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Malaysiakini
Indelible ink supplier very media shy
Integrated Challenger (M) Sdn Bhd, the alleged indelible ink supplier revealed in Parliament yesterday, has refused to entertain several journalists who visited its office.
Based on information contained in a company search, Malaysiakini visited the indelible ink supplier’s office at an office complex in Section 9, Shah Alam at about 2pm yesterday.
The company’s premise did not have a signboard and was located on top of a Balinese spa.
However, Malaysiakini was able to speak to one of the company’s staff, who insisted on communicating anonymously through the intercom.
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The staff member also refused to provide Norsiah’s contact details or that of other executives in the company to answer the allegations made in Parliament.
After waiting for about an hour outside the office, there was still no sign of Norsiah or any other company staff members.
Two journalists from other media organisations arrived later, also to seek information about one Mohamed Salleh Mohd Ali, whom Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli named in the Dewan Rakyat as one of the directors with links to the EC.
However, they left with only photographs of the building.
Malaysiakini has also contacted the company for comments.
EC ink – brought to you by company with no signboard
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Menteri bertanggungjawab enggan dedahkan nama syarikat pembekal dakwat kekal di Parlimen tetapi mengesahkan syarikat lain iaitu Nash Ventures mendapat kontrak perbekalan topi dari SPR semasa PRU13.
Share & like page Rafizi Ramli untuk bantu sebarkan fakta hubung kait Nash Ventures Sdn Bhd dan Mohamed Salleh.
Berdasarkan carian di SSM, selain menjadi pemegang saham dan pengarah kepada Intergrated Challenger, Mohamed Salleh adalah pemegang saham & pengarah kepada Allisons Sdn Bhd.
Perniagaan utama Allisons Sdn Bhd adalah membekalkan peralatan ketenteraan kepada Kementerian Pertahanan dan Kementerian Dalam Negeri.
Turut menjadi pemegang saham & pengarah kepada Allisons Sdn Bhd adalah wanita bernama Shamsia Mansoor.
Shamsia juga merupakan pengarah di Nash Ventures Sdn Bhd iaitu syarikat yang mendapat kontrak perbekalan topi dari SPR secara rundingan terus.
Hubungan antara Mohamed Salleh dan Shamsia adalah berkemungkinan besar sebagai pasangan suami isteri kerana mereka tinggal di alamat rumah yang sama dan nombor MyKad kedua-duanya menunjukkan berasal dari Singapura.
Tidak mengejutkan bilamana ketiga-tiga syarikat ini mendaftarkan alamat perniagaan mereka pada alamat yang sama.
Memandangkan kontrak diberi secara rundingan terus walaupun terdapat keraguan tentang kemampuan syarikat tersebut (yang telah terbukti gagal) makin menguatkan lagi dakwaan Mohamed Salleh mempunyai hubungan baik dengan kepimpinan SPR.
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SCANDALOUS! SUBSTITUTING FOOD COLORING FOR INDELIBLE INK!
The Election Commission (EC) has said that there were “no chemicals” in its indelible ink that was used for the 13th general election.
In a parliamentary written answer to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut) today, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim said that all the chemicals in the ink were replaced by food colouring.
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TWISTED LOGIC, TWISTED MIND
Heng Seai Kie blames Ambiga for the indelible ink fiasco!
Who is Heng Saei Kie? She ran for GE 13 in Padang Serai and was thrashed by N. SURENDRAN (PKR) 34,151 votes to 25,714 votes.
Malaysia Chronicle
Thursday, 18 July 2013 22:33
MCA BEYOND REDEMPTION: Ambiga to blame for indelible ink fiasco – Seai Kie
Written by Heng Seai Kie
If PKR Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli wants to blame anyone for the hue and cry over the indelible ink, it should be former Bar Council president and current Bersih chairman Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan as she was the one who had initiated this idea and riled up the crowds to support her in this venture of hers.
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It is still maintained by the Elections Commission that the name of the ink supplier cannot be released. A ‘state secret’ so to speak.
Well, it has been revealed!
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Malaysian Insider
Rafizi repeats allegations about ink supplier outside the parliament
Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, who revealed in Parliament the identity of the supplier of the indelible ink and linked him to the leadership of the Election Commission, has repeated his statement outside the parliament where there is no immunity.
Rafizi repeated the name of the supplier and the company in the lobby after Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia rejected a motion to refer Rafizi to the rights and privileges committee.
He had advised the MP to repeat the allegations about the EC chairman deputy chairman and their purported ties outside the chamber.
Rafizi said he would and did it at an afternoon press conference in the lobby today.
He provided evidence that a company, which supplied hats to the EC, Nash Ventures Sdn Bhd, has links with the ink contractor.
Rafizi said a search at the Companies Commission revealed that a director of Nash Ventures, named by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim as the supplier yesterday, is also a director of Allisons Corp Sdn Bhd.
Mohamad Salleh Mohamed Ali is director of Allisons Corp and Integrated Challenger.
Rafizi had said Integrated Challenger was the ink contractor.
Rafizi repeats allegations about ink supplier outside the parliament
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Malaysiakini
PARLIAMENT The Dewan Rakyat has been given details of the supplier of the indelible ink used for the first time during the 13th general election in May.
Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan, right) cited information from “internal sources in the Election Commission (EC)” in saying that the contract for the ink supply was awarded through a direct tender.
He named both the companies and the businessperson who controls them, but Malaysiakini has withheld these details pending the right of reply.
Rafizi, when debating the Supplementary Supply Bill today, said the companies also supplied t-shirts and hats to the EC.
“(The businessperson) is an expert in direct negotiations. He got the ink contract, he even got a defence contract … because he is close to government leaders including the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the EC,” he said.
Malaysiakini has contacted the EC officials for comment, but has yet to obtain any response.Rafizi said Pakatan Rakyat had to conduct its own investigation after the EC and the government refused to name the supplier of the ink.
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However, despite the calls from Rafizi for the government to clarify the matter, Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan, in his winding up speech, was mum on the alleged indelible ink supplier.
Rafizi: Indelible ink supplier close to EC heads
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Malaysian Insider
RM7m ink bill a bigger issue than supplier’s identity, says Guan Eng
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said that the RM 7.1 million used to purchase the non-indelible ink for last month’s general election is of much greater concern than the identity of the manufacturer/supplier.
“It is ridiculous to say that the national security of Malaysia can be threatened or riots will take place if the supplier of the indelible ink was revealed but it is fine that RM 7.1 million of public funds was misused to mar an election? Which one sounds like a bigger worry here?” he said to The Malaysian Insider.
“So what more conspiracies do the people have to put up with over the matter?
RM7m ink bill a bigger issue than supplier’s identity, says Guan Eng
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Trio clash in ‘splat’ over EC’s ink fiasco
| Harakahdaily, | 27 June 2013 |
DIFFERENT STROKES OVER INK? … Tengku Adnan, Wan Ahmad and Shahidan
Jun 27: The controversy surrounding the ‘indelible’ ink used by the Election Commission on voters’ fingers in the recent general election looks set to continue as the commission and two cabinet ministers came out with contrasting explanations.
EC deputy chief Wan Ahmad Wan Omar today denied a parliamentary reply by minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim that the ink did not contain silver nitrate, the ingredient needed to make it stay on the skin.
“There is indeed silver nitrate,” Ahmad was quoted by Malay Mail online as saying. “It’s just that the EC is currently investigating the level of silver nitrate that was used by our supplier when the consignment bottles were sent to us.”
Even as he tried to convince the public, UMNO secretary general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, now the Federal Territories minister, said there was no need for indelible ink because “Malaysia is not a third world country”.
Shahidan yesterday claimed there was no chemical ingredient, only food colouring, in the ink, which was purchased by the government at RM7.1 million for the recent election.
“The durability of the ink is subject to individuals and the efforts taken to wipe off the ink. The test conducted by EC on May 2, 2013 had proved that the ink would last,” the former Perlis Menteri Besar said.
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On 5 May, I had licked the ‘indelible ink’ with my tongue. Now I know that it’s food coloring!
IT WASN’T FINGER LICKING GOOD BUT IT DIDN’T HARM ME…
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Malaysiakini
The Election Commission (EC) has said that there were “no chemicals” in its indelible ink that was used for the 13th general election.
In a parliamentary written answer to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut) today, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim said that all the chemicals in the ink were replaced by food colouring.
“No chemicals were used in the ink, they were instead replaced with food colouring ingredients which were approved,” the short answer read to a question as to why the ink did not last seven days as initially promised.
“The durability of the ink is subject to the efforts taken to wipe off the ink by individuals,” the reply said.
It also said that a test conducted on EC officials and media personnel on May 2 “proved” that the ink worked the way it was supposed to.
The EC has previously said that silver nitrate was used in the ink and was supposed to last seven days.
However, many individuals have complained of being able to easily wash off the indelible ink within hours of being applied.
Lim later laughed at the parliamentary reply in his Twitter account, noting that the indelible ink was now “edible” based on the reply.
One netizen who was bemused by the reply later tweeted in response, cheekily asking if the ink was “finger licking good”.
No chemicals, only food colouring in EC’s ink
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Malaysiakini
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Pakatan Rakyat has threatened to reveal the name of the company that supplied the ‘indelible’ ink to Election Commission if the commission continues to refuse to do so.
“We have already investigated, we know. Don’t wait too long or we will expose,” interjected Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan) in the Dewan Rakyat during Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s turn at debating the royal address today.
He alleged that his investigations have shown that the contract to supply the ‘indelible’ ink to the EC was given to a company owned by a Singaporean.
Rafizi (right) further claimed that the company which had neither experience nor funding, had to resort to taking a loan from a Kampung Baru businessman, to get the RM7 million capital needed for the transaction.
The Pandan MP was responding to an earlier interjection from Anthony Loke (DAP-Seremban) who mentioned that in a written answer to him from the Minister in The Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim, the commission cannot reveal the name of the ‘indelible’ ink supplier because of security reasons.
Name ink supplier or we will, says Rafizi
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EC’s ink story horrifies Ambiga, she calls for an inquiry
“I am horrified and shocked by this.” This was the reaction of Bersih co-chair Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan when asked to comment on the latest furore in Parliament today after it was revealed that food colouring had been used instead of chemicals in the indelible ink used to mark voters’ fingers in the May 5 polls.
EC’s ink story horrifies Ambiga, she calls for an inquiry
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