KUALA LUMPUR: Any legal action taken by businessman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing against Transparency International will just remind the people that he was a major beneficiary of a huge corruption scandal, DAP publicity secretary Teresa Kok said.
The Selangor senior exco member said the Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd CEO’s threat to sue Transparency International Malaysia and its president Datuk Paul Low was an act of desperation to intimidate the non-partisan corruption watchdog.
“I wonder what it is about the report that unnerved Tiong so much that he had to use his millions to try to cow a corruption watchdog,” she said in her blog.
She was commenting on Tiong’s statement that he planned to sue TI and Low because of references made to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue in its Global Corruption Report 2009.
“Was it the statement that declared PKFZ to be the biggest scandal of the year, causing a loss to taxpayers of at least RM4.6bil?
“Was it the statement that Kuala Dimensi, of which Tiong is the CEO, had sold the land for PKFZ to Port Klang Authority (PKA) in 2002 for RM1.8bil, after having purchased it for a mere RM95mil just three years earlier from Pulau Lumut Development Cooperative Bhd?” Kok said.
She also questioned whether it was the statement that identified Kuala Dimensi as the private company that was subsequently given the contract to develop the PKFZ.
“Or was it the statement that the costs of development had risen from an estimated RM1.1bil to RM4.7bil and that these increased costs did not have the necessary approval from government agencies?” she added.
Kok commended Low and his team for continuously monitoring corruption in Malaysia, including that of the PKFZ scandal.
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