The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has issued a report highlighting how the Royal Malaysian Navy's view was ignored by the Defence Ministry and Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS) in the procurement of littoral combat ships (LCS)

This was among the reasons there was a huge overrun in cost amounting to RM1.4 billion in the RM9 billion contract which was awarded to BNS in 2011, according to the report...