KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 Cost overruns for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project totalled RM1.4 billion, with RM400 million used to pay old debts from an old patrol vessel project,.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 Ex-defence minister Mohamad Sabu and his former deputy Liew Chin Tong today urged Putrajaya to hold a special Parliament sitting to debate the Public.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 Former Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today gave a statement and explanation to the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) on the ministry’s (Mindef) failure to supply six second-generation littoral combat ships (LCS) costing RM9 billion. PAC chairman,.
[Courtesy Royal Malaysian Navy]
A parliamentary committee here announced this week it would summon ex-defense minister and UMNO party President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and other officials for questioning into why a Malaysian firm failed to deliver on time on a multi-billion-ringgit contract for building combat ships.
The Public Accounts Committee opened an investigation last month into the RM 9 billion (U.S. $2.2 billion) contract awarded to Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) Sdn Bhd in 2014 for the construction of six littoral combat ships. But not a single ship has been finished.
So far, eight people have testified before the committee.
PAC “will continue with its proceedings related to the littoral combat ships in early January 2021, by calling in next witnesses such as former Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, former Navy Chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar, and the representative from the main contractor of the LCS project,” committee chairman Wong Kah Woh told reporte
Friday, 18 Dec 2020 01:06 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he would cooperate with the PAC in the bipartisan Parliament watchdog’s inquiry on the RM9 billion project. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today clarified that he was not the defence minister when the government paid out over RM6 billion for warships that were not delivered as part of a RM9 billion project awarded to a company.
Zahid however said he would still cooperate with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the bipartisan Parliament watchdog’s inquiry on the RM9 billion project.