Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

Dalam perbicaraan kes Skandal Zon Bebas Pelabuhan Klang (PKFZ) yang terbaru, seorang lagi orang kenamaan yang juga bekas menteri telah terlepas daripada hukuman setelah pihak pendakwaraya mengambil keputusan untuk tidak meneruskan dakwaan mereka. Sebelum ini, seorang bekas menteri yang juga bekas pemimpin tertinggi MCA turut terlepas setelah didapati tidak bersalah oleh mahkamah. Apa sudah jadi? Pihak-pihak lain yang terlibat bagaimana? Difahamkan bahawa seorang lagi bekas kontraktor utama projek PKFZ telahpun dihantar keluar negara selepas beliau dilantik sebagai Duta Khas bagi menggalakkan pelaburan Asia ke Malaysia. Pelagai alasan yang diberikan oleh pejabat peguam negara, bukti-bukti yang tidak kukuh, tidak relevan, kurang keyakinan pihak pendakwa, kertas siasatan tidak lengkap dan sebagainya. Skandal PKFZ itu telah menyebab negara kerugian berbilion-bilion Ringgit. Adakah pejabat pendakwaraya dan peguam negara akan bertanggungjawab penuh terhadap segala kelesapan wang rakyat ...

Former MCA president and former transport minister Dr Ling Liong Sik was today acquitted the court of all charges against him in the much publicized Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal which had cost the government billions of Ringgit in losses. Then, the question here is, who is the real culprit? Why was the probe only focusing on Dr Ling and not the other parties who are also involved in the PKFZ dealings, be it directly or indirectly? The contractors, sub-contractors, as well as those minor contractors at large, business connections, other powerful people behind the scene, why weren't all these elements taken into consideration during the probe. Another former transport minister Chan Kong Choy who is also the former MCA deputy president was also reported to be part of the PKFZ deal during his tenure in the government. Why was his case yet to be heard? Perhaps the Attorney-General's Chambers had forgotten. So does the Malaysian Anti Corruption Agency (MACC). Besides Ch...

According to MCA central committee member and Port Klang Authority (PKA) chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng, the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) would go bankrupt sooner by next year if the mega project still fail to repay its loan granted by the finance ministry incorporated. Datuk Lee said ever since PKFZ had commenced operations about three years ago, the project still failed to generate any substantial income as its free zone capacity had yet to be fully occupied because the occupation in the light industrial unit is only 50 percent, and the office lots is only about 5 percent occupied, while a hotel and a multi purpose international standard convention centre are yet to be fully operational. The rest of the facilities in PKFZ are also still largely empty and remain unoccupied. According to Datuk Lee again, the cost of the project is expected to increase from the current RM1.96 billion to RM12 billion following the ineffective recovery of PKFZ. The PKFZ scandal has been dragged for decades wi...

It is no surprise that Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik, the former MCA president who is also the ex-transport minister was hauled up yesterday and charged in the court for corruption and power abuse in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) mess. If Tun Dr Ling were to be an Umno leader, will he be taken into custody and charged in the court for the same offence? We doubt so. In this PKFZ fiasco, Dr Ling could not be the sole person who mastermind the entire episode. He is not that powerful enough to authorize a multi-billion Ringgit project like this on his own. Those who are very powerful and who were also involved in this project are not arrested or charged. Why? Is Dr Ling made a scapegoat to swallow everything? What about the others, be it either from Umno or MCA. Leaders of these two major BN component parties are the key players to this failed project and it is absurd to tell the people that he is the sole and only mastermind in this scandal. If Dr Ling feel that he should not be blamed for the ...

After all the screw ups in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) by its development contractor, Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB), the Port Klang Authority (PKA) board of directors is expected to meet very soon to decide whether to pay the remaining RM700 million to KDSB. Right now, none of the members of the PKA board are committed on the payment plan and refuse to provide any indication if they would pay KDSB or otherwise. To pay or not to pay and this is a very big question mark that everyone of us are waiting to see if our nation's money will be away again just like that. And if PKA decides to pay KDSB the RM700 million, it is our people who will lose out, as those money is our hard earned cash earned from our daily work, added up and paid as income tax, etc to the government in order to serve us back in the name of public interest. That is why we call it public funds, not government funds or whatsoever BN-Umno's money. Not only the PKFZ scandal, there are more of other unresolved sca...

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 transpo...

Transparency International Malaysia (TIM) president Datuk Paul Low has decided to leave MCA to ensure his new role in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal is impartial. He explained that he had "forgotten" about his membership but "as it is highlighted out that my membership in MCA may be perceived as an impairment to my impartiality I will now initiate my resignation and thus revoking my membership of MCA." Low was appointed to head the ad-hoc committee on corporate governance, tasked with making suggestions to ensure good governance and best practices to avoid further leakages in what has gone from an RM2 billion project to a forecasted RM12.5 billion controversy. Lim Kit Siang, the DAP parliamentary leader, had mocked the anti-corruption non-governmental organisation's chief for accepting a role which could lead to a potential conflict of interest. He had pointed out that Low is an MCA life member and former chairman of an MCA think tank. In a media statem...

The Dewan Rakyat speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin yesterday rejected a motion tabled by DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang to discuss the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal reasoning that the PKFZ scandal is not one of the important issue needed to be discussed in the parliament and furthermore the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) is investigation it. We view the statement made by Tan Sri Pandikar Amin as irresponsible and he is completely out of his mind. According to the Dewan Rakyat speaker, the PKFZ scandal is not that important and need not to be discussed in the parliament. What does he mean by not important? Is he trying to say that the losses incurred from the PKFZ scandal is merely a few ringgit and cents that he could just take out from his pocket to replace it? Come on, the PKFZ scandal is a national issue, a debacle that had continue to shame our nation to disgust. Millions of ringgit of public funds had gone down to the drain just like that. Every members of p...