MB Selangor : MCA patut kira baki berapa ekor lembu NFC yang tinggal, sebelum pertikai audit Talam...

Kerajaan Negeri Selangor mencabar Ketua Biro Muda Profesional MCA, Datuk Chua Tee Yong untuk membentangkan laporan audit dan kertas putih melibatkan projek kontroversi Pusat Fidlot Nasional (NFC) kepada umum bagi membuktikan ketelusan Kerajaan Pusat.

Cabaran itu disuarakan Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim sebagai respon kepada kenyataan Tee Yong sebelum ini yang mempersoalkan kredibiliti badan audit bebas antarabangsa, KPMG Transaction and Restructuring Sdn Bhd berhubung isu Talam.

Beliau berkata, sekiranya Tee Yong berani mendedahkan laporan audit NFC, maka Kerajaan Negeri tidak keberatan untuk membuat perkara sama berhubung penyusunan semula hutang Talam Corporation.

“Saya rasa kalau betul Tee Yong nak berdebat, apa kata dia bawa akaun NFC dan bentangkan kepada umum, kemudian kita pula akan bawa akaun Talam. Kita tunjukkan kajian yang dibuat.

“Umno-BN boleh panggil kita bila-bila masa sahaja untuk beri keterangan lanjut berhubung perkara ini. Malah, Kerajaan Negeri tidak akan keberatan untuk aturkan pertemuan pimpinan Umno-BN bersama juru audit yang dilantik supaya mereka benar-benar faham,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan Pameran Selangorku, di sini pagi tadi.

Mengulas lanjut, Abdul Khalid berkata laporan dan aduan MCA terhadap isu Talam juga dianggap sebagai tidak relevan dan boleh diabaikan.

Beliau berkata, juru audit bebas yang dilantik itu juga dengan jelas menunjukkan langkah yang dibuat Kerajaan Negeri bagi mengutip semula hutang adalah munasabah dan terbaik.

“Saya meminta empat wakil negeri untuk menjadi jurucakap berhubung isu ini. Jadi baik Umno atau MCA boleh pilih sesiapa sahaja yang mereka suka untuk beri penerangan.

“Kerajaan Negeri berhak mengutip semula hutang itu tanpa ada sebarang diskaun. MCA perlu baca dan fahamkan kenyataan itu sebelum membuat sebarang dakwaan,” katanya lagi.

Abdul Khalid kelmarin memaklumkan Kerajaan Negeri membuat keputusan komersial yang baik dalam penyelesaian hutang Talam yang dibuktikan menerusi badan audit bebas antarabangsa yang dilantik, KPMG Transaction and Restructuring Sdn Bhd.

Beliau turut menjelaskan perkara itu membuktikan usaha Kerajaan Negeri mengutip sejumlah RM392 juta hutang daripada Talam dilaksanakan dengan tertib dan mengikut undang-undang demi menjaga kepentingan negeri dan rakyat Selangor.- selangorku

BN challenged to do a Talam-style audit on NFC...

Following the clearance given by an independent auditing firm to Selangor state government's debt recovery exercise involving troubled MCA-linked developer Talam Corporation, Pakatan Rakyat has challenged the Federal government to do a similar audit on the scandal-ridden National Feedlot Corporation.

In a statement, PAS's Dzulkefly Ahmad, DAP's Tony Pua and PKR's William Leong expressed their willingness to invite MCA's Labis member of parliament Chua Tee Yong and his comrades from UMNO to debate on his allegations of funds abuse in the exercise

“We also challenge Najib and Muhyiddin to reveal the Pricewaterhousecooper (PwC) research on the investigation done by the international audit firm on NFC RM250 million scandal similar to how the state government has openly revealed to all in the Talam Corporation case,” said the trio, referring to prime minister Najib Razak and his deputy Muhyiddin Yasin, both of whom were personally involved in the awarding of the NFC contract to the family of Wanita UMNO chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

Yesterday, Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim revealed that auditing firm KPMG Transaction & Restructuring was satisfied with the state's RM392 million debt recovery exercise from Talam Corporation.

KPMG concluded “nothing wrong” in the exercise, aimed at allowing the developer to repay its debt to the state government. Talam had been responsible for many abandoned projects during the BN administration.

But Chua insisted that the audit firms had limited information.

“Enron and a lot (other) cases show that (an) audit and its results are limited to the documents available,” he was quoted as saying by Malaysiakini.

In response, Dzulkefly reminded that the NFC’s report had been ready for sometime, but was being withheld for unknown reasons.

The PAS research centre director added that the episode showed which party had “walked the talk” and stayed true to the slogan “Promises fulfilled”, in a reference to BN’s controversial theme for the recent Merdeka Day celebration.- harakahdaily

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