Ronnie Liu’s aide to be charged today
Written by Chua Sue-Ann, The Edge
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is expected to charge Wong Chuan How, an aide to Selangor executive council member Ronnie Liu, at the Shah Alam Sessions Court today.
Wong’s lawyer Cha Kee Chin, when contacted yesterday, confirmed that Wong had been ordered to appear today at the Shah Alam Sessions Court for mention of the charges against him.
Cha, who is Bukit Kepayang state assemblyman, said Wong is expected to face two charges but is yet to know the specifics of the charges.
The charges against Wong are believed to be related to MACC’s probe into the alleged misappropriation of state allocations for the Sungai Pelek constituency, which was under Wong’s supervision.
Wong had been quizzed over the matter at the MACC’s headquarters in Putrajaya on Aug 20 while Liu was similarly questioned over the case on Oct 23.
Meanwhile, Bernama reported that an MP, who is also a former Selangor assemblyman, was among three people nabbed by the MACC in Selangor yesterday on suspicion of corruption and cheating.
The other two were an assistant of the MP and a former aide of the Selangor menteri besar, MACC said in a statement here.
It said the trio, together with an aide of a Selangor state executive councillor (exco) and a director of a company, would be charged in the Shah Alam Sessions Court this morning for graft and cheating.
According to the statement, the MP had allegedly been involved in furnishing false claims when he served as an assemblyman with the assistant abetting in the matter.
The menteri besar’s aide is alleged to have cheated the head of a government-linked company (GLC) into paying RM50,000 for a function purportedly organised by the state government.
The aide of the exco is alleged to have submitted invoices containing false information to the Sepang district office while the company director allegedly furnished invoices for supply of goods for programmes carried out in the Teratai constituency to the Hulu Langat district office when in fact none were delivered.
