I am amazed at the turn that the Perwaja Steel scandal has taken as I was the one responsible in tabling the Pricewaterhouse preliminary report in Parliament in December 1996 which, in prima facie, incriminated Eric Chia.

Incidently this was the beginning of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's enmity towards me.

It is incredible that all that the attorney-general could come out with is the phantom company in Hong Kong and RM76 million. These details were already spelt out in the said report and thus clearly in public domain.

Subsequently the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) investigated Perwaja and by late 1997 had established that there was sufficient evidence to charge Chia.