TMI boss claims statement to MCMC leaked

PETALING JAYA: The chief executive officer and editor of The Malaysian Insight (TMI) claims that a statement given to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has been leaked.

Jahabar Sadiq (pic) lodged a police report over the alleged leak at the Sri Hartamas police station on Friday morning (Dec 15).

This came after he discovered that his statement was reported in the Malaysian Gazette on Thursday (Dec 14), quoting non-governmental organisation Jaringan Melayu Malaysia (JMM) president Datuk Azwanddin Hamzah.

Jahabar claimed that Azwanddin had leaked and twisted several facts he made in his statement to MCMC.

Earlier on Friday, Azwanddin said he received the documents through the JMM-managed portal "myaduan rasuah" and that the documents are believed to have been given by a source in TMI.

Azwanddin lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) after receiving information, alleging that there are irregularities in terms of TMI's funding.

He called on the MACC to probe whether an alleged sum of RM3mil given to the portal was "through corruption or if there is a possibility that the money received from overseas is part of an agenda".

"I think anybody who gives a statement to a government agency knows that they don't get a copy of it, so they can make all kinds of allegations and I ask the police to investigate. I will leave it as that," Jahabar said.

MCMC is investigating the news portal over reports that it had insulted the Prime Minister and over reports deemed critical of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Bank Negara's foreign exchange losses in the 1990s.