GUA MUSANG, April 25 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is among individuals being investigated over the asset declaration issue.
Its chief commissioner, Tan Sri Azam Baki, said as a result of the probe, Mahathir’s two sons were also served a notice to declare their assets within the period stipulated in the notice, under Section 36 of the MACC Act 2009.
“I don’t intend to go into more detail about the case.
“Let the MACC continue the investigation first until I think of a more suitable time for us to announce the findings of the probe,” he said.
He said this to reporters after officiating the new MACC Gua Musang branch office on the firstfloor of the Bangunan Persekutuan, here, today.
On January 18 and 26, MACC reportedly served Mahathir’s sons — Mirzan and Tan Sri Mokhzani respectively — with a notice to declare all movable and immovable assets under their possession, in the country and abroad, within 30 days from the date of the notice.
Mokhzani was then investigated under the MACC Act 2009 and Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorist Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001.
On a separate issue, Azam said the MACC will make several more arrests in connection with the case involving a menteri besar’s son to assist in the probe into the RM600,000 falsified claims case.
He said the case is now common knowledge and that investigations are still ongoing.
“We will also call up several others to have their statements recorded.”
In addition, he said the MACC might apply for a new remand order for all the suspects under detention since the remand period given is insufficient for them to complete their preliminary investigations.
Yesterday, the son of a menteri besar was among six people arrested by the MACC to assist in investigations into a case of producing falsified documents to make RM600,000 in claims since 2022.
Meanwhile, Azam said the MACC will focus their investigation on the construction project of the RM25 million National Training Centre (NTC) in Putrajaya involving the Football Association of Malaysia.
“Actually, the RM25 million in funding came from Fifa, it’s not FAM’s money. FAM only carried out the acquisition through tender and so on, and re-submitted it to Fifa for final selection. Fifa agreed with that company.
“As such, to be fair to everyone, we are investigating this issue,” he said.
Azam said the MACC will not take action in connection with the administrative issues within the organisation (FAM), such as salary matters.
“The MACC considers this as a case that involves public interest, so we have looked at the information given and focused on just one issue,” he said.
— Bernama
