Thomas: I did not agree to Riza’s request


PETALING JAYA: Former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas has given his version on Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) remarks that implicated him in a decision to discharge the stepson of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak from five money-laundering charges.

In a statement yesterday, Thomas said he felt compelled to speak up as he claimed his name had been wrongly dragged into the Riza Abdul Aziz case in a May 14 MACC press statement that said Riza’s discharge not amounting to an acquittal was a decision agreed to by Thomas.

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