KUALA LUMPUR, Oct thirteen A former federal apportion told a High Court currently which it was "normal" for a Cabinet to change a decisions upon any vital land purchase, saying he did not find a government's dithering upon a RM1.088 billion land buy for a scandal-hit Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) plan as odd.
Senator Datuk Seri Mohd Effendi Norwawi, who was agriculture apportion from 1999 to 2004, told a intrigue trial of Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik which a Cabinet had upon October 2, 2002, after a weekly assembly agreed to buy a pronounced land.
But when asked by deputy open prosecutor Manoj Kurup whether a government went forward with a purchase, Mohd Effendi pronounced there were "some" delays.
He pronounced Cabinet had upon October 9, 2002 postponed a squeeze pending a Finance Ministry's display of a inform from a Attorney-General's chambers.
"There was postponement because it needed serve study," he said.
"But a budding apportion (or minister) can come back a subsequent week and replenish any preference formed upon advice from other officials, in this box a MoF (Finance Ministry)."
Mohd Effendi pronounced a Cabinet had usually later decided upon a squeeze upon Nov 6, 2002.
Retired senior Transport Ministry central Datuk Seri Zakaria Bahari testified which upon Sep 15, 2002 Dr Ling had approved a squeeze for a PKFZ plan before a Cabinet's preference was out in black and white.
He pronounced Dr Ling approved a sale-and-purchase agreement (SPA) to buy 1,000 acres of Pulau Indah land from owners Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) immediately after a Cabinet assembly upon Nov 6, 2002.
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