Zahid says Bukit Aman CID director 'naive' about Australian laws

Updated 8 years ago · Published on 4 Mar 2018 9:08PM · 3 Comments

Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says he accepts Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd's explanation about his banking transactions in Australia. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 4, 2018.

DEPUTY Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has defended Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd, saying the controversy surrounding his transactions in Australia were the result of him simply being “naive”.

Zahid said it had become a common practice or SOP for police officers and personnel to make asset declarations every year, and Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun makes a declaration of assets to him (Zahid), before he (Zahid) informs the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the prime minister.

He said this when referring to an article published by a foreign newspaper recently that Australian police seized A$320,000 (RM971,728) in a bank account belonging to Wan Ahmad over suspected money laundering.

“This matter arose in 2016. Wan Ahmad mentioned the real source of the money was from the sale of a home to finance his child’s education in Australia, but the law of that country requires a transaction of more than A$10,000 to obtain special permission,” Zahid said at a media conference after attending the Royal Malaysia Police management meeting at the officers mess of the Sarawak police contingent headquarters in Kuching today.

“So maybe, Wan Ahmad was a little naive on the legal system in Australia.

“But he has explained the matter to the authorities and also personally to myself. We accept his explanation in very good faith.” – Bernama, March 4, 2018.
 

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  • MACC should also be having the liberty to believe stories told to them in good faith, some cases very good faith, and that led to cases left in no further action files. One could almost confirm that good faith is only applied to people tied to selected identities, as Zahid has just demonstrated.

    Posted 8 years ago by Meng Kow Loh · Reply

  • No amount of excuses can ever exonerate CID chief n the whole police force. Hence to uphold the integrity of the force n the CID, you must have an independent body to investigate this matter thoroughly n if he is clean, let the independent body say so, n not you. This is to restore the credibility of the police force n him. Anything short of this will add to the negative perception the rakyat has of the police n Umno govt. You must know that no one in their right mind will ever let go of rm1million without trying to fight for it to get it back...n he has said that he will not fight for it to get it back. Doesn't that sounds fishy?

    Posted 8 years ago by Peace Maker · Reply

  • I hv a son studying in Australia. The transfer of funds is so very simple. The university there will teach u how to do it. Naive??? I dont think so. Not buying this bullshit not one bit.

    If he is innocent, then make public all the remittances n tuition fees documents.

    And if u did nothing wrong, u will make every attempt to fight for whatever monies which is legally yours. I know I would. Let alone a very senior law enforcement personnel. RM1mil is a lot of money lah.

    There is a famous P Ramlee movie saying.... "KECIK KECIK TAK MAU MAMPUS, DAH BESAR MENYUSAHKAN ORANG"

    Posted 8 years ago by Zaki ZX · Reply