PUTRAJAYA: Sungai Pelek assemblyman Ronnie Liu has lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) over an illegal plastic recycling factory allegedly operating in Sepang.
He said a high-ranking official of the Sepang Council had granted a six-month temporary licence to the company whose operations, he claimed, were emitting foul smell and caused a river behind it to be polluted, among others.
Liu claimed that the licence was issued without a development order or an Environment Impact Assessment report.
He said council members of the Sepang Municipal Council had rejected the granting of the licence during a meeting on May 28 but the official declined to retract it.
He said before Hari Raya, he met the official who promised the factory would be closed but it did not happen.
He met the official again after Hari Raya and said the man promised him that the factory would be closed within a week.
“As of two days ago, the factory was still operating,” he said at the MACC headquarters here yesterday.
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