KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — There is no interference in the police’s investigation on the debt-ridden and state-owned 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said today.
Responding to suggestions for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to temporarily step down amid an ongoing probe on allegations against him and 1MDB, Khalid said there was no reason to do so.
“As far as I’m concerned, there has been no interference and there is no reason to put anybody aside,” he told reporters here.
Khalid confirmed the Attorney-General is leading the multi-agency taskforce investigating 1MDB, but declined to say if anyone has been arrested or questioned, or when it would reach that stage.
“We can’t tell you when it ends, let us do our work and let us do our work properly,” he said.
Yesterday, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said on behalf of a special taskforce probing 1MDB that six bank accounts have been frozen and documents on 17 accounts from two banks have been seized as part of investigations.
The statement was also undersigned by Bank Negara Governor Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz, IGP Khalid and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohammed.
In a report on Friday, the Wall Street Journal, citing documents from Malaysian investigators, claimed that a money trail showed that US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) was moved from 1MDB into Najib’s accounts.
Najib has denied taking money for personal gain and categorised the allegations as “political sabotage”.
