PETALING JAYA: A former Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) engineer is expected to be charged on Monday in connection with the Port Klang Free Zone scandal. Sources told The Malay Mail that the man, Law Jenn Dong, had left the company in September last year.

KDSB deputy executive chairman Datuk Faizal Abdullah said the company respected the process of law and would continue to co-operate with the Attorney-General's Chambers, the police and the MACC on the PKFZ issue.

"As far as we are concerned, we still feel that it is a matter of differences in opinion on certain issues in the agreement between KDSB and the Port Klang Authority (PKA) which the Attorney-General and police see differently from us," he told The Paper That Cares yesterday.

"We are not complaining, neither are we happy at this point. But we expected this to happen, especially after the issue was blown up. We will give our full co-operation to the authorities on this issue."

At a Press conference yesterday, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail had said more people would be charged over the Port Klang Free Zone scandal, with several expected to face the court next week.

Yesterday, former Port Klang Authority general manager Datin Paduka Oi Choo Phang, better known as O.C. Phang, along with architect Bernard Tan and KDSB chief operating officer Steven Abok were charged at the Klang Sessions Court with criminal breach of trust (CBT).

They were the first batch to be charged two years after suspicions surfaced about shady deals behind the construction of the country’s landmark PKFZ.

Abdul Gani had said his office, together with the police and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), had been conducting joint investigations into PKFZ the past several months.

He added that the three authorities involved had questioned all those connected, including politicians, civil servants and lawyers.

“There are lots of issues involved — legal and factual - that involve money laundering, commercial crime and corruption which are being investigated. These are not only complex but require substantial amount of manhours of evidence gathering.

“To this end, both the MACC and police have joined forces in working together to comb and sieve all materials available to establish a case against the perpetrators," he said.

Gani said the authorities would charge more people in stages. "The charges are just the beginning. Those charged must be made answerable for their roles and actions.

"I decided to prefer charges against these individuals today (yesterday) as I cannot wait for the authorities to complete their investigations into the whole scheme as that would take a long time.

"The charging of other individuals will come in stages.”