POLICE today confirmed that a senior Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officer is being investigated for allegedly enticing a married woman with the intent of having illicit intercourse.

Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the case was being investigated under Section 498 of the Penal Code, which refers to such an offence.

Those found guilty face up to two years’ jail, a fine, or both.

“The investigation is ongoing. We are in the process of determining the facts. If need be, we will arrest,” said Fuzi.

“Give us time to investigate this matter. It is not easy for us to detect (who is responsible), but we are trying hard to find out who it is,” he told reporters when asked to comment on a video alleging an extramarital affair between a senior MACC official and a married woman.

The IGP also said they have yet to receive any report from the MACC.

“So give us time. We are also trying hard to find out who is responsible (for the video) and everything else,” Fuzi said.

“At the moment, there has been no arrest. We are trying to find the person (who made the video).”

Police started investigating the case after receiving a report on the video from a marketing executive last week.

Earlier today, Umno supreme council member Mohd Puad Zarkashi was reported as saying that the video was meant to threaten and blackmail the agency.

The New Straits Times quoted him as saying that those who released the video might be feeling the pressure from MACC’s aggressive anti-graft stance.

“I condemn those who tried to defame the MACC (officer) with this overly sensationalised story.

“It was made with the intention of blackmailing (the officer and) MACC into not being firm in fighting corruption involving certain prominent political figures,” he had said.

MACC advisory board chairman Abdul Aziz Ibrahim also waded into the issue yesterday when he said the allegation that the anti-graft agency chief Dzulkifli Ahmad had an extramarital affair with a married woman was aimed at undermining MACC.

The issue came to light after a three-minute video, alleging that a couple had divorced on September 28 at the Ulu Klang lower shariah court due to the woman’s alleged affair with an MACC officer, made its rounds online.

The video came after MACC’s recent arrest of several politicians and high-ranking civil servants for alleged graft.

The woman at the centre of the allegations had come forward to say she accepted the blame, but would not reveal the real reason behind her divorce.

She also apologised to Dzulkifli and his family in a public Facebook post.

Dzulkifli, however, has remained tight-lipped over this matter.

Text messages and phone calls to him by The Malaysian Insight have gone unanswered. – October 17, 2017.