Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Mat Zain Ibrahim has been questioned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on his controversial statutory declaration, particularly on his claim of money having been transferred to a foreign bank account after Malaysia lost Pulau Batu Puteh.

He went into the Putrajaya MACC headquarters at 10am yesterday and came out only at 7pm.

"I am very happy and satisfied with the manner my statements were recorded by two very senior and experienced officers. I shall not disclose what I told them, though," Mat Zain told Malaysiakini .

"I hope the prime minister will not hide behind the MACC's investigation and ignore his responsibilities to get the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to set up a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on Pulau Batu Puteh.

anwar ibrahim black eye small 080206 "This is what I have pleaded for in my SD, as well as for a tribunal to adjudicate the conduct of attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail during the investigation into Anwar Ibrahim's 'black eye' incident ," he said.

Mat Zain made the SD on Oct 7 and gave copies of it to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa, solicitor-general Idrus Harun and inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar.

His declaration was related to a meeting he had with senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

In his SD, the former top cop urged an RCI to investigate Malaysia's loss of Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore, after this matter became the centre of discussion between Shafee and Mahathir at the meeting.

Subsequently, several Pakatan lawmakers have lodged a police report on the allegations made in the SD, after it was made public.

Sting on Noor Faridah

Mat Zain also commented on , who acted as co-agent in the Pulau Batu Puteh case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and who, The Star quoted, dismissed his SD as "a load of rubbish" .

Mat Zain said Noor Farida probably did not understand the full content of his SD but pointed out that Malaysia's loss of Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore in the case before the ICJ at The Hague was no load of rubbish.

"The fact that a controversial photograph taken from an anonymous blog was tendered as evidence by the Malaysian legal team, four days before the ICJ's oral proceedings started, is also not rubbish.

"She would have done the nation a great favour by explaining how and why the photograph was introduced in the proceedings and whether the authenticity of the photo had been verified before it was tendered as evidence.

"Instead, she makes blatant denials. The fact that Singapore caught us with our pants down over the submission of that controversial photograph is certainly not rubbish," Mat Zain pointed out.

NONE Mat Zain, who was the investigating officer in Anwar Ibrahim's 'black eye' case, said the fact that during his investigation in 1998, Gani ( right ) removed several classified documents and three sets of photographs from the investigation file, and handed them to an unauthorised person for the specific purpose of fabricating evidence, was also not rubbish.

"The fact that Gani was caught red handed and that police replaced the missing photographs with our stand-by copies and sent him an official protest note on the matter is also not rubbish.

"How not to suspect the present AG to be involved, directly or otherwise, in submitting the controversial photograph to the ICJ when he had been caught by me doing a similar act in 1998?" he asked.

"How not to be convinced that Gani had fabricated evidence during the 'black eye' incident when the consultant pathologist involved clearly stated, in the fabricated report itself, that he was instructed to prepare the report as such by Gani?

"The AG must have stretched his luck too far by taking the 16-member panel ICJ for granted," Mat Zain added.