COMMENT | PKFZ: Standing monument of shame and deceit

COMMENT | Dwarfed by the colossal 1MDB scandal in 2015 by the quantum and the personalities involved, another multi-billion-ringgit scandal appears dormant and consigned to the history books.

It does not mean something like this can be brushed aside although the protagonists were identified and named but never held responsible and accountable.

A voluminous report commissioned by then transport minister Ong Tee Keat and produced by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) pointed out every commission and omission in what was supposed to be a replica of the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai.

The long list of administrative wrongdoings was overshadowed by blatant deception and forgery...