MACC lodges report on leaked Azmin 'graft file'
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has lodged a police report on prominent blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin's claim to have obtained a confidential report proving that PKR deputy president Azmin Ali was 'being investigated for corruption’ in 1995.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has lodged a police report on prominent blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin's claim to have obtained a confidential report proving that PKR deputy president Azmin Ali was 'being investigated for corruption’ in 1995.
The MACC operations evaluation panel will also call a meeting tomorrow to discuss Raja Petra's allegation that PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim had stopped the investigation against Azmin (
left
).
Anwar was then deputy prime minister, and Azmin was his private secretary.
MACC investigations director Mustafar Ali told Malay daily Berita Harian that the panel would discuss and decide whether the allegation should be probed.
“Criminal investigation has no time frame, although it is an old case,” the daily quotes Mustafar as saying.
The police report was filed at the Putrajaya police station last night, he said.
“Any further information related to this case will be known after we present our report to the operations evaluation panel (tomorrow).”
Raja Petra (
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)
made the
expose
yesterday on his website
Malaysia Toda
y, claiming that he has obtained documents that prove Azmin ‘was involved in graft’.
He said “a thick file of hundreds of documents” was handed over to him last month by a “very disillusioned” retired MACC officer who wants to expose corrupt officers.
The file contains police reports, investigation reports, recorded and signed statements, minutes, statements of accounts, bank statements, copies of cheques, vouchers, contract notes and other documents, he claimed.
Raja Petra said the file showed that the Anti-Corruption Agency (now the MACC) had gathered concrete evidence to arrest and prosecute Azmin for corruption involving millions of ringgit.
However, he claimed, that then ACA director-general Shafee Yahaya had buried the file, tagging it as ‘no further action’ on Anwar’s instruction.
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