KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 ― The police are only interested in finding the truth and are not trying to disturb the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigations, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said today after his men were criticised for raiding MACC’s offices and questioning their personnel over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

Khalid also insisted that the police were merely doing their jobs and were not acting under orders from anyone, amid controversy over the investigation on MACC officers who were probing corruption allegations involving the state-owned fund.

“PDRM is clear in the focus of its investigation on the case where official government documents and banking documents were leaked and manipulated by certain parties to threaten the country’s stability,” Khalid said in a statement, using the Malay initials for the Royal Malaysian Police.

“The public must understand that each government agency has its own job and responsibility in running an investigation, but it’s still in line with the original aim, which is to find the truth.

“Based on this principle, PDRM has never disturbed investigations or interfered in MACC’s work and responsibility, or acted in any way that could jeopardise the working relationship between those agencies,” he added.

MACC deputy chief commissioner (prevention) Datuk Mustafar Ali said yesterday that the police probe on the anti-graft agency has disrupted its investigation on 1MDB after documents and laptops were seized from the MACC’s special operations division office in Putrajaya.

Mustafar also confirmed that two of the agency’s officers, who were among the three taken in for questioning earlier yesterday afternoon at the Putrajaya police district headquarters, have been arrested.

One of the two detained was directly involved in the investigation on SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary.

According to a July 2 report by the Wall Street Journal, which cited several leaked document from investigators probing 1MDB, one portion of the RM2.6 billion of funds it said were funnelled into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts had been done so through SRC International.

MACC has since issued statements saying that the RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal bank account came from donors from the Middle East and not 1MDB as previously alleged.