MACC clears Azmin of shady money transfer allegations

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has cleared Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali of any wrongdoing in allegations that he was behind questionable money transfers.

MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki said investigations were conducted immediately following a report lodged by Umno supreme council member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam earlier this month.

MACC investigations of an alleged transfer of US$741,440 (about RM3.1mil) from engineering giant UEM Group Berhad into a bank account bearing the same name as Azmin does not exist, the Malay Mail reported on Wednesday (June 26).

“During the course of investigations over Lokman’s report, we discovered that the transaction between the accounts and the accounts themselves did not exist.

“Moreover, Maybank and UEM have already issued statements over the matter on the non-existent accounts and transactions,” the portal quoted Azam as saying at the KL Court Complex here.

Azam also said MACC investigations also found there was no so-called Deutsche Bank account in Azmin’s name that was allegedly opened in September 2012.

The allegations were part of the sex video implicating Azmin that went viral earlier this month.

Former deputy minister’s aide Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz confessed to being one of the men in the video, and claimed that the other man is Azmin.

Azmin has denied any involvement in the sex video and called it a nefarious plot to destroy his political career. -Star