Bahri returns, likely to be part of SRC and 1MDB probe

Three years ago, when the police disrupted the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) probe on SRC International, its senior officer Bahri Mohd Zin had vowed to “find the culprits responsible till kingdom come.”
His officers, who were part of the investigating team, were picked up, their office ransacked and the commission’s deputy public prosecutor remanded by the police.
Bahri along with another senior officer, Rohaizad Yaakob, were later transferred out of the MACC and placed at the Prime Minister's Department, much like former Special Branch deputy director Abdul Hamid Bador.
The duo has since been reinstated after the change of government following the seminal May 9 general election.
Today Bahri, who took early retirement last year, will now have a chance to find those responsible for issuing the order to the police to harass MACC and its officers, as he had vowed to do in 2015.
Bahri is likely to be given the opportunity to finish his job by returning to his post as Special Operations Division director in MACC.
"Yes, I will be reporting for duty again today," he told Malaysiakini when contacted but declined to elaborate.

Bahri was quoted last week saying that his prayers were answered when the Dr Mahathir Mohamad-led Pakatan Harapan coalition won the general election.
This comes after his former boss, Mohd Shukri Abdull, who was deputy chief commissioner of MACC in 2016, returned yesterday to helm the commission.
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Bahri’s former division, which is called Bahagian Operasi Khas in Bahasa Malaysia, is tasked to investigate special cases – those involving more than RM1 million and sensitive cases involving public interests.
The division was said to have investigated SRC, which was previously a subsidiary of 1MDB, particularly the RM42 million deposited into then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's bank account.
Sources described the SRC investigation as a straightforward case, unlike the more complex 1MDB case which involves multiple overseas jurisdictions, before it was stymied by police action.
The division is also said to have been trimmed down during then MACC chief commissioner Dzulkifli Ahmad, and it is understood that this special unit will now be restored to its former strength.
Ironically, Najib is scheduled to appear before the MACC today to answer questions on the SRC money found in his private bank account, among others.
Bahri is expected to continue with the task to probe Najib and SRC as well as 1MDB where the mutual legal assistance was declined by then attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali for his team to go overseas and work with investigators from other countries who were probing the massive scandal, where up to US$7 billion of the country’s sovereign wealth fund is unaccounted for.

Apandi had cleared Najib in January 2016 of any wrongdoing with regards to the MACC probe. -Mkini