Antara Dua Darjat

Antara Kartika & Mirzan? Antara judi ekor, kuda longkang & perjudian sukan?

Si Kartika peminum arak akhirnya dihukum dengan hukuman ’maha berat lagi hebat’ iaitu melakukan kerja-kerja sukarela walaupun dalam masa yang sama Si Mirzan dibenarkan menerajui konglomerat arak Filipina. Si pengusaha kedai game judi dibenteras habis-habisan DBI tapi dalam masa yang sama ’proposal’ Berjaya Group untuk menyediakan kemudahan perjudian sukan akan dipertimbangkan dengan sewajarnya.

Semua di atas haram hukumnya walau bagaimanapun kita melihatnya atau mendarjatkannya. Itu yang Ustaz aku kata dulu. Ustaz tu pun dah arwah tak taulah kalau Ustaz2 sekarang ni kata haram tapi darjat ada rendah, ada tinggi pulak?

Kata Mirzan everything is about business. Dengan pembelian saham bernilai lebih RM2.9 billion, sememangnya ianya business yang akan menguntungkan. Tambahan pulak beer dan seangkatan dengannya dah jadi minuman ruji puak2 kat Filipina sana. Tapi kata Ustaz aku lagi, tak kiralah apa pun business, untung banyak mana pun, babi tetap babi, arak tetap arak dan anything in between i.e. pemandu van, pemotong dagingnya, pecacai pengangkat botol, pembeli, pengguna semuanya ada share dosa. Inikan pulak Tuan Director. Tu Ustaz aku la yang kata. Tak tau la pulak kalau Ustaz2 sekarang ni kata haram tapi darjat ada rendah, ada tinggi pulak? (Macam pernah kudengar ayat ini tadi!)

CADANGAN

Baru2 ni heboh cerita proposal Berjaya Group dan Najib dalam nada yang malu2 cipan mengiyakan untuk mempertimbangkan secara mendalam cadangan tersebut. Betul, pendapatan yang diraih dari perjudian ini tak ternilai hasilnya. Banyak kerajaan dapat duit nanti lagipun RM160 juta kena keluar very soon untuk bailout Maika Holdings (dan dalam masa yang sama ambil hati pengundi2 India Hulu Selangor yang seramai 17% tu). Bayangkanlah RM850 juta sehari duit bertukar tangan hasil dari perjudian yang telah dihalalkan oleh kerajaan (Tu belum masuk lagi kuda longkang, judi game, dsbg yang belum dihalalkan dan dianggarkan juga bernilai ratusan juta ringgit sehari). Kalau masuk musim2 World Cup ni jangan ceritalah. Mungkin itu yang nampak di mata Berjaya Group dan sebahagian pemimpin2 kita.

Soalan: Kemana kita nak dibawak ni yop? Udah2 le tu.

P/s – Posting di atas ditujukan kepada aku sendiri sebab masa sekolah2 dulu pernah menang RM20 ringgit betting bola. Kaya aku masa tu ..

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Mirzan says San Miguel stake is just business

The Malaysian Insider: 13 Sept. 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Mirzan Mahathir has defended his investment group’s stake in Philippines conglomerate San Miguel Corp (SMC), saying the company was well on the way to diversifying substantially from its brewery business.

In a letter to The Malaysian Insider yesterday, Mirzan said San Miguel Corp had decided to shift its attention to the infrastructure, public utility and energy requirements of the Philippines, from its core brewery business. “Since Kirin Holdings of Japan acquired a significant direct ownership stake in the brewery division, this will result in a dramatic change in SMC’s revenue mix, with beverages expected to contribute less than 15% of total sales by next year,” he said in the letter.

The Malaysian Insider had reported this week that Mirzan, the eldest son of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was recently appointed to the board of San Miguel Corp, the biggest food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines and the owner of San Miguel Brewery Inc. San Miguel Brewery controls 95 per cent of the Philippine beer market. The company has made San Miguel Beer for more than a century. The beer is brewed in the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, and is sold in 60 markets worldwide, according to the company’s Web site.

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Sports betting to become legal in Malaysia in time for World Cup?

BetAsia: 24 Mar 2010

Sports betting in Malaysia may be legalized in time for the World Cup this summer if the Berjaya Group, a major Malaysian conglomerate with interests in gaming, is successful in their government application to operate sports betting activities throughout the country. The Berjaya Group unsuccessfully lobbied the government to make sports betting legal back in 2004, but since then sports betting has gained widespread acceptance in neighbouring country Singapore, giving optimism to applicants that the government may have a rethink. While the Berjaya Group's second attempt to legalize sports betting in Malaysia is likely to be controversial with several sectors of society, there are many who think it should be allowed and taxed by the government, given that many Malaysians are already betting illegally on sports.

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"It will likely divert money from illegal football betting. It will also take some of the gaming market share lost to Singapore with the opening of its first casino recently," said an industry observer, according to a report on Asia One News. In a 2006 report, Mayban Securities estimated that the value of daily legal gaming in Malaysia was RM850 million, with illegal gambling estimated at around the same.