RM10m 'donation' for Tee Keat: 'No case', says MACC
There is no case against transport minister and former MCA president Ong Tee Keat linking him to the allegation that he received RM10 million for political activities from Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Tiong King Sing.
There is no case against transport minister and former MCA president Ong Tee Keat linking him to the allegation that he received RM10 million for political activities from Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Tiong King Sing (below).
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Deputy Chief Commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull said investigation papers were forwarded to their deputy public prosecutor but were returned with orders that the case be closed.
"T
he (deputy public prosecutor) said there was no case against him (Ong)," Mohd Shukri said.
MACC Deputy Public Prosecutor Abdul Razak Musa, when contacted said: "We cannot trace the cash flow and cannot proceed further," he said.
Ong, meanwhile, said he had received a letter from MACC on April 22 clearing him of the allegation.
He added he was glad that the issue had been answered because wild allegations had been thrown at him pertaining to the PKFZ scandal, especially during the MCA leadership crisis and the run-up to the party's fresh polls recently.
"Usually in cases like these, the persons involved are only cleared after they are dead. I am lucky that my case is cleared while I am still alive," he quipped.
On Aug 24 last year, Ong had filed a RM500 million defamation suit against Tiong, the Bintulu Member of Parliament and Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club chairperson.
This followed an Aug 12, 2009 Malaysiakini report in which Tiong claimed that he had given Ong RM10 million to finance MCA activities.
Defamation suit filed
Kuala Dimensi Sd Bhd (KDSB) was the turnkey contractor for the beleaguered Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project which is being probed for billing irregularities running into the billions after being exposed by Ong.
Tiong had alleged that he had 'donated' RM10 million to Ong Tee Keat in 2008. The money, he claimed, was for activities related to the MCA divisions.
Tiong's number two in Kuala Dimesni, Faizal Abdullah, also said that Ong had used the company's private jet five times and 'owed' them US$40,000 for the services.
Tiong claimed that he had pumped in the millions after being requested to do so by Ong (right). The money was apparently paid in cash over three installments during meetings with the MCA president held in Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur in 2008.
Tiong made the startling allegations a day after the Port Klang Authority (PKA) filed a police report against KDSB in relation to inflated claims involving the RM12.5 billion PKFZ project.
On Aug 24 last year Ong filed a RM500 million defamation suit against Tiong, claiming Tiong's revelation had ‘tarnished his reputation, image and integrity, and had caused him to be hated and despised by the public’.
He also said that Tiong's allegation was unfounded and made in bad faith to stop the investigation into the Port Klang Free Trade Zone issue, in which Tiong's company Kuala Dimensi was implicated.
