CHERAS: An aide to sacked DAP leader Jenice Lee is threatening legal action against the party’s DAP disciplinary committee chairman Tan Kok Wai if Tan does not substantiate his claim within 24 hours over misappropriated funds from residents.
Lee Hsuan Ba told reporters at the incumbent Teratai assemblyman’s office here on Thursday that he wanted Tan to show evidence for his claims made to the press, or else publicly apologise and retract his statements.
Failing this, Lee said he would take legal action against Tan for making wrongful statements against him and damaging his reputation.
Tan had, in a statement to the press dated April 24, accused Lee and Hsuan Ba of misusing funds collected from residents after agreeing to help them build a retaining wall.
The letter made available to The Star also stated two other complaints, including allegedly appointing Hsuan Ba’s company to supply promotional items using the state government’s allocation; as well as repeated accusations and attacks against the disciplinary committee.
Hsuan Ba clarified that the sum of RM32,000 collected from residents had not been to build a new retaining wall, but rather to upgrade an existing one to protect the residents living at the bottom of a slope from landslides.
“The residents and contractor hired to upgrade the wall can all testify that I had only held the sum (collected from residents) as a stakeholder, which I later passed to the contractor as payment for his work.
“It was them (the residents) who had requested for me to recommend a credible contractor for undertaking the project.
“The residents can also testify that I had not collected the sum through a company named BA Communications,” he said.
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