KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10, 2009): Police today questioned Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) turnkey contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd’s chief executive officer Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing for four hours as part of a probe into alleged overbilling in connection with the RM4.6 billion project. Tiong arrived at the federal commercial crimes investigations department... »
Archive for September, 2009
Will Najib’s super task force on PKFZ scandal be a super “cover-up” task force to try to “get the cat back into the bag”?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
I am taken aback by the announcement by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak of the Cabinet decision yesterday to set up a super task force, headed by Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, to investigate the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. Why didn’t the Cabinet establish a... »
For whom the bell tolls
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Embattled MCA president and Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat takes time off party politics and the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) probe to tell R. Nadeswaran and Terence Fernandez that the two issues are indeed related. Ong: Well, I see our two investigative journalists are here! theSun: This is the longest story... »
Ong: PKFZ task force shows govt commitment
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10, 2009): Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat says the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) super task force is an expansion of the government’s drive to end the multi-billion ringgit fiasco. “It is an expansion of the Transport Ministry’s work since last October through the Port Klang Authority (PKA) and... »
Tee Keat lodges second police report against Tiong
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
PETALING JAYA (Sept 9, 2009) : Transport Minister and MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat today lodged a second police report against Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing for odging a false police report against him. In a statement published in his blog (www.ongteekeat.net) today,... »
Can Tsu Koon do what Tee Keat has failed – getting Cabinet approval for a RCI into the RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I welcome the support given by the Gerakan President and Minister for KPI, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the “mother” of all scandals – RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. This is the first time since the long sorry saga of the PKFZ scandal, which... »
Tee Keat braces for his Waterloo
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
PUTRAJAYA (Sept 8, 2009): Factors from within and outside the government and MCA have been throwing a spanner in the works to derail the probe on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) fiasco. Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat As the cabinet tomorrow receives the report of the task force investigating the scandal, Transport Minister... »
PKFZ scandal: Chan bypassed cabinet
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
PETALING JAYA (Sept 8, 2009): Former transport minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy is said to have bypassed the cabinet and sought approvals for projects related to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) directly from the prime minister. This breached a directive by the cabinet secretary. Besides, he is alleged to have also ignored... »
MACC wrapping up probe on Tee Keat
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
PETALING JAYA (Sept 6, 2009): MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed says the MACC is wrapping up the probe on MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat following allegations of him receiving RM10 million from Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd’s CEO Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing. “The investigations are in the final stages... »
‘Conspiracy’ against PKA
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
PETALING JAYA (Sept 6, 2009): The cabinet will be told on Wednesday that several parties, including former Port Klang Authority (PKA) general manager Datin Paduka O.C. Phang and turnkey contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB), were named as “possible conspirators” who have harmed or injured PKA in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.... »