By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
The Defence Ministry received an additional RM493.3 million allocations this year, and said today the amount was needed to maintain the country’s two Scorpene submarines.
The additional amount raises the ministry’s total budget to whopping total of RM11 billion.
“The main purpose is to maintain our Scorpene submarines as that expense was not included in the budget,” The Star quoted Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as saying.
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