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Bernama/Bernama
June 19, 2020 16:42 pm +08
KOTA KINABALU (June 19): Former Sabah Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman today denied any wrongdoing during his tenure as chairman of Sabah Foundation (2003-2018).
His counsel Tengku Fuad Tengku Ahmad said Musa specifically denied that he had ever breached any of his fiduciary duties as the foundation’s chairman and that the allegations made against him earlier today are scandalous and utterly false.
“It is highly suspicious, irregular and improper to learn of Sabah Foundation’s alleged suit through a press release and the media. Normally, when you commence a suit, the claim and cause-papers are served on the defendant or his lawyer.
“In this case, neither Tan Sri Musa nor I have been served with any papers whatsoever. This is peculiar because surely it is not hard to find my office or Tan Sri’s house?” Tengku Fuad said this in a statement here.
He was responding to Sabah Foundation director Datuk Jamalul Kiram Mohd Zakaria who told a press conference this morning that the foundation had filed a claim against Musa to recover RM872 million belonging to the foundation which is alleged to have gone missing by way of a logging agreement.
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Durie Rainer Fong – June 19, 2020
KOTA KINABALU: State-owned Sabah Foundation has filed a suit against former chief minister Musa Aman in a bid to recover RM872 million that went missing during the latter’s tenure as the trustee’s chairman.
The foundation’s director Jamalul Kiram Mohd Zakaria said the board of trustees believed the funds had gone missing due to timber activities of a dubious nature.
He added that the board had filed the claim to the High Court here through the e-filing system on June 16, naming several others in addition to Musa and listing monetary transactions involving a number of offshore accounts.
The board’s lawyer, Douglas Lind, said the claim also involved the 46 corruption and money laundering charges against Musa which were recently dropped.
“There are other claims as well, but it involves some of those charges, too,” he said.
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