Pelaburan Hartanah Bhd appoints new group MD and CEO

PETALING JAYA (Jan 4): Pelaburan Hartanah Bhd (PHB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yayasan Amanah Hartanah Bumiputera, has appointed Datuk Mahmud Fauzi Muda (pictured) as its new group managing director and CEO with effect from Jan 1.

This follows the retirement of the company’s former group managing director and CEO Datuk Kamalul Arifin Othman, who served his full contract term until his retirement on Dec 31, 2018.

“PHB would like to thank Datuk Kamalul Arifin for his long service and valuable contribution to PHB,” the company announced today.

Mahmud Fauzi was formerly PHB’s chief operating officer and has been leading PHB’s operations since January 2007.

Mahmud Fauzi has close to 30 years of experience in the property industry, both in property investment and property development. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Real Estate Management from the University of Reading, UK and received executive education at INSEAD Singapore.

Prior to serving in PHB, he was attached to Khazanah Nasional as senior vice-president. He was a general manager in the property division of Golden Hope Plantations Bhd (now part of Sime Darby Group) as well as general manager at property development company, Island & Peninsular Bhd, prior to Khazanah Nasional.

PHB sponsors Amanah Hartanah Bumiputera (AHB), a shariah-compliant unit trust fund backed by real-estate for Bumiputera investors. The fund was launched in November 2010.

PHB currently owns 22 commercial buildings comprising office towers, retail malls, private hospitals as well as an industrial warehouse in the Klang Valley, Penang, Johor and Melaka totalling approximately 7.4 million sq ft in lettable area.

It is also undertaking several property development projects involving office towers and a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur, as well as a new retail mall in Kuala Terengganu.

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Priests Produced Child Pornography on Church Property, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report States

By GLENN FLEISHMAN 

August 14, 2018

Among the horrific revelations of a 1,356-page Pennsylvania grand jury reportthat found more than 1,000 identifiable child victims were abused by over 300 Catholic priests, one stands out starkly: Priests allegedly used church property to produce child pornography.

With one priest, George Zirwas, the grand jury says his diocese knew of complaints starting in 1987 that he purportedly sexually abused children. Zirwas was shuffled among positions until he was placed on “personal leave” in 1995, which lasted until he was murdered in Havana, Cuba, in May 2001. The report claims Zirwas and three other priests created child pornography in parishes and rectories using whips, violence, and sadism while raping their victims.

The three other priests were later charged in 1988 with the sexual assault of two altar boys. One pleaded guilty and the other was found guilty and both sentenced to years in prison; the third evaded charges due to a statute of limitation expiration.

In another case, a priest admitted in testimony before the grand jury that he had seen photos in 1980 of another priest, David Soderlund, sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy, and reported it to his superiors. Soderlund was removed briefly from the ministry, then returned for several years until he was put on administrative leave in 1989. Soderlund wasn’t dismissed until 2005.

According to the grand jury report, diocese records state that the church negotiated with law enforcement to avoid prosecution. Soderlund was arrested, convicted, and sentenced for possession of sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography in 2009 in Wyoming.

A number of priests cited in the report were found by church and civil authorities in possession of child pornography as well. In 2004, a priest ordained in 1974, Ronald Yarrosh, was found with a “tremendous amount” of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to possession and an unrelated act of embezzlement, but the church didn’t expel him until 2007, after a subsequent parole violation led him back to prison.

In 1981, Erie Diocese priest Robert F. Bower was found to have collected child pornography, but one of the four diocesan workers who reported it to a priest in church was fired. She, the priest’s secretary, and another co-worker retained the material in case it could be used in the future. When Bower was charged with possession of child pornography, the women took the material to the police, but the material was destroyed without additional charges being filed. The original charges against the priest were dropped because of mishandling of evidence.

The grand jury report issued its findings based on two years of examination of approximately 500,000 pages of documents from Catholic regions, known as dioceses, that cover 54 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, as well as the testimony of dozens of witnesses. The report’s statements derive from what were often secret Church records, as well as witnesses, and over a dozen priests accused, most of whom admitted their abuse. Most of the alleged crimes have exceeded statutes of limitations to bring charges.

The U.S. Catholic church has spent and committed to spending nearly $4 billion in settlements and court awards relating to sexual abuse cases involving priests and other church officials over the last 65 years, according to a 2014 report; most of those payments came in recent years. Some dioceses have filed for bankruptcy protection, however, and avoided paying out some judgements.