Making it official: Azam (centre, left) signing the plaque of the new MACC Mersing Office right next to the Dewan Jubli Intan Sultan Ibrahim in Mersing, Johor.
MERSING: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki has denied saying Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was involved in awarding government vehicle supply and maintenance contracts to Spanco Sdn Bhd.
He said his previous statement on the commission’s plan to summon more people to assist in the probe was made based on the probability of the investigation.
“I was asked whether he (former prime minister Muhyiddin) would be called in for questioning, and I merely said MACC is not ruling out that possibility.
“At the same time, I am depending on our investigating officers for information, so this is just one of the many possibilities.
“I am not making any assumptions (of Muhyiddin’s involvement). If he is needed in the probe, I would leave the decision to our officers to call him up,” he told reporters after launching the commission’s office at Dewan Jubli Intan Sultan Ibrahim here yesterday.
The graft buster chief said this when asked to comment on Muhyiddin’s statement denying his involvement in the Spanco case.
Muhyiddin had, in a statement posted on Facebook on Feb 23, said there had been cruel allegations made against him that have been circulating on the news and social media.
“It’s the same as previous accusations that I allegedly embezzled hundreds of billions of ringgit of national money, but until now it hasn’t been proven by those who accused me,” he said.
On a separate case, Azam said the MACC would seek help from Interpol to locate the whereabouts of Muhyiddin’s son-in-law, Datuk Seri Muhammad Adlan Berhan.
“We need him to return to the country first before we can go on with the court proceedings. We need the person to be physically here to be charged.
“We are still working on this, and this includes requesting the police to list him in the Interpol Red Notice along with another man,” he said.
On Feb 22, Azam was quoted in a news report as saying that several criminal breach of trust charges had been prepared against Muhammad Adlan.
He had in the last year said that Muhammad Adlan, 48, and lawyer Mansoor Saat, 69, were required to appear for questioning over alleged corruption and embezzlement in the registration, recruitment and biometric data storage of foreign workers.
According to Immigration Department data, the two left Malaysia on separate days in May last year and there was no record of them returning to the country since.
