Two questions on ACA's six-year investigations into the RM11 billion Perwaja Steel scandal


Media statement
by Lim Kit Siang

(Penang, Sunday): It is good news that the Swiss government has agreed to co-operate with the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) in its  investigations into the Perwaja Steel scandal in connection with the transfer of RM76.4 million to a non-existent company in Hong Kong via another company in Japan and subsequent final transfer to a Swiss bank account of a firm registered in the British Virgin Islands.

ACA  director-general  Datuk Ahmad Zaki Husin said in Penang yesterday  that the ACA hoped that with the help of the Swiss authorities, some light could be shed and the ACA investigations into Perwaja could "shift into full gear".

Ahmad Zaki's statement is quite extraordinary as it gives  the impression that  the ACA's investigations into the RM11 Perwaja Steel scandal, which ranks as the biggest financial scandal in the nation's history, completely hinge on one item concerning the transfer of RM76.4 million to a non-existent account and that the entire ACA investigations stand or fall on this item.

Malaysians would want Ahmad Zaki to throw more light on ACA's six-year investigations into the RM 11 billion Perwaja Steel scandal on two matters:

(11/2/2001)

*Lim Kit Siang - DAP National Chairman