Selangor MB director of company handed RM700 million direct nego project by Selangor govt - PHM
(Editor’s note: The earlier version was amended due to spelling and grammatical errors.)
SHAH ALAM - Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari has been called out for being a director of a company allegedly awarded an RM700 million mega project via direct negotiations by the Selangor government.
The Green Party secretary general Abdul Razak Ismail claimed that besides Amirudin, Selangor Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Modernisation of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry executive council chairman Izham Hashim was also a director of Landasan Lumayan Berjaya Sdn Bhd (LLB), along with tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan.
Abdul Razak said LLB was a joint venture with Tan's Berjaya Land Berhad (BLand) holding a 55 per cent stake in the company, while LLB held the remaining 45 per cent.
"Checks with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) showed that the Selangor Menteri Besar and Izham were directors of this companies, along with Tan, who is Berjaya Group chairman," he said.
Abdul Razak alleged that LLB was handed a project known as the Selangor Maritime Gateway, which involved the deepening of a 56 kilometre stretch of the Klang River from the Mid Valley City in Kuala Lumpur to Port Klang, which is said to cost RM700 million.
"As reward for the deepening and widening works on the Klang River, Bland gained the rights to develop land on both banks of the river under a land swap deal, in which various housing developments with a Gross Development Value (GDV) of RM10 billion is expected," Abdul Razak said in a statement.
"As such, The Green Party urges the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to look into all projects that were given out via direct negotiations in Selangor. This is because we feel there are various instances of mismanagement, conflicts of interest and the lack of transparency in projects under the state government and its subsidiaries," he added.
Abdul Razak listed the redevelopment of the Shah Alam Stadium Complex, of which the total cost had yet to be determined, the Sg Rasau Water Treatment Plant in Kuala Langat at a cost of RM2 billion, two incenarators in Jeram, Kuala Selangor reported to cost a total of RM1.2 billion and the approvals for 27 quarries in the Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve, as well as the development of housing and commercial projects in the Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve as those that raised serious concern.
"Our suspicions are raised as to why all these projects were given 'express' approvals in the past two years and it seems like there is a rush to complete them before the Selangor state elections this year.
Amirudin was last year reported as stating that deepening and widening the Klang river was under flood mitigation efforts, at a cost of RM700 million which includes four main blocks which are expected in five years and that it would eventually benefit 500,000 residents in flood hotspots of Sri Muda, Kampung Baru Hicom and others.
At the moment, Sinar Daily is awaiting response from Amirudin over the matter.
