Najib, Rosmah not charged as probe on audio recordings released by MACC still ongoing, says lawyer

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor was at Bukit Aman this morning for about an hour, to give their statements in relation to the investigations on the audio recordings released by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) last month.

According to Rosmah’s lawyer Mohamed Reza Rahim, there have not been any charges against Najib and Rosmah.

“We will see as it goes on. So far it’s just investigations, we just came to give statements,” he told the press outside Bukit Aman police headquarters, but declined to reveal more on the due process.

Reza also confirmed that the duo will be at MACC headquarters later today at 2pm to record their statements there.

It is believed that the investigations are under Section 112 of the Malaysian Penal Code, which refers to the crime of abetment, specifically on abettor, when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done.

Reza revealed that Rosmah gave her statement for about 15 minutes and the rest of the time was spent on Najib. They both left the police headquarters at around 11.30am.

“We have given our statements, and we are willing to cooperate [in the investigations],” Reza told the media outside the police headquarters at Bukit Aman on behalf of his client.

Najib and Rosmah were noticed using the back entrance of the Bukit Aman police headquarters.

Earlier, Bernama reported that police had recorded statements from 12 witnesses to facilitate investigations into nine audio recordings exposed by the MACC and allegedly involved a high-level criminal conspiracy.

This includes Baling Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, Najib’s principal private secretary Tan Sri Shukry Mohd Salleh, and former special officer to Najib, Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin.

On Jan 8, the MACC released an audio recording of a conversation allegedly involving leakage of information from the Attorney General’s Chambers to Najib, when he was the prime minister, and recordings of several other phone conversations in connection with investigations into the 1Malaysia Development Bhd and SRC International Sdn Bhd scandals.

Besides Najib, the conversations allegedly involved Rosmah, former MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad, a foreign figure and several other individuals.

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