NEWLY appointed head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Mohd Shukri Abdull said the first team investigating the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal three years ago had completed its investigations and reports on SRC International then.

Shukri was part of the task force heading investigations into SRC International’s link to the 1MDB scandal in 2015.

He told reporters today that the probe and reports were completed when he met the then attorney-general, Abdul Gani Patail, on July 27, 2015.

“I met him on Monday at 6pm. He asked me, ‘Are you ready? Because on Wednesday, we are going to prosecute’.”

In a surprise turn of events, Gani was sacked from his post the following day, with the termination date backdated to the Monday when the two men met.

“I knew about it on Tuesday, when I was in a meeting,” said Shukri.

The government yesterday announced that Gani, Shukri, former MACC chief Abu Kassim Mohamed and former Special Branch deputy director Abdul Hamid Bador will head a new special 1MDB investigative team.

In 2015, a special task force, comprising the heads of the police, Bank Negara Malaysia, MACC and Attorney-General’s Chambers, had begun investigating 1MDB, but it was disbanded a year later after three members left office.

Another task force was formed by police in 2016 under former inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar.

Former prime minister Najib Razak, who also held the finance portfolio, was at the MACC headquarters for questioning today.

He is believed to have been asked about fund transfers involving SRC International, amounting to more than RM30 million, between mid-2014 and January 2015.

Reports said the money flowed from SRC International into several financial intermediaries owned by business proxies close to Najib, before being allegedly credited into his private account. – May 22, 2018.