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More Trouble for KL Airport Highway Amid Graft Scandal
The Straits Times
|September 09, 2025
Highway extension project has stalled since 2019
KUALA LUMPUR - A highway project that was once touted as a vital link to ease traffic to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) but has stalled since 2019 is now in deeper turmoil after a director of its developer was charged with corruption.
Maju Holdings director Abu Sahid Mohamed, once a key player in Malaysia's highway concessions, was charged on Sept 8 with four counts of criminal breach of trust involving RM313 million (S$95.2 million) and 13 counts of money laundering amounting to RM139 million (S$43 million).
The charges are linked to the unfinished construction of a 16.8km highway extension to the Maju Expressway (MEX) that would have connected the administrative capital Putrajaya to KLIA.
The offences allegedly occurred between 2016 and 2019, while he was a director of the company.
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