How Jamilah Spilt The Beans On Sakto’s Money EXCLUSIVE |
| How Jamilah Spilt The Beans On Sakto’s Money EXCLUSIVE Posted: 19 Apr 2014 09:10 AM PDT   Multi-million dollar complexes in Ottawa Canada belonging to Sakto In recent years the Taib family have worked hard to conceal the sources of income behind their series of multi-million dollar property companies in Canada, the US and the UK. However, we can now reveal devastating new archive information, unearthed by the Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF), which shows that Taib's own daughter Jamilah admitted in press interviews back in 1989 that Sakto's investors were from the 'Pacific Rim' including Malaysia. She also disclosed that 'the Chairman flies in from Malaysia twice a year for meetings"! Canada's Ottawa Citizen newspaper conducted an interview with Jamilah as part of a major feature on Sakto, describing the company as the biggest foreign property investor in Ottawa at that time. The paper described Jamilah as a woman drawing on her international connections to become successful at a very young age, thanks to undisclosed Asian investors.
This early acknowledgement clearly contrasts with later claims by Sakto and Jamilah's husband, Sean (Hisham) Murray, that the company was a Murray family firm, which had nothing to do with Taib's money. This was the claim promoted on websites, which were later pulled down after the Murrays were exposed by the UK media for hiring a PR firm to conduct dirty tricks against Sarawak Report on Wikipedia.
And it was also the line taken by Sean's cousin Christopher Murray, the manager of Ridgeford Properties in London, who repeated the claim in an interview with Sarawak Report back in 2010:
Later, the Murrays hired lawyers to threaten Sarawak Report and ohers and these also claimed:
 Legal letters send on behalf of the Murrays denied Taib's money was in the firm However, incorporation documents in Canada clearly show that Sakto was founded by Taib Mahud's own brother and key business partner Onn back in 1983, along with Jamilah and her brother Abu Bekir Taib, who were both students in Canada at that time. In March 2011 Taib himself admitted that the Murrays and their lawyers had been lying over their denials, when he gave an interview acknowledging after all that he had given Jamilah "some money" to start up Sakto when she was a student in Canada:
However, it seems the Chief Minister was still being far from open about the real truth. He sought to imply thar Jamilah had got rich by subsequently buying and selling property at a profit and then building office blocks after a space of just a few years. The title of his video interview said it all "Jamilah's Business in Canada is Successful, Because She is Good", it boasts. No mention of flows of cash from Pacific rim investors. Jamilah let the cat out of the bag right at the start But the articles obtained by BMF confirm in Jamilah's own words the on-going nature of Far Eastern investment in her company, far more than a one-off starter payment from Daddy's pension. At that stage she was only recently married to Sean Murray and she was still the main figure-head and spokesman for Sakto.  'The Chairman flies in from Malaysia twice a year' Speaking January 17th 1989 to the newspaper, The Ottawa Citizen she gave away a series of significant details, including the fact that the Chairman of the company flew in twice a year from Malaysia to check on the investments. The article makes clear who controlled Sakto – and it wasn't Jamilah or Sean Murray. In "control" were investors from the 'Pacific Rim', in particular Australia, Hong Kong and Malaysia and the article explains that Jamilah, aged 29, was someone they could "trust".
The article by the paper's business correspondent also notes that Sakto was by far the biggest foreign investment in Ottawa at that time. He gives some insight into why outside investors chose a certain place to put their money:
Could it be that the Malaysian 'Chairman' of Sakto was following the same principle? If so, was the reason he could trust Jamilah indeed because she was a family member? So much for a Murray family firm! The paper goes on:
[See the full Ottawa Citzen article 17th January 1989] This was not the only foray by Jamilah Taib into the Ottawa media. Far from it! As one of the city's richest women and as president of one of the largest property companies Jamilah has been written about all the time. For example, in anther later article for the Ottawa Citizen 29th Dec 2001 the super-wealthy Jamilah Taib is gushingly depicted as a globe-trotting jet-setter, decked out in furs and jewels. The article describes her as flying back to join her family for business in Malaysia!
 Doing business with family? Jamilah and Aunty Raziah in full jewellery So much for Taib's claims that his family do not do business in Sarawak and that Jamilah is only involved in passive investments with her 84 companies in the state. Perhaps she is too busy shopping to actually control her business interests, but we venture to suggest that the controller is her Daddy Taib Mahmud and the chief office boy is her husband Sean Murray.  Fur and jewels – Jamilah always finds occasions to dress up! We will bring more from the Ottawa archives – keep reading Sarawak Report. Sign up to receive regular updates from Sarawak Report |
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