The pressure is mounting on Ottawa real-estate power couple
Jamilah Taib Murray, her husband Sean Murray, and their Ottawa-headquartered firm Sakto Corporation. A new government in Malaysia is facing calls to investigate Jamilah Taib Murray’s father, Taib Mahmud, and if necessary to
press criminal charges. Taib Mahmud is a
Malaysian politician who has faced decades of accusations that he accumulated
billions of dollars of ill-gotten gains by raping the rainforest in Sarawak,
Borneo, and then hiding that money in companies controlled by him and his
family.
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| Jamilah Taib Murray and Sean Murray at a gala for Elmwood School in Rockcliffe Park |
Inevitably, the pressure from Malaysia is raising the temperature
back in Canada. To date, the Canadian
courts, and even Canada’s National Contact Point for the OECD, have been either
unable or unwilling to draw back the curtain on Sakto Corporation. But as the
heat is turned up abroad it will be harder to avoid the speculation that some
of Taib’s ill-gotten gains have found their way across the Pacific.
