Several Sarawak DAP leaders today met Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Latheefa Koya and submitted new evidence on graft cases in the state.
This comes after Latheefa pledged in July to review the ‘No Further Action’ cases involving VVIPs in Selangor, Penang and Sarawak.
According to Pandungan state assemblyperson and Sarawak DAP vice-president Wong King Wei, they submitted information and evidence to MACC for further action during their meeting today.
“What I can say is that one of the documents submitted (to MACC) is new evidence…I have spent months to obtain this information,” he told Malaysiakini.
Wong, however, declined to disclose what were the cases discussed during the meeting this afternoon.
“We want Latheefa to conduct probes into these graft cases in Sarawak without causing any problems for her,” Wong said.
“We spoke of the pattern of corruption and how many projects were involved during the meeting.
“She (Latheefa) said MACC never received any instruction on whom they can or cannot investigate,” he said.
Wong noted how the MACC had changed compared to previously when it could only initiate a probe after receiving an official graft report.
“Latheefa said MACC can (directly) take action with the information we supplied, or the graft buster can also lodge its own report (based on this information),” he said.
The others who met Latheefa were Lanang MP Alice Lau, Bandar Kuching MP Kevin Yii and Pending state assemblyperson Violet Yong.
Meanwhile, Yii said the group from Sarawak had a “positive and fruitful discussion on the different anti-corruption measures taken by the current government.”
“We also discussed a few pertinent issues in Sarawak and how we can work together to promote different anti-corruption measures in the state,” he said in a statement.
He said he is optimistic that the different anti-corruption measures currently undertaken by MACC will also be extended to Sarawak.
Last May, the Sarawak governor’s office had stated that MACC has exonerated Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud from any wrongdoing, in the wake of the latter being linked by an environmental activist group to an allegedly illegal land-clearing operation just outside Mulu National Park.
In July, de facto Law Minister Liew Vui Keong said the MACC had no reason to reopen its probe against Taib Mahmud as the evidence submitted by the Sarawak Report and Bruno Manser were not new.
Yii had then immediately said that he would meet Latheefa to discuss the possibility of opening investigations involving Taib, who was Sarawak’s chief minister from 1981 to 2014. – Malaysiakini