PKFZ: Legal advisor says she was ignored

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 The Port Klang Authority (PKA) did not find a warn of a authorised confidant per a Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) land dealings, a High Court here listened today.

Fazilah Surkisah Mohammad, a former PKA authorised advisor, told Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik's swindle hearing she was not asked to investigate a authorised implications of shopping 1,000 acres of Pulau Indah land from Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB).

This was notwithstanding her being present during multiform house meetings, including one upon October 4, 2001 where directors discussed problems in acquiring a land underneath Section 3(1) of a Land Acquisition Act.

PKA had creatively been educated by a Finance Ministry to acquire a land before reception a Cabinet's go-ahead to squeeze it.

Fazilah, who additionally minuted a meetings, additionally pronounced her breeze minutes would initial have to be green-lighted by PKA ubiquitous physical education instructor Datin Paduka OC Phang before being issued.

"I will send a breeze of a minutes to a ubiquitous physical education instructor first. Then usually when she okays everything, I will send," she said.

She added which she had not seen any land valuation reports from a government's Valuation as well as Property Services Department (JPPH) throughout her use as authorised confidant as well as secretary.

Former MCA president Dr Ling was charged in July final year with knowingly mean action a Cabinet in to commendatory a land squeeze for a PKFZ transshipment megahub, which resulted in wrongful waste for a government.

The prosecution has argued which a one more seductiveness of 7.5 per cent per annum, amounting to a little RM720 million, had pushed PKA's land squeeze from RM1.088 billion to RM1.88 billion for a port project.

This was notwithstanding knowing which JPPH had already taken a seductiveness in to comment when it valued a lan! d during RM25 per square foot.

Dr Ling, a former ride minister, additionally faces dual pick charges of mean action Cabinet in to desiring which a squeeze during RM25 psf as well as a 7.5 per cent seductiveness rate were concurred as well as concluded to by JPPH notwithstanding knowing which there was no such agreement.

The veteran statesman faces up to 7 years' jail as well as a fine if convicted of a principal assign underneath section 418 of a Penal Code.

Dr Ling's hearing resumes after this afternoon.

The Malaysian Insider :: Malaysia

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