MACC has not explained why it froze accounts of Najib's family members, say his supporters

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KUALA LUMPUR: New Malaysia Monitor president Datuk Lokman Adam wants the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to explain why it froze bank accounts belonging to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's family members.

"If they want to freeze a person's bank account, they must have concrete proof that the individual is involved in illegal activities," said Lokman, who is also an Umno supreme council member.

"Please don't tell me Najib's 10-month-old grandson Adam Razak is linked to Al-Qaeda or any of the underworld gangs?" he told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur Court complex on Monday (July 9).

Adam is the son of Najib's daughter Nooryana Najwa and her husband Daniyar Nazarbayev, a Kazakh national whom she married in 2015.

On Thursday, Nooryana posted on a closed Facebook group that her bank had informed her that it was instructed to freeze not only her account, but also that of her son's.

She wrote that her son's bank account only had RM100, which was his first duit raya.

"What does my baby's duit raya have to do with 1MDB? Is this the new Malaysia people were praying for?" Nooryana added.

The MACC has since denied that her son's account was frozen.

Lokman was one of Najib's supporters at the court complex here where the former premier was present to pay his outstanding bail.

On Wednesday (July 4), Najib was charged with three counts of criminal breach of trust and one count of using his position for gratification as part of a probe into money missing from state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The charges are related to the RM42mil that allegedly went from SRC International, a former 1MDB unit, into Najib's personal bank accounts.

Bail was allowed for Najib and set at RM1mil in cash in two sureties.

Payment of the bail was allowed to be made in two instalments and Najib paid RM500,000 before he was allowed to leave, with the remainder to be paid today (July 9).