Marshal rubbishes De Graaff report

He came close to calling the probe an abuse of taxpayers' funds. He said he was called before the task team and made a 30-minute powerpoint presentation and addressed the team for more than 1 hour 30 minutes. He also submitted several documents to the task team. "I am horrified that even though these documents show bad decisions by the board and how consultants cost BMC hundreds of millions, they appear nowhere on the task team report.

The task team only highlights problems in cattle procurement and the Direct Cattle Purchase (DCP) programme," Marshal told the Reatile Parliamentary Special Select Committee investigating the collapse of the BMC and the cattle industry yesterday.  He was appearing for a second day after his first appearance last Thursday.