PKFZ : Deputy Minister, assemblyman in conflict of interest

A deputy minister and assemblyman were found by auditors to be possibly in a conflict of interest over their involvement in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project. The PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report on the PKFZ today revealed that Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung was both non-executive deputy chairman of Wijaya Baru Global Berhad (WBGB) and chairman of Port Klang Authority (PKA) in 2007.
WBGB is linked to PKFZ’s main developer Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) via a common shareholder and director — BN Backbenchers’ Club chairman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing.

The report said when the final account for the RM1.2 billion construction work carried out by KDSB between 2004 and 2006 was approved by the PKA board, Chor neither declared his previous involvement in WBGB nor withdrew himself from deliberations.

Also named in the report was Sementa assemblyman Datuk Abdul Rahman Palil, who was both the Pulau Lumut Development Cooperative (KPPL) president and a PKA director in 2002 when the land for PKFZ was sold by KPPL to PKA. - NST

PKFZ : Deputy Minister, assemblyman in conflict of interest