Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim has hit back with queries over the purchase of a dozen apartments in Saudi Arabia in 2007 by a wholly owned Selangor government subsidiary, Permodalan Negeri Selangor Berhad (PNSB).
These must be some apartments: they cost about RM2 million each.
In a press release issued by his office tonight, he put the spotlight on a puzzling set of transactions. This is an excerpt from the press statement:
According to the PNSB Directors Circular Resolution dated 14 September 2007, PNSB had approved for the purchase of five units of properties amounting to RM8,352,427.66.
However, records showed that PNSB had between September 17, 2007 and September 19, 2007 transferred RM25,603,545 to Saudi Arabia for 12 units of properties. Between September 25, 2007 and October 3, 2007 PNSB received cheques amounting to RM17,251,092 from an individual ā said to be for the purchase of seven units from PNSB at the price PNSB had paid for. No official receipt was issued to acknowledge it.
Subsequently, in 2008 it has come to the attention of Board of Directors that PNSB prepared and signed four cheques amounting to RM8,000,205.20 to an individual. The individual is the same person who had earlier handed over cheques to PNSB amounting to RM17,251,032 stated above.
However, three of the four cheques prepared and signed by authorized signatories were then cancelled. The fourth cheque amounting RM2 million was released and banked in into the account of the individual. PNSB then arranged with the bank to stop payment.
Between the date of the acquisition of the additional seven units making a total of 12 units and the disposal of the seven units leaving five units in the hand of PNSB, there was no Board of Directors Meeting or Board of Directors Circular Resolution for the transaction.
Up to the point of issuance and cancellation of cheques to the individual, no Board minutes or circular resolution were made.
It should be noted that the acquisition was made in the name of the then PNSB Chairman Dato Sri Dr. Khir Toyo as Saudi requirement that properties within the Mecca must be in the name of Muslim individuals. At the Board of Directors meeting on December 2007 Dr Khir disclosed the facts the properties are in his name but assured that he will not be making any claim over the property. However, there was no mention of the exact number of units held by him.
The above actions are certainly puzzling. Why did PNSB pay more than RM25 million when the board only approved about RM8 million for five units? Why did it then accept about RM17 million ā said to be for the sale of the seven units? Why did it then attempt to re-purchase the units it had sold off?
Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, who is the chairman of MBI, intends to find the answers to the above questions and will not hesitate to take strong action should there be any criminality involved.
Onee big question is, why is a Selangor government subsidiary buying and selling apartments in Saudi Arabia?
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Now where are all these … from MACC??? This is a clear case of corruption. Yet they waste their time and make themselves fools doing the wrong thing like questioning the Speaker.
They should zoom in straight on… KT on the Saudi issue.
There again, these … either they do not know what they are supposed to do or are just dare not touch their masters in UMNO.
Real Bolehland.
YAB should just get to the bottom and let him explain in open court. This Toyo should be spared no mercy.
If it is indeed Khir in this story, he should be really ashamed to be talking about morality…
Another AhMAD in penang try to make some MAD THINGS
MACC is not interested in this issue? Or are they more interested in lembu issue?
Well, since all the evidence are there, lodge police report and MACC. Monitor their response. After a week still no response, lodge another report on the frst report and so on. Week after week if reports are lodged then they will be tired and have to react.
This (appears to be a) case of criminal breach of trust. Make a police report.
This dentist turned politioian has to be investigated further. The people have rejected him yet he is yelping for power. The whole world has acknowledged MB Khalid as he was a corporate figure. MB Khalid is a man of substance and he is doing wonders to make Selangor progress. The people of Selangor will support him. Don’t worry.
Penang has more shit than that. Look at the case of the Phor Tay School in Gottlieb Road. Why did they more it out? What did the government say? What kind of deal was it? What kind of land was exchanged? There are just too many questions……..and why was a government school allowed to move out???
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Can someone tell MACC how many cows Khir Toyo will be able to purchase with that amount of money? š
No need to ask so many questions. Everything will be swept under the carpet. The end of the day it will be announced NFA (No Further Action) and there will no case as these are done under the UMNO cronies. MACC only goes after cars and cows, and trivial issues. What happened to the big issues like PKFTZ,the aborted sports complex in UK, etc.
RM25 million? C’mon man. This is just the tip of the iceberg …
In the last couple of weeks, our man Toyo has been really active. He’s been to Penang for an illegal demo, made fun of Elizabeth & managed to get Khalid into trouble over some cows… Amazing!
I wonder what’s his next stunt in his quest for UMNO Youth Head.
I hope at least the UMNO people who will be voting has the good sense to get rid of this character.
Let’s see if MACC will be as efficient, in terms of speed and impartiality in handling this report. MACC’s action on this will be an obvious proof of their professionalism (if there’s any).
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Let’s see how fast MACC is going to react on this. Surely if there’s anything that demand their immediate attention, this is it.
i think purchasing apartments in Saudi will be for investment purposes, since Muslims go for haj and umrah, and properties in Mekkah/Madinah can fetch really high prices and yield high profits. But where the profits goes to,whether it goes back to Selangor tax payers, this is the bigger question.
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Please bottle up this toyo
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Good on you Khalid! Dig the filth out.
The Vietnamese has a saying, “Be brave, enter the cave, catch the tiger”
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