SAPP lodges police report against Johnny Mositun
concerning SAS
 KOTA KINABALU, 2 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has called on
the police to investigate whether Deputy State Speaker cum Parti Bersatu
Sabah (PBS) Information Chief, Datuk Johnny Mositun, is concealing crimes
committed involving Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS).
SAPP made the call after its Youth Chief, Edward Dagul, accompanied by
some party's youth members lodged a police report at the Kota Kinabalu
police head quarters at Karamunsing, here, today.
Dagul said the report aimed at calling the police to investigate the news
report appeared on Jan. 1, 2010 in the Daily Express quoting Mositun that
"SAS investors had bought the shares when Datuk Yong Teck Lee was Chief
Minister".
"This was yet another press statement by PBS leaders falsely accusing and
implying that SAPP President, Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, said to be
involved in SAS investment decisions.
"The last time SAPP lodged a police report so that investigations can be
carried out was on 26 June 2007 when Yong lodged the report himself so
that statements could be taken from two PBS leaders," he said.
He said Yong's report sought the police to take statement from PBS leader,
Chin Tet Ming, a lawyer by profession, who is reasonably suspected of
concealing information, facts and materials which might show the real
culprits behind the losses and possible manipulation of shares trading
involving SAS.
Dagul said it was in response to the press statement of Chin Tet Ming on
June 25, 2007.
He added that Yong also sought police to take statement from Information
Technology and Resource Development Minister, Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai, who
is believed to have engineered the accusations by Chin Tet Ming.
Dagul said Datuk Dr. Yee who is also PBS Deputy President is also widely
believed to have done all the fact finding and research on the SAS issue
but have not disclosed his findings for reasons known only to him.
As such, Dagul said SAPP Youth once again call on the authorities to
investigate and reveal all the facts concerning the SAS.
He said SAPP even when was still in the BN had openly and repeatedly
called on the government to comes out a White Paper, which will disclose
whether any mismanagement or crimes have been committed and if so, by
whom.
SAPP felt something was fishy when the BN state government has refused to
publish a white paper to reveal the dealings, transactions and management
of SAS from the time of its launching by the then Deputy Prime Minister
cum Minister of Finance on 10 October 1994 till now.
Is it because the BN government has something to hide or is it because BN
and UMNO leaders, including ministers at the state or federal level, have
their skeletons in the SAS records that the BN refused to publish a white
paper on the SAS? Dagul asked.
He said Mositun seems does not know or presume not know that the then
Chief Minister cum State Finance Minister during the launching of the SAS
in 1994 is a present senior UMNO leader.
"Does Mositun not know that Yong was never involved in SAS investment
decisions and never been a member of the SAS board? Does he not know that
many of the ministers from 1994 to 1999 are still in the cabinet today?
Why are they keeping quiet on the SAS issue? Why is it that only PBS
leaders are still harping on the SAS issue?" Dagul further asked.
He said it seems that Mositun does not have any information about the SAS
except to praise the current Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
He questioned why Musa has taken the special trouble to visit the
Christmas open house of Mositun in Papar but failed to attend the
Christmas open houses of PBS President cum Deputy Chief Minister and the
UPKO President, a federal minister.
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