Jamilah Taib Murray
Jamilah Taib Murray (born 19 September 1960, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is a Malaysian-Canadian real estate developer, and one of the richest women in Canada. She attended Elmwood School (Ottawa), and started her flagship company, Sakto Corporation, in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1983, with funds from her father, Abdul Taib Mahmud, a politician in Sarawak, Malaysia.
After a quarter century of uninterrupted investment and growth, in 2007 Sakto Corporation consolidated its real estate holdings in Ottawa, completing the four-phase Preston Square development in Ottawa, which the ZWGroup of Companies has estimated to be valued at $120 million.[1]
As an individual, Jamilah Taib Murray owns 134,775,306 shares in Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad, a publicly traded infrastructure company headquartered in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.[2]This represents 12.45% of the company, with a value of approximately $144 million.
Jamilah Taib Murray, along with her siblings, is a shareholder in Sitehost Pty, which owns the Adelaide Hilton in Adelaide, Australia.[3]
Jamilah Taib Murray is also the owner of Urban Sky Investments, which has its headquarters at Preston Square, with Sean Murray acting as director.[4]Urban Sky Investments is the owner of Ridgeford Developments, a major property developer in London, England.[5]
Jamilah Taib Murray is an active philanthropist in the Ottawa area. She has served as gala patron at fundraisers for Elmwood School (Ottawa)[6]. She has also been an active supporter of the Ottawa Food bank,[7]and is a champion of the rights of girls and women, specifically in the world of business.[8]
In August 2018 Jamilah Taib Murray, her husband Sean Murray, and Sakto Corporation, applied to the Basel Civil Court (Zivilgericht Basel-Stadt) in Switzerland to obtain an injunction against the Non-governmental organization Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), named for the Swiss environmentalist Bruno Manser.[9]
The order was to remove over 1,100 infringing statements, and over 250 publications, in which BMF alleged that Jamilah Taib Murray's business success was not related to organic growth in the Ottawa real estate market, and that her significant wealth was instead derived from corruption and money laundering related to deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia.[10] Among the documents is the BMF research report Safe Haven Canada.[11]
On February 6 2019, the Basel civil court dismissed the application, citing lack of urgency, and ordered Jamilah Taib Murray, Sean Murray, and Sakto Corporation to pay 166,000 Swiss francs in damages and 20,000 Swiss francs in court costs.[12] The ruling was upheld by the Basel Court of Appeal as of May 13 2019, with an additional 13,000 Swiss francs awarded to BMF.[13]
In March 2019, freelance journalist Timothy E. Wilson, writing for Ricochet Media, reported that a Member of the Parliament of Canada, Andrew Leslie (general), had interfered on behalf of Jamilah Taib Murray in Canada's OECD National Contact Point (NCP) process.[14]
The Wednesday, June 12, 2019, edition of Hansard (which provided a record of parliamentary and legislative debate for Canada's 42nd Parliament, 1st Session) Hélène Laverdière, the Member of Parliament for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, in her capacity as the New Democratic Party Shadow Minister for International Development, asked a series of questions with regard to possible political interference into the OECD NCP process.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Preston Square Development". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "Cahya Mata Sarawak Annual Report, 2018". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ Hazis, Faisal S. (2012). Domination and Contestation: Muslim Bumiputera Politics in Sarawak. ISBN 9789814311588. Retrieved 26 August 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ "Urban Sky Investments Ltd". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "RIDGEFORD DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED (company# 08251023)". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "Elmwood Gala raises record-breaking $325K for all-girls private school in Rockcliffe". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "Food Bank Executive Director With Jamilah Taib Murray". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "The Power Of Female Leaders: Q&A With Jamilah Taib Murray". 2016-06-15. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ↑ "Ottawa real estate firm takes Malaysian rainforest campaigners to court". 2018-10-22. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ↑ "Sakto Corporation applies to Basel Civil Court for Injunction against Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds". Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ↑ "Safe Haven Canada" (PDF). Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ↑ "Taib's daughter's firm, Sakto Corp fail in bid for an injunction". Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ↑ "Taib's daughter fails again in bid for injunction against Swiss NGO". Retrieved 13 June 2019.
- ↑ "Political interference may have helped scuttle investigation of Canadian corporation". Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ↑ "42nd Parliament 1st Session Hansard Number 432". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
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