KUALA LUMPUR — Toh Puan Na’imah Abdul Khalid is urging the authorities to summon Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for questioning over power abuse allegations reported in a Bloomberg article last week.
Questioned for two hours at the Sentul district police headquarters today, the wife of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin told reporters that the authorities’ queries centred around her purpose for filing a police report in Petaling Jaya yesterday.
“They asked about 20 questions related to the Bloomberg article and the reason why I filed a police report yesterday.
“I said that the purpose of the police report was to get authorities to investigate the allegations in the Bloomberg article,” Na’imah told reporters after being questioned.
She said police told her they plan to take a statement from Daim as well, because she had filed the police report yesterday on her husband’s behalf.
“Because I made the report and gave a statement on my husband’s behalf, they will surely ask Daim questions too.
“So I asked them, after they take my husband’s statement, will they question the prime minister too?
“The police said they will have to wait for instructions from their superiors,” Na’imah said
Meanwhile, her lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan demanded a special multi-agency task force to investigate the allegations made in the Bloomberg article.
He pointed out that currently, it appears that the matter is being investigated by a police officer with the rank of inspector.
“This is a complaint lodged where we want the prime minister to be investigated, but can an inspector investigate the prime minister?
“These are serious allegations by Bloomberg, an international news organisation.
“So it is imperative that a multi-agency taskforce is set to investigate,” Rajesh said.
On September 26, Bloomberg published an article quoting sources claiming that Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had been investigating Anwar’s “adversaries” while not probing the “share purchases by one of the prime minister’s allies”.
The US-headquartered media company named former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Daim as well as their family members as among those MACC was investigating.
It also named Anwar’s former political secretary Datuk Farhash Wafa Salvador as the person involved in share purchases in HeiTech Padu Bhd in March.
For the record, as of April, Farhash was no longer a substantial shareholder in the company.
Bloomberg had also included MACC’s response to its request for comments in its article. In its response, the anti-graft agency said it firmly refutes claims regarding any instructions from the prime minister influencing or obstructing specific investigations.
The day after the article was published, MACC issued a statement reiterating its position, adding: “The (report) is inaccurate and there is no credibility to the claims made against the commission. – October 1, 2024
