The ACA has stopped the digging into Tourism Malaysia’s (TM) misused funds Korean scandal involving Toursim Minister Tengku Adnan Mansor.
The ACA's investigation trip to Seoul is cancelled. So we won’t know where the RM850,000 went and I’m sure the two involved TM officers are smiling. Maybe more people are smiling behind them too.
Adnan was implicated in the scandal but has since denied any involvement. Just after the TM scandal was exposed, the minister telephoned all TM directors directly wanting to know who were ‘the sources'. We will never know they were.
We are ordinary people and we know one of the minister’s jobs is the clear management of TM - not going around asking who the patriotic informers of the scandal were.
Last December Adnan's family had a three-week winter vacation in Japan and Korea.
Sightseeing, snow skiing, the works. Needless to say, expenses for the trip came up to roughly RM200,000.
We have to know who paid for this. Was it from Adnan's own pocket? By the ministry? Or by his business partners? Only the minister and his family will know.
Well, we can say easily the corruption classified as number one enemy of the Malaysia.
In the foreign countries, most allegations of corruption end up with cabinets and politicians sacked, having to resign, safely behind the bars, or even commit suicide.
But the corruption is still around us in Malaysia. Makes us so shameful to our next generations.
Last October, a TM advertising director made a trip to Korea. This person was supervising all the funds for TM’s advertising and promotion projects. Suddenly, he has now been transferred to another division.
Pak Lah, you have to instruct the ACA to proceed to Seoul and keep probing the TM headquarters here.
The Korean video scandal case is pretty serious but it’s just a tip of the iceberg.
If any of the involved officers are guilty, they should be fired and be made to repay whole amount of money they took. That, Pak Lah, is good governance.
Makan
Malaysiakini
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