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Instead of buying 28 new helicopters for RM1.98b, Malaysia wants to rent them for RM65b for 15 years?
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1, 2024: Fellow blogger MALAYSIAFLIPFLOP posted on Nov 11 an article titled “Corruption in the open and no minister dare to oppose”.
It involves the renting of 28 secondhand five-year-old helicopters for RM65 billion for 15 years and no warranty.
But 28 such new helicopters would cost only RM1.98 billion with three years warranty and easy access to spare parts.
What’s going on? Where's the Maths and common sense?
This reminds No News Is Bad News of the case of the Defence Ministry buying helicopters that are engineless in 2009!
Is it prudent or even wise to spend RM65 billion (instead of RM1.98 billion) and at the end of 15 years, you don’t even own them!
Your response and answer is as good as anyone!
No News Is Bad News reproduces below the blogpost and a 2009 report on helicopters with missing engines:
Corruption in the OPEN and no Minister dare to oppose
A new helicopter cost $13million to $16million.
16 x 4.41 = RM70.60 million.
28 new helicopters cost RM1.98 billion with 3 years warranty and easy access to spare parts.
Malaysia wants to rent second hand 5 years old 28 helicopters for RM16.5 billion for 15 years with no warranty and difficulty in getting spare parts. (1 helicopter RM589 million) Any repairs and mishap to be bore by Malaysia. The people handling this are the same rascal from Khazanah Nasional Berhad plus Zafrul, Khaled Nordin and VVIP.
SO HOW MUCH IS THEIR COMMISSION????
This is outright corruption of the highest order and Anwar believe by feeding own kind is the order of the day.
Will MACC and the new AG Dusuki even DARE TO TOUCH THIS PIECE OF SHIT?
Missing jet engines spark crisis in Malaysia
By Kevin Brown in Singapore
DECEMBER 22 2009
The Malaysian government is facing a fresh corruption crisis after officials admitted that two US-made fighter jet engines had disappeared from an air force base after apparently being illicitly sold by military officers to a South American arms dealer.
Najib Razak, prime minister, said there would be a full investigation of the thefts, which happened in 2007 and 2008, when he was defence minister.
However, opposition parties accused the government of covering up the incidents.
Lim Kit Siang, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Action party, said the authorities had been “super slow” and claimed that the prime minister’s response had painted “a frightening picture of a government of thieves”.
Idris Ahmad, spokesman for the allied Parti Islam SeMalaysia, said “powerful people” had been involved.
“We don’t want only the ikan bilis [anchovies] to be arrested while the sharks are allowed to swim freely,” he said.
The General Electric J85-21A engines, each worth about M$50m (US$15m), were spares for the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Northrop Grumman F-5E Tiger II fighters, which fly from the Butterworth air base near the country’s northern border with Thailand.
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, defence minister, said the engines and associated equipment were “believed to have been sent to a South American country” after being moved to the Sungai Besi air force base in Kuala Lumpur for maintenance.
The defence ministry would not identify the company or the country involved or comment on claims in the Malaysian media that the engines may have ended up in the Middle East. The F-5 went out of production in 1989 but is still flown as a trainer aircraft by US forces and is in frontline or reserve service with many foreign air forces, including that of Iran.
The defence ministry said several senior officers were being investigated.
General Azizan Ariffin, chief of the armed forces, said the engine thefts might have been “the tip of the iceberg”, raising the possibility that other military equipment might also have disappeared.
The disclosure of the thefts is a serious blow to Mr Najib, who has promised a crackdown on corruption as part of efforts to recover support for his long-serving National Front government, which lost many of its seats in a general election last year.
The prime minister last week unveiled a three-year action plan amid concerns about declining investor interest and the impact of Malaysia’s fall to 56th in the 2009 Corruption Index published by Transparency International – down from 47th in 2008.
Mr Najib has flatly denied any personal corruption, including opposition claims of involvement in an allegedly corrupt submarine deal while he served as defence minister.
Corruption charges were brought this month against a senior port executive and two other officials linked to a controversial development near Kuala Lumpur known as the Port Klang Free Trade Zone.
The arrests followed a damning parliamentary report that found widespread corruption and cost overruns at the project, which has run up debts of more than $1bn. - FINANCIAL TIMES
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