Federal graft-busters have outright denied freezing the bank account of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s grandson as part of their investigations.
“The account of his grandson was never frozen,” Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Deputy Commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki was quoted as saying in a report by Sinar Harian.
He was responding to a claim by the former prime minister’s daughter Nooryana Najwa through a post on social media that her and her son’s personal bank account was frozen after she posted bail for her father.
She wrote on a closed Facebook group ‘Malaysians for Civil Liberty’ on Thursday (July 5), saying that her bank informed her that they received instructions to freeze both the accounts.
Najib’s children, Nooryana and son Norashman, yesterday helped their father post the RM500,000 bail set after he claimed trial to three charges of criminal breach of trust and one charge of abuse of power.
Najib was given a bail of RM1 million and was later allowed to post the amount over two separate dates, which requires him to deposit the remaining half a million by Monday.