Parti Bebas Rasuah (PBR) has dismissed suggestions that the address for their headquarters was fictitious, as suggested by Registrar of Societies (ROS) director-general Mohammad Razin Abdullah.

Among others, Razin had claimed that checks by the ROS revealed that the registered address was used by a tile shop.

"Perhaps the misunderstanding stems from the fact that our office is on the second floor of the said address, while the tile shop mentioned in the media, is one floor below us," PBR secretary-general S Gobi Krishnan said in a statement today.

He said the address that was submitted to the ROS was the same address used by PBR's predecessor New Generation Party, since August 28, 2013.

According to New Straits Times yesterday, Razin had said there were discrepancies in the application submitted by the New Generation Party to change its name to PBR.

He said a registered letter sent by the ROS to the party returned unopened and checks revealed that the address, where the party had claimed to have held its extraordinary general meeting (EGM), was a showroom of a tile shop.

He had also said that ROS had found that the MyKad of one of the committee members listed in the application referred to a different person while another committee member did not even appear on National Registration Department (NRD) records.

Thus, Razin said, PBR president Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor will not be allowed to use the PBR name, so long as the issues are unresolved.

Gobi Krishnan said the identity of the committee members were not in dispute and that all committee members can turn up at the ROS' office to clear the air.

He said that he was puzzled as to why the ROS did not attempt to contact him before taking matters to the press.

He also promised that PBR will always abide by the law and said the party was aware of the "pressure" by the "corrupt" powers that be, who he claimed are uncomfortable with the emergence of a party mainly focused on combating graft.