The Iskandar Puteri MP asked if MACC was aware of the over RM1 billion meant for the project that the PAC said was used for other purposes.

Lim pointed out that in October 2020, former deputy defence minister Liew Chin Tong had urged Putrajaya to investigate the missing RM1 billion linked to the project.

“The ball is now in MACC’s court to investigate each and every aspect of the spending and to tell the people whether the money was actually siphoned off and who had eventually benefited from it,” he said in a statement.

“Can MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki tell Malaysians what MACC is doing about the PAC report?”

Yesterday, the PAC revealed that the defence ministry and Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS) had ignored the navy’s views on the LCS project.

This involved the change from the Sigma model ships to the Gowind design after a proposal by BNS to then defence minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

“To quote then navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar at the time, ‘something was gravely wrong’ with that decision,” said PAC chairman Wong Kah Woh.

Wong said not a single ship had been completed although Putrajaya had spent RM6 billion over the project given to BNS through direct negotiations, and despite the fact that the navy should have received five of the ships by August.

On July 27, deputy defence minister Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz said MACC had completed its probe into the LCS scandal, with charges recommended to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

Following the release of the PAC report, defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein said his ministry will comply with all of the committee’s recommendations for the project.