Police to question MACC ex-adviser, AGC officer over 1MDB
BY YASMIN RAMLAN
Published: 1 August 2015 2:34 PM
Two individuals arrested this morning in the police investigation into information used in whistleblower site Sarawak Report's revelations against 1MDB will be held for 24 hours, after the police failed to get a remand order on them. – The Malaysian Insider pic, August 1, 2015.
Both individuals are being held for further questioning under Section 124 of the Penal Code, which pertains to activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
They are at the Petaling Jaya police headquarters, where they were brought after being picked up early this morning.
It is learnt they will likely be freed once police, who have 24 hours to detain them, finish questioning them after remand applications were rejected.
Rashpal's lawyer, Ragunath Kesavan, meanwhile, declined to speak about his client.
"I'm sorry, I cannot make any comment about this," he said.
Website Malaysia Today had reported some weeks ago on Rashpal, who is a former member of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) advisory board as having met Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown in London.
MACC has denied that any leak of Putrajaya's investigation into debt-ridden state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) had come from within the anti-graft agency.
MACC director of strategic communications Datuk Rohaizad Yaakob had issued a statement on July 21 saying that Rashpal had no access to the agency's ongoing probe as his tenure as a board member had ended in February.
Rohaizad added that members of the advisory board, which functioned as an independent oversight body, also were not privy to confidential investigation information.
Police have said they will investigate members of the special task force handling the probe into 1MDB, after the Attorney-General's Chambers on July 8 said that information leaks on the matter were a "criminal act of leaking classified documents to foreign nationals".
On the probe into 1MDB itself, five people have been arrested today and have been released upon expiry of their remand orders to facilitate investigations. – August 1, 2015.
