PETALING JAYA: PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli said he will reveal on Thursday the leaders of Umno and Bersatu allegedly behind a company that had received payments in connection with the littoral combat ship (LCS) project.
Rafizi said the company, which was named in the LCS Audit Forensic Report by Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad (BHIC), was linked to a former deputy defence minister.
Based on the report, the company allegedly received RM1.36 million as payment for technical services in the Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) project, even though there is no evidence of work being done.
"Wait for Thursday. I will reveal who is behind it, its connection with Umno/Bersatu figures and their involvement in various scandals over the years," he told reporters at the party's headquarters here today.
Earlier in the briefing Rafizi said that he would identify a key personality linked to the project and reveal another major scandal on Thursday.
He said the person was known business associate of both parties and purportedly had a hand in a company linked to a former deputy defence minister.
Rafizi said the person had remained under the radar for two decades.
"When I reveal who he is in two days' time, everyone will know the hidden hands involved and who is to blame for the scandal," he said.
Rafizi said the denials of the deputy minister did not hold water due to his alleged links with more than one of the companies identified in the LCS Forensic Audit Report.
"His involvement in the procurement of the LCS project is more difficult to deny because there are a few other companies cited in the Forensic Audit Report he is related to. He could claim the investigation is wrong if the audit only had named one company related to him." Rafizi said.
Rafizi had said in August that the second wife of a deputy minister owned an offshore company, to which LCS funds were chanelled to.
Yesterday, he said he was waiting for any legal action over the matter.