KUALA LUMPUR – Former People’s Progressive Party (myPPP) president Tan Sri M. Kayveas ignored the high court order to vacate the building, said current president Datuk Seri Maglin Dennis D’Cruz.
Speaking to Scoop, he said after Kayveas deregistered the party on January 14, 2019, the former president also transferred the ownership of the party’s building, which bears the name Wisma Tan Sri Kayveas at Kg Attap here, to Kayveas Holdings Sdn Bhd.
“The Insolvency (Department) contacted him many times to vacate the building since 2022, but he didn’t do it.
“What he did was a fraud because he did the transfer of the building after the party had been deregistered. So, he cannot sack me or transfer anything out of the party.
“The court order restricted him from coming near the office,” he said.
D’Cruz added that the building belonged to a company called Bintang Iradat (M) Sdn Bhd when he and 13 of myPPP members took the case to the high court here in 2022.
As they won the case, the high court ordered that the building be surrendered to the Insolvency Department instead.
“On April 11 this year, I was elected as president (myPPP), and the Home Affairs Ministry and ROS (Registry of Societies) endorsed my position as well as members of the party.
“Yesterday, we received the order that the Insolvency Department has reverted for us to take over the building,” he added.
Meanwhile, D’Cruz assured that after they managed to break open the locks, they went into the office only to take pictures and did not remove anything, such as office documents, from the premises.
D’Cruz lodged a police report at Dang Wangi station at 10.26am stating that Kayveas failed to vacate the premises and surrender it to the Insolvency Department.
He then lodged another report at 4.36pm, after breaking into the building, stating that they took photos of items that were left behind in the building as proof.
“Police also came and took pictures of the office. No items were confiscated,” he added.
D’Cruz added that the party members needed to utilise the office to carry out some work for the state elections.
He had also replaced a new lock and stationed two security guards at the premise.
Yesterday, Kayveas lodged a police report claiming that several members of the party, including Maglin, broke into and entered the party’s office.
He told Scoop that the tenant informed those individuals who claimed to have a court order for him to vacate the premise, which he said he did not receive.
Read Scoop as Kayveas responds to D’Cruz tomorrow. – August 4, 2023