Dr Ling is said to have played no partial in essay or drafting a minute in question. record pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept fourteen At Tun Dr Ling Liong Siks cheating trial today, a spotlight fell upon a three-page minute he signed as well as sent to a afterwards budding apportion in 2002 that appeared to set a result of a right away scandal-tainted Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.
A former senior transport ministry official revealed currently that Dr Ling, afterwards a apportion in assign of a pier project, had played no partial in essay or even drafting a letter, which had been heavily revised upon sure contribution that have been right away being disputed.
Datuk Zaharaah Shaari, who was a Ministry of Transports (MoT) secretary-general during that time as well as was tasked with scheming a letter, told a High Court her ex-boss had review a minute antiquated Apr 3, 2002 to which he affixed his signature, but was not involved in essay or drafting its contents.
She admitted, after persistent questioning by Dr Lings lawyer, Wong Kian Kheong, that she had made multiform corrections to an original breeze by former Port Klang Authority (PKA) chief Datin O.C. Phang.
The biggest legislative addition we recollect was to divide five, she told a High Court, referring to a lengthy reason over a problem of obtaining a compulsory 1,000 acres of land from Pulau Indah property owner Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) for a plan that was to turn Port Klang in to a mega distribution hub.
Then Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was asked to reconsider a proposal for approach squeeze from KDSB after a land price was renegotiated.
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