Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar has denied absolving Mara of criminal breach of trust (CBT).

Instead he said police have not yet found elements of CBT in the Australian property deal , and was confident the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission would inform police if there were.

"I did not say there was no investigation. I said that for now we don't see any elements of CBT.

"I said yesterday 'for now'," he insisted.

Yesterday Khalid had told the media that the investigation will be carried out entirely by the MACC as police did not see any elements of CBT in the Mara case.

When asked to confirm that the Commercial Crimes division (CCID) was not involved, he replied: "Not as of now. As I said, there are no elements of CBT in this case."

MACC probing Mara since March

Mara is being probed after its subsidiary Mara Inc allegedly overpaid by RM13.7 million for the purchase of the Dudley House students apartment in Melbourne.

The excess funds were sent back to Malaysia as kickbacks for top level Mara executives, as reported by Australian-based The Age .

The MACC has been probing Mara since March.

"If there are elements of CBT in the case, the MACC will inform us," Khalid said.

He was speaking at a press conference at the Royal Malaysian Police College in Cheras, where he closed a two-day seminar on anti-human trafficking.

The seminar aims to help the police improve efforts to combat human trafficking, and improve Malaysia's ranking in the US Trafficking in Persons report from Tier 3 to at least Tier 2.