Embattled cabinet minister Shahrizat Jalil, who is scheduled to be back at work next week, is set to be 'greeted' with more exposes on misappropriation allegations involving her family, PKR says.
According to PKR chief of strategy Rafizi Ramli, the party will make more revelations on property bought by the women, family and community development minister's family next Wednesday.
However, it is not immediately clear if the purchases are linked to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), the family-owned company at the heart of the scandal.
"Shahrizat ( left ) is returning this week, so maybe we'll greet her with something... We are pursuing more properties that could have been bought by the family. We should be able to nail one next week," Rafizi told Malaysiakini .
PKR has previously revealed that the family owns a luxury condominium worth about RM10 million in Singapore, but was unable to present evidence that NFC funds went towards this purchase.
The family has remained silent on the matter but had earlier admitted that they used part of the RM250 million government soft loan to buy two luxury condominium units in Kuala Lumpur under NFC's name.
NFC preparing media blitz?
In a dialogue with NGOs last week, NFC chief executive officer Wan Shahinur Izmir Salleh reiterated that the condominium units at One Menerung in Bangsar were investments bought at a time when the cattle-rearing project was temporarily halted for a viability study.
In an interview yesterday, Rafizi said that "more" of such exposes were in the pipeline because the anonymous tip-offs "keep coming".
He said the stream of information from anonymous sources also came at a time when NFC appeared to be "doing things behind the scenes".
Having somewhat written off the opposition supporters, Rafizi said, NFC was likely to be cleaning up its backyard in preparation for a media offensive.
"They are concerned about their own supporters, so I think they would want to make sure everything is in order so that they can start a new media campaign.
"To say, 'look, these are all lies and that in terms of company structure we are all accountable to the government, these are not private companies, etc'. It's not like they're lying idle," said Rafizi, a chartered accountant by training.
NFC recently engaged a public relations company to handle its media relations and has held at least two dialogue sessions with Malay-centric NGOs to explain its side of the story.
However, the NGOs have claimed that the sessions were on their own initiative.
Malaysiakin's three-part interview with Rafizi will be published next week.
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