Audit all Tuns, says Dr M

Dr Mahathir indicted Abdullah (right) of carrying mislaid more income than he did. Reuters pic

PUTRAJAYA, Feb twenty-nine Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad invited a supervision currently to make a full review upon all Tuns after DAP parliamentary personality Lim Kit Siang claimed taxpayers mislaid RM100 billion in monetary scandals during a formers 22 years in charge.

Dr Mahathirs policies have been a theme of inspection in recent weeks, after a Najib administration decided to settle out-of-court a RM589 million debt due by former Malaysia Airline System Bhd (MAS) chief Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli.

The former budding minister, who was in power from 1981 to 2003, told reporters currently he would accept such an review upon his administration.

But all Tuns must be audited. The sons as good as grandsons of Tuns as well, he pronounced in an strong anxiety to his inheritor Tun Abdullah Badawi.

Dr Mahathir has repeatedly criticised Abdullah given 2005, accusing a latter of nepotism by permitting Khairy Jamaluddin, Abdullahs son-in-law, to swing power in a budding ministers bureau as good as permitting corruption to get to a indicate of no return.

Lim had final week called upon Putrajaya to proceed a full review upon a billions in losses it incurred from monetary scandals during Dr Mahathirs tenure.

The DAP parliamentary personality pronounced such inspection was indispensable as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak does not crop up to have schooled lessons from a scandals which occurred during Dr Mahathirs 22-year rule, which he asserted cost a nation a little RM100 billion.

He cited Putrajayas pierce to settle out-of-court with Tajudin as an example of how a sovereign bailouts of companies have not abated underneath Najib.

The settlement sum was undisclosed, prompting heated open criticism as good as calls from lawmakers across a domestic order for taxpayers to kn! ow how m uch open funds had been recovered.

Dr Mahathir has admitted which a 2001 bailout of MAS had led to a loss of open funds but shielded a pierce as required to turn around a ailing dwindle carrier.

This was despite a supervision forking RM1.8 billion when it paid more than twice a market value to buy out Tajudin, paying RM 8 per share instead of a RM3.68 they had been trading for.

But Dr Mahathir also forked out Putrajaya has upon most occasions mislaid taxpayers income as good as indicted a media of being selective in focusing upon a MAS-Tajudin Ramli saga.

The supervision mislaid income when it cancelled a double-tracking as good as electrification between Ipoh as good as Padang Besar. We mislaid about RM8 billion, he pronounced of a plan which was shelved by his Abdullah.

The rail plan was eventually revived in 2007.