The opposition leader said she would also order every PKR member to lodge a police report over the transfer of MACC director (Special Operations) Datuk Bahri Mohamad Zin and director of strategic communications Datuk Rohaizad Yaakob.
She expressed shock that the two were reassigned to a different department almost immediately after they had met with several opposition lawmakers, including herself.
"I urge the authorities to explain at once the transfer of these senior MACC personnel, so that the perception does not arise that political interference and punitive punishments were carried out as a warning to other MACC members," said Dr Wan Azizah in a statement last night.
"Because the interference and threats towards MACC officers are clearly ongoing, I shall order all PKR members to lodge police reports and gather in support of MACC at all MACC offices across the country."
Bahri and Rohaizad are expected to report to the Prime Minister's Department on Monday after being transferred there with immediate effect yesterday.
On Thursday, Rohaizad had met with Dr Wan Azizah, New Hope Movement pro-tem chairman Mohamad Sabu and DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang during a gathering in support of the agency outside its office in Putrajaya.
MACC came under the spotlight after its office was raided and several of its senior officials and officers hauled up by the police as part of investigations over a leak in an official probe into the controversial 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.
MACC is investigating a company called SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former subsidiary of 1MDB.
Bahri, who was one of seven officials questioned by police over the past week, has been vocal in his comments on the arrests, and has vowed to root out the mastermind.
He had hinted of hidden hands in the police action although police denied the allegation, saying that it was their prerogative to investigate.
The MACC officials are being investigated under Section 124 of the Penal Code and the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 for leaking government documents and banking information.
Other MACC officers hauled up by the police include the agency's forensics division head Datuk I.G. Chandran and its senior assistant commissioner Tuan Ruslan Tuan Mat, special operations deputy director Datuk Tan Kang Sai, former MACC adviser Tan Sri Rashpal Singh and an officer with the Attorney-General's Chambers, Jessica Gurmeet Kaur.
Police also raided the MACC special operations division office and the office of its deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairy, taking documents related to the 1MDB probe.
Police said they would investigate members of the special task force handling the probe into 1MDB after the Attorney-General's Chambers on July 8 said that information leaks on the matter were a "criminal act of leaking classified documents to foreign nationals".
- TMI
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