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Thursday, August 6, 2015

No hidden hands in police probe into MACC, says deputy IGP

Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim denies allegations of hidden hands in the police probe into MACC. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Najjua Zulkefli, August 6, 2015.Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim denies allegations of hidden hands in the police probe into MACC. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Najjua Zulkefli, August 6, 2015.Police today denied allegations that there were "hidden hands" behind the high-handed action against Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers as the probe intensified to find the source of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) investigation leak.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said police are not “attacking” MACC, but merely carrying out its duty under the law.
Noor Rashid was commenting on the spate of arrests of MACC officers in the past one week.
"At the moment, our investigation is focused on MACC. There are no hidden hands behind our action. It is our prerogative," said Noor Rashid.
He said the information leak was not only on the draft of the charge sheet against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak but also on the leak of personal banking information which was against the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989.
"As investigators, we are entrusted with important documents that we should keep closely and confidentially. The leakage of the banking information is against the law."
He said the person responsible for this leak cannot be protected under the WhistleBlower Act.
"You are only protected if you leak the information to the authorities," Noor Rashid said.
On August 3, police visited the MACC office in Putrajaya where they questioned Datuk Bahri Mohamad Zin who is the commission's director of special operations.
Two others – MACC forensics division head Datuk I. G. Chandran and its senior assistant commissioner Tuan Ruslan Tuan Mat – were also questioned on the same day.
Prior to that, police detained Attorney-General's Chambers officer Jessica Gurmeet Kaur and former anti-graft agency adviser Tan Sri Rashpal Singh for questioning.
This was followed by the raid at the office of MACC deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairy, where police also seized several documents.
Bahri had said then that police will not do this "mad" thing if they were not "forced" to, hinting that there were hidden hands behind the police action.
Police continued their operations yesterday when they called in another three senior MACC officials for questioning.
MACC special operations deputy director Datuk Tan Kang Sai was questioned for more than three hours at the Putrajaya police headquarters.
Tan was summoned for the first time, while the other two officers, whose identities are unknown, were summoned for a second time.
It is believed that all of them are being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
Police had said they will investigate members of the special task force handling the probe into 1MDB, after the Attorney-General's Chambers on July 8 said that information leaks on the matter were a "criminal act of leaking classified documents to foreign nationals".
- TMI

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