Dateline 2014-04-04, The Malaysian Insider:
The founding chairman and chief executive of Petronas yesterday lamented that Putrajaya has been treating the leading oil and gas company as a cash cow, especially in bailing out government-linked outfits of financial trouble.
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, or Ku Li, said since its inception in 1974 and until 2011, Petronas paid the government RM529 billion in dividends, taxes, petroleum proceeds and export duties.
He said the reliance of Petronas to help government-linked outfits out of financial trouble had been going on since 1985.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 