AN “MP from the north” twice approached MACC deputy chief Mohd Shukri Abdull in 2015 to try to persuade him to close the file on SRC International’s RM2.6 billion transfer to the prime minister.

Mohd Shukri Abdull, who has come back from retirement to take up the post of MACC chief commissioner, said he told the MP, whom he declined to name, to stop trying.

“First he came and asked me what I want. I told him no and I told him to let the law takes its course. Then he came to me again a second time asking the same question and told me to close the case. At that point I told him to stop or I would arrest him,” said Shukri at a press conference today

He did not file a police report but was considering doing that now, he said.

He said these were among the encounters he had while investigating SRC International.

“We were under a lot of pressure. I even told my boss (Abu Kassim), that it was either us or the PM out. But my boss said, let’s just do our work. Let’s do this for the nation. And I obliged,” said Shukri.

Shukri is back to finish the job, having accepted Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s offer of the top MACC position.

Shukri is part of a special task force set up to investigate 1MDB. The other members are his old boss, former MACC chief Abu Kassim,  former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, and former Special Branch deputy director Hamid Bador. – May 22, 2018.