Kelana Jaya MP Wong Chen has expressed his unhappiness and dissatisfaction with the way an audit was carried out on his service centre by the Selangor state treasury.

The audit, which examined the spending of his Kelana Jaya office for 2014 and 2015, took place in March 2016 without his knowledge, Wong Chen complained.

"At all material times, my office was not aware of the audit. The Selangor state treasury made no attempt to inform us, visit my office, or seek clarifications from my staff.

"The audit was done mysteriously and without due process and natural justice," he said in a lengthy Facebook posting today, adding that he received the audit report on Feb 2, 2017.

As his annual RM250,000 budget for his constituents goes through an administrative process involving the Petaling district and land office, he thought the state treasury must have visited those offices instead.

However, he said, when he met later with the Petaling district and land office district officer and finance officer, they did not have any recollection of any such audit visit to their office.

"Despite the continuing mystery of how the audit actually took place on March 1 to 3, 2016, my main quarrel with the Selangor state treasury is essentially over its audit findings," he said.

Though there are no allegations of corrupt practices in the audit findings, Wong Chen said he felt his office had been denied the right to be heard regarding audit findings of not complying with Selangor guidelines.

"In fact, we strongly object to all the audit findings, which in our opinion, some are completely baseless and some can be clarified easily by asking my staff and requesting for documents," he said.

Among the six audit findings that Wong Chen took issue with, one of it was that he had focused most of his financial help on the poor in the Desa Mentari area.

This finding can be easily explained, he said, as his poorest constituents in Kelana Jaya are from the Desa Mentari area.

"I mean, why would I provide welfare aid to people staying in the middle-class suburbs of Subang Jaya?

"There is absolutely no Selangor government guideline that states that we cannot focus our welfare aid to a geographical zone," he said.

Put stop to malicious rumours

Another audit finding appeared to take issue that Wong Chen's office gave financial aid to the same 68 poor individuals in both 2014 and 2015.

"This finding can be easily explained by the fact that all 68 individuals were poor and desperate in 2014 and they remained poor and desperate in 2015," Wong Chen said.

He also refuted the four other audit findings in his Facebook posting.

His office had also issued a full reply refuting all the Selangor state treasury audit findings on the same day they received the audit report, as well as delivering about 4,000 pages of documents related to their 2014 and 2015 accounts.

Since then, there appears to be no response from the Selangor state treasury to attempts by Wong Chen's office to contact them.

He said he had written four letters to the authorities on this matter, without a single reply.

He had also issued a notice to the Selangor state treasury, asking them to reply to him within 14 days and to either absolve his office of their earlier audit findings or conduct another audit, this time in the presence of his staff.

The deadline passed yesterday without any reply, which is why he has decided to disclose this incident, he said.

"The political intention of this disclosure is also to put a stop to the malicious rumours that are damaging the good reputation of my staff and my office," he said.

Depending on the next course of action by the Selangor state treasury, Wong Chen also said his office reserves the right to pursue this matter against the state treasury by all legal means available.

Malaysiakini has attempted to contact the Selangor State Treasury but was unsuccessful.