Ever listened to BFM’s Business Grill?
It’s often done live and sometime you can hear the “grilled” squirming in
discomfort.
This morning it was FGV’s group president and CEO Dr
Mohammed Emir Mavani Abdullah “appearing” and my God, it was a good grilling.
Of course, it was on no other but FGV’s proposed purchase of plantation assets from
Peter Sondakh’s Rajawali Group in Indonesia.
Among the questions asked by (I think it was) Huang were:
Why FGV paid an over the top 23% downpayment:
FGV wanted to show its seriousness.
Is FGV overpaying?
Landbank
Is FGV overpaying again having done so in earlier M&A?
Landbank
Rajawali’s landbank is 1/3 planted, while the rest is
unplanted nor without permit?
Landbank
Why did EPF sell of its shares to become a minority? Does it
not believe in the vision / strategy of FGV?
FGV is a long term investment
I am paraphrasing, of course, and it would be better to wait
for the podcast to come out.
The way Emir was answering the questions asked were not
exactly suited to the Breakfast grill style.
He was going in a roundabout way of getting to his point of
contention and the host had to interject quite frequently in order to get to
the crux of his answer.
It sure made him looked “grilled”, really.
Why should we care if FGV is overpaying in its venture?
We should.
There’s just way too much hanky panky going on in this
country where our “guardians” are concerned…
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