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Zahid downplays transfer of key MACC officers
Published:  Aug 8, 2015 3:00 PM
Updated: 7:06 AM

Newly-minted Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has downplayed the abrupt transfer of two Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers to the Prime Minister's Department (PMD).

 

He added the transfer of MACC special operations division director Bahri Mohamad Zin and strategic communication director Rohaizad Yaakob were merely an administrative issue.

 

"It is normal for civil servants to be transferred at any time to elsewhere. In fact they had signed an oath on this when they were appointed.

 

"Therefore I think there is no need to politicise this matter," he was quoted as saying in Kuching.

 

The transfers followed police arrests of MACC investigators probing the RM2.6 billion deposited into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's personal bank accounts.

 

However, Ahmad Zahid insisted this had nothing to do with the transfers.

 

"It had nothing to know with police investigation against two MACC senior officers and I am of the opinion that it is only a matter of administration by the Public Service Department.

 

Bahri had been highly critical of police harassment against MACC investigators and had vowed to find out the "hidden hands" behind the action.

 

Rohaizad had greeted opposition MPs at the MACC headquarters on Thursday morning after they turned up to show support for the embattled graft busters.

 

Zahid's stance is in contrast to Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who had said the transfers appeared to be an intimidation against MACC.

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