KOTA KINABALU: The past two years have been an absolute nightmare for businessman Yong Chee Kong after he was accused of being a scammer for offering to donate vaccine doses to the government in 2021.
KOTA KINABALU (Aug 1): The baseless and defamatory accusations against businessman Yong Chee Kong who wanted to donate the Sinovac vaccine two years ago have been proven false.
Yong breathed a sigh of relief when in May this year, he received a letter from the Attorney-General’s Chambers stating
PETALING JAYA: Pharmaniaga Bhd, the sole distributor of the Sinovac vaccine in Malaysia, was never contacted by the businessman who claimed that he wanted to purchase two million doses for Penang, says its managing director. They never contacted us and we also did not contact them, Datuk Zulkarnain Md Eusope said during a press conference on Sunday (May 23).
He was asked if the businessman Yong Chee Kong and the company he purportedly represented - Xintai Development Enterprise Ltd - had contacted them for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccine.
On Wednesday (May 19), Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said initial checks showed the vaccine donation offer appeared to be bogus.
KOTA KINABALU: The mysterious Yong Chee Kong, the person said to have made the offer to donate two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Penang, has been hauled up by police for questioning.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali confirmed that police were investigating the case involving the alleged donation of vaccines to the Penang government. Yes.this morning my officer will be recording his statement, he said on Friday (May 21).
However, he declined to say if Yong would be arrested.
Yong became the focus of attention when Khairy Jamaluddin, minister in charge of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, said that the offer by a private company of two million free doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for Penang was a scam.
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