115,000 pages of proof to show link to NKF
Weekend, August 12, 2006
— Lee U-Wen
A SECOND batch of documents has just arrived at lawyer Chia Boon Teck's office in KhattarWong, which he believes will be crucial in building his case against the new National Kidney Foundation (NKF) board.
Mr Chia is acting for his clients, former NKF directors Richard Yong, 65, and Loo Say San, 58. They are two of the five people whom the new board is suing in an attempt to recover an estimated sum of $12 million.
The 24 cartons — totalling some 115,000 pages — came from Mr Pharis Aboobacker in India, who is a personal friend of former NKF chief executive T T Durai and also implicated in this civil suit.
The documents, said Mr Chia, will help prove the legitimate "work done" by the two companies Mr Aboobacker owned, Forte Systems and Protonweb Solutions. These two firms had held contracts with the NKF worth some $7.5 million for call centre services and software development. Having received a first shipment of 17 cartons containing some 55,000 pages two months ago, Mr Chia said these latest documents are important as they contain the source codes for a software system that the charity wanted to install in 2001.
Part of Forte's $3.1 million contract was to release the full codes to the charity, which would allow the NKF to make future upgrades and amendments to the software.
"Without the source codes, they would have to run back to the service provider, who would charge an arm and a leg for every amendment. That's why they were so keen on Forte compared to the others," Mr Chia told Today.
NKF's contention, however, is that the software was eventually not delivered on time and Forte was said to have failed to meet contract specifications. The $3.1 million paid to them was finally written off.
There will be a pre-trial conference on Aug 29. Two days later, all parties including the plaintiff, defendants and third parties have to file and serve their lists of documents. The trial is slated to begin in January next year.
— Lee U-Wen
A SECOND batch of documents has just arrived at lawyer Chia Boon Teck's office in KhattarWong, which he believes will be crucial in building his case against the new National Kidney Foundation (NKF) board.
Mr Chia is acting for his clients, former NKF directors Richard Yong, 65, and Loo Say San, 58. They are two of the five people whom the new board is suing in an attempt to recover an estimated sum of $12 million.
The 24 cartons — totalling some 115,000 pages — came from Mr Pharis Aboobacker in India, who is a personal friend of former NKF chief executive T T Durai and also implicated in this civil suit.
The documents, said Mr Chia, will help prove the legitimate "work done" by the two companies Mr Aboobacker owned, Forte Systems and Protonweb Solutions. These two firms had held contracts with the NKF worth some $7.5 million for call centre services and software development. Having received a first shipment of 17 cartons containing some 55,000 pages two months ago, Mr Chia said these latest documents are important as they contain the source codes for a software system that the charity wanted to install in 2001.
Part of Forte's $3.1 million contract was to release the full codes to the charity, which would allow the NKF to make future upgrades and amendments to the software.
"Without the source codes, they would have to run back to the service provider, who would charge an arm and a leg for every amendment. That's why they were so keen on Forte compared to the others," Mr Chia told Today.
NKF's contention, however, is that the software was eventually not delivered on time and Forte was said to have failed to meet contract specifications. The $3.1 million paid to them was finally written off.
There will be a pre-trial conference on Aug 29. Two days later, all parties including the plaintiff, defendants and third parties have to file and serve their lists of documents. The trial is slated to begin in January next year.
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