Former navy chief says complaints about ship contract went unheeded

RM80k - The monthly remuneration that retiring Royal Malaysian Navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar would have received had he accepted a job offer as executive deputy chairman/managing director of Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC).

When Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar was about to retire in 2015 after serving for 40 years, he was offered the plum job of executive deputy chairman/managing director of Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC).

He said no to the offer, which would have included remuneration of more than RM80,000 (S$24,700) a month and other perks.

“I refused,” he said of being asked to take over from Tan Sri Ahmad Ramli Mohd Nor, then BHIC executive deputy chairman. “I refused and I said no.”

He told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC): “I did not want to go and eat my (earlier words).”

The PAC, which reports to Parliament, is a bipartisan parliamentary committee.

According to the testimony by Tan Sri Abdul Aziz, 66, he decided not to join BHIC because its unit, Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS), carried out actions that were allegedly against the interest of the navy.