The alleged accounts and transaction do not exist.
The alleged transfer of US$741,440 (about RM3.1 million) from engineering giant UEM Group Berhad into a bank account purportedly belonging to Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali does not exist, says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy chief commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki.
He confirmed the non-existence of the alleged transaction and the account bearing Azmin’s name after an investigation was carried out following a police report lodged by UMNO supreme council member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam earlier this month.
“We discovered that the transaction between the accounts and the accounts themselves do not exist,” he said today when responding to a question from the media on the update of the case at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex.
“UEM and Maybank themselves have issued statements on the non-existent accounts,” he added.
In refuting the claim, UEM said it did not have an account with the bank’s main branch in Kuala Lumpur, nor with the account number that went viral on social media, while Maybank had also refuted the claim and said that the document was forged.
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.
Azam also disclosed that the MACC investigation also found that there was no so-called Deutsche Bank account in Azmin’s name said to be opened back in September 2012.
He also said the MACC would call more people to record their statements on the case, but declined to name them.
On June 11, Datuk Lokman Adam filed a report to the MACC alleging that UEM transferred US$741,440 into a Malayan Banking Berhad account bearing the name of Mohamed Azmin, who is also PKR deputy president, on Dec 19, 2017.