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Published: Friday December 3, 2010 MYT 8:36:00 PM
Malaysian firms cleared of involvement in missile technology scam
By JOSHUA FOONG
PUTRAJAYA: The two Malaysian companies implicated by Wikileaks as being involved in a network controlled by Iran to purchase missile technology from China have been cleared of any wrongdoing and pose no threat to national security.
“We have been monitoring these two companies since 2008 and from our observations, they are of no threat to national security,” Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said at a press conference here Friday.
Claiming that reports on the whistleblower website Wikileaks were not new, Hishammuddin said the more surprising thing was speculation that the Malaysian government was not doing more to stop the two firms.
“If they (international agencies) have any doubts or new information, why not just ask us instead of communicating and speculating among themselves?” he asked, adding that the ministry is in contact with the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Hishammuddin also said his ministry had been given full cooperation and spoken to the directors of the two companies. The ministry is working closely with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the Defence Ministry and the Foreign Ministry on the case, he added.
