BOMBSHELL – 3 ‘FORCED TO SWEAR BY ALLAH’ OVER KLIA SYSTEM MELTDOWN: HAS MAHB CROSSED THE LINE?

THREE employees of Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) were forced by the management to swear by Allah that they were not behind a network malfunction at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), said a source.

The source from the airport operator told The Malaysian Insight the staff members, who were temporarily suspended, felt that they have been targeted unfairly over the glitch that lasted four days last month.

MAHB management called in the three staff members for questioning at the airport operator’s KLIA office at 10pm on August 26, the source said.

“Before the questioning began, their laptops, staff identity cards and mobile phone SIM cards were seized.

“As if that wasn’t enough, they were made to swear by Allah that they were not involved in the systems malfunction,”   the source said.

After the questioning, the three were issued suspension letters and taken to the police station at klia2 for their statements to be recorded.

The staff members who each have served MAHB for around 20 years are now back at work.

The three are among the more than 70 people who have since been questioned by the police.

Selangor police chief Noor Azam Jamaludin told reporters it was too soon to come to a conclusion as investigations are ongoing and that there are awaiting reports from several experts, including CyberSecurity Malaysia.

The system glitch began on August 21, affecting flight information displays, check-ins, airport WiFi and causing baggage handling to be disrupted at the country’s main airport.

The airport management told passengers to arrive at least four hours early to go through manual check-in and deployed 1,000 additional staffers to manage the situation.

Systems were stabilised four days later but on August 26, MAHB in a press statement said it did not dismiss the possibility of sabotage.

Subsequently, four of its IT staff members lodged police reports to deny any involvement in the system malfunction.

As of a week ago, an MAHB spokesman said it had not received any compensation claim over the disruption from airlines.

– https://www.themalaysianinsight.com