PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has reserved its decision in the appeal brought by National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail and his company in a defamation suit filed against former Pandan member of Parliament Mohd Rafizi Ramli.
Monday, 01 Mar 2021 03:08 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar is pictured in Parliament, Kuala Lumpur August 27, 2020. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 1 The National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) and its chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail today failed in their final bid in their defamation lawsuit against PKR MP Nurul Izzah Anwar and PKR.
The Federal Court today unanimously ruled that Nurul Izzah and PKR as represented by its secretary-general Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail did not defame NFCorp or Salleh, as Nurul Izzah’s 2012 remarks were mostly focused on Salleh’s politician wife and former Lembah Pantai MP Tan Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil instead, a report by news portal Malaysiakini said.
The imported halal meat fiasco has all the elemental components of a crime: smuggling; faking; a network of cheating syndicates, from the starting point to the consumer table; multinational actors to facilitate multiple functions at multiple points; and unchecked and unpunished, allegedly, for 40 years.
It is another corruption case that the public has to swallow. This time, the public is robbed of safe, genuine, quality and, to the Muslims, halal meat a betrayal in all dimensions to consumers.
The case begs the question as to why it was left unchecked for such a long time. Logically, it means that it must have been well planned, tested and proven, or that the system is so weak that it failed to prevent such a serious situation.