There appears to be confusion surrounding Najib Abdul Razak's claim that MACC did not record his statement in 2015.
MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Azam Baki said several of his officers met the former premier at the Prime Minister's Office in December 2015.
"Sometime around December 2015, we met Najib at his (former) office and recorded his statement for three hours," he told Berita Harian.
Azam refused to comment on the reason the former premier was now claiming otherwise.
However, it appears that Azam and Najib were talking about two separate things which occurred in 2015.
In a Facebook posting yesterday, the former premier was referring to the purported charge sheet against him which surfaced in July 2015.
Najib had asked how could there be a charge sheet at that point when the MACC had yet to record his statement.
He was responding to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's remarks that it was not easy to charge the former premier because there must be strong evidence in court.
The former premier said Mahathir's remarks also proved that the purported existence of a charge sheet against him in 2015 was not true and that it was part of a conspiracy to use a certain individual in the government to topple him.
In July 2015, Abdul Gani Patail had been removed as attorney-general when he was heading a special task force probing into the RM2.6 billion and SRC International funds in Najib's personal bank accounts.
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who met Gani at the Yayasan Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya on May 16, had claimed that the latter was preparing to charge Najib when he was removed from his post.
However, he did not explain how the former AG was preparing to charge the former premier even before the latter's statement was recorded. -Mkini
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