 |
| Ex-PM Najib |
The ex-prime minister, was arrested around 11am at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters here, minutes after he arrived for a fresh round of questioning over the issue.
Najib was seen entering the MACC headquarters around 10:42am on Monday 10th December, 2018.
A personnel from the agency said that he would be released if he can come up with bail money.
November 25th, the Auditor-General Tan Sri Madinah Mohamad said that parts of the 1MDB final audit report were removed. These sections mentioned the presence of fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, who is well known as Jho Lo.
She further revealed that the directive to make the changes that came from Tan Sri Shukry Salleh, who was then the principal private secretary to Najib when he was prime minister.
The changes to the 1MDB report were made on 26th February, 2016 on the ground that it was a "sensitive issue". To date, other than Najib, the MACC had questioned several people about the report tampering.
Some of the people that were questioned includes, former chief Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad, in his capacity as a legal officer in the Attorney General's Chambers, former Auditor General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang, former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Dr. Ali Hamsa and the then 1MDB group president and chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy respectively.
No comments:
Post a Comment