According to his boss Liu, Wong has not gone into hiding. Wong is being sought by the MACC to assist in investigations into alleged fund abuse by several State assemblymen.

Liu said Wong would hold a Press conference today at the Selangor State Secretariat building in Shah Alam to rebut claims in some blogs that he was on the run.

“I am telling you that he has not done anything wrong and he has not gone into hiding,” said Liu, who added that Wong had put his handphone on voice message mode as he did not want to be disturbed or speak to the Press.

This action, however, has not gone down well with the MACC that has been trying to get Wong to assist in investigations.

MACC investigations director Datuk Mohd Shukri Abdul said they had not been able to get in touch with Wong.

“We called his handphone but it was not answered. We also left messages at his office for him to contact us but nothing,” he said, adding that Wong should come to assist MACC’s investigation into the allegations.

Shukri, however, declined to confirm if Wong was involved in the MACC’s investigations into a company allegedly set up as a front to pay commissions to a Pakatan Rakyat component party, as was reported last Saturday.

Interestingly, Wong’s “disappearance” became a topic on some blogs after the MACC picked up two men in connection with the said company.

It had been reported that the two — a 22-year-old factory worker and a 50-year-old businessman — had handed over to the MACC certain documents allegedly showing money banked into the component party’s account.

An English daily reported that the MACC had identified the contractor who used the two men’s company to bid for contracts and in return, he would pay them 10 per cent of the total value of the contract for the use of their licence.

The contractor would then instruct the two men to bank in a certain amount into the account of the Pakatan component party.

Sources had revealed that the MACC’s investigations into alleged abuse of funds by several State assemblymen had gone one step further when the initial probe revealed that another contractor was awarded more than 230 projects in a certain district.

They had said the contractor, who is said to be linked to a State assemblyman, could not be traced and efforts  to reach him at his house, office and places where he frequented had proved futile.

The MACC wants to find out how only one contractor was awarded the contracts, said to be worth about RM500,000.

Shukri confirmed that the two were being treated as witnesses, not suspects. Liu denied Wong was the contractor who had used the two men’s company.

“He will tell all today at a Press conference. You can ask him then,” he said. “But before you do, I categorically deny that neither Wong nor I know these two people have been said to picked up by the MACC.”

How Wong came into picture

WONG Chuan How gained prominence when he was named by a blogger as allegedly having 84 community projects in Sungai Pelek, for which his boss Ronnie Liu is the caretaker, awarded to him.

The blogger, who started t4tbh.blogspot.com as a tribute to Teoh Beng Hock, claimed that Liu, and Teoh’s former boss, Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, were involved in stealing money meant for their constituencies.

On July 26, Wong, Liu and Ean Yong lodged police reports against the blogger and denied the allegations.
In his report, Wong said the 84 projects were actually given out by the previous Barisan Nasional State government leaders. A Malay Mail cross-check revealed that Wong had been involved in some of the community projects.

He had then admitted to the boo boo, but refused to amend the police report. Liu had also since admitted that cheques had been issued under Wong’s name — a procedure that he claimed was above board — before they are cashed out by him to make payments for various programmes in Sungai Pelek.