SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA - The Selangor Government has opened investigations into allegations of massive land cheating cases said to run into hundreds of millions of ringgit in the state.

Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim will personally go through records of all land transactions "tainted" by allegations of fraud.

He will discuss the matter during a special meeting with all nine district officers in the state today.

"We will look at all the records of cases where there have been complaints to ascertain if proper procedures were followed," he said in an interview with The Star.

One case he would look into was in Kapar, Klang, where a group claimed that the land they had occupied for decades under Temporary Occupancy Licences was awarded to several other parties although they had been willing to buy it.

The group claimed that they were given TOLs for plots of land which they used for farming, business and even their homes but the District Office "had suddenly refused to accept payments to renew the TOL a few years ago".

The group later found out that the land had been awarded to others, including some people from outside the state, despite their applying for permanent land titles several times without success.

Khalid said his discussion with the district officers would include claims by certain parties over the ownership of a plot of land in Sabak Bernam, where the change of ownership was discovered after the death of the owner.

The family claimed that they were never informed of any change in ownership and only found out after they carried out a search at the local land office.