Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Heads may roll at Petronas over Omar affair

Siapa pula akan menjadi mangsa percaturan Najib kali ini. Adakah akan terjadi kepada lubuk emas ini? Adakah dana rakyat akan menjadi dana UMNO?
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — A battle of wills could be shaping up between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the board of Petronas over the non-appointment of a confidant of Najib to the oil firm’s board. In the worst-case, it could result in heads rolling in Petronas.

BT had reported that on June 24, Petronas’s board decided to defer the appointment of Omar Mustapha pending an explanation to the premier of the reasons behind the board’s disapproval.

The meeting, which could happen this week, will be led by lawyer Kadir Kassim, a member of the board. Omar, 38 and an Oxford-trained economist, was an aide of Najib until he moved to Ethos, a consultancy firm.

This is the second time the board has objected. Sometime in May, the board rejected Omar on the grounds that he’d defaulted on a Petronas scholarship given him almost two decades ago.

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