10 implicated in PAC's probe of PKFZ
More than 10 senior officials and ex-ministers will be implicated in the Public Accounts Committee's report on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) multi-billion ringgit fiasco to be tabled in Parliament tomorrow.
PAC member and DAP National Publicity Secretary Tony Pua told reporters in the Parliament lobby today that PAC knows the Cabinet received a report on PKFZ and that "many ministers are accountable because no action was taken based on the report".
"However, there are one or two (ex) ministers who had heavier and specific responsibilities to act and did not," Pua said referring to the "leaked" cabinet papers on the PKFZ showing that the government was aware of all the problems.
Declining to name the officials, he told reporters to wait for the report to be tabled first. "We hope that stern and swift action are taken by the government so that such wastage of public funds will not recur," he said.
It was earlier reported that a former transport minister was named for alleged criminal breach of trust, as were senior civil servants from the ministry and the Port Klang Authority (PKA), most of whom have retired since.
Several members of the PKA’s board of directors were also named in the report.
The findings, said to be between 15 pages and 20 pages long, alleges the project had breached several guidelines listed by the Treasury in 2001 and that the evidence of overbilling by PKFZ turnkey developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd were consistent with those revealed by a task force set up by the Transport Ministry to probe the project - Agencies.
PAC member and DAP National Publicity Secretary Tony Pua told reporters in the Parliament lobby today that PAC knows the Cabinet received a report on PKFZ and that "many ministers are accountable because no action was taken based on the report".
"However, there are one or two (ex) ministers who had heavier and specific responsibilities to act and did not," Pua said referring to the "leaked" cabinet papers on the PKFZ showing that the government was aware of all the problems.
Declining to name the officials, he told reporters to wait for the report to be tabled first. "We hope that stern and swift action are taken by the government so that such wastage of public funds will not recur," he said.
It was earlier reported that a former transport minister was named for alleged criminal breach of trust, as were senior civil servants from the ministry and the Port Klang Authority (PKA), most of whom have retired since.
Several members of the PKA’s board of directors were also named in the report.
The findings, said to be between 15 pages and 20 pages long, alleges the project had breached several guidelines listed by the Treasury in 2001 and that the evidence of overbilling by PKFZ turnkey developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd were consistent with those revealed by a task force set up by the Transport Ministry to probe the project - Agencies.
