THE Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission’s list of 80 individuals and entities to sue for civil assets forfeiture against in connection with 1MDB is a non-exhaustive one, said Latheefa Koya

The MACC chief said the agency was for now targeting only those who had received at least RM500,000.

“We are giving priority to bigger amounts of money,” she said in a statement today, in a swift response to accusations of selective prosecution by MACC.

Former Johor Baru MP Shahrir Samad, who is on MACC’s prosecution list, had noted that a former Umno politician who defected to Bersatu was not among the recipients of money allegedly stolen fro 1Malaysia Development Bhd .

Shahrir said Masjid Tanah MP Mas Ermieyati Samsudin was missing from MACC’s list even though she was named by Sarawak Report four years ago as being among those who allegedly received funds from 1MDB.

“As if by a miracle, Mas Ermieyati’s name is no longer mentioned (as a recipient),”   Shahrir said, adding that Ahmad Maslan, Mas Ermieyati and himself were alleged by Sarawak Report to have received 1MDB funds in August 2015.

“Everybody knows that Mas Ermieyati was the first to defect from Umno to Bersatu,” he said, in reference to the former Umno Puteri chief quitting Umno to go independent before joining rival party Bersatu after the general election last year.

Latheefa said the MACC was not being selective in its efforts to recover the 1MDB funds.

“The criterion (for the forfeiture action) is the amount of money involved and nothing else,” she said. 

Latheefa said the MACC was taking action in a systematic and orderly fashion to retrieve funds stolen from the people. 

“(We will do this) in stages without siding with any parties,” she said. – October 10, 2019.