KUALA LUMPUR: Senator Datuk Seri Zurainah Musa confirmed that her tenure as chairman of the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation (Finas) has been shortened by the Ministry of Communications and Digital.
Zurainah in a statement today said she had received a letter on the shortening of her term in office from the Office of the Minister of Communications and Digital, Fahmi Fadzil, and it was in line with the minister's authority under Section 4 (2) of the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation Act 1981.
"As the new Minister, this matter is his prerogative and I understand that as the new leader in the ministry, he will have his own vision and way of working, and needs the support of his own team members," she said.
Zurainah also explained that the move by the ministry to shorten her tenure had nothing to do with the accusations by certain quarters that there was misappropriation of Finas funds.
Last week, the local media reported former Finas Corporation member Datuk Seri Eizlan Yusof as claiming that the action of shortening Zurainah's tenure was related to the issue of misappropriation of funds for the Ghost Exhibition project organised by the Film Directors Association of Malaysia (FDAM).
