MACC denies it leaked info

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has denied allegations that it leaked information from its probe on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and the Prime Minister’s wife’s bank accounts.

Dismissing the allegations in the Malaysia Today website, MACC said the reports on July 20 were “absolutely incorrect”.

It also cleared Tan Sri Rashpal Singh of any wrongdoing as claimed in the website, which had accused the former member of the MACC’s Anti-Corruption Advisory Board of leaking information to the Sarawak Report news portal.

It added that Rashpal had no access to confidential information on ongoing investigations as his tenure as advisory board member ended on Feb 24.

“The report in Malaysia Today which claims that Tan Sri Rashpal ‘was removed due to certain breaches’ is absolutely incorrect,” said MACC’s strategic communications division director Datuk Rohaizad Yaakob.

Malaysia Today had also claimed that Rashpal met with Sarawak Report founder and editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown in London last week, allegedly to discuss how he could hand over information on Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to the website.

The report also claimed that there were people inside the Government’s special task force probing 1MDB who were providing information to Sarawak Report and business daily The Edge.

Rohaizad said Rashpal had no access becaues he was no longer a member of any independent oversight body that monitored and advised on MACC functions and operations.

“Therefore, MACC is firm in stating and clarifying that the claim that confidential information related to the wife of the Prime Minister can be distributed to any party, including Sarawak Report, is incorrect and against the policies of MACC,” he said.