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2004-02-18

Tahir Has Close Ties to Malaysia Leaders Son

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Posted by Steve 2004-02-18 9:47:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Googled Shah Zain, this from SCOMI Group website:
Shah Hakim @ Shahzanim Zain, aged 37, was appointed as an Executive Director and CEO of SGB on 3 March 2003. He has also been the Executive Director of Scomi and KMC since February 2001.
Shah Hakim Zain started his career as an Auditor with Ernst & Young ("E&Y") and after several promotions in E&Y, Shah Hakim Zain was appointed as Consulting Manager servicing several big corporations such as Renong Berhad. Later in 1992, he assumed the role of Executive Director of a regional packaging manufacturer, a successful manufacturing company, with direct operational responsibility. Shah Hakim Zain then ventured into the information technology and telecommunications business including Suria Business Solutions Sdn Bhd, the distributor for Ericsson enterprise products and solutions in Malaysia. Shah Hakim Zain currently sits on the board of a public listed company, Sapura Motors Berhad, as well as a number of other private limited companies in Malaysia.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-18 10:00:23 AM|| 2004-2-18 10:00:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 From Time Asia 23 Feb 2004 edition:
But Tahir, currently in Malaysia, appears to be more than a middleman. TIME has learned that Tahir's wife, Malaysian national Nazimah binte Syed Majid, was one of three equal shareholders (including Kamaluddin) in the holding company, Kaspuda Sendirian Berhad, when it went public early last year. Sources familiar with the deal say Nazimah subsequently sold her shares to the Premier's son. Bush said that Tahir is "the network's chief ... money launderer." In Malaysia, Tahir has a more glittering reputation: his 1998 wedding in Kuala Lumpur was attended by a Who's Who of the city's Ã©lite.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-18 10:09:36 AM|| 2004-2-18 10:09:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Article from OIC Summit, Oct 2003:
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- Oil and gas company, Scomi Group Bhd is looking for opportunities in countries like Libya, Iran and Egypt, where there are likely to be high growth business potentials, its President and Chief Executive Officer Shah Hakim Zain said Thursday.
"We hope to be able to establish and develop relationships in such markets which will allow us to bid for contracts," he said at a workshop on smart partnership in key sector, held at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Business Forum, here. He said that since 2002, the company has started to look at opportunities internationally, with specific target on three regions namely West Asia, Asean and North African countries. To-date, it has secured contracts in Sudan and Myanmar, and in Thailand it has set up a joint venture with a local Thai company while in Indonesia, Scomi has formed a strategic alliance with a subsidiary of Pertamina, Indonesia's national petroleum company.
"In Pakistan, Bahrain and Qatar, we are in discussions with various potential local partners which have the knowledge and appropriate access to the local market in their respective countries," he said.

Reads differently now, doesn't it?

Posted by Steve 2004-2-18 10:23:18 AM|| 2004-2-18 10:23:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 why are we surprised? Isn't his dad the one who said that Muslim's need to become educated in the sciences - rather than the Koran - in order to kill the Jews?

Posted by B 2004-2-18 11:28:15 AM|| 2004-2-18 11:28:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 B, nope, that was the former leader of Malaysia. This is the son of the current leader of Malaysia. There's a difference, somehow, I guess.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-18 2:05:15 PM|| 2004-2-18 2:05:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 They're just one big happy Nuclear family.

Posted by ed 2004-2-18 6:08:22 PM|| 2004-2-18 6:08:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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