Mirzan gets 30-day extension to declare his assets

PUTRAJAYA: Businessman Mirzan Mahathir has been given another 30 days to declare his assets to the country’s graft investigation body.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki confirmed that the son of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was given an extension to his earlier 30-day deadline.

He said that Mirzan was given the reprieve after he applied for additional time to declare his assets.

“We are giving him the extension after he applied for it,” Azam told The Star.

On Jan 19, MACC gave Mirzan 30 days to list down his assets, be they in the country or abroad.

MACC also confirmed that it had, since August 2022, begun investigating all entities named in the Pandora Papers as well as the Panama Papers.

The agency said the order was an extension to an investigation that is being carried out in relation to information contained in the Panama Papers.

It also said that it was looking at Mirzan’s business activities related to the sales and purchases of government-linked companies.

On whether Mirzan’s brother, Tan Sri Mokhzani Mahathir, who was also asked to declare his assets, received a similar extension, Azam said the latter had yet to apply for an extension.

“Perhaps his deadline is not approaching, so there is no application yet,” he said.

On Jan 26, MACC directed Mokhzani, a businessman, to declare all of his assets, whether in Malaysia or elsewhere.