Kuala Lumpur, Jan 25 – The fate of newly-appointed MIC treasurer-general Datuk R. Ramanan will be decided upon at the party’s central working committee (CWC) meeting next month, said party president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel.
“We have fixed our first CWC meeting in February. We will look into this matter,” he told Bernama via short messaging srvice (SMS) here today.
He was commenting on several calls from MIC leaders and an opposition leader to remove Ramanan, following his involvement in a fraud case.
Yesterday, the High Court here ordered Ramanan to return RM5.5 million to psychiatrist Tan Sri Dr M. Mahadevan, which he had fraudulently received from the defence ministry when “assisting” the psychiatrist to recover the payment, four years ago.
Judicial Commissioner Lee Heng Cheong, in his decision, said he agreed with Dr Mahadevan’s counsel that Ramanan had fraudulently misrepresented himself to the plaintiff, resulting in him to transfer the money into the defendant’s personal account on May 19, 2010.
Ramanan was ordered to pay the money within 14 days from today, but following his application, the court allowed an interim-stay of execution, pending an application next Monday.
The MIC will hold its first CWC for the term 2013/1016 after the party held its election on Nov 30, last year.
– Bernama
