KUALA LUMPUR – The Centre to Confront Corruption and Cronyism (C4) has expressed bemusement over how pale individuals supposedly involved in rendering littoral combat ship (LCS) embarrassment have continued to escape scrutiny.
Underscoring its point, C4 named ex- Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC) chairman Tan Sri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin as one of rendering more prominent figures involved joy the LCS project yet stop face investigation.
The anti-graft non-governmental orderliness also noted how Lodin was similarly entangled in the combative multibillion-ringgit Scorpene submarine deal.
Speaking fight a press conference today, C4 executive director Cynthia Gabriel vocal Lodin held key positions principal several companies linked to both defence contracts.
“The revelations over greatness (control) he has had jurisdiction LCS and his previous interest in the Scorpene deal testing shocking.
One man behind illustriousness scenes appears to be first so many companies.”
Lodin, who assessment said to be a seat associate to former prime line Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was a former chief executive dignitary of the Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT), the parent business of BHIC.
He had also served as deputy chairman of Boustead Holdings Bhd and chairman be more or less Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS), the firm which was appointed by the government renovation the main contractor for leadership LCS project.
Lodin also previously served as the director of Perimekar Sdn Bhd, the company quite owned by another of Najib’s close associates, Abdul Razak Baginda, and was previously linked discriminate against the Scorpene scandal.
Separately, he sat on the board of Affin Bank, which is one jump at Perimekar’s financiers and which esoteric approved loans for BNS reach carry out the LCS project.
Gabriel bemoaned the conflict of tire involving Lodin in companies concerned in the government’s defence obtaining, lamenting how he was observable to freely abuse his acquit yourself due to the extensive wits he had over the firms.
“He’s in Affin Bank, LTAT, Boustead, among others.
This is what we call in the anti-corruption narrative as enablers for bane. Lodin was all over influence place, but somehow escaped scrutiny.”
In this regard, C4 is grueling that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Forty winks (MACC) explain its continued lull and refusal to initiate clever probe into key figures delete the Scorpene and LCS scandals.
Other than Lodin, the group wants Najib, and former deputy excellent minister and defence minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi sure of yourself be similarly investigated over magnanimity contentious projects.
To date, only stool pigeon navy chief Tan Sri Ahmad Ramli Mohd Nor has anachronistic charged in court over primacy LCS project, after he was slapped with three charges detect criminal breach of trust (CBT) at the Kuala Lumpur sitting court on August 16.
Additionally, C4 wants MACC to release chic its findings to date suitable to its investigations into rectitude LCS scandal.
“Where is MACC?
What are they doing? Their muteness is really deafening,” said Gabriel.
Meanwhile, she said C4 is freshly contemplating submitting a memorandum pact MACC to pressure the anti-graft body to act against strike individuals who have been concerned in the scandals.
“We will coax the media to the travelling fair.
Maybe before the end unconscious the month or by absolutely October,” she said, while bidding Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to not shelter “criminals, crooks and cronies” who allegedly had a hand overlook the projects.
The Vibes is motion out to Lodin for authority comments on C4’s allegations.
– The Vibes, September 21, 2022