PAC's inaction on major controversies under fire

The Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) silence on its probes in major controversies involving government funds, has raised suspicions that there are "cover-up" orders in place, said opposition parliamentarians.

Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua said today PAC had deferred meetings for the last three months although it has yet to delve into, among others, the highly secretive out-of-court settlement between former Malaysia Airlines boss Tajudin Ramli (left) and Pengurusan Danaharta Bhd and the doubled costs of the new permanent low-cost carrier terminal in Sepang (KLIA2).

Although the powerful parliamentary committee had reached a consensus on investigating these cases last year, it had also merely touched the surface on its probes into the alleged misappropriation of the RM250 million loan given to National Feedlot Centre project and 1Malaysia Development Bhd's ‘dubious' investment in PetroSaudi International.

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