PKR: Shahrizat’s influence may have eased purchase of KL Eco City units

By Clara Chooi

March 07, 2012

An artist’s impression of the integrated urban city development in Bangsar.

PETALING JAYA, March 7 — PKR today demanded Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil reveal if she had influenced the construction of the RM6 billion KL Eco City to help her family purchase eight office units in the luxurious integrated urban city development in Bangsar.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar, who last year complained that the development had resulted in the unfair relocation of villagers, told a press conference today that the construction was kicked off in 2007, when Shahrizat was still the MP for Lembah Pantai.

She pointed to PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli’s exposure today of bank documents allegedly showing that Shahrizat’s family members — husband Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh and three children — had used NFC’s millions as leverage to obtain loans to purchase the units.

According to Rafizi, the eight units have a current estimated market value of RM12 million.

“Firstly, the act of a husband and children to a senior minister, who is also an MP for the constituency in question, of purchasing such properties, raises the question of ‘conflict of interest’ between her duty as an MP and the personal needs of her family.

“With this latest expose, Shahrizat should explain to the people if she had played any role in influencing the decision to relocate the low-income villagers of Kampung Abdullah Hukum (for the purpose of developing KL Eco City),” Nurul Izzah told a press conference here.

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