IPOH (BERNAMA) – The Sungai Tumboh Development Cooperative (KPST) in Malaysia yesterday lodged a report to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), alleging abuse of power following the eviction and invasion of land cultivated by KPST in Seri Iskandar in an incident on September 27 last year.
KPST chairman Zainudin Norhan claimed that as a result of the land invasion and eviction, which also caused the destruction of crops, the cooperative, which is made up of small palm oil farmers, could no longer continue cultivating the land that had been worked on for over a decade.
“There is a possibility of an under-the-table transaction related to the ownership of the land we were cultivating because, before the invasion, a transaction of MYR4 million was deposited into the cooperative’s account.
“It was said to be compensation provided by a third party (developer), yet we, the board members and other members of the cooperative, never agreed to any such arrangement.
Therefore, we request that MACC investigate how this thing could have occurred,” he told a press conference outside the Perak MACC office yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Humanitarian Organisation (MHO) secretary-general Datuk Hishamuddin Hashim, said their organisation has also called for an investigation by MACC into the land invasion and eviction, which was alleged to have occurred without any notice or court order.
