Undersea project: Fashion apparel just an investor not contractor, says Lim

GEORGE TOWN: The public listed fashion house – Voir Holdings Berhad was listed as just an investor in the proposed RM6.3 billion cross-channel undersea tunnel project, said Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng (pix).
Clarifying claims that something dubious must have happened to involve a fashion apparel and accessories company in an infrastructure project, Lim said Voir was an investor and not the main contractor.
The depiction of Voir as a contractor was false and unnecessary, he told a press conference.
Lim said that a company can invest in the project but it does not mean that the company would be building the project.
He said the state government had signed an agreement in 2013 with Consortium Zenith-BUCG Sdn Bhd and China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd (CRCC) as the main project contractor,
"CRCC is the main project contractor. The contract we signed to build the three highways is with CRCC so don't try to confuse this issue," he said.
Lim was responding to questions raised by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong on why a fashion company has now become the majority owner of the undersea tunnel project.
Wee reportedly said that the public was entitled to find out why an infrastructure project of such a huge magnitude could predominantly feature a company whose core business was fashion.
Lim said Wee, who is MCA deputy president, was trying to confuse the whole issue as there were no changes to the main project contractor for the project.