Gerakan lodges MACC report over Penang’s funding for comics museum


Archive pic by: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star/ 2 June 2019.

GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) yesterday (Nov 26) to probe the Penang government’s allocation to the Asia Comics Cultural Museum to pay for the museum’s rental fee.

Penang Gerakan vice-chairman H’ng Khong Leng on Friday (Nov 27) said it was announced in the state assembly sitting on Oct 12 that the state government had allocated RM413,940 for the museum’s rental fee for 2020.

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