De Palma, not really Syariah Compliant

To make matters worse, the name Allan Mok appears as the same Marketing Manager on two different quotations for the purchase of walkie-talkies, Unicommercial Trading Sdn Bhd and Allwin Trading Sdn Bhd. Unicommercial Trading Sdn Bhd has a website but Allwin Trading is dealing in textiles and is not registered in Malaysia. 

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

At De Palma we offer you a new era of hospitality – the Syariah Compliant way, suitable for all walks of life especially Muslims, with facilities from comfortable rooms, halal restaurants, up to date meeting and banquet facilities to the provision of surau facilities with full time imam who leads the performance of daily prayers. De Palma Hotel Ampang is the only hotel in the country which is allowed to conduct Friday Prayers in its surau weekly. Our friendly staff will see to your needs whether on business or leisure. At De Palma, you will experience a truly Malaysian welcome…the Syariah Compliant way.

That is what De Palma’s website says, the chain of hotels owned by the Selangor State Government. De Palma may offer its guests Syariah Compliant or halal facilities, but the way the hotel is managed when it comes to procurement is not really Syariah Compliant or halal one bit.

The Head of the Procurement Committee cum Ketua EXCO De Palma is Hajah Roziah Ahmad. The way the hotel operates is they would obtain only two or three quotations from suppliers. Then the photocopied quotations instead of the originals would be given to the committee. Together with these photocopied quotations would be a brief summary regarding the companies with no other details or information.

Some quotations were not even signed while the company’s name would be typed at the column below using a different font. An example would be the quotations from Sharden Technologies Sdn Bhd and West Scott Sdn Bhd. Furthermore, one of the companies that De Palma deals with, Selvest Shwan Trading, does not have a business address but just a PO BOX address.

To make matters worse, the name Allan Mok appears as the same Marketing Manager on two different quotations for the purchase of walkie-talkies, Unicommercial Trading Sdn Bhd and Allwin Trading Sdn Bhd. Unicommercial Trading Sdn Bhd has a website but Allwin Trading is dealing in textiles and is not registered in Malaysia.

Some examples on how De Palma manipulates these quotations can be seen below:

Quotation for Chafing Dish, which has been jacked up ten times the market price

1.            West Scott Trading – Pandan Indah – RM1,890 per unit (10 units)

2.            Selvest Schwan Trading – PO Box – RM2,000+ per unit

3.            SCL Kitchenware – Jinjang – RM2,300+ per unit

Walkie-talkies

1.            Unicommercial Enterrpise – Sales Manager Alan Mok 019 333 5188

2.            Allwin Trading  – Sales Manager Alan Mok 019 333 5188

3.            Niceman Phone – Ampang Point

Chafing Dish 32 cm

1.            Aventis Marketing – RM1,000 per unit – De Palma Shah Alam

Contact person:

1.            West Scott – Justin

2.            Selvest Schwan – No name

3.            SCL Kitchenware – Ms Tan

CCTV – 10 units

1.            Shardern Technologies – Daniel Abdullah – quotation without signature.

Mengubahsuai Ruang Legar Tapas Lounge De Palma Ampang

1.            Adika Design – RM530k

2.            Remarkable Design

3.            Accuride

The three ‘different’ companies above are actually headed by the same persons, Callie Lim and Kelvin.