KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 The High Court here dismissed today the governments bid to claim RM37 million in resources related to the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal.
Justice Datuk Ghazali Cha ruled there was no proof that the cash as well as the land belonging to 7 companies as well as dual individuals, including Bintulu MP Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing, were performed illegally.
The supervision had sought the justice sequence forfeiting the resources underneath Section 56 of the Anti-Money Laundering as well as Anti-Terrorism Financing Act.
Ghazali also ordered the supervision to return the RM32 million in cash as well as 4 plots of land to the 9 respondents.
The supervision had seized the resources between Nov 2009 as well as May 2010 before the intrigue hearing over the controversial PKFZ liaison began this year.
Tiong was then chief senior manager as well as director of PKFZ turnkey executive Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB).
He quiescent as director of KDSB as well as another PKFZ-related company Wijaya Baru Holdings in June final year.
The supervision had applied on Nov 23 final year for the resources to be sealed as well as forfeited.
Former ride ministers Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik as well as Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy were charged final year with knowingly mean action the Cabinet in propinquity to the PKFZ plan that ballooned from RM400 million in 2003 to the projected RM12.5 billion.
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