Opposition seeks graft probe

Opposition seeks graft probe

MALAYSIA: An opposition leader called on Tuesday for a police investigation into claims that Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik had allegedly obstructed a graft probe.

Democratic Action Party (DAP) president Lim Kit Siang said the case against Ling, who heads the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), came to light following remarks by businessman Soh Chee Wen who previously had intricate business dealings with Ling's family.

Soh, who was sought for three years by the authorities in connection with commercial crimes, returned to Malaysia last month where he was immediately charged with fraud.

Soh allegedly told Internet newspaper Malaysiakini in an interview last week that he had been told by Ling not to implicate him in an Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) probe into how the politician's son could have embarked on billion-dollar corporate acquisitions at the age of 27. --AFP