Malaysian Goverment support for the halal trade & Yassin Al-Kadi

I have recently written about the The halal trade in Australia and terrorist financing (http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/01/the_halal_trade.html)

In that story I wrote:

Yasser Soliman is also chairman and a shareholder  of International Halal Management Pty Ltd(Ilham), an Australian incorporated company that “focuses on the promotion of the halal industry in Australia.”( http://www.ilhamaustralia.com.au).

Ilham’s main shareholder and CEO is Zulfikar Mohamaed Shariff, who was previously marketing manager for the Muslim Community Co-Operative Australia(MCCA), which continues to be headed by the SDGT Yassin Al-Kadi’s business associate, Dr Rahim Ghouse.

The MCCA  provides financial support for at least some of Ilham's activities(see http://www.ilhamaustralia.com.au/?id=activities&product_id=1)

Zulfikar featured prominently in the case of another company linked to Al-Kadi and Ghouse, Commercial IBT Pty Ltd (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2006/1754286.htm).

It can now be shown that International Halal Management Pty Ltd's email services are hosted on the server of the Malaysian Student Department(MSD)  Australia (www.msdaustralia.org) a Malaysian Government department  that has responsibility for the welfare of Malay-Muslims Malaysian students attending tertiary institutions outside the country. MSDs are to be found in most major cities around the world,and serve also as outposts for the Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation(MEIO).

Evidence of  International Halal Management Pty Ltd's emails services being run out of the the MSD Australia server was obtained  from the responses  to  a number of queries  sent recently to Zulfikar Mohamaed Shariff.

The responses obtained were in the following form: 

This is the Postfix program at host msdaustralia.org.au.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

                       The Postfix program

<zulfikar@ilhamaustralia.com.au>: host
   mail.ilhamaustralia.com.au[66.97.171.134] said: 550 Error: Please remove
   malicious html codes first. (in reply to end of DATA command)

Numerous queries asking for clarification sent Hj Musa Mansor , director of the MSD Australia,and the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia have been ignored. Hj Musa Mansor did however respond to the first few  queries sent him;  first denying the matter,then when the record above was sent him, feigning ignorance.

This is not the first occasion in which a Malaysian Government department has provided services to a company linked to associates of the SGDT Shiek Yassin Al-Kadi.

As mentioned before, a key associate of  Shiek Yassin Al-Kadi in Malaysia is  Wan Hasni Wan Sulaiman

(see for example http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2006/1754286.htm)

Up until sometime in  April 2003, Wan Hasni Wan Sulaiman and another,
Satria Suetoh (formerly  also of Al-Kadi's  Abrar) together held the entire paid-up capital of One Capital (HK) Ltd-formerly known as Global Capital (HK) Ltd,  a company registered in Hong Kong. In April 2003 both men transferred their shares to two Hong Kong nationals, but primarily to  a Cheung Chi Fun. According to a Dun and Bradstreet report ,  Cheung Chi Fun was  among the
directors of Global Capital Holding AG , registered in Kanton Zug,Switzerland.The company has since been liquidated.

Not much is known about this company, except from another Malaysian and former director of other Abrar linked companies,  Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

In August 2003, THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE, reported:

THE opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (Pas) is often associated with
greying ulama - Islamic religious scholars - who promote a narrow
brand of Islamic teachings.

Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, director of the Pas Research Centre - the party's
think-tank - in Kuala Lumpur does not fit that mould.

He also works as an adviser to Global Capital Holding, an offshore fund-management company incorporated in Switzerland which uses Islamic investment principles.

'That's where I earn my bread and butter,' he said, adding that his positions in Pas do not pay the bills except for 'expenses on petrol and parking fees'.

It should be noted that the company's name , Global Capital Holding, fits the mould of that of two other companies in which Yassin Al-Kadi is known to be involved: Global Chemicals (see story by Glen Simpson, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21) and  Global Diamond Resources (www.secinfo.com/dSq2u.66m.htm )

Queries were emailed  One Capital concerning their business in Malaysia,
and these were answered by a junior employee. A check with MyNIC, the
Malaysian Internet registry of the  IP number  on the email received in
response from One Capital showed the IP number to be registered in the
name of the  Malaysian Foundation for the Propagation of the Islamic Faith
or Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia (YADIM).

YADIM is a Malaysian Government sponsored body formed in 1974 to act as an
umbrella body for all Islamic evangelism bodies in Malaysia. It also
reports to the Office of the Prime Minister, as does  the MEIO.