NFA cases to be reopened: Latheefa

MACC chief Latheefa Koya (above) said the graft busters will reopen cases which have been classified as No Further Action (NFA).

"We will definitely have that, but I can't share right now.

"If it's NFA, I have to dig them up," she said in a media conference at Putrajaya.

When asked how far back she would go to dig those files, Latheefa said that "the files could be very old."

However, when pressed further whether the files include cases from Sarawak, Latheefa only replied with "No comment."

Last May, the Sarawak governor's office had stated that MACC has exonerated the Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud (below) from any wrongdoing, in the wake of the latter being linked by an environmental activist group to an allegedly illegal land-clearing operation just outside Mulu National Park.

The then MACC chief Mohd Shukri Abdull had said that they require new witnesses or evidence to reopen its probe on alleged corruption involving Taib.

"Based on our investigations, there was truth in some of the allegations made against Taib.

"But the problem was that he never made any decisions [...] he did not sit in on any of the meetings. Someone else sat in for the meetings.

"There was not one case where he (Taib) chaired a meeting. Somebody else made the decisions," Shukri said.

Last month, Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii (below) said he would meet Latheefa to discuss the possibility of opening investigations involving Taib.

Yii said that the previous 15 MACC investigation papers were closed by former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail.

"So my argument is just because he (Gani) decided not to prosecute (Taib), that does not mean there is no basis (to re-investigate).

"... (This is) the same answer I received several times already, these are recycled answers," he said. - Mkini