The Malaysian Insider chief editor Jahabar Sadiq will be questioned by police over the portal's report on MACC's oversight panel. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, February 26, 2016.
Police will investigate The Malaysian Insider chief editor Jahabar Sadiq as well as other editors and journalists over a news report on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) oversight panel, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) said today.
Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar announced this on his Twitter account, saying the report had "confused" people.
"PCIRC @PDRM panggil Ketua Editor @tm_insider dan siasat laporan yg mengelirukan org ramai berkenaan Panel MACC," he tweeted. (Police call the chief editor and investigate the report which has confused people about the MACC panel.)
Jahabar said he and other editors as well as the journalist who wrote the report would be at the Bukit Aman police headquarters at 3pm and would give their fullest cooperation to the police.
"They have called us to give our statements and we will give our full cooperation.
"They have called for me, the journalist who wrote the story, editors, sub-editors... it should be about six people in all.
"We stand by our report," Jahabar said.
The Malaysian Insider yesterday reported a member of the MACC's Operations Review Panel (OPR) saying that the agency should resubmit its investigation papers on SRC International Sdn Bhd to the attorney-general, as there was enough evidence to frame charges against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
In the evening, access to The Malaysian Insider website was blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) for content it said was a national security threat under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
MCMC said the move was made following complaints by some people.
Two OPR members then issued a press statement last night to distance themselves from the report and The Malaysian Insider's unnamed source.
The two were OPR chairman Tan Sri Hamid Bugo and panel member Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan, who said the panel never said "it had enough proof to charge Najib over SRC".
They said the panel had only asked MACC to complete its investigation.
OPR has a total of eight members, including the chairman.
A day earlier, MACC issued a statement on OPR's meeting held the same day in which the panel advised the anti-graft agency to resubmit its investigation papers regarding SRC International to the A-G for review.
MACC said the panel also recommended that it continue its unfinished probe into the RM2.6 billion donation to Najib, and to seek the A-G's help for mutual legal assistance to get information from overseas financial investigations.
MACC said the panel told it to "issue public statements" on the two cases – but Hamid and Jawhar said they had never made such a request.
A-G Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali on January 26 had announced that there was insufficient evidence to charge Najib over SRC International and the RM2.6 billion, and ordered the investigations closed.
- TMI
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