MACC nab company directors over RM800 mil road project in Sarawak

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Anti-graft agency reveals the two directors received tens of millions in payment for road development project that failed to meet specifications. FMTNews Sarawak MACC

MACC’s Khusairi Yahaya says suspects were arrested after defence ministry’s internal audit report revealed failed project.

“The road construction project which connects several small towns in Sarawak is called ‘Projek Jiwa Murni’ under the ministry concerned, and it was awarded to the company from 2010 to 2016. “Technical studies found that these roads do not meet the road construction standards set by the Public Works Department at all, and in fact, these roads are only paved with a layer of tar which is estimated to be merely two inches thick on the ground surface.

“This has caused the cost of repairing the road to multiply, and the leakage has caused the state government to suffer hundreds of millions of ringgit in losses,” said the source. “They should be held accountable and have action taken against them, but instead, despite what happened, they were given another project using the name of a different company.

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