PAC chief denies scandal cover up, says MPs were no-shows


KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid has denied any try to cover up high-profile supervision scandals notwithstanding a miss of any parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meetings for 3 months, saying today that a little members did not show up for a final meeting.
"We were all busy as well as focusing upon elections. The final time I called for a assembly we had no quorum," a row arch told reporters though refused to say that of a thirteen members were absent from a assembly held in a middle of April.
The Padang Besar MP additionally denied "higher-ups" giving any orders for a row not to proceed with probing 4 controversial cases already concluded as part of PAC's bulletin as "they don't even know (about our work)."
"The PAC is non-partisan as well as we have decisions based upon what is right as well as wrong," Azmi(picture)said when asked about Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) allegation that he was told not to reason meetings as they could "have a disastrous stroke upon Barisan Nasional's (BN) chances of maintaining power."
The cases have been a National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) in that former Cabinet minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil as well as her family have been indicted of abusing a RM250 million sovereign loan, Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli's trusted out-of-court allotment with Danaharta over his RM589 million debt, 1 Malaysia Development Bhd's RM3.5 billion Petrosaudi investment as well as a cost of KLIA2 surging by RM2.2 billion to RM3.9 billion.
Azmi added that he has already destined a PAC cabinet member to organise a housekeeping assembly subsequent week though could not guarantee that a 4 cases would be upon a agenda.
"There have been so many things not done. Let a cabinet decide," he said.
But in an immediate response, DAP publicity arch Tony ! Pua told The Malaysian Insiderthe quorum of 5 members was not reached since "the notice since was usually one-day as well as it was a housekeeping assembly as well as no supervision group was called" notwithstanding a row already agreeing upon its agenda.
"It was an excuse to rubbish time," he said.
PR members of a PAC had progressing pronounced a committee's disaster to meet for 3 months suggests a bid to cover up monetary scandals involving a obligatory sovereign government.
They told a press conference here that notwithstanding a parliamentary cabinet solution upon Mar 5, 2012 to prioritise 4 tip issues involving supervision expenditure worth tighten to RM9 billion together with a NFCorp scandal, no meetings have been called since a finish of March.
"This clearly shows that there is a cover-up sequence from a very top. The PAC arch has been told not to reason meetings as they could have a disastrous stroke upon Barisan Nasional's (BN) chances of maintaining power," Petaling Jaya Utara MP Pua told reporters.
The PAC had upon Mar 21 additionally decided to lift upon with a NFC examine notwithstanding Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia's orders that it cannot touch upon rapist charges against Shahrizat's husband as well as NFCorp chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail.
The sequence came only a day after a Wanita Umno chief's family, who own NFCorp, refused to face a committee.
Dewan Rakyat had additionally rejected questions from 4 DAP lawmakers in Mar concerning a Tajudin-Danaharta allotment that politicians from opposite a order pronounced was a make a difference of public interest, saying it could not discuss issues being deliberated in court.
The 4 MPs had all asked Putrajaya to exhibit details of a allotment as well as how it benefits a public as a former Malaysia Airlines chairman had already been ordered by a High Court to pay a RM589 million he owed Danaharta,! that wa s set up to take over bad debts during a 1997 Asian monetary crisis.
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