INTERVIEW Politics aside, can the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) turn things around to make the cattle-rearing project work? Probably not, said PKR chief of strategy Rafizi Ramli.

Interviewed by Malaysiakini last week, Rafizi, who is a qualified chartered accountant, said that the bare economics of the project suggest that it was "doomed from the very beginning".

Already facing a lawsuit by cabinet minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, whose family owns NFC, Rafizi even went as far as suggesting that the family knew that it was never going to succeed, but used it for "seed money" for other businesses...