Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) special operations director Bahri Mohamad Zin has raised the possibility of hidden hands behind the ongoing police crackdown.    

Bahri told this to reporters after being quizzed by a police team from Bukit Aman under Section 124 of the Penal Code for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.

He noted how MACC had been probing the SRC Internationa l issue "day and night" and suddenly there was an arrest.

"Our DPP (Ahmad Sazalee Abdul Khairi) was arrested at 1am (on Saturday)," he lamented, adding that the move left him puzzled.

"I think the police won't do mad work like this is if there was no instruction for them to do so," he said.

Apart from Ahmad Sazalee, the police also arrested MACC ex-adviser Rasphal Singh and an officer with the Attorney-General Chambers Jessica Gurmeet Kaur.

According to the police, Rashpal and Jessica were detained in connection with reports lodged against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown.

All three have since been released.

Three-hour talk

Previously, the Special Branch denied reports that it was behind the raid on Ahmad Sazlee's house on Saturday night.

 

“We are not involved as the investigation on 1MDB is led by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID),” Special Branch director Mohamad Fuzi Harun was quoted in a report by The Star today.

 

The police team from Bukit Aman's CID  spent three hours talking to Bahri today.

Bahri left in a hurry and only talked briefly to journalists present.

He also denied that he was removed from duty or put on leave with regards to the special task force investigation.

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