TWENTY City Hall personnel are being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly leaking information regarding a contract worth RM60 million.

Kuala Lumpur mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said the probe into the personnel, who are all from the same department, started yesterday.

In the meantime, DBKL has transferred the affected personnel to other departments so that they don’t interfere in the investigations.

“Every one of them has been transferred to other departments,” he told The Malaysian Insight in Putrajaya today.

The leaked list of approved contractors in a re-tender process to build and maintain works related to rivers and ponds in the city was published on Umno activist Zaharin Mohd Yasin’s blog.

Zaharin had accused Federal Territories Minister Khalid Samad of handing out contracts in the federal capital without tenders.

He claimed that Khalid had also cancelled tenders awarded by DBKL tender committee.

Khalid has said he would sue Zaharin for defamation.

Speaking to reporters earlier today, Khalid said he believed the list of contractors was released by those who failed to get the contracts for the projects.

The projects came with an allocation of RM2 million per contractor. 

Khalid said a group of contractors and DBKL personnel had formed a “cartel” to monopolise the projects.

“The usual practice was for the same contractors to be given the projects.” – January 30, 2019.