Selangor MB and Excos will declare personal and family assets

TheStar
SHAH ALAM: Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and members of his Exco will declare their personal assets as well as those under the names of their spouses and children below the age of 21.

He and the Exco members would also be making fresh declarations of current assets and holdings related to their personal interest every six months.

However, he added, only information related to the value of the assets would be made available to the public.

“But the Government and Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) can have the details of the assets. These will be made available to them,” he told a press conference after chairing the weekly Exco meeting.

Data pertaining to the assets would be kept at the state secretariat building, he added.

On former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo’s statement that he was clean, Khalid said that if one felt that his one's actions were right, one would say they were right; and if he one felt that one's actions were wrong one would say they were wrong.

Dr Mohd Khir had said that his conscience was clean, as he had discharged his duties as Mentri Besar without engaging in any dubious dealings that disadvantaged the state.

He was commenting on an SMS alleging that during his tenure as Mentri Besar he had bought a piece of temporary occupancy licence (TOL) land in Kajang for RM2 per sq feet and made the State Development Corporation buy it back at RM22 per sq feet, hence pocketing RM59mil.

On another matter, Khalid said approval would no longer be given for hillside development projects involving Class 3 and Class 4 slopes. (Class 3 slopes are those with an angle of 25° and Class 4 slopes with an angle above 35°

“But we have to look at 141 existing hillside projects which have been approved and are currently under construction,” said Khalid.

He added that he had also directed the Exco member in charge of local government Ronnie Liu to call a meeting of the relevant municipal and district council representatives as well as residents protesting against hillside projects to discuss the problems and issues at hand.