FREE: Last August, the Federal Lands Commissioner paid RM1.13 bil in rent for using some 186 land parcels across Malaysia. But the FLC had been using the same land parcels without any sort of rent before 2013. So why is it paying rent now and to whom?
Why does the Govt pay RM29 bil rent for its own land?
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A government-owned private finance initiative company is collecting rental from the Federal Lands Commissioner for land that the latter had always used for free. But why? In the first part of this series, KiniBiz explores a strange lease-and-sublease arrangement that made this happen.