KUALA LUMPUR: PKR's Rafizi Ramli was not given whistle-blower protection for disclosing 1MDB documents classified under the Official Secrets Act 1972 as he did not furnish the information to a Government agency.
In a written Parliamentary reply, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri (pic) said Section 6 of the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010 prescribed that any information had to be disclosed directly to a Government agency.
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