PUTRAJAYA: Tycoon Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary was merely asked to provide financial allocation to help padi farmers and such a request was certainly not meant to cause the collapse of his business empire, the Prime Minister has explained.
PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday said the issue of the purported monopoly of rice imports by corporate figure Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary should not be politicised as it was raised with the aim to help the poor padi farmers.