Thursday September 30, 2010
Unico shareholders query loan to directorKUALA LUMPUR: A group of Unico Holdings Bhd minority shareholders is questioning a loan of 10 million yuan given by a fully-owned subsidiary in Shanghai to its own director.
They plan to seek advice from the Companies Commission of Malaysia and take court action.
“Under the Malaysian Companies Act 1965, loans to directors are prohibited,” said Koh King Kee who represented the group in a press conference yesterday.
He said that in a reply to his query regarding the loan, Unico’s chairman claimed that the company had been advised by counsel that the Act did not possess extra territorial effect so as to apply and bind foreign companies, and any lending made by a foreign company to its own directors falls outside the purview of the Act.
The chairman also claimed that the company did not extend any loan to the director and the 10 million yuan was paid directly by its Shanghai subsidiary to the Chinese authorities as earnest money to secure a project.
— The Star Online
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September 29, 2010 22:09 PM
Unico Shareholders Question Loan Given By Subsidiary Firm To Director
A group of Unico Holdings Bhd minority shareholders is questioning a loan of 10 million renmimbi given by a fully-owned subsidiary in Shanghai to its own director.
They plan to seek advice from the Companies Commission of Malaysia and take court action.
"Under the Malaysian Companies Act 1965, loans to directors are prohibited," said Koh King Kee who represented the group in a press conference on Wednesday.
He said that in a reply to his query regarding the loan, Unico's chairman claimed that the company had been advised by counsel that the Act does not possess extra territorial effect so as to apply and bind foreign companies, and any lending made by a foreign company to its own directors falls outside the purview of the Act.
The chairman also claimed that the company did not extend any loan to the director and the 10 million renmimbi was paid directly by its Shanghai subsidiary to the Chinese authorities as earnest money to secure a project.
Koh refuted this by showing to reporters a resolution dated 2007 by Shanghai Orchid Garden Development Company Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Unico, approving a loan of 10 million remimbi for a project of the director for a tentative period of six months.
A signatory to the resolution, Tan Kai Hee, was present at the press conference
Koh said that since Unico had no initial interest in the project, it was not justifiable for the company to pay earnest money to the Chinese authorities.
Subsequent events revealed that a project company in China was later formed with the director and his partners as directors and shareholders, he added.
-- BERNAMA
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