AG reason Najib escaped oversight probe as PM, ex-MACC panellist says

Datuk Seri Najib Razak was not investigated for corruption when he was prime minister because the attorney general (AG) at that time rebuffed the oversight panel’s recommendation to do so, lawyer Datuk Lim Chee Wee disclosed in an interview today.

(MMO) – Lim told journalist Mary Ann Jolley on Al Jazeera’s 101 East programme that there was “enormous pressure” on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) review panel, of which he was a member at that time in 2015.

“I understand phone calls were made, some amount of persuasion would have been applied through the phone calls,” he said in the interview aired early this morning.

The former Malaysian Bar president agreed when asked if it was the power of the prime minister that was exerted on the MACC panel at that time.

“At the end of our term, none of us had our term extended, and this is contrasted to the then AG going public to say that the then prime minister Najib did not commit any wrongdoing,” he said.