Initial police investigations have revealed that an engineering company alleged to have supplied parts for Libya's nuclear weapons programme did not commit any criminal offence, according to a report on Sunday.

"We are still at the early stage of investigation and we have not found anything to show that the company had done anything wrong," Mohamad Bakri Omar, inspector-general of police, was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper.

Police are working closely with the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and hope to complete investigations soon.

"We are looking into the case from all angles and hope to wrap up investigations as soon as possible," Mohamad Bakri said.

Officials with Scomi Precision Engineering Sdn Bhd (Scope), which allegedly supplied centrifuge components for Libya's uranium-enrichment programme, said the parts were components it makes for the auto, oil and gas industries.

Scope is a unit of listed oil and gas firm Scomi Group, in which Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's son, Kamaluddin Abdullah, is the biggest shareholder.

Sri Lankan middleman

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak denied the country was a nuclear proliferator Saturday and urged the international community not to cast suspicion on Malaysia.

Scope was set up in 2001, specifically to produce the components for Gulf Technical Industries LLC (GTI) in Dubai in a deal arranged by Dubai-based Sri Lankan businessman BSA Tahir.

Police had Wednesday said they had launched a probe after US and British intelligence services told them last November about Scope's role and identified Tahir as the middleman.

Tahir has been identified by Western intelligence sources as a middleman for Pakistan's disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's ( photo ) black market nuclear syndicate.

Pakistani scientist Khan was pardoned last week after admitting to leaking nuclear secrets, provoking condemnation abroad. - AFP