KUALA LUMPUR - Speculation is rife that the next big fish to be hauled up and charged over the PKFZ scandal is Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong.

According to a local news web portal, Malaysia Today, "leaked documents" deposited with the prosecuting authorities had linked Wee, who is MCA Youth chief, to the scandal through his involvement in a consulting firm known as Hijau Sekitar Sdn Bhd.

The web portal alleges that documents show that Hijau Sekitar Sdn Bhd did consultancy work for Wijaya Baru Sdn Bhd on "the feasibility of a new port facility on reclaimed land at the mouth of Selat Lumut in Port Klang" in 2006.

Wijaya Baru, it said, is the parent company of Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd, the turnkey contractor which" made PKFZ into a goldmine."

Further, the news portal claimed that Hijau Sekitar, established in 1992, is owned by Wee Ka Siong, who has 49,998 shares. The remaining shareholders are one Lim Kit Siong (50,001 shares) and Wong Woon Ping (1 share).

On Dec 10, the former Port Klang Authority general manager, OC Phang was charged in the Klang Sessions Court with three counts of criminal breach of trust.

Also charged were were Bernard Tan of BTA Architect on two counts of CBT and 26 counts of cheating, Kuala Dimensi chief operations officer Stephen Abok with two counts of CBT amounting to RM5.4mil. and Law Jenn Dong,the former project director of the PKFZ turnkey contractor,with 24 counts of corruption.

Seven boxes of documents

However, according to the report, the plans by Wee and two of his cohorts went awry after Transport Minister and MCA president Ong Tee Keat "messed up the grand design by opening the can of worms" that became known as the PKFZ scandal.

The report further says that the Attorney-General's Chambers and the MACC "are now poring through seven boxes of documents, seized from the Port Klang Authority's office on Dec 4, to determine the extent of how much Wee breached the Official Secrets Act by acting on classified information."

Highly-placed sources said Wee will also be charged for economic plunder and grand larceny in the first two weeks of 2010, the web portal reported.