Plans of the Malaysian oil company Petronas for the sale of its share in the Azerbaijani gas project Shah-Deniz threatened to cause a political scandal in Kuala Lumpur.
Recall that the Malaysian Petronas reached an agreement with the Russian “LUKOIL for the sale of 15.5% of the share in Shahdeniz gas project in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. The amount of the transaction is $ 2.25 billion.
Information on the release of Petronas from the largest project on the Caspian caused numerous questions from the country’s opposition. The opposition leader Datuk Seri Anvar Ibrahim filed a petition for convening an emergency meeting of the Malaysian Parliament to discuss the details of this transaction.
“This is a very important question concerning national interests. It is dangerous and can affect the future of Petronas and in the whole of the Malaysian economy,” he said during his today’s speech in Parliament.
Speaker of the Malaysian Parliament Azhar Azizan Harun agreed with the opposition leader in that this question is public interest and stated that the issue will be heard in the Special Chamber of Parliament.
Datuk Seri Anvar Ibrahim tried to insist that the question was put into general hearings, but the speaker of the parliament said that the hearings will be recorded and then submitted to the public.