Jamilah Taib Murray

Jamilah Taib Murray (born 19 September 1960, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is a Malaysian-Canadian real estate developer, and one of the richest women in Canada. She attended , and started her flagship company, Sakto Corporation, in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1983, with funds from her father, Abdul Taib Mahmud, a politician in Sarawak, Malaysia.
After a quarter century of uninterrupted investment and growth, in 2007 Sakto Corporation consolidated its real estate holdings in Ottawa, completing the four-phase Preston Square development in Ottawa, which the ZWGroup of Companies has estimated to be valued at $120 million.
As an individual, Jamilah Taib Murray owns 134,775,306 shares in Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad, a publicly traded infrastructure company headquartered in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.This represents 12.45% of the company, with a value of approximately $144 million.
Jamilah Taib Murray, along with her siblings, is a shareholder in Sitehost Pty, which owns the Adelaide Hilton in Adelaide, Australia.
Jamilah Taib Murray is also the owner of Urban Sky Investments, which has its headquarters at Preston Square, with Sean Murray acting as director.Urban Sky Investments is the owner of Ridgeford Developments, a major property developer in London, England.
Jamilah Taib Murray is an active philanthropist in the Ottawa area. She has served as gala patron at fundraisers for . She has also been an active supporter of the Ottawa Food bank,and is a champion of the rights of girls and women, specifically in the world of business.
In August 2018 Jamilah Taib Murray, her husband Sean Murray, and Sakto Corporation, applied to the Basel Civil Court (Zivilgericht Basel-Stadt) in Switzerland to obtain an injunction against the Non-governmental organization Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), named for the Swiss environmentalist Bruno Manser.
The order was to remove over 1,100 infringing statements, and over 250 publications, in which BMF alleged that Jamilah Taib Murray's business success was not related to organic growth in the Ottawa real estate market, and that her significant wealth was instead derived from corruption and money laundering related to deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia. Among the documents is the BMF research report Safe Haven Canada.
On February 6 2019, the Basel civil court dismissed the application, citing lack of urgency, and ordered Jamilah Taib Murray, Sean Murray, and Sakto Corporation to pay 166,000 Swiss francs in damages and 20,000 Swiss francs in court costs. The ruling was upheld by the Basel Court of Appeal as of May 13 2019, with an additional 13,000 Swiss francs awarded to BMF.
In March 2019, freelance journalist Timothy E. Wilson, writing for Ricochet Media, reported that a Member of the Parliament of Canada, , had interfered on behalf of Jamilah Taib Murray in Canada's OECD National Contact Point (NCP) process.
The Wednesday, June 12, 2019, edition of Hansard (which provided a record of parliamentary and legislative debate for Canada's 42nd Parliament, 1st Session) Hélène Laverdière, the Member of Parliament for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, in her capacity as the New Democratic Party Shadow Minister for International Development, asked a series of questions with regard to possible political interference into the OECD NCP process.

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