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PUTRAJAYA: People who participated in the acquisition of student accommodation in Melbourne by Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) will be charged soon, says MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki (Photo).
He said the deputy prosecutor agreed to indict the parties involved in the scandal.
“For now, we are making plans about the right time to charge these people.
“(Perhaps) one of them lives in Sabah and is in quarantine (due to Covid-19 fears).
“So we have to arrange for the right time,” he said in an interview on MACC.fm on Thursday (October 8).
Azam insisted that the commission is not protecting anyone involved in this case.
“We are firm and focused in our investigation. We are just waiting for the right moment to load,” he said.
Previous reports claimed that Mara had overpaid A $ 4.75 million (RM 14.1 million) for the International Dudley House.
Australian authorities had recently confiscated property and cash totaling A $ 1.6 million (RM4.75 million) from a man said to be a Malaysian living in Australia, accused of bribing a Malaysian official to secure Mara’s purchase of the multi-million dollar apartment complex in Melbourne in 2013.
The Dudley property scandal was first highlighted by the Australian media, leading to the revelation of other properties said to have also been bought at inflated prices.
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