MALAYSIAN CID director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd has been cleared of any criminal offences relating to the money seized from his bank account in Australia, Inspector General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said.

Fuzi said he was informed of this development by his counterpart in Australia.

“Their investigations showed there was no criminal element in Wan Ahmad Najmuddin’s case. Just maybe in the limit (of the deposits),” said Fuzi.

Fuzi, however, refused to comment when asked if the Aus$320,000 (RM985,000) seized from Wan Ahmad’s bank account in Sydney would be returned to him.

Fuzi simply said that the public and media should also be fair to the CID director, adding that he had been found guilty in the court of public opinion.

the IGP said the CID director was already “punished” in 2016 by the the force’s Integrity and Standard Compliance Department as they held back his promotion when the probe against him was going on.

“He was supposed to be confirmed as commissioner of police but we had to hold that promotion until the report revealed that he had done no wrong,” said Fuzi.

He said Wan Ahmad also provided the sales and purchase agreement on the sale of his house to the probe team as proof of how he acquired the money which was deposited in his Sydney bank account.

“So we should not speculate further on this matter. It is normal, when we have kids, we try to give our best. In his case, he wanted to get his children educated in Australia,” Fuzi said at an event at the Federal police headquarters this evening.

Wan Ahmad is now being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) after the anti-graft agency received a report on the funds deposited into his Australian bank account.

MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Azam Baki had said that the complainant is protected under the Whistleblowers Protection Act and his identity cannot be revealed.

Sydney Morning Herald on March 2 had reported that Wan Ahmad had been stripped of more than Aus$320,000 by the Australian Federal Police, which suspected his Sydney bank account held laundered money or proceeds of crime.

The paper also reported that Wan Ahmad did not want the money back as he claimed that the legal process would be too expensive. – March 15, 2018.