Call Shamsul up instead, why drag me in, asks Ratu Naga

PETALING JAYA: After finding herself the subject of an investigation, Ratu Naga (pic) says that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) should call up Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin instead as she has no links to him.

"I have no links to him. Why do you want to link me to him considering that I am only an activist on social media. Don't drag me (in) and link me to him. Do not drag me into your political games," said Ratu Naga, whose real name is Syarul Ema Rena Abu Samah in a video posted on TikTok on Friday (Feb 16)

She added that it would be easier for the MACC to investigate Shamsul Iskandar as he is the political secretary to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

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In the video, Ratu Naga said she initially thought that the MACC's raid on her house was connected to two reports she had lodged with them, the first on Jan 15 regarding Anwar and the second on Jan 8 on information from the leaked Pandora Papers on Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

"I later learnt I was being investigated for alleged links to the Prime Minister's political secretary," said Syarul Ema.

Syarul Ema also claimed that MACC officers did not say why she was being investigated and that she was not allowed access to her lawyer or her husband while being questioned at MACC headquarters.

"My lawyer was there but I was not allowed to speak to her," she added.

MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said on Friday (Feb 16) that Ratu Naga was merely summoned to record her statement to aid an investigation under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009.

Ratu Naga was previously the subject of a police probe in October 2023 over social media posts allegedly defaming Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

In December 2023, she filed a lawsuit against the government seeking to nullify a provision in the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 that requires organisers to inform police about gatherings in advance, claiming it is not enforceable.