Phoong unaware of Sabah MACC probe into his ministry officials


KOTA KINABALU: State Industrial Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Datuk Phoong Jin Zhe (pic) claims that he is unaware of a probe being carried out by state graft investigators involving contracts and entrepreneur grants under the ministry.

However, Phoong said he was let the state Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) the matter, which was highlighted by the SabahBigMouth blog claiming that senior civil servants were being investigated over the alleged conflict of interest in the issuance of contracts for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) into the issuance of grants.

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