OCM president Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar and Samsung Malaysia managing director and chief executive officer Min Yong Ho lift a replica of the torch to be used in the relay towards next year’s Olympics.
THE Yap Yee Yin issue or cases similar to it, at least as far as Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) president Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar sees it, should not occur in the future.
Tunku Imran, opting not to comment in detail over the matter, said the National Sports Council (NSC) and National Sports Institute (NSI) should be given time to settle the problem since both bodies are still in the midst of restructuring.
"It may be due to the two bodies being in the midst of restructuring. But in any case, it is under the Anti-Corruption Agency’s (ACA) investigation, so I dare not comment too much on this," said Tunku Imran yesterday at the launch of Samsung’s campaign to select 18 Malaysians to be part of the Olympic Torch Relay in Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur is one of only 23 cities worldwide selected to be part of the relay which ends at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, China next year.
The Games itself, however, thus far has seen just five Malaysians who have qualified.
In answering questions over Shu Wai’s retirement and its relation to possibly a similar issue as Yee Yin’s, Tunku Imran maintained that Shu Wai’s retirement was due to his own reasons.
"Shu Wai retired due to his own personal reasons. Yee Yin’s case, I would think, is a one-off thing.
"Like I said, there is a lot of restructuring going on in NSC, and they are having a lot of changes in personnel, so that my be the reason why this has happened," said Tunku Imran.
Former gymnastics coach Yee Yin yesterday met with ACA officials at their headquarters in Putrajaya, where she submitted evidence over her allegations of malpractice within the NSC.
The evidence was over allegations that Yee Yin was overpaid her salaries for over a year, amounting to RM18,200, despite rejecting a contract renewal offer from NSC, produced by a third party who acted as an agent between the NSC and herself.
That was as a follow-up to Sports Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said’s call last Wednesday for the ACA to investigate these allegations as her response to Yee Yin’s memorandum which was submitted to her on Aug 27.
Yee Yin is due to meet the ACA again tomorrow, after which she was told that the investigation proper will begin.
New Straits Times
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