Yayasan Pembangunan Ekonomi Islam Malaysia (Yapeim) is close to identifying those responsible for leaking internal documents to NGO National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW).

Yapeim director Abibullah Samsudin also did not discount the possibility that the informant could be someone from inside the foundation itself, aided by “external elements”.

However, Abibullah said it was up to police to investigate the matter further.

“If I say more in detail, it will disturb police investigation. We are now doing our own internal investigation and we are trying to find out the source,” he is quoted as saying by Utusan Malaysia today.

“We are quite certain that the infromation was received from someone from the inside as well as from external elements.”

Yapeim came under the spotlight after NOW made a series of exposes against it, alleging mismanagement and corruption.

This included the claim that Yapeim deputy president Zaleha Hussin, her husband and son were appointed to several key positions in the foundation and its subsidiaries, giving them a joint income of RM81,700 a month.

Yapeim was also accused of using RM410,000 of Pemangkin's funds to pay for Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom's expenses and other costs for a trip to the United States.

NOW also claimed that RM490,000 was spent on a marriage course in Paris.

In its latest series of exposes yesterday, NOW claimed Yapeim was also involved in a trip to New York, which cost approximately RM100,000.