The MACC is expected to press charges against Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan tomorrow as the anti-graft agency investigates the party’s finances.
An MACC source confirmed the Tasek Gelugor MP has been arrested and will be charged in court tomorrow in relation to the Jana Wibawa initiative.
Several Bersatu sources, meanwhile, confirmed to Malaysiakini that Wan Saiful (above) had gone to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya today to facilitate investigations.
One source said he had gone to the MACC at 8pm and has been uncontactable since.
A press invitation from the MACC stated that two individuals will be charged at a Kuala Lumpur court in relation to Jana Wibawa tomorrow morning. The two individuals were not identified, as per normal practice with such invitations.
The arrest came as Bersatu’s accounts and government initiatives during party president Muhyiddin Yassin’s premiership were placed under greater scrutiny.
The MACC had already frozen Bersatu’s bank accounts, and on Feb 16, it questioned Muhyiddin for several hours regarding Jana Wibawa.
Then finance minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, who is now the international trade and industry minister, was also said to be under investigation.
The Jana Wibawa programme, or ‘Program Jana Ekonomi Pemerkasaan Kontraktor Bumiputera Berwibawa’ was introduced to expedite project execution and spur the country’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery.
It was also intended to improve the capacity of bumiputera contractors to help them become more resilient and competitive.
56 projects worth RM6.3b
In a related development, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said said Jana Wibawa involved 56 projects that were issued letters of acceptance, for a total project value of RM6.3 billion.
“However, a few of the letters of acceptance involved family members of top leaders from a certain political party. So far, the MACC has yet to ascertain the value of those projects,” she said in a parliamentary written reply today.
This was part of a broader investigation on projects awarded through direct negotiation, she added.
She was responding to a question from Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng, who asked how many projects have been implicated in abuses of power and what is the value of those projects. - Mkini
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