KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) never allocated third-party agents for a purchases, a emissary minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad pronounced today. He pronounced which all of Mindef's assets were procured by direct deals with governments of alternative countries.
"We never designate any third-party in any item buying whether it is submarines, 8 x 8, or Sukhoi, all is by G to G (government-to-government)," Abdul Latiff pronounced in his winding-up debate today.
"In Malaysia's history, we have never allocated agents for a procurements," he said.
Mindef has mostly been questioned for a procurements which are pronounced to greatly exceed a prices paid by alternative countries for identical purchases.
But a ministry has shielded a couple of of a purchases, saying it paid a aloft price due to opposite specifications.
In September, DAP's Tony Pua had called for Putrajaya to set up an eccentric committee in Parliament to examine Mindef's "controversial" contracts to buy counterclaim vehicles.
His matter came after a Sultan of Johor appeared to swat Mindef for a recent purchase of 4 Rapid Intervention Vehicles (RIV) for a sum of RM2.76 million or RM690,000 each, whilst a state woman monarch had reportedly paid for a single labelled during RM150,000.
"The on top of merger follows a series of argumentative buying of counterclaim vehicles by a Ministry of Defence which have lifted vital question outlines over whether a taxpayers are removing worth for their money," Pua had said.
Pua pronounced which such deals contingency be "investigated and scrutinised not (by) a Ministry of Defence itself, though by an eccentric Parliamentary Oversight Committee."
He had listed a couple of "controversial" contracts, together with Mindef'! s purcha se of 12 helicopters for RM2.3 billion, or RM193 million each, in 2008 "despite a same indication helicopter being acquired for only RM82.8million any by a Brazilian government."
Mindef had told a Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) which a aloft price was due to "customisations" to a helicopters.
A RM6 billion stipulate given to Boustead Naval Shipyard final year for 6 offshore patrol vessels was "subsequently inflated" to RM9 billion, pronounced Pua.
DRB Hicom Bhd had final year received a RM7.55 billion stipulate for 257 units of 8x8 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC), though it was "exposed" which a association was buying them from a Turkish counterclaim executive for RM1.7 billion, pronounced a PAC member.
Pua pronounced it was "beyond reasonable belief" which "customisations" carried out by DRB-Hicom to a APS would "cause a bill to be inflated from RM1.7billion to RM7.55 billion."
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