GEORGE TOWN: The Attorney-General’s Chambers has closed a police case into an alleged false statutory declaration (SD) over the purchase of a bungalow by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
Penang police chief Datuk Abdul Ghafar Rajab said yesterday the Attorney-General decided a few days ago that there was ‘no further action’ in the case into the SD made by Phang Li Koon who sold what is claimed to be an undervalued bungalow to Lim.
He said the decision was after the Attorney-General scrutinised the outcome of the investigation conducted by the Penang and Bukit Aman police.
“The prosecutor has decided that there is NFA (no further action) in the case … so the clase is closed. The decision was made two or three days ago,” he told reporters after attending the monthly assembly at the Penang police headquarters here yesterday.
The police opened an investigation against Phang after several quarters lodged police reports claiming inaccurate information in Phang’s statutory declaration.
Phang was called to give a statement at the North East District Police headquarters.
The purchase of the bungalow in Jalan Pinhorn here by Lim for RM2.8 million became a controversy after Tasek Gelugor MP Datuk Shabudin Yahaya disclosed in the Dewan Rakyat that the price was below the market value.
Shabudin had reportedly claimed that the value of the bungalow was in the range of RM6 million to RM6.5 million.
It was also claimed that the purchase of the bungalow was connected to the sale of a piece of land in Taman Manggis that had been reserved for a housing project for the poor.
Phang had made the statutory declaration on March 22, stating that she had not surveyed the market when she decided to sell the house to Lim as she did not think it was necessary.
She also said that she had no business relationship with the state government. — Bernama