PUTRAJAYA: The Natural Resources and Environment Sustainability Ministry will release a statement addressing alleged serious corruption practices involving a flood mitigation plan worth more than RM16 billion.
Its minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said the statement would be released by the ministry today.
"(The ministry) will respond to the (allegations made) through a statement, today," he briefly said when met by reporters after the ministry's transboundary haze solution town hall session with stakeholders, today.
Nik Nazmi said this in response to the claims made by Bersatu Information Committee member Badrul Hisham Shaharin, better known as Chegu Bard, who lodged a police report yesterday on the alleged serious corruption practices involving a flood mitigation plan worth more than RM16 billion.
He also claimed that a company registered as a cosmetic company has allegedly doubled up as a flood mitigation consultant siphoning millions of ringgit from an RM16 billion government flood mitigation project meant to address the flooding issue nationwide.
He further alleged that no open tenders were made for the project, and names of companies awarded were also pre-selected, with commission terms of as high as eight per cent to be given as consultancy fees to the law firms.
He said the trouble started brewing in November last year when former Environment and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man was accused of awarding a company a RM7 bil flood mitigation project.