Shukri recalls harassment, live bullets while hot on 1MDB trail

In 2015, then deputy MACC commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull was hot on the 1MDB trail and this led him to be a victim of harassment, including being stalked while overseas and receiving bullets in the mail.

In a tell-all press conference today, Shukri, who is now the MACC head, said he was followed and photographed by individuals known to him while he was in Washington DC.

He said he took photos of these individuals and passed the photos on to fellow MACC deputy commissioner Azam Baki to pass on to then inspector-general of police Khaled Abu Bakar.

"Tell him his officers are stupid, I am following them," Shukri said he told Azam.

Shukri had flown to Washington DC amid an alleged plan to arrest him for a conspiracy to topple the government, following the dismissal of then-attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, who was about to press charges against Najib Abdul Razak, who was prime minister at the time, over the 1MDB scandal.

However, Shukri was not the only MACC officer being harassed at the time.

Back in Malaysia, two MACC officers had been arrested by the police, while several other top officers were questioned by police.

"In Washington, I cried like a baby... I felt guilty, my boys were being arrested, and here I was in the US," an emotional Shukri said.

He said he made several impassioned calls to the ministers in the Prime Minister's Department then - Shahidan Kassim and Paul Low - to arrange for his men's release, vowing to take drastic measures if they were not.

Shukri said he later made his way to New York and there he received police protection.

"Coincidentally, I had friends in the New York Police Department (NYPD). They protected me for a week.

"They supplied me with three bodyguards," he said.

However, the harassment against him did not stop at being followed.

Shukri said bullets had also been delivered to his home.

"There were bullets sent to my home. I didn't tell anyone, not even my wife because I didn't want them to be afraid.

"I didn't lodge a police report because I didn't want it to go viral," he added.

Shukri declined to reveal who had been making threats against him, only saying that he knew who they were. - Mkini