City Hall documents seized by MACC dates back to 2008

PETALING JAYA: Documents seized by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers in Tuesday's raid on Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) were related to the sale of land dating back to 2008, said Kuala Lumpur Mayor Tan Sri Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz.
He said the anti-graft personnel seized documents and reports from the time of his predecessor, Tan Sri Ahmad Fuad Ismail, which was from 2008 to 2012.
"The documents had information of all records of the land sales, the cost and the purpose of the transactions from Fuad's time to the current deals," he told theSun.
On Tuesday, MACC commenced a probe into DBKL and raided a department in their building following reports lodged with the commission against a former Federal Territories over land transactions.
MACC raided Menara DBKL and seized documents related to the sale of 64 lots of DBKL land worth RM4.28 billion.
Mhd Amin was unable to say if MACC would visit DBKL again, but said that so far no one had been summoned for questioning.
Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng lodged a report with the commission on May 16 claiming DBKL had sold 64 lots of land totalling 171.7ha, without going through the process of an open tender, between 2013 and this year.
Former Federal Territories minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor allegedly approved the transactions.
Meanwhile, DBKL executive director (planning) Datuk Mohd Najib Mohd defended DBKL following the raid on its headquarters, saying all the deals were done according to procedure.
"We have procedures for putting up land for sale, so we have followed all those procedures.
"If we sell the land, surely we would have known (if the deals were done without open tender). But the process was all done according to procedures we have," he told reporters after a site visit in the city centre, here, today.
He said this when asked if DBKL was aware if deals involving the 64 plots of land were done without an open tender and if it had know of the deals.
Lim, however, dismissed Najib's comment, saying no deals could been done according to procedure if they were not opened for tender to the highest bidder.