Task force DPP's documents and laptop computer seized after leak about US$700mil in Najib's account
KUALA LUMPUR: Documents and a laptop computer have been seized by Special Branch from a government prosecutor investigating the affairs of 1Malaysia Development Bhd and the reported deposit of US$900 million in private bank accounts in the name of Najib Razak.
The prosecutor, Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairy, had been seconded from the Attorney-General’s Chambers to MACC, the anti-corruption agency. He was named by the Inspector-General of Police on Saturday after he and two others were arrested and questioned in connection with leaks of documents and information from the investigation.
Malaysian Insider reported that the Special Branch spent two hours searching Ahmad Sazilee’s office at MACC headquarters in Putrajaya and took documents related to the investigations into 1MDB. They had also searched his home in Putrajaya earlier.
They seized a laptop computer and documents relating to the scope of operations of the 1MDB investigation.
Ahmad Sazilee was a member of MACC’s Special Operations division, which is in charge of MACC’s investigations into 1MDB and a related company, SRC International Sdn Bhd, named by the Wall Street Journal in its account of the financial trail of the US$700 million transactions.
The special task force had frozen SRC Internationals’ bank account and conducted raids on SRC International, and two related companies, Gandingan Mentari and Ihsan Perdana. Five people have also been arrested and held in custody for questioning. They have since been released.
Police arrested two other people in connection with the leak. The IGP, Khalid Abu Bakar, named them in a statement as Tan Sri Rashpal Singh, a former advisor to MACC, and Jessica Gurmit Kaur, an officer with the Attorney-General’s anti-moneylaundering unit.
Rashpal was named by Raja Petra Kamaruddin of Malaysia Today as having met Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown in London.
Government officials have accused Rewcastle-Brown of being part of a foreign conspiracy to topple Najib.
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