Anwar-Najib debate: Najib asks why no audit of BNM forex scandal, Anwar says welcomes re-opening investigations


KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak questions why there was no forensic audit into the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) foreign exchange (forex) scandal.

He asked Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim why the police report lodged under the Pakatan Harapan administration was classified as "No Further Action."

"I would like to know what your stand on this is," he said during the live debate at Matic on Thursday (May 12).

In reply, Anwar said that he had no problem re-opening an investigation on the scandal.

"I do not want any high profile cases involving politicians to be covered up using any government machinery," he said.

The findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the BNM forex scandal were tabled in Parliament in 2017.

The 524-page report, however, was not debated in Parliament.

The RCI was set up by the Government to investigate losses of US$10bil (RM41bil) incurred by the central bank between 1991 and 1993.

It was chaired by former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan.

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