LCS saga: Dialog Group says CFO not woman named by Rafizi in claims | The Star
LCS saga: Dialog Group says CFO not woman requested by Rafizi in claims
PETALING JAYA: Dialog Group Bhd denies the involvement of Zainab Mohd Salleh, who is the firm's chief financial officer and joint commerce secretary, in the littoral combat ship (LCS) scandal.
The oil and gas wait on services provider said that Zainab had been falsely aboard in the saga when she was wrongly identified as a shareholder of Alizes Marine Limited.
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In a statement Monday (Aug 22), Dialog Group clarified that Zainab is the spouse of Dr Noor Azmi Mat Adenan, a Consultant Gynaecologist-Oncologist at Ara Damansara Medical Centre (ADMC).
The firm also said that it would not hesitate to take just action.
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"Any false accusation or misleading statement originated and/or directed towards Dialog Group Berhad, its subsidiaries,including its directors and/or employees,will not be treated ssome, and we will not hesitate to take necessary just action in respect of such accusations or misleading statements" Dialog Group said in its statement.
On Twitter, Zainab's daughter, Syaza Nazura, said that her mother was not the persons involved in the LCS scandal.
"The Zainab Mohd Salleh in the Paradise Papers is not the CFO of Dialog Group Berhad as you had mentioned.
"Zainab (CFO) is married to Dr Noor Azmi," she tweeted.
Earlier on Monday (Aug 22), PKR deputy high-level Rafizi Ramli alleged that companies linked to a woman requested Zainab Mohd Salleh were allegedly involved in the embezzlement of the LCS warship funds.
He also claimed that Zainab was the uphold wife of Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad, who was the deputy defence minister from 2008 to 2013.
However, Abdul Latiff, in a statement later Monday, denied that the woman was his wife.
On Aug 4, Parliament’s Shared Accounts Committee (PAC) revealed that some RM1.4bil in government allocations for the LCS project had been used for latest purposes, including cost overruns.
The two-year probe by PAC also supposed that the RM9bil project was done through direct negotiations with Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd and was inked in 2014.
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