The national police headquarters have set up a special team to investigate an alleged leak of secret government documents related to the RM1 billion Ampang-line light rail transit extension project.
National CID director Mohd Bakri Zinin said the investigations were initiated after Finance Ministry officials lodged a police report in Putrajaya yesterday.
"The complainants claimed that several classified documents on the tender had been exposed to parties which did not have the right (to access the documents) through a news portal.
“Such documents were also frequently manipulated by irresponsible parties for self-interest,” Mohd Bakri told a press conference today, according to Bernama.
Mohd Bakri said the leak of classified would indirectly affect national interest.
"We give an assurance that the investigation will be transparent and comprehensive under Section 8 (1) (i) of the Official Secrets Act 1972," he said.
Newsmen to be called up
He added that the team would be led by his deputy Hadi Ho Abdullah and will also look into the probability that the leak could have been an inside job.
Mohd Bakri said the author of the report on the unspecified news portal would also be called for questioning.
Last Wednesday, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli distributed several documents which he claimed proves Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak interfered in the tender for the project.
Rafizi claimed that the although Balfour Beatty-Invesys Consortium had made the lowest bid, the interference resulted in the project being awarded by a consortium led by George Kent Bhd.
Najib had denied the claims while the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had begun investigations.
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