PKR treasurer-general William Leong has questioned the Transport Ministry's decision to give an allegedly dormant company, Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd, the nod to operate the automatic traffic enforcement system (AES).
Beta Tegap will install traffic observation cameras to detect traffic offenders in the southern region, while ATES Sdn Bhd has been awarded a similar project for the northern region.
The AES system is a computerised camera-based traffic summons system of the Road Transport Department, where images of vehicles speeding along accident prone areas will be captured.
Leong (left) who is also Selayang MP, said that a company search conducted on June 25 showed that Beta Tegap to be listed as a dormant company in its nature of business.
The company, which was registered in 2004, lists its address at Solaris Dutamas in Kuala Lumpur.
Leong also questioned the company's capability of handling the project, which he said used Australian technology.
If the government was serious about implementing the project, he said, it should have appointed the Australian firm directly and not an intermediary company that will be making a quick profit.
"Furthermore, the government should not be privatising or commercialising the enforcement on traffic offenders by raising the maximum fine, which will benefit companies like Beta Tegap.
"Efforts should be made to reduce accidents and increase road safety than working out ways to profit from such enforcement methods," Leong added.
He also warned that the Road Transport (Amendment) Bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat recently would result in motorists having to pay much higher fines, since the minimum fine would be raised to RM300 and the maximum, RM2,000.
“Pakatan Rakyat MPs have opposed the amendment as it will be a burden to the rakyat. The BN parliamentarians have argued the move will help reduce road accidents, but we do not see the logic,” he said.
Links with the MCA
Leong also questioned Beta Tegap's alleged links with the MCA, as reported by the financial daily The Edge.
He said a company search on Beta Tegap showed that among its directors are one Dr Andreas Teoh and his mother Yap Kim See @ Yap Ai Lin.
“A search on another company, Mediharta Sdn Bhd, which was awarded the job of providing security hologram labels for pharmaceutical products, revealed that the same Teoh and his father, Arianta Alikusno, to be directors.
“Here, we have Beta Tegap being awarded the AES job by the Transport Ministry, while the Health Ministry has given the security label project to Mediharta.”
Both companies, he said, have Teoh as director, and was it merely a coincidence that the Transport Ministry and Health Ministry are headed by MCA ministers?
Beta Tegap will install traffic observation cameras to detect traffic offenders in the southern region, while ATES Sdn Bhd has been awarded a similar project for the northern region.
The AES system is a computerised camera-based traffic summons system of the Road Transport Department, where images of vehicles speeding along accident prone areas will be captured.Leong (left) who is also Selayang MP, said that a company search conducted on June 25 showed that Beta Tegap to be listed as a dormant company in its nature of business.
The company, which was registered in 2004, lists its address at Solaris Dutamas in Kuala Lumpur.
Leong also questioned the company's capability of handling the project, which he said used Australian technology.
If the government was serious about implementing the project, he said, it should have appointed the Australian firm directly and not an intermediary company that will be making a quick profit.
"Furthermore, the government should not be privatising or commercialising the enforcement on traffic offenders by raising the maximum fine, which will benefit companies like Beta Tegap.
"Efforts should be made to reduce accidents and increase road safety than working out ways to profit from such enforcement methods," Leong added.
He also warned that the Road Transport (Amendment) Bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat recently would result in motorists having to pay much higher fines, since the minimum fine would be raised to RM300 and the maximum, RM2,000.
“Pakatan Rakyat MPs have opposed the amendment as it will be a burden to the rakyat. The BN parliamentarians have argued the move will help reduce road accidents, but we do not see the logic,” he said.
Links with the MCA
Leong also questioned Beta Tegap's alleged links with the MCA, as reported by the financial daily The Edge.
He said a company search on Beta Tegap showed that among its directors are one Dr Andreas Teoh and his mother Yap Kim See @ Yap Ai Lin.
“A search on another company, Mediharta Sdn Bhd, which was awarded the job of providing security hologram labels for pharmaceutical products, revealed that the same Teoh and his father, Arianta Alikusno, to be directors.
“Here, we have Beta Tegap being awarded the AES job by the Transport Ministry, while the Health Ministry has given the security label project to Mediharta.”
Both companies, he said, have Teoh as director, and was it merely a coincidence that the Transport Ministry and Health Ministry are headed by MCA ministers?
Profit-sharing with the companies picked
“Hence, the MCA should explain why it awarded the project to a company owned by Teoh,” he said.
Asked whether he knew Teoh, Yap and Arianta to be MCA members, Leong said he did not know this. However, he questioned what Beta Tegap specialised in to be offered such a project.
MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek had in April denied that his party had meddled in the awarding of the contract for the AES.
Leong also quotedThe Edge report that says Beta Tegap and ATES would be entrusted to install 831 traffic cameras at `black spot' areas, with the companies getting profits through a three-tier scheme.
On the first tier, the companies will be entitled to RM16 for every summons issued for up to five million summonses, while at the second tier, they will be entitled to 50 percent of the remaining revenue, capped at RM270 million.
On the third tier, they will receive 7.5 percent of the balance from summonses paid.
“Hence, the MCA should explain why it awarded the project to a company owned by Teoh,” he said.
Asked whether he knew Teoh, Yap and Arianta to be MCA members, Leong said he did not know this. However, he questioned what Beta Tegap specialised in to be offered such a project.
MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek had in April denied that his party had meddled in the awarding of the contract for the AES.Leong also quotedThe Edge report that says Beta Tegap and ATES would be entrusted to install 831 traffic cameras at `black spot' areas, with the companies getting profits through a three-tier scheme.
On the first tier, the companies will be entitled to RM16 for every summons issued for up to five million summonses, while at the second tier, they will be entitled to 50 percent of the remaining revenue, capped at RM270 million.
On the third tier, they will receive 7.5 percent of the balance from summonses paid.
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ReplyDeleteRelook back at this from 2018. Dam - all this information is out here. And yet nothing was done. And BN almost won GE14 to continue their plundering.
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