PETALING JAYA: Former finance minister Daim Zainuddin’s wife, Naimah Khalid, will file a police report over a recent Bloomberg article containing details of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigation against her husband.
According to a press invite, a police report on "the disclosure of abuse of power and conspiracy" related to MACC’s investigation of Daim would be lodged at the Petaling Jaya police station tomorrow at 11am.
The invite was issued by Rajesh Nagaran, the lawyer for Naimah and Daim.
Quoting sources, Bloomberg had reported that MACC chief commissioner Azamn Baki told officials in the anti-graft agency that instructions to investigate former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his sons, as well as Daim, a former finance minister, had come from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim himself.
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Mahathir’s sons, Mirzan and Mokhzani, had previously denied being the subject of MACC investigations, saying they were merely ordered to declare their assets as the children of a person suspected to have committed an offence under Section 23 of the MACC Act 2009.
The brothers also said they were made to understand that the declaration of assets, a task they have since completed, was to determine if their father had abused his position as prime minister to enrich them.
Daim had earlier this year claimed trial to a charge under Section 36(2) of the MACC Act 2009 of failing to comply with the terms of an asset declaration notice issued by MACC.
Meanwhile, Naimah is accused under the same provision of failing to declare her ownership of various companies, several plots of land and two vehicles.
Both the Prime Minister’s Office and MACC have since denied the claims made in the Bloomberg report.
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