FORMER Auditor-General Ambrin Buang has reserved his statement on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) report in 2016 which was allegedly amended on the orders of former Prime Minister Najib Razak.

When contacted by The Malaysian Insight, Ambrin neither confirmed nor denied the allegation but instead said to wait for the proceedings on the 1MDB investigations to commence.

“Wait until December 4 when I appear before the PAC,” he said referring to the Public Accounts Committee proceedings.

Utusan had earlier reported that Najib had ordered the removal of content in the report which stated his involvement and that of fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho in the state investment fund.

The Malay daily cited unnamed sources who said the amendments were made at a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s office which was attended by Ambrin, former Chief Secretary to the Government Dr Ali Hamsa, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Dzulkifli Ahmad and principal private secretary to the prime minister Shukri Mohd Salleh.

Last month, Ambrin denied the report had been tampered with after PAC deputy chairman Wong Kah Woh said the report had been amended.

Ambrin was supposed to meet with the PAC on October 29 but the committee’s chairman Ronald Kiandee cancelled the session saying that the investigation had been indefinitely suspended on the advice of the Attorney-General who has brought charges against Najib over the scandal.

The proceeding is scheduled to resume over three days from December 4 upon advice from the Attorney-General.

Meanwhile, Ali said he was clueless as to the matter.

“I do not know anything about it (the amendments to the report),” he told The Malaysian Insight.

The report was given to the PAC as part of its probe into 1MDB. It ultimately found that Najib was implicated in the fund’s scandals.

Pakatan Harapan lifted the The Official Secrets Act (OSA) status on the report after it took over the federal government in May. – November 23, 2018.