Manila Times pernah menyiarkan komen Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed mengenai Abdullah, kata Tun :"Abdullah always makes statements which are actually lies," and then he adding that he had "developed a habit of lying".
Sekarang ini masyarakat awam sibuk bercakap mengenai dakwaan berlakunya rasuah dan penyewelengan di Zon Bebas Pelabuhan Kelang [PKFZ]. Akhbar Straits Times Singapura edisi 13 Ogos melaporkan Lembaga Pelabuhan Klang (LPK) sedang dirundung hutang menghampiri RM5 bilion. Menurut akhbar tersebut, syarikat dimaksudkan itu ialah Kuala Dimensi yang dikaitkan dengan beberapa pemimpin UMNO. Kos asal projek berkenaan dikatakan bernilai RM1.08 bilion. Namun peningkatan kos, sebagaimana yang dilihat oleh bank dan eksekutif industri terlibat dan semakan dokumen yang dilakukan oleh akhbar Straits Times Singapura mendapati nilainya kini melonjak ke angka RM4.6 bilion. Menurut akhbar itu lagi, pegawai-pegawai kanan kerajaan menjelaskan Kabinet sudahpun bersetuju untuk menyelamatkan projek berkenaan. Bagaimanapun plan penyelamatan tersebut boleh lagi diumumkan. Antara plan tersebut dipercayai menangguhkan tarikh pembayaran kepada institusi kewangan tempatan bagi membantu LPK melangsaikan hutang berkenaan. Ini termasuklah membayar sejumlah RM510 juta kepada bank-bank pemberi pinjam terlibat pada tahun ini dan bakinya dijelaskan di antara tahun depan sehingga 2010.
Penyelewengan ini diberi perhatian serious oleh DAP. Ronnie Liu, salah seorang pemimpin DAP telah membuat laporan polis dan BPR pada tahun 2004 dan sekali pada 11 Jun lepas. Tiga persoalan yang ditimbulkan oleh Ronnie iaitu pertama, kenaikan harga kos yang melampau. Kedua, ada kepentingan politik di situ dan ketiga urusan belian tanah yang meragukan.
Saya petik terus laporan yang dibuat oleh Malaysiakini.com bagi permasalahan yang di timbulkan oleh Ronnie dalam laporannya kepada BPR :
Persoalan pertama :
PKFZ price-tag shoots up to RM4.6 billion
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Jun 23, 07 6:01pm
The price tag for the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) has shot up to an all-time high of RM4.6 billion, for which the Port Klang Authority (PKA) has to begin paying for this year by coughing up RM510 million to the seller and developer of the free zone.
This was revealed in a May 2006 report of the auditor-general on PKA for the financial year ended Dec 31, 20
05.
Based on various media reports and statements by PKA, MalaysiaKini had earlier placed the PKFZ price tag at RM2.4 billion: RM1.09 billion to acquire the 405ha of land on Pulau Indah, and at least RM1.3 billion to build it up.
However, the auditor-general report also revealed an astounding increase in the price of the purchased land - from RM1.09 billion as reported earlier to a whopping RM1.81 billion.
For that amount, eyebrows were already raised in view of the project’s questionable viability. The Selangor Freight Forwarders & Logistics Association described PKFZ as an example of a mega-project into which a lot of money, but not enough thought, was put.
Supplementary agreement
Six months after its completion, PKFZ resembles a ghost town, with only about a dozen tenants instead of the anticipated crush of clients.
The May 2004 report of the auditor-general revealed the purchase of the land to have been much higher - at RM1.81 billion (inclusive of 7.5 percent interest), an increase of RM720 million as reported earlier.
The report also said that while the development cost agreed upon in 2003 was RM519 million, this was raised to RM1.3 million following a “supplementary agreement” with the developer, Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd. The increase in development cost was not explained.
The report also said PKA then did not have sufficient financial resources to meet the RM2.9 billion obligation after having already paid an initial RM208.85 million (RM108.85 million for the purchase and RM100 million for the development of the land).
The auditor-general’s subsequent remark that PKA “informed that the financing of the project will, from the year 2007, be under the 9th Malaysia Plan or through the formation of Malaysia Ports Commission (MPC)” fueled speculations that the derelict project was slated for a major government bailout.
Industry sources, when contacted, described as “scandalous” the use of the proposed MPC - while in principal a sound idea given the need for a central national port authority - to bail out a troubled public authority such as PKA.
The auditor-general’s May 2006 report on PKA left out any mention of the MPC. He adds, however, that the Authority “is planning to obtain loans from financial institutions with the guarantee of the government of Malaysia as well as requesting grants to finance the project.” To pay from 2007 to 2017.
The auditor-general also revealed that in 2005, the development cost increased by RM1.21 billion to RM2.51 billion due to “additional development works, professional fees and interest.”
Following the payment that had already been paid by PKA to Kuala Dimensi, the balance of RM4.11 billion shall be paid from 2007 until 2017 with an annual payment ranging from RM130 million to RM733 million, reads the report.
The initial payment for the land and development amounting to RM510 million shall be paid this year.
The auditor-general also revealed that, as PKA’s liquidity at December 2005 consists of cash in bank and fixed deposits amounting to RM231.75 million and its surplus after tax was RM26.63 million, the Authority “needs to look for sources of financing to meet its capital obligation.”
Commenting on the matter today, Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang said the whole project raises a question mark on the “viability, feasibility, and integrity” of the whole project.
During a visit to the PKFZ this morning, the DAP supremo told reporters that the authorities and figures behind the project must explain its state of affairs. This, said Lim, includes the Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy and PKA chairperson Chor Chee Heung.
Both Chan and Chor have to explain how the latter’s appointment in view of Chor’s position as deputy chairperson of Wijaya Baru Global Bhd (WBGB) - which is behind the sale and development of PKFZ.
Lim also invited WBGB chief executive officer Tiong King Sing - who has claimed there is no connection between his company and Kuala Dimensi - to give a full disclosure on the matter.
MalaysiaKini had earlier reported Chor as saying the issue of conflict of interest does not arise. 'There is no connection'
According to records in the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM), Kuala Dimensi is owned by an investment holding and management firm Wijaya Baru Holdings Sdn Bhd (WBHSB).
At the same time, in WBGH’s 2006 annual report, Kuala Dimensi is listed as an “associate company” from which it derived “contract revenue”.
CCM documents show Tiong to be a director and shareholder in both WBGB and WBHSB, but he maintained that “there is no connection” between these companies either.
WBGB, WBHSB, and Kuala Dimensi occupy the same premises at Wisma Wijaya in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
In September last year, WBGB was actually slapped with a “public reprimand” by Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd for failing to make an announcement to the Exchange in relation to “the disposal of the Pulau Indah Land”.
WBGB had failed to send a circular to its shareholders pertaining to the transaction and obtaining the approval of its shareholders prior to the transaction being completed, said Bursa Malaysia Securities in a statement.
Bursa Securities said, however, that it has not found any of the WBGB directors to have caused or permitted the breach of the Bursa Securities Listing Requirements (LR) and only directed WBGH to “maintain appropriate standards of responsibility and accountability”. PKA general manager OC Phang - who is also PKFZ managing director - did not respond to requests for comments.
Rujuk :
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/69031
Persoalan Kedua :
Blood runs deep in troubled RM4.6b PKFZ
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Aug 9, 07 12:48pm
The purchase of even a modest property like a small house costing RM100,000 requires separate lawyers working on behalf of the seller and buyer, each striving to get the best deal for their own clients.
However, this was not the case with the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), as documents procured by MalaysiaKini indicate.
Those parties who were supposed to have acted either in the best interests of the buyer of PKFZ -Port Klang Authority (PKA) - or that of its seller and developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) - were, in fact, one and the same.
Consider, for example, the legal firm which had drafted the March 2004 land development agreement between PKA and Kuala Dimensi.
A pertinent question to be asked is how PKFZ - whose price tag has skyrocketed from RM2.32 billion in 2003 to the current RM4.63 billion - could be expected to come up with the best deal in the public interest when the lawyer engaged to draft the agreement works for ‘the other side.’
On legal panel
PKA could have chosen for the task of drafting the agreement lawyers that would best represent PKA’s interests (and, thereby, tax-payers’ interests) by ensuring these interests are enshrined. PKA, however, chose to appoint Rashid Asari & Co, the firm that was, and remains today, on Kuala Dimensi’s legal panel.
Abdul Rashid Asari who heads the firm did not answer calls by MalaysiaKini to his mobile.
However, an officer of Wijaya Baru Global Bhd (WBGB) - the property developer and investment firm behind the sale and development of PKFZ - made the corroboration when contacted today.
Rashid also happens to be the vice-chief of the Kapar Umno division.
Among Rashid’s fellow excos in the Kapar division is its permanent chairman Onn Ismail, who formerly headed the Pulau Lumut Development Cooperative Bhd (PLDCB).
PLDCB had, in the 1990s, sold the 1000 acres of land on which PKFZ now sits to Kuala Dimensi.
Present PLDCB chairperson Abdul Rahman Palil, who is a Selangor executive councilor and Sementa state assembly person, is the Kapar division head. Onn’s son-in-law, Faizal Abdullah is the division’s youth chief.
Faizal also happens to be the deputy-chief executive officer of WBGB
Other documents, meanwhile, suggest the conflict of interests issue (which MalaysiaKini had earlier raised in relation to PKA chairperson Chor Chee Heung who is also WBGB director) goes even deeper.
In order to monitor the development of PKFZ - as well as to be the final arbiter between PKA and Kuala Dimensi in the event of disputes over development ‘cost variations’ - an independent quantity surveyor (IQS) was to have been appointed by the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
Records of the official correspondence that occurred on the matter, however, indicate that the exercise of appointing an ‘independent’ quantity surveyor was perhaps less than genuine.
Appeal to finance minister
On Nov 3, 2003, PKA’s general manager OC Phang had written to the MOF’s procurement management division recommending that one Damansara-based Syarikat Perunding BE Sdn Bhd be appointed the project’s IQS.
What was not mentioned - but attested to in an earlier letter dated Dec 10, 2002, to Phang from Kuala Dimensi - was that this same company had been under WBGB’s employ as a development consultant for the PKFZ.
The intrigue goes deeper when, following the MOF’s rejection of her recommendation, she went on to press Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy in a letter dated Apr 7, 2004.
She requested Chan to lobby Finance Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in order to appoint Syarikat Perunding BE as the IQS.
“In view of this project’s importance, this project needs to be expedited. We respectfully request your help in appealing to the Finance Minister so that Syarikat Perunding BE is appointed as IQS for the development project on Pulau Indah,” said Phang in her letter.
“To facilitate the proper action, a copy of a draft letter to the Finance Minister is herewith attached,” reads the letter, which dutifully includes the draft letter, minus Chan’s signature, to Abdullah.
When contacted, a Syarikat Perunding BE official confirmed it is still engaged as the IQS for PKFZ.
Phang, who has previously declined to entertain questions from MalaysiaKini, did not answer calls to her mobile phone.
Persoalan ketiga :
PKFZ land sale under scrutiny
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz and Sabrina Chan
Jun 14, 07 1:10pm
Facts are now emerging that the parcel of land sold to the Port Klang Authority (PKA) for the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) for a hefty RM1.09 billion was originally bought for a much lower price.
The land - sold by Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) to PKA in November 2002 - was purchased from a local cooperative at only eight percent of the selling price.
Pulau Lumut Development Cooperative Bhd (PLDCB) had sold half of the 405-hectare land on Pulau Indah to Kuala Dimensi in the early 1990s for RM30 million, while the remaining half was sold after the 1997 financial crisis at RM65 million.
Revealing this information today, PLDCB secretary Ruslan Akhyar said the 1,400-member cooperative established in 1989 received the land from the Selangor government only “a few years” before it was approached by Kuala Dimensi with the offer to buy the land.
This means the price of the land - originally farm land and mangrove swamps - went from RM1.37 per square foot (psf) when the first half was sold to RM2.98 psf when the remaining 202.5 hectares were bought over by Kuala Dimensi.
Kuala Dimensi would have received the windfall when PKA agreed in 2002 to buy the whole lot to PKA at RM25 psf.
Both Ruslan, who is also Rantau Panjang village chief, and Pulau Indah village chief Mohd Halil Selamat - who confirmed the figures - denied any knowledge pertaining to the transactions conducted subsequent to PLDCB’s disposal of the land.
‘This is business’
They also declined to comment on the tremendous difference between the prices at which the land was bought and sold by Kuala Dimensi.
“That’s what they call business,” said Halil when contacted.
PLDCB chairperson Abdul Rahman Palil, who is a Selangor state Exco member and Sementa state assembly person, declined to comment on the matter.
According to an August 2005 Singapore Business Times report, KPA had paid Kuala Dimensi a 10 percent down payment of RM108.5 million. The rest will be paid over 10 years beginning this year in installments of between RM130 million and RM179 million.
While the connection is murky, Kuala Dimensi has been linked to property developer and investment firm Wijaya Baru Global Bhd’s (WBGB) and is described in WBGH’s 2006 annual report as an “associate company” from which it derived “contract revenue”.
In September last year, WBGB was actually slapped with a “public reprimand” by Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd for failing to make an announcement to the Exchange in relation to “the disposal of the Pulau Indah Land”.
WBGB had failed to send a circular to its shareholders pertaining to the transaction and obtaining the approval of its shareholders prior to the transaction being completed, said Bursa Malaysia Securities in a statement.
Bursa Securities said, however, that it has not found any of the WBGB directors to have caused or permitted the breach of the Bursa Securities Listing Requirements (LR) and only directed WBGH to “maintain appropriate standards of responsibility and accountability”.
Unanswered questions
DAP leader Ronnie Liu, who lodged a police report over PKA’s purchase of the land in 2004, said the information uncovered made it all the more pressing for the authority to investigate the matter.
“It shows there are some questions to be answered,” he said when contacted.
Beside selling the land on which PKFZ is situated, Kuala Dimensi was also appointed to develop the zone into a regional export and transshipment hub for manufactured goods, modeled after the successful Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai.
Six months after its completion and about RM2.4 billion worth of input later, however, PKFZ resembles a ghost town, with only about a dozen tenants scattered about the site instead of the anticipated crush of clients.
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