KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 ― Lim Kit Siang said today the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) members who caused the latest delay in the tabling of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) audit report should resign as parliamentarians for failing to fulfil their responsibilities.

The DAP veteran asked who these MPs were, noting that the PAC meeting to debate the report that had been scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday had to be called off at the last minute because the lawmakers are currently abroad.

“Who are the PAC members who could not attend the PAC meetings tomorrow and Thursday for the Auditor-General to present the final audit report on 1MDB?” he asked in a statement.

“The Malaysian public, and in fact, the world, are entitled to know who are these miscreants who do not realise the importance of their duties and responsibilities as members of the PAC…

“In fact, the most honourable option for these MPs is to resign as PAC members, or the public not only in their constituency but throughout the country, would be entitled to demand that they should resign as MPs as they have shown themselves to be totally untrustworthy in being responsible for the second sabotage of PAC investigations into 1MDB,” he added.

The Gelang Patah MP also asked if the PAC meetings tomorrow and on Thursday were set earlier this month without any surety from members that they would be present, especially considering the importance of the 1MDB issue both locally and internationally.

The Auditor-General was scheduled to table the National Audit Department’s final report on the troubled state-owned investment firm before the PAC tomorrow.

But a message from PAC chief Datuk Hasan Arifin to PAC members last night said that this would be postponed until further notice as many members are currently abroad, some performing the umrah, some tending to “important commitments”.

It is not immediately known who among the PAC’s 14 members are overseas.

This morning, Hasan said in a media statement that it was necessary for all members of the panel to be present during the meeting.

He added that the session would likely be held next week.

This is not the first time the audit on the troubled state-owned investment firm has been delayed.

After the first delay last December, Hasan had said the PAC would give the National Audit Department more time to complete its report, but added that it should be presented to the committee “latest by February 2016”.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had ordered the PAC in March, almost a year ago, to investigate 1MDB, a debt-laden firm that is also under international probe in other countries.

The Malaysian Attorney-General, however, has closed local criminal investigations on SRC International, a former unit of 1MDB.