The chairman of fleet administration firm Spanco was charged on the Classes Courtroom in Kuala Lumpur yesterday with dishonest the federal government to award his firm a contract – value over RM3.9 billion – for the administration of presidency automobiles, in accordance with information reviews.
Tan Sri Robert Tan Hua Choon was charged for having allegedly cheated the tender-opening committee by claiming in a doc that there was at the very least 30% Bumiputera shareholding in Spanco. He was accused of dishonest the ministry by means of the Public-Personal Partnership Unit, which awarded Spanco a contract value RM3,966,386,628 to obtain and handle the federal government’s car fleet.
Tan pleaded not responsible and claimed trial for the offence, which was stated to have been dedicated on the finance ministry’s workplace in Putrajaya between February 27 and 28, 2019. The 83-year-old, who can be the Spanco government director, was charged below Part 420 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail time period of between a yr and 10 years, whipping and a fantastic, upon conviction. Bail was set at RM2 million by decide Suzana Hussin.
The case towards Spanco began earlier this yr when the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Fee (MACC) started investigations into allegations of corruption involving the procurement and administration of the federal government’s car fleet. In February, prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim stated a thorough investigation could be carried out on the matter.
Spanco was established in 1988 and was given a 25-year concession settlement in 1993 to supply and lease automobiles with full upkeep companies for the federal government. On the finish of December 2018, its concession expired and the federal government known as for tenders in February 2019 for a contract to provide, keep and handle its fleet of official automobiles for the following 15 years.
Through the interim interval, Spanco was given two extensions of six months every in 2019 to proceed managing the fleet till the top of that yr, with an additional third extension reportedly given till June 2020.
The suggestion of impropriety surfaced into the general public eye final yr when Berjaya group founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan filed a swimsuit towards the finance ministry and Spanco over a multi-million ringgit car fleet concession deal misplaced by Naza-Berjaya after the consortium had been awarded the rights to it.
Based on Tan, the Naza-Berjaya consortium was picked by the federal government to deal with the fleet concession by the earlier administration by means of a letter of intent (LoI) that was issued in 2019. A yr later, the ministry of finance introduced it has chosen a brand new concessionaire to handle the federal government’s car fleet, however didn’t identify the corporate – it was extensively believed it was the Naza-Berjaya consortium that gained the tender.
Tan stated the Naza-Berjaya consortium had its LoI terminated unfairly earlier than the precise award was set to be introduced, stating that the federal government then gave the tender to Spanco, regardless of the Naza-Berjaya tender being RM700 million cheaper than Spanco’s. He then known as for an MACC investigation on the difficulty.
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