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KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) can only begin to indict those involved in the Mara property scandal after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) provides evidence, MACC Chief Commissioner Azam Baki said today .
He said local investigations had been completed for a while, but there was a small “setback” in that the anti-bribery agency had to allow the AFPs to complete their case first.
“Recently, it was reported that several people had been charged there (Australia) by the AFP. So, with that, we have already communicated with the AFP.
“Several statements that we want from there will be acquired as soon as possible. We have also spoken with the Attorney General’s Office to see possible charges against certain people in this country based on some of the statements we received from AFP.
“So, if the law allows us to charge these people, then we will go ahead with the prosecution in the Mara case based on AFP evidence.
“The important thing is that certain people in Malaysia can be charged once the deputy prosecutor approves it,” he told reporters at an event near here today.
The scandal involves Mara’s purchase of a multi-million dollar apartment complex in Australia in 2013.
In July, Australian authorities charged a man, Teen Boon Lye, with bribing a Malaysian official to secure the sale of the building called Dudley House in Melbourne.
According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, Teen was indicted on July 9, some five years after a complaint that revealed the property’s price had been inflated by A $ 4.75 million (RM14.4 million) to provide bribes. to a group of Malaysians. officials.
The original price of the property was AU $ 17.85 million, but it was later sold for AU $ 22.6 million, with the AU $ 4.75 million paid or promised to people, including people supposedly named Zach Zainal and Erwan Azizi, with the intention of influencing a Malaysian public official. to secure the sale of said property.
