Warisan questions why Musa’s discharge comes on same day as Peter Anthony being hauled up by MACC

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah youth chief Datuk Azis Jamman (pic) has questioned why the 46 money laundering and corruption charges related to timber deals were dropped against former chief minister Tan Sri Musa Aman.

He said that the previous attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas found it fit to press charges but the new Attorney General, Tan Sri Idrus Harun, felt that it was proper to close the case.

He was responding to the decision of High Court judge Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin to acquit Musa after Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid told the court that the prosecution intended to withdraw all charges during case management here earlier Tuesday (June 9).

Azis, the former deputy home minister under the Pakatan Harapan federal government and also Sepanggar MP, said that he found it “personally strange” that the day Musa’s case was dropped the same day that Warisan vice president and state Infrastructure Development Minister Datuk Peter Anthony was called in for questioning by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Peter was called in to the Sabah MACC headquarters here on Tuesday to record a statement in connection to investigations believed to be in connection to a 2014 land deal case involving the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda).

The MACC has not stated the focus of its investigations.

Meanwhile, Sabah Umno chairman Datuk Seri Bung Mokhtar Radin said that the decision of the High Court made it clear that Musa was “clean” and there should be no further arguments about it.