SHAH ALAM: Deputy PKR president Rafizi Ramli expects the littoral combat ship (LCS) scandal to remain a major issue until voting day of the 15th General Election (GE15).
He said there was much more "dirt" to be revealed.
"I think, if the general election is held in the next two to three months, the LCS issue will not be over," he said.
He said this at a press conference after the PKR 2022 Election Convention here today. Also present was PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Rafizi was asked if there would be any other issues he would likely to disclose before GE15, following revelations involving the LCS scandal.
The former Pandan member of parliament said he was aware of the LCS issue for the past five months and had studied it before it was made public by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), earlier this month.
"I chose this issue not just for politics. It's also my hobby, because I actually like (being) like Detective Conan," he said.
Detective Conan is a Japanese detective manga series which follows Shinichi Kudō, a prodigious young detective who was inadvertently transformed into a child after being poisoned by two men in black.
On Aug 4, after a two-year probe comprising nine proceedings, the PAC announced nine conclusions as the cause of the LCS project's failure.
The Parliamentary Select Committee, among others, said the government had already disbursed RM6.083 billion for the LCS ships to Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS) which snared the project under direct negotiation, but no ships had been delivered to the Royal Malaysian Navy.
In addition, the government's viability study of BNS failed to detect the company's financial problems, resulting in the government having to pay an advance of RM1.36 billion to BNS, contrary to Treasury Circular No. 5 Year 2007 which was in force at the time .
