POLICE have locked down the office of Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali, a day after the new prime minister warned that those who had colluded with the former administration in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal would pay for their complicity.

Apandi told The Sun police have barricaded the roads leading to the Attorney-General’s Chambers in Putrajaya.

He confirmed that a photo of barbed fire in front of an office building, which has gone viral, was genuine. “It appears so,” he said, when contacted by theSun.

At his first press conference as prime minister last night, Dr Mahathir Mohamad promised that “heads will roll” at the government agencies that had shown themselves to be corrupt, naming the AGC and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission as being among the agencies where a “reshuffle” could take place.

Apandi had cleared former prime minister Najib Razak of wrongdoing in the matter of the 1MDB financial scandal.

Apandi become the attorney-general in 2015, when he replaced Abdul Gani Patail who had unexpectedly stepped down due to “ill health”, amid a probe into the troubled state investor.– May 11, 2018.