SHAH ALAM: Investigations into Gempita and Adnan deals. Two company officials have been remanded by the Anti Corruption Commission in connection into investigations into the supply of equipment destined for military vehicles.
From the Star.
PUTRAJAYA: Graft investigators are to question more people in a further probe into alleged bribery in awarding projects to supply equipment for military armoured vehicles valued at RM17mil.
Investigators are not discounting more arrests as they delve deeper into the case, following the arrests and remand of two company officials who they believed had accepted bribes to approve the projects.
The two are the company’s chief executive officer as well as its chief financial officer who were arrested at the Malaysian-Anti Corruption Commission headquarters when they were ordered to be present to have their statement recorded.
The 45-year-old CEO was arrested at 10pm on Sunday while the CFO, a 53-year-old woman, was detained later at 11.50pm on the same day.
It is interesting to note that Malaysiakini on the same issue, reported that the CEO is 53 and the CFO as 45. As reported above it is likely more people will be rope to help in the probe.
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This incident could be used to really review the real cost of the Gempita, minus all the R&D and Industrial preparation costs, to get a better deal for future Gempita Batch 2.
Agreed. Am looking at this positively. The CEO and CFO accepted the bribes but this doesn't discount the fact the Gempita, for one, is a very good 8X8. So am also eagerly waiting for a Batch 2 (if that's possible) to be better prices sans any bribe or gift money!
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They are being investigated, period, a court need to find them guilty first before we could say they are guilty of bribes.
It will be good to lessen down the 20% commision seeker but will never totally rid out of it.
Good news. Currently rhe money if really given eould be included as cost n our defence forces are buying equipment with an inflated price. Retender for the supply n I am sure the cost would be cheaper sans any grease money
this will be interesting to see...even Adnan deal also got probe...
@Lee Yoke Meng
Grease money will only go from right pocket to left pocket.
Could kill any further purchase of Adnans and Gempitas though. The current govt aversion to arms deal and bribes is too damn high.
@ wan
Adnan is too lightly armoured for future conflicts. So no to more adnans. Would love to have brand new tracked IFVs to replace the adnan with higher armour protection. But the adnan is still quite new and replacing this is beyond what the government can afford now.
IMO we should continue buying a few more gempitas, to create a totally wheeled IFV force with the 4 Briged Mekanize. A number of around 400 (so that means another 150 or so for batch 2) would be good for 3x mechanised infantry battalions and 4x armoured cavalry regiments.
Pendekars and adnans/mifv then used for a new all tracked armoured brigade (probably convert 1st infantry brigade into an armoured brigade as planned by the army around 2013).
Wont it be better if we structured the whole army like usmc marine expeditionary brigade with some tweeks except for the 10th para?
1x mbt/light tank company
1x armored reconnaissance company
- uses the av8
3x infantry battalion
- uses the lipanbara & utility vehicle (vamtac & gk-m1)
1x artillery battalion
- 1 155mm self-propelled howitzer company
- 2 105mm towed howitzer companies
1x air defense company
- 6x rapid ranger on vamtac
1x engineer company
1x reme company
1x signal company
1x supply company
1x medical company
1x mp company
And better if maybe under each brigade, they can get an attached aviation squadron made up of 4x utility heli (nuri or h225m in the future)
Just my sekupang. No need for having wheeled mechanized or tracked mechanized infantry. Standardized for every infantry brigades.
What do you think?
@ nihd
We have like a dozen brigades. We cannot afford to and have no need for all brigades to be on wheels/tracks. Our army as a whole is basically a defensive formation, not an expeditionary offensive force like the USMC.
Some items, like artillery and most cavalry (armoured recce) forces are attached at divisional, not brigade levels.
IMO with limited resources that we have, this is what we can do.
- Maintain 10PARA as our main strategic response unit.
- from our 5 available divisions, 1x division to be a completely mechanized with MBT/AV8/ADNAN/MRAP. For 1st and 5th division in sarawak and sabah, each to have 1x cavalry regiment with AV8 and 1x mechanized battalion with MRAP.
- Adopt USMC system of "pre-positioned equipment" in sabah. Probably 1 squadron/company worth of Pendekar/adnan/AV8 stored in sabah and available for any mechanized/armoured units to use. Ready hardwares in location but no need for additional manpower to be sourced. This reduces reaction time and reduces the need to deploy equipment from locations in peninsular malaysia.
http://www.candp.marines.mil/Organization/MAGTF/Marine-Corps-Pre-Positioning-Program-Norway-MCPP-N/
- the division to be fully mechanized/armoured would be the 3rd Division, tasked with defending the lower half of the peninsular. This is how it would look
https://www.malaysiandefence.com/latest-gempita-variant-to-enter-service/#comment-373426