Bersatu files to unfreeze accounts, release Muhyiddin's passport

Bersatu has resorted to the courts to challenge MACC's decision to freeze its two bank accounts.

The party's counsel from Chetan Jethwani & Company filed the judicial review leave application at the Kuala Lumpur High Court via e-filing last night.

Through the legal action, Bersatu is challenging MACC's decision to freeze one account at CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad and another at AmBank (M) Berhad.

The legal action also named Immigration Department and the federal government as the defendants.

The opposition party also seeks to quash the Immigration Department's decision to impose a travel ban on its president and former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

According to a copy of an affidavit in support of the judicial review, Bersatu’s work secretariat Muhammad Suhaimi Yahya contended that the freezing of the accounts was part of a malicious conspiracy by the unity government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Suhaimi claimed this was seen through Anwar, during his first week as premier, issuing an allegation that the previous administration under Muhyiddin had misappropriated RM600 billion in an economic stimulus package.

Through a separate affidavit to support the challenge against the travel ban, Muhyiddin contended that the false allegations levelled against Bersatu as well as himself and his family members were motivated with the intent to foster hatred and public anger against him and make it easier to destroy the party.

According to the judiciary's online cause list, Bersatu's legal action is set for hearing before the Kuala Lumpur High Court on April 6.

On Feb 1, MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki confirmed that Bersatu's accounts were frozen as part of an investigation under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act.

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