KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The government has declassified two reports out of three special investigative reports on the Automated Enforcement System (AES) and the procurement of six littoral combat ships (LCS), Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin announced today.
She added the reports were by the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement and Finance (JKSTUPKK) reports that were previously presented to PAC.
“As for the JKSTUPKK report on land swap involving the Defence Ministry, that has yet to be declassified since the JKSTUPKK was dissolved.
“I have written to the Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said to ask that the report be declassified so that the PAC can review matters related to the land swap,” the Opposition MP for Masjid Tanah told a news conference at Parliament here this afternoon.
Last August, then PAC chairman Wong Kah Woh had criticised the government for not fully declassifying the JKSTUPKK report on the AES.
While the report was declassified on July 8, the names of the involved companies, Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd dan ATES Sdn Bhd, and ministers were redacted despite being public information.
On November 23, 2021, the then PAC presented its report recommending that the JKSTUPKK report, which was considered "Top Secret", be declassified.
In a similar call made, Wong in the August last year called for the JKSTUPKK report on the RM9 billion LCS completely.
The government at the time, according to Wong should avoid declassifying the report the same way it did with the AES project where various pieces of information were sealed in the name of “protecting the government’s interest”.
