THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has raided Majlis Amanah Rakyat’s (Mara) investment holding company Mara Corp over alleged misconduct involving five of its officers. 

Sources told The Malaysian Insight the raid took place before noon today with the anti-graft agency seizing some documents. 

They also said MACC officers recorded statements from several employees.

However, no other details was given. 

Yesterday, The Malaysian Insight reported that five people whose names were mentioned in an @EdisiSiasat tweet regarding alleged misconduct and abuse of power in Mara Corp have lodged a police report.

Noor Irwan Marmin, Iskandar Zainudin, Rizal Abdul Gani, Mohd Faizal Mohd Top, and Mohd Firdaus Zubir file a report against Mara Corp executive director Suhaili Abdul Rahman, who had accused them of “not following proper procedures when making backdated claims and allowances”.

In the police report sighted by The Malaysian Insight, four of them, Noor Irwan, Rizal, Faizal and Firdaus denied that they had breached the procedures as alleged by Suhaili in an official letter to Mara chairman Azizah Mohd Dun on Jan 30. 

In the letter to Azizah, which was also forwarded to The Malaysian Insight, Suhaili had asked for an independent investigation to be carried out against the five men. 

MACC previously said it will open an investigation into Mara Corp, following allegations of power abuse and mismanagement. 

In a statement, MACC said it had received a report and will start investigation today by recording statements from several Mara Corp witnesses. 

On Friday, Azizah said it had begun an investigation into Mara Corp. 

She said Mara viewed seriously the unauthorised public dissemination of internal administrative documents, which she said had cast a negative light on Mara and its subsidiaries. – February 7, 2022.