A civil society group, Hisbah Centre for Reform, has lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in connection with the alleged corruption and abuse of power involving a former finance minister.
The report was lodged by Hisbah secretary Abdul Ghani Haroon, who also handed over more than 600 sheets of documents to MACC, believed to contain detailed information on the case.
“These documents comprise various financial reports when the former finance minister was helming several institutions and companies,” he said at the MACC headquarters today.
Ghani declined to disclose the identity of the former finance minister concerned, besides saying that the individual was appointed under the administrations of former prime ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Tun Razak.
According to him, the individual had also controlled one of the largest government-linked companies in the country with a surplus of over RM1 million.
Ghani, who also declined to divulge the form of power abuse by the former finance minister, said a report relating to the case was also made by Hisbah chairman Mohamad Ezam Mohd Nor to MACC during the Abdullah administration.
“Hisbah is making a report again because it wants to make sure the new government’s administration undertakes changes and does not make the same mistakes as had happened in the previous administrations,” he said.