KUALA LUMPUR: Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng did not make any declaration to the state executive council that he had discussed the Penang undersea tunnel with the director of the company that eventually won the tender for the project, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court heard on Monday (Aug 16).
KUALA LUMPUR: Curveball questions from the prosecution in Lim Guan Eng’s corruption trial seemed to throw the defence off-guard as the hearing entered its fourth day.
Deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin posed the questions as the case’s third witness, Datuk Lim Hock Seng, read from his witness statement.
One of the questions pertained to a multimillion ringgit project on a plot of land, known as Lot 702, which was developed by a third party known as Ewein Zenith Sdn Bhd after the land was given in exchange for completing a feasibility study for the Penang undersea tunnel project.
Published on: Saturday, July 17, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: The Sessions Court here was told Friday that the Penang state executive council (Exco) had approved the award of a plot of land to Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG) as a form of payment for works done by the company in relation to the Penang undersea tunnel and main roads project.
Former Penang Exco member Datuk Lim Hock Seng, 73, said the state Exco, at a meeting chaired by then Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng
(pic) on Dec 11, 2014, approved the award of lot 702 in Bandar Tanjung Pinang, North East District in Penang to the company.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Consortium Zenith Beijing Urban Construction Group Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG) beat seven other bidders for a RM6.3bil project in Penang when it received the highest assessment scores out of all shortlisted developers in the open tender process, the Sessions Court heard.
Former Penang executive councillor Datuk Lim Hock Seng, when testifying as a witness in the corruption trial of Lim Guan Eng, said the state exco also agreed to the former chief minister’s proposal to form two separate committees – Technical and Finance – to assess proposals for the project in 2012.
“To my knowledge, CZBUCG was recommended by both committees because the company fulfilled conditions at the request for proposal (RFP) stage,” said Hock Seng, who was previously in charge of public works, utilities and transportation.
Published on: Friday, July 16, 2021
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Kuala Lumpur: A former Penang executive councillor told the Sessions Court here Thursday that Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG) had been appointed to carry out major road and undersea tunnel construction projects in the state as the company got the ‘highest marks’ for the overall technical and financial assessment.
Datuk Lim Hock Seng (pic), 73, said CZBUCG, which was set up as a joint venture between Zenith BUCG, Juteras Sdn Bhd and Sri Tinggi Sdn Bhd, had received a recommendation by the State Technical and Finance Committee as it had passed the conditions in the Request for Proposal (RFP).