In a Facebook post, Asyraf said that the report will shed light on the mastermind behind the corruption and misappropriation that plagued the company.

“I wonder who is the opportunist and who masterminded the delay (in the delivery of the ships). Let’s wait and see what the forensic audit will reveal,” he said.

Asyraf said he was informed by Hishammuddin that he had ordered BHIC to declassify the report.

He said they had met after a Barisan Nasional meeting in Johor this evening.

BHIC is a major shareholder of Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS), the defence ministry’s contractor to build six frigates in the littoral combat ship programme.

On Wednesday, Putrajaya had declassified a report on the project by the governance, procurement and finance investigation committee.

It came two weeks after Parliament’s watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, released a report into the troubled RM9 billion project, which has suffered years of delays.

Earlier this week, former BNS managing director Ahmad Ramli Mohd Nor was charged with three counts of criminal breach of trust involving RM21.08 million.