THE Kuala Lumpur High Court has rejected Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali’s application to challenge the “official secret” status of the scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s audit report by the auditor-general.
High court judge Kamaludin Md Said ruled that Azmin had no “locus standi” to access the audit report.
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The argument was that the document should remain secret until it is presented to PAC. But now that the report had already been seen by PAC, Malaysians now want to know about it. Public Account Committee serves the public, and they have no right to hide information to protect wrongdoers.
Posted 3 years ago by Meng Kow Loh