Transparency – Page 8 – Dr. Ong Kian Ming (王建民)

Media Statement by Dr. Ong Kian Ming, MP for Serdang, on the 13^th of November, 2014

According to the latest Auditor General Report 2014, Series 3, a little known Ministry of Finance owned company – Pembinaan PFI Sdn Bhd – had racked up liabilities of RM27.8 billion as of 2012 making it, then, the company with the 3^rd largest liability among all government owned companies after Petronas and Khazanah (See Figure 1 below).¹

Figure 1: Top Three Government Owned Companies with the largest liabilities as of 2012

Continue reading “The government is trying to hide RM30b of spending by Pembinaan PFI Sdn Bhd which was had the 3rd largest liability in 2012 among all government owned companies”

Media Statement by Dr. Ong Kian Ming, MP for Serdang, on the 19^th of June, 2014

On Tuesday, 17^th of June, 2014, a briefing was held for the media at the Integrity Institute of Malaysia on the latest release of the National Auditor’s Report. This meeting was organized by the office of Senator Datuk Paul Low, Minister in charge of anti-corruption initiatives and attended by all the Secretary-Generals of all the Ministries including the Chief Secretary, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa.

Before the start of this briefing, the Minister asked all who were not civil servants or members of the media to leave the briefing room. He specifically asked for MPs to leave the room. The MP for Bayan Baru, Sim Tze Sim and the MP for Kuala Terengganu, Dato’ Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah bin Raja Ahmad, who identified themselves as MPs were then asked to leave the briefing room. I did not identify myself as an MP and hence, was not asked to leave the room. I stayed on for the entire briefing.

Continue reading “Setting the record straight on the Public Briefing on the Auditor General Report June 2014”