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Datuk Seri Nazir Razak speaks at media briefing and Q&A session during CIMB 10th Annual Malaysia Corporate Day in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture taken on January 4, 2018. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 PLS Plantations Bhd (PLS), a 73.08 per cent owned subsidiary of Ekovest Bhd (Ekovest) said former CIMB chief executive officer and chairman Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazir Abdul Razak will assume the role of non-executive independent chairman effective February 10, 2021.
Another former CIMB senior ex-banker, Tan Hong Kheng is also set to join as an independent non-executive director on the same date.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 8): Datuk Sri Nazir Razak has been appointed as the non-executive independent chairman of PLS Plantations Bhd with effect from Feb 10.
Nazir will assume the post from the group s current chairman, Tan Sri Datuk Lim Kang Hoo, who will be redesignated as executive vice chairman of PLS.
Lim is also the group executive chairman of Ekovest, which owns a 73.08% stake in PLS.
Joining Nazir on the board is another former CIMB senior ex-banker, Tan Hong Kheng, who will join as an independent non-executive director on the same date.
Nazir joins the board after the durian planter placed out 19 million new shares to him in a private placement exercise last month. The new shares were issued at 95 sen each.