Cops grill PKA over RM500m claims

Officers from Bukit Aman’s commercial crime division has been interviewing Port Klang Authority (PKA) officers over alleged questionable claims made by Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn BHD (KDSB).

PKA chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng had lodged a police report against KDSB last Tuesday.

The police have been talking to PKA officials since last Friday and had also taken Lee’s statement.

“I have instructed all staff to give their full cooperation to the police,” said Lee when he met with reporters at the PKA headquarters here today.

When asked about complaints from KDSB that the special task force probing PKFZ had not approached them for clarifications during their investigation, Lee told reporters that the task force had written letters to KDSB during the investigation but received no response.

He also said that he could not give a copy of the report to KDSB as requested because the information was still classified and that all information made public so far, such as the RM500 million in questionable claims, was released with the board’s consent.

Lee had met reporters during a break from a PKA board meeting that started this morning.

The meeting agenda includes discussion of the task force report and the legality of Lee’s appointment as PKA chairman, which was questioned recently by KDSB.

“We’re only about 30 per cent through,” said Lee pointing to the seven thick bound volumes that comprise the task force report.

He said he could not reveal more without the board completing its discussion of the report and added it could take more than one meeting.

He also said that the board would decide later whether or not to lodge a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and that the MACC had requested a copy of the task force report but their request was turned down.

KDSB has been putting pressure on Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and Lee over the findings of the task force, asserting that they have not been independent in their investigations and that the questionable claims are contractual disputes.

Ong meanwhile said that KDSB is trying to divert attention from the findings and insists that investigations into the scandal hit PKFZ project will continue.


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Since the Second-Hand Corrupted body not working. Now the BN First-Hand Terminator comes to "terminate" the story. That is our beloved Bee-Ant controling the pests' story in the country

Waste time. The case will be dragged on for next 5 years and when the public has forgotten it, it will just disappear. The big guns will never be revealed or convicted, in case they too expose the numerous others involved in the endless scandals.

korek! korek! Korek! Abu pun tak dak.