Thursday, November 6, 2008

Parliament: Former judges paid RM10.5m ex-gratia

KUALA LUMPUR: Sacked Lord President Tun Salleh Abas and five supreme court judges who were suspended during the judicial crisis in 1988 were paid a total of RM10.5mil as ex-gratia payment.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz said Tun Salleh was paid RM5mil, Supreme Court judges Tan Sri Azmi Kamaruddin and George Edward Seah Kim Seng were paid RM2mil each, while Tan Sri Wan Hamzah Mohd Salleh and the late Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawanteh and the late Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdulcadeer were paid RM500,000 each.
Nazri said this Thursday in Parliament when he replied on behalf of Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department during committee stage.

tunku : wow, 5 million to salleh abbas......azmi 2 million. they were paid for bad things they have done.thanks to our good government under pak lah.the best part they were sacked but still getting pension plus the ex gratia payment.it's all the tax payers money,not pak lah's.

2 comments:

balan said...

That's what Pak Lah will continue to do before he leaves, reward all those who served HIM with tax payers money.

We are already seeing some exit strategy in the works at NST, ECM Libra etc.

Regards - Balan

http://balankumarpremakumaran.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

I HALALKAN THE EXGRATIA TO THEM