Expect MACC to report 1MDB to AGC, RPK claims
Anti-graft body being used to play up perception against PM, blogger claims.
(Free Malaysia Today) – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will in the next fortnight lodge its own report to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), political blogger Raja Petra Kamarrudin (RPK) speculates, but no action is expected to be taken by the AG on it.
Before that, the MACC has one detail to sort out, Raja Petra claims.
“In August, Sarawak Report published what it claims [were] papers to arrest Najib,” he writes. “MACC then denied this and made a police report saying that the papers [were] fake.”
“Are they still going to say [that] the papers are false?
“Or are they going to now say [that] the papers are authentic [and that they had] made a false police report?”
Once that conundrum is resolved, the MACC, like Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) before it, will lodge its report as part of the efforts of anti-Najib forces to influence Umno to turn on its leader, RPK claims.
Parliament ought to be the real forum to decide on Najib’s fate, but those pushing for a vote of no confidence against him are unsure whether they are going to succeed, the widely-read blog claims. That is why a similar vote at December’s Umno general assembly is being planned.
RPK also alleges that BNM’s earlier report to the AGC was itself merely an attempt to sway public opinion against the prime minister.
“The fact that a report had been lodged can only mean a crime has been committed,” he says. If then the AGC decides not to pursue the case, “that can only mean there is a cover-up.”
