[Mkini] The 25 allegations against Sabah CM

[Chin Koon Siang]

The 25 allegations against Sabah CM

Mar 23, 07 6:49pm

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Sabah chairperson Dr Jeffrey Kitingan has accused Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman of a litany of wrongdoings.

The senior opposition leader listed 25 allegations in a 24-page police report lodged - complete with a number of supporting documents - earlier this week. 

In the report, Musa, who is also the state finance minister and Umno Sabah liaison committee chairperson, was accused of "criminal activities, breach of trust, corruption and abuse of power".

Kitingan also claimed that embattled Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) director-general Zulkipli Mat Noor, who himself is being investigated for corruption, was allegedly bribed to turn a blind eye to one of the accusations against Musa.

Musa is the third key personality embroiled in allegations of corruption in just as many weeks.

Apart from Zulkipli, Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharum is also currently investigated for allegedly accepting bribes in return for the release of a number of detainees linked to the underworld.

Below are the allegations raised by Jeffrey:

1. Musa pressured the state cabinet to award the RM450 million privatisation contract of the Air Sandakan Phase II water supply scheme as ‘design and build’ to his proxy company, City Best Corporation Sdn Bhd.
   
   Musa knew the company, headed by his proxy, Lawrence Chu Jan Tow, did not have the experience or finances to undertake the project.
   
2. Musa ordered Sabah Finance Ministry permanent secretary Abdillah S Hassan to influence state public works director David SS Chiu to give a 15-year road maintenance contract worth RM600 million to Musa’s proxy company, Globinaco Sdn Bhd, without an open tender.
   
   Musa knew the company, owned by Lawrence Chu, was incapable of handling the project and allowed the state to be in a RM45 million per year debt to his proxy company.
   
3. Musa ordered Abdillah to influence David Chiu to give a three-year maintenance contract of Jalan Pantai Meligan Sipatang worth RM18 million without an open tender to another proxy company Jatrayisan Corporation Sdn Bhd. Lawrence Chu is the company’s secretary while his brother, Patrick, owns it.
   
   Musa knew the company with a paid-up capital of RM300,000 could not handle the project.
   
4. Musa ordered Abdillah to influence David Chiu to give another three-year road maintenance contract (Jalan Nabawan-Se-pulot-Agis) without an open tender to Jatrayisan Corporation.
   
5. Musa ordered the Public Works Ministry to list the RM200 million Donggongon-Papar Spurs road building project as ‘design and build’ to another proxy company, Kenatex Sdn Bhd, without an open tender. The company is owned by Lawrence Chu’s family.
   
   Musa knew the company, with a paid-up capital of RM750,000, was incapable of handling the project.
   
6. Musa ordered Abdillah to influence David Chiu to give a RM9.5 million three-year road maintenance project (Jalan Jeroco in Lahad Datu) to City Best Corporation without an open tender.
   
7. Musa pressured Finance Minister Mohd Nor Yakcop to cancel the awarding of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport project to business tycoon Ting Pek King and wanted the RM800 million project to be awarded to Musa’s proxy company, WCT Sdn Bhd. The company is controlled by Lawrence Chu’s family.
   
   Musa succeeded in getting the federal government to give a bulk of the project, worth RM500 million, to his proxy company.
   
8. Musa ordered the state investment arm Warisan Harta Sdn Bhd, which owns a plot of land near the Kota Kinabalu Centrepoint, to appoint his proxy company Sagajuta (Sabah) Sdn Bhd to develop a shopping mall worth RM120 million.
   

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2. Musa advised the owner of Alam Mesra Sdn Bhd, Tengku Adin, to grant a 25-acre plot of land as a religious endowment to the Sabah Bersatu Islam Association (Usia).
   
   In return, Musa ordered the Usia president to appoint the chief minister’s proxy company, Sagajuta, to work with Warisan Harta to develop a shopping mall worth RM1 billion (right).
   
3. Musa approved a logging concession in Benta Wawasan to three companies headed by a Chinese businessman who hails from the Philippines, Nasir Yeo. The latter had obtained an identity card from Musa when he was the chairperson of the Umno Sabah Task Force.
   
   Musa was the main culprit behind the registration of illegal immigrants as party members and voters.
   
   In return, Musa was paid RM70 million by Yeo and several others for the 82,000 acre logging concession.
   
4. Musa appointed an illegal immigrant by the name of Rahmawati, who obtained an identity card from the task force, as a clerk in the state-owned Yayasan Sabah. He paid RM5,000 to Sabah registration department director Abdul Rauf Sani for the identity card.
   
   Musa also had a sexual relationship with the woman and fathered a child out of wedlock.
   
   He sent Rahmawati, whom he married later, to further her studies in Australia under a state scholarship. He later appointed his ‘wife’ as Yayasan Sabah’s Sandakan district manager.
   
5. Musa ordered his nominees, architect Melvin Yeo Kian-Dee and Terrence Chu (Lawrence Chu’s younger brother), to develop Semenanjung Emas - a 70-acre plot of land in Sutera Harbour owned by Danaharta Managers Sdn Bhd.
   
   Musa disposed the Danaharta land to Melvin via his company Actaland Sdn Bhd to develop 150 upscale bungalows worth RM1.48 million each.
   
   Melvin is an Umno Kampung Batu Bersih Bersatu member in the Libaran division while Musa is the division chief.
   
6. Musa pressured Tiong Hua businessmen to buy the bungalows developed by Actaland between RM88 and RM108 per square feet. Musa got the bungalows for RM33 per square feet. Musa directly obtained RM55 per square feet or RM139 million from the sale of the bungalows.
   
7. Musa ordered Melvin and Terence to collect a 50 percent deposit from buyers when they signed the sale-and-purchase agreement even before construction began.
   
   The buyers had to pay RM741,224 as deposit and a following sum of RM667,101.60 must be settled in three months while the remaining five percent, or RM74,122.40, upon transfer of ownership.
   
   Since Actaland is a housing developer and not a finance company licenced as an agent to collect deposits, the above transaction violated the Bank Negara rules.
   
8. Musa used his position as state finance minister, who is responsible for the state investment arm Suria Capital Holdings Bhd, to order Sabah Port Sdn Bhd to appoint his nephew Mohd Hasnol Ayub Aman as director on June 17, 2002.
   
   Hasnol is also the director of SP Satria Sdn Bhd which monopolised all the projects in the Sabah Port Authority without tenders.
   

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2. Musa used his position as Umno Sabah chief to collect donations to build an Umno building on a plot of land owned by him near Wisma BSN in Kota Kinabalu. Until now, he has collected RM160 million without a police permit and has not declared the funds to the Umno treasurer or party supreme council. (right)
   
3. Musa ordered Sabah government secretary KY Mustafa to extend the tenure of state Finance Ministry permanent secretary Abdillah Hassan, who was slated for compulsory retirement, on a contract basis.
   
4. Musa ordered the federal government to cancel the services of Fomena (the agency tasked to screen the health of foreign workers in Sabah) and appoint his proxy company, Growarisan Sdn Bhd, to carry out the service.
   
   Musa knew the company only had a paid up capital of RM100. As a result of this, Growarisan which took over from Fomena in December 2006 was forced to appoint Fomena as a subcontractor as the former lacked the experience, logistics and finance.
   
   Growarisan now collects RM15 for every foreign worker screened from Fomena without having to do any work.
   
5. Musa used his own money amounting to RM2 million to fund the distribution of 82,000 identity cards to illegal immigrants from the Philippines and Sabah. Musa also gave RM10 million to fund the operations in taking ‘phantom voters’ to election areas all over the state.
   
6. Musa awarded logging concessions in Benta Wawasan to 18 crony companies without tenders and sold Yayasan Sabah’s round logs below the market price to his cronies and nominees.
   
7. Musa conspired with Samsudin Yahya who hired three men to ‘inflict grievous hurt’ on the chief minister’s partner Lue Sue Seng who wanted to expose Musa’s ‘affair’ with Rahmwati.
   
   To repay Samsudin, Musa picked him as the BN candidate for the Sekong state seat in the 2004 general election. Lue contested as an independent to exact revenge.
   
8. Musa payed off Sandakan district police chief Illyas Ibrahim to close the case against Samsudin and three others concerning the assault on Lue. Samsudin was arrested and later freed following Musa’s intervention.
   
   Musa appointed Illyas, who is also his cousin, as the Kota Kinabalu mayor and extended his tenure for another two years.
   
9. Musa together with Umno Petagas division head Yahya Hussin and his officer Kahar Mohd Zain attempted to bribe and prevent a witness Jabar Khan Napi @ Yasser Arafat who was summoned by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Integrity over the issuance of identity cards to illegal immigrants in Sabah.
   
10. Musa influenced and prevented Sabah ACA director Latifah Md Yatim who took my report against Musa last month. She later told me that the ACA must investigate the matter first before accepting any report.
    
    When I met Latifah on Feb 12, she looked scared and asked me not to expose the Wisma Bandaraya scandal to the media.
    
11. Musa bribed ACA director-general Zulkipli Mat Noor during a secret meeting at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 10-11 to delay the investigation into the Wisma Bandaraya scandal.