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Iskandar Malaysia, MMC's affiliation with a badly reputed oil company, Vitol Terminal BV PDF Print E-mail
Written by Helmi   
Tuesday, 08 September 2009 12:07
Last year Iskandar Malaysia roped in the Vitol Terminal BV, a unit of the Rotterdam-based Vitol Group, as its major investor on oil terminal project. It has a 30-year land deal with the Malaysian Mining Corporation (MMC) to develop a petrochemical and maritime centre in Tanjung Bin, Johor.

Not to the knowledge of the Malaysian public, this major investor has unscrupulous reputation - It brokered an illegal oil deal with Serbian war criminal that led 6,000 Bosnian Muslims to their deaths.

According to "The Observer", in 1995 Vitol signed a deal with a Serbian company, Orion, to sell thousands of tonnes of oil to the former Yugoslavia. It was established that Vitol gave $1 million to war criminal Arkan, which million dollars presumably went on weapons and mercenaries. Only weeks after the deal was settled, Serb forces intruded into the United Nations 'safe area' of Srebrenica and killed 6,000 Bosnian Muslims, including babies.

(Note that the United Nations imposed a sanction in 1992 making it illegal to supply oil to Serbia. In 1997, Arkan was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for crimes against humanity).

The BBC also quoted that Vitol has "got deep down and dirty in Iran, Iraq, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nigeria for launching unlawful oil trading scheme".

Iskandar’s connection with Vitol would spurred an upheaval among the Malaysian Muslims and human right activist. And our fellow Malaysians deserved to know this.

References:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jul/01/balkans.warcrimes2
http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/07/breaking-news-radovan-karadzic-captured.html
http://cn.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUKKLR12883420080926
http://www.businesstrendsasia.com/index.php?cat=11:29:176&art=1595
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written by JusticeBao. , September 09, 2009
I sometimes wonder, What does Umno, Be-End and their goons knows, other than : Commissions, Kick-Backs and Positions.

So much for championing a 'good cause', if the above is true.
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written by Salah ad din , September 09, 2009
The Iskandar Project is a dead duck. UMNO will deal with international thugs just to make up the numbers of so-called foreign investors in support of another white elephant project. Piles of dirty money must be pocketed along the way. Watch out for those people with fancy cars in Iskandar.
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written by matakaca , September 09, 2009
watchout malaysia be4 going to adventure
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written by Hadrian Tan , September 09, 2009
This Iskandar project is always blood-vomiting. Johor is an improper state despite its wealth because the government are so corrupt.
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written by ?????? , September 09, 2009
As long as the commission is good, partner with Zionist pun tak apa lah.... boleh forget God, boleh forget religon, boleh forget negara, boleh forget race, boleh forget rakyat BUT tak boleh forget duit, duit & duit.


Now, i dont know what Tun has to say .... afterall, at one time his the "champion & saviour of Bosnia muslim "
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written by EnviroProtector , September 10, 2009
The project is to be built on Tanjung Bin 913 hectare mangrove forest, close to Sungai Pulai Ramsar Site, a few hundreds meters away from people's homes, which impose health hazards (coz it's petrochemicals).

Furthermore, it will deprive the source of livelihoods of close to 1,000 inshore fishermen that share the productive Pulai River Estuary.


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written by hoon , September 11, 2009
please everybody who reads this article tell everybody you know
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