MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull revealed that the commission's top brass had lobbied previous government ministers to replace then-prime minister Najib Abdul Razak with someone else over the 1MDB scandal.

"The two of us (myself and then-MACC chief Abu Kassim Mohamed) split up and met with ministers... to convince them that the RM2.6 billion, and RM42 million SRC International cases are not made up...