“She is chauffeur-driven in an official four-wheel drive on duties and states her address in official documents as a double-storey corner terrace house in Kota Damansara. But she is also the owner of the low-cost apartment in Ara Damansara and happens to be a divisional director in the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ).

“By her own admission, she is not the only director who owns a low-cost flat. Questioned by a councillor, she charged that there are other ‘directors and deputy directors’ who own such properties.”

COMMENT | The above are excerpts from an investigative report published on May 20, 2010.

Subsequently, an internal investigation by MBPJ noted that the low-cost apartment was allocated to her as “a reward” by the previous exco member in charge of housing, Mokhtar Dahlan, for her role in the state government’s Setinggan Sifar (zero squatters) campaign by the BN government a few years earlier.

She was cleared because “she was not involved in any wrongdoing”, but what emerged was startling - a quota system in which BN assemblypersons were allocated units to be assigned to their deserving constituents.

This is where the rot set in and instead of constituents, the recipients were friends and cronies, most of whom lived in million-ringgit houses.