Zakaria Arshad and the chief financial officer (Ahmad Tifli Mohd Talha) were suspended in early June, as the world’s third-largest palm plantation group investigated transactions at a subsidiary.
The chairman of the firm, whose biggest shareholder is the state-owned Federal Land Development Authority (Felda), stepped down later in June, after the prime minister’s office urged it to tackle bigger issues of corporate governance and control.
“The ministry of finance would like Zakaria to return as FGV group president and chief executive,” FGV said in a statement.
“The domestic inquiry had been carried out with proper internal processes.”
It gave no further details.
FGV was plunged into a management crisis when its chairman (Mohd Isa Samad) asked Zakaria to step aside during a review of transactions involving Delima Oil Products Sdn Bhd and Safitex, an Afghan company.
Zakaria had extended a letter of credit for a transaction involving Delima and Safitex, a move the board felt was a breach of regular procedure, a company spokesman told Reuters.