PETALING JAYA: Many questions still remain unanswered about former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s alleged links to the 1MDB scandal, an Umno Supreme Council member said today, adding that the public was waiting for action to be taken.
Puad Zarkashi said the questions included why Zeti’s husband, Tawfiq Ayman, had not been investigated under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA).
Referring to a report in The Edge, Puad questioned the role played by Vincent Cheah Chee Kong and Shaik Aqmal Shaik Allaudin who are said to be linked to Morningstar Equities, a British Virgin Islands company.
He asked if there was truth to the claim that Shaik Aqmal was the nephew of a former federal minister.
Puad also wondered if there was truth to the claim that the company had received RM700 million in 1MDB funds, as reported by the financial daily in 2019.
“Malaysians want to know the role played by this former federal minister,” he said in a Facebook post.
“The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has already revealed the matter. Najib Razak has lodged a police report. The people are waiting for the next course of action as there are just too many questions,” he said.
On Saturday, former prime minister Najib had lodged a police report claiming that material evidence relevant to his court cases had been concealed by key members of various government agencies and the former Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration.
Najib said transactions worth millions of ringgit linked to prosecution witnesses in both his SRC International and 1MDB cases had only recently been reported or confirmed.
One of these witnesses was described as a “former Bank Negara Malaysia governor.”
MACC had a week prior to the report confirmed that RM65 million of 1MDB-linked funds were recovered from Cutting Edge Industries, a company in Singapore controlled by Tawfiq, and his partner, Samuel Goh.
It was reported earlier this year that Iron Rhapsody – owned by Tawfiq and his son – received a total of RM66 million from companies and bank accounts linked to Low Taek Jho (Jho Low), the fugitive financier at the centre of the scandal.
Singapore police were also reported to have informed BNM in 2015 and 2016 about these suspicious transactions involving companies owned by Tawfiq, with the funds coming from accounts linked to Jho Low. Zeti was BNM governor at the time.
On Monday, former attorney-general Tommy Thomas claimed that Zeti and Tawfiq had “facilitated” fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low. - FMT
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