KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 — The Companies Commission of Malaysia’s (CCM) demand to view the financial records of the National Oversight and Whistleblowers Centre (NOW) may be politically motivated, PKR MP Rafizi Ramli suggested today.

The Pandan lawmaker said this after submitting the group’s accounts to the CCM, and noted the raid on the NOW office two weeks ago.

“I think they want to check whether if there was misbooking or breach of the Companies Act.

“You can’t help but feel yet again this is a harassment and nuisance and political pressure,” he told reporters outside the CCM headquarters here.

The PKR vice president also rejected the possibility that there was any form of financial misappropriation at the centre, and claimed that there was no money to be made from its activities.

Far from being a source of income, he said that NOW was a drain on his financial resources.

“It is a black hole sucking my money. There is no money there,” he said.

The trained accountant said NOW will fully cooperate with the CCM inquiry, but pointed out that the scrutiny on his group was curious given its small size.

Rafizi said the group was being probed under Section 167 of the Companies Act 1967 that requires officials and directors to keep complete financial records for up to seven years.

He was accompanied today by NOW executive director Akmal Nasir to hand over the centre’s financial records since its inception in 2015.