Disclose Ijok land deal agreements, See-To tells Selangor govt

PETALING JAYA: The Selangor government should disclose the three agreements from the RM1.18bil Ijok land deal, said Datuk Eric See-To.

The Barisan Nasional strategic communications deputy director said the disclosure would shed light on how third-party consulting companies received RM262mil from the land sale while 981 settlers only received a share of RM300mil.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is investigating the alleged involvement of two “crony” companies.

According to an August 2017 court judgment, See-To said the return of the Ijok land to the developers as well as who was entitled to a share of the RM1.18bil are contained in the settlement agreement, the supplemental settlement agreement and the consent judgment.

He clarified that the Ijok land deal controversy was not about a state government selling the land, but rather the motivation behind returning the land to the two alleged “crony” companies despite the government legally winning the first two cases pertaining to ownership of the land.

See-To’s remark was in response to an online portal’s report quoting the Selangor Mentri Besar’s Office strategic communications director Yin Shao Loong stating that the state government did not sell any land.

Yin said the land in Ijok was separated into two parcels – the first in Alam Perdana, which was reacquired by the Selangor government in 2010.

The second was Alam Mutiara and Alam Utama, which remained as private land.

Yin said it was the privately owned Alam Mutiara and Alam Utama, and not the stateowned Alam Perdana that was the subject of the RM1.18bil deal.

“The real question is not that Selangor sold the land, but why they returned it,” See-To said.

He questioned the process behind the land deal and if it was fair for the settlers to only receive RM3.13 per square foot for their land.

Meanwhile, Bernama reported the remand of four suspects, held to help investigations on the sale of 880ha of land valued at RM1.18bil in Ijok to several private companies, has been extended by four days.

Magistrate Nik Muhammad Hafiz Nik Mahmood ordered the men to be held until Wednesday.

Two other individuals, one of them with the title “Datuk”, were ordered to be released on RM2,000 bail each.

MACC had so far detained seven individuals in relation to the case.

The seventh suspect, a company director, who is also a Datuk, was arrested on March 21 after returning from abroad.