
While the Taibs plunder the people suffer.
