BIG DOG
The past few years, Bahsir is a major ‘pain-in’the-arse’ for Fernandes
to bulldoze his way around in the low cost airline business. Now that
Fernandes has his feet in a Khazanah controlled GLC as a ‘joint
operator’, it is believed that Fernandes is now using this new found
clout within Khazanah to unseat Bashir.
Its no mystery how Fernandes can achieve this, even without Khazanah’s
full support. Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak’s blue
eyed boy Omar Ong is in the BOD of AirAsia, along with veteran MITI
Minister Tan Sri Rafidah Ahmad. Probably personalities like CIMB
Managing Director Dato’ Seri Nazir Tun Razak, who is personally close to
Fernandes and was the ‘adviser and deal maker’ to the Malaysia
Airlines-AirAsia ‘share swap’ deal in August could play substantive role
in the ‘removal of Bashir’.
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