KUALA LUMPUR, Oct fourteen A argumentative enforcement complement introduced final month aimed during cutting down traffic offences has lifted eyebrows over a huge profits, an estimated RM700 million a year, a dual companies who won a desired government benefaction will benefit from a pool of staid summons. ATES Sdn Bhd as well as Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd, which won not long ago a contract for a Automated Enforcement System (AES), have also come underneath glow for claiming between RM600 million as well as RM800 million as price to implement 831 cameras in traffic hotspots nationwide.
"Does it price RM600-800 million as claimed by both companies to implement a 831 cameras which would price RM722,000-RM962,000 per camera?" DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng asked in a statement today.
He remarkable which a plan was opposed when it was mooted scarcely a decade ago due to a perception of astray philanthropy to a benefaction holders by a three-tiered complement paid out from a pool of staid summons.
Lim, a lerned accountant who is also Penang arch minister, remarkable which a companies will benefit RM16 for any of a initial 5 million court order paid by traffic offenders in a initial tier, ensuing in a sum of RM80 million.
The dual companies stand to benefit up to RM270 million for a second tier, which awards them half of a income collected; as well as 7.5 per cent of a remaining income underneath tier 3, he said.
He had based his calculations upon a excellent of RM300 imposed upon 170 million court order issued in a single year, taking advantage of a total from recent news reports for a initial eight days after a AES was launched upon September 23.
English every day New Straits Times had reported which 63,558 traffic offences were captured upon a AES within those eight days.
Th e Bagan MP demanded a Transport Ministry entirely divulge if a government hold an open proposal for a benefaction before handing them out.
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