“I ask for the police to thoroughly investigate and arrest these senior officers who disclosed Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) internal matters to the Opposition for the latter’s political benefit,” said MIC Treasurer-General S Vell Paari.

The call came following Rafizi’s claim that he had met with a senior official of MACC who informed him that the agency’s two top leaders were being forced to resign.

According to Vell Paari, the claim the PKR secretary-general made proved there is a leakage of information from MACC.

“This also proves the Opposition may have interfered in MACC’s investigation because as Rafizi himself stated, he met with the senior official and discussed the agency’s internal matters,” he added in statement today.

Vell Paari then went a step further, suggesting that Rafizi’s “close relationship” with the official may be the reason MACC’s corruption probe into Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s bungalow purchase was incomplete.

The agency’s investigation papers were handed over to the Attorney-General’s Chambers on May 26, but were returned to MACC for further action.

“This may provide the Opposition more time to hide necessary information,” Vell Paari alleged.

MACC Chief Abu Kassim Mohamed yesterday announced his resignation which he said was done out of his own volition.

He also revealed that MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull will retire next month.

Rafizi, in a statement later yesterday, alleged that “outsiders” will replace the duo and urged Opposition MPs, who sit on MACC’s Special Committee, namely DAP’s Dr Tan Seng Giaw, Fauzi Abd Rahman (PKR) and Takiyuddin Hassan (PAS ), to resign in protest.