Whistleblower website Sarawak Report today released further documents to rebut Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman's denial that he has anything to do with timber middleman Michael Chia.
The documents posted in response to Musa's ( left in photo ) denial yesterday show that Chia has a standing order with his bank to deposit several thousand US dollars for the CM's sons studying in Perth, Australia.
The documents are said to be from a leaked Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) dossier compiled during a 2010 investigation which did not end in prosecution.
Chia's bank account was also receiving deposits of hundreds of thousands of US dollars from a Hong Kong based company, Borion Enterprise, mostly owned by Sarawak timber tycoon Ting Pek King.
"This begs the crucial question as to why the Ting Pek King family were paying large sums of money into Micheal Chia's bank accounts? Accounts that were being simultaneously used to fund Musa Aman's boys in Australia," it said.
Sarawak Report links Ting to the Sabah timber industry through his cousin Simon Ling.
The website showed documents supporting claims that Ling is managing the “inexperienced” Chia’s timber businesses, which the latter is said to own by proxy through his alleged mistress Yap Siaw Lin.
Kickbacks for a political fund
A transaction from Chia's bank account in 2005 also raises suspicion.
“In September 2005 the account’s hefty balance of US$8.5 million was cleared by two major withdrawals in one day in favour of Angel Face Consultancy. That is a lot of consultation in just one day!” it said.
Sarawak Report claims that Angel Face Consultancy is a British Virgin Island company owned by Musa.
The website also produced a letter by a timber concessionaire Agus Hassan complaining that he cannot start work because Chia, acting as a middleman, was demanding kickbacks.
In the 2004 letter addressed to Yayasan Sabah, of which Musa is the chairperson, Agus said Chia was demanding, among others, “a few million ringgit” for a “political fund”.
The letter was produced as evidence at the Sabah High Court in a separate case against Chia for alleged cheating.
Malaysiakini has repeatedly contacted MACC for comment but failed to get a response.