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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Hannah grills MACC over lack of progress in Taman Rimba Kiara probe



Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh wants the MACC to explain why it has not taken any action over complaints of corruption in the Taman Rimba Kiara project.
Yeoh said there had been multiple reports lodged with the MACC over the development project involving the Federal Territories Ministry, including one filed by her predecessor in Segambut, Lim Lip Eng.
"What is MACC doing about this info?
"Clearly, evidently there is a conflict of interest here. Why hasn't the MACC replied to these allegations?" she said at a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) executive director Cynthia Gabriel, who was also present, then showed the media a flow chart which displayed how the previous federal territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor allegedly had a conflict of interest in the project.
The Taman Rimba Kiara project is meant to build luxury service apartments, as well as one apartment block to accommodate longhouse residents who would be displaced by the development.
The project is a joint venture between Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan (YWP) and Memang Perkasa.
Tengku Adnan was previously the YWP chairperson when he was the federal territories minister.
C4 also highighted that one of the Putrajaya MP's business partners is a shareholder or director in companies that hold shares in Memang Perkasa.
Taman Tun Dr Ismail residents had objected to the project as it encroached on the Taman Rimba Kiara park, a major green lung in the Klang Valley.
In February, The Malaysian Insight cited sources as saying that the MACC had opened investigation papers into the matter, but there has been no update as of yet.
Meanwhile, Yeoh said she will be holding a townhall on the project at the TTDI community centre on Saturday morning.
The townhall is open to everyone, and the Segambut MPs says she has also notified her fellow federal territories lawmakers.
Yeoh said the session will update residents on the current status of the project and efforts to deal with it.
This includes updates on Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad's cabinet paper on the project.
Khalid, who is also the YWP chair now, had previously proposed a downscaled project which Yeoh and residents had rejected.
Yeoh said she and the residents want the project to either be scrapped entirely, or to be limited to redeveloping the longhouse, and without any encroachment into the park.
She said she has asked for her views to be attached together with Khalid's report to the cabinet.
She also wants Attorney-General Tommy Thomas to weigh in on the matter, and see whether the government really needs to pay compensation.
Former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan, who was also at Yeoh's presser, said the AG can also look into the possibility of voiding the development project due to its potential "illegality."
Meanwhile, Yeoh who is also deputy minister of women, family, and community development, stressed that her first priority is her duty to Segambut voters.
"The mandate to be in Parliament comes from them," she said.
She said this when asked whether her butting heads with Khalid over the project made things awkward in the Pakatan Harapan government.
Yeoh said she has also exhausted all avenues to settle the issue internally. - Mkini

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