Guan Eng confident that corruption allegations on house purchase will be proven false

GEORGE TOWN: Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has welcomed the investigation by Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) on the purchase of his house in Jalan Pinhorn here.
He said he will cooperate fully with investigators over the matter and urged for a quick investigation.
“I am confident there is no element of corruption in the purchase of my house where there are attempts to linked it to the sale of state land in Taman Manggis,” he said in a statement.
Lim is under the spotlight after a Barisan Nasional (BN) parliamentarian alleged wrong doing in the purchase during parliamentary proceedings earlier this week.
Tasek Gelugor Shahbudin Yahya claimed the purchase price was under market value and tied it to the land sale.
Lim, however, remained nonplussed as he outlined five factors to underline his innocence in his statement.
Namely, the RM2.8 million house was purchased with a bank loan of RM2.1 million; the land was sold via open tender; the state tender committee was not chaired by him; the owner was not a shareholder or director of the company which won the bid for the land; an Umno leader had retracted and apologised to Lim over statements on the issue on Aug 19 last year.
“I await the MACC investigation with full confidence that the allegations will be proven false,” the DAP secretary general said.
In a separate function, Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Rahman Dahlan chided Lim for calling for a four-eye meeting tomorrow morning with Shahbudin over the allegations.
He said the matter was not personal and described the invitation as Lim being “melodramatic.”
“I ask that MACC to investigate into the matter,” the Umno supreme council member added in a press conference when asked by reporters on the issue.
In a related development, State Information division director Yap Lee Ying has lodged a police report on March 18 at the Jalan patani police station over a false Twitter message purportedly by Lim which has been going around social media.
She said checks on his official account showed no such message. She added that the fake message was "defamation made by irresponsible quarters."