8 vehicles belonging to Bentong District Council were sealed after the Local Authority defaulted in their payments amounting to RM213,732.42 to a contractor who was awarded a contract to install lightings at the council building which was completed on July 27, 2004.The contractor, EST Enterprise Sdn Bhd was granted a judgment dated Jan 12 this year by the Sessions Court who had directed the local authority to pay up the judgment sum. Despite the judgment, the local authority had failed to settle the judgment sum. EST then obtained a writ of seizure and sealed the 8 vehicles including a skylift, tractor, van and 4-wheel drive vehicle.
Pity the local council. they had collected taxes, quit rents and can't pay the contractors. the government just did not have the ability to contained the leakages and pilferages of those billions. The funny thing is that our government is able to bail out PKFZ for RM4.6bil but unable to pay RM213,000. Maybe, local councils are allowed to go bankrupt but not Kuala Dimensi as it is owned by some high profile UMNO leaders.
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Doc, according to the 2006 AG reports, All state government are running in deficit and owe federal from tens to millions to billions ringgit.
cut all salary. no increment. no bonus. no OT. all tenders monitored by opposition parties.
The AG reports on sarawak.. The contract for replacement of bridges ( stata funded ) is overrun by 72% i.e about addional 400 million. This addional fund supposed for all the local councils development fund. Big leaking in Sarawak..
about sarawak, its known one of the major contractors is now "advised" by the big "Ting". How he screwed the suffering shareholders of Ekran! For his terrible records in corporate governance, well the company under his advisory services, still enjoys largesse of the State of Hornbill.
Bankruptcy for Kuala Dimensi? you must be kidding. In Bolehland, the company is now being awarded another multi-million contract for flood mitigation in KL. can you beat that?
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