[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