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Monday, July 14, 2008

LOSING RM350M Just on Some PROTON Whims?

This feature in malaysiakini should qualify as the financial blooper of the decade:
"Agusta: Proton sells for RM5, Harley buys for RM350 mil"
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/86056

I wonder how our whizz kids made the decision to give away the company for free after having spent more than RM368m to purchase the company in 2004.
Within 2 years the Proton board decided to write off the entire investment.

Who is going to awswer the tough questions as to how this came about and who were the consultants?
I know most Malaysians feel that Proton as a car is hadly giving them a good ride but this multi-million write-off is really taking us all for a very expensive ride.

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