Najib ignored advice from govt agency on ECRL, says Daim
Tun Daim Zainuddin has questioned whether it was a personal emissary of the former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who working on his own, was involved in direct discussions and negotiations on the old East Coast Rail Link contract. — Picture by Hari Anggara
“Was it prepared by the EPU as should have been the case, or was the EPU merely directed to adopt a paper prepared by another agency?” he asked. Daim said there were some feeble attempts to justify the old ECRL deal as being recommended by a McKinsey study that was presented to the Economic Council in 2015 and 2016.
Furthermore, in the findings and recommendations for the ECRL market sensing exercise commissioned by SPAD in June 2016, respondents had requested a period of 24 months to prepare submission bids, he noted.
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