'Unsafe firesuit': MACC zooms in on supplier's ownership
MACC is investigating the ownership of a firm which supplied 6,000 fireproof suits to the Fire and Rescue Department in 2016.
This is in relation to the investigation to determine if the suits are fake and do not comply with the department's standards.
Sources said the commission is checking if the two Malaysian women listed as shareholders and directors of the firm are proxies...
MACC is investigating the ownership of a firm which supplied 6,000 fireproof suits to the Fire and Rescue Department in 2016.
This is in relation to the investigation to determine if the suits are fake and do not comply with the department's standards.
Sources said the commission is checking if the two Malaysian women listed as shareholders and directors of the firm are proxies.
“From the information received, we believe that the company could belong to someone else,” one of the sources told Malaysiakini.
Malaysiakini also purchased the company's profile from the Companies Commission of Malaysia.
The profile revealed that the company was incorporated in 2006. Its nature of business was stated as "to carry on the business of manufacturing berets, yarns and textiles related products."
It was initially registered using another name, before changing to the current name a year later.
The profile listed the two women, in their 40s, as holding shares in the firm amounting to RM50,000.
When Malaysiakini contacted the company, a man who was said to be a manager, declined to comment.
Checks by Malaysiakini on the list of tender decisions by the Housing and Local Government Ministry in 2016 found that only one company was awarded the project to supply the suits that year.
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It stated that the ministry made the decision in a meeting on June 10, 2016, to award the project to the private limited company, whose registered address is in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.
The exact amount for the tender was RM13,590,000, or RM2,265 for each of the suits.
Open tender process
Meanwhile, a former high-ranking Fire and Rescue Department official told Malaysiakini that the supplier obtained the contract in 2016 through an open tender process.
He added that the firm was a new supplier in providing firefighter clothing.
"If I am not mistaken, the problem is that the company (allegedly) did not supply the suits according to specification.
"During the tender process, there was no problem. But upon delivery, the company gave (suits) that were not the same (as the sample) during the tender process," said the officer, who was still in service at the time.
Editor's Note: Malaysiakini is withholding the name of the company and its shareholders as the matter is still under investigation.
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