{"id":6247,"date":"2009-12-23T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T01:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2009-12-23T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T03:06:07","slug":"low-ranking-staff-involved-in-military-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/12\/23\/low-ranking-staff-involved-in-military-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"low ranking staff involved in military theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Defence Minister said <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/12\/23\/nation\/5352833&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>He said investigations had so far revealed that low-ranking officers were involved in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose directly involved in the case were enlisted men with the rank of sergeant and below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, no high-ranking officers have been implicated but should any be found to be involved, action will be taken,\u201d he told reporters after launching buses of the National Service Training Department at Wangsa Maju here yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t really agree with the idea of low ranking staff being involved. This would be the audit team did not do its work properly, there&#8217;s no proper measures to check inventories, etc. Definitely someone should be in charge of all this procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also clarified on the cost of the engines:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>Dr Ahmad Zahid also confirmed that two engines were stolen, with each costing RM50mil if they were new.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut since they are not new, the value has depreciated,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was pointed out that the plane may cost less than the engine itself if it was indeed RM50 million. Not sure how true that is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then, he focused on bloggers:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>\u201cI do not want bloggers to try to distort any facts with all sorts of speculation and analysis on the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think he should first ask the media to report properly. He should also ensure the official statements are accurate and detailed. Who mentioned the engine costs RM50 million? Was it bloggers? Who said brigadier general and 40 others were sacked? Bloggers too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Minister said this: He said investigations had so far revealed that low-ranking officers were involved in the crime. \u201cThose directly involved in the case were enlisted men with the rank of sergeant and below. \u201cSo far, no high-ranking officers have been implicated but should any be found to be involved, action will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,225],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-crime","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}