Lim made the report at about 11am at the Dang Wangi police headquarters on Saturday, Malaysiakini reported.
He said he had waited for four days for any explanation or statement by the authorities and the banks about the WSJ article.
“Until now there were no explanations from Bank Negara, Bukit Aman (federal police headquarters) and also AmBank,” Lim was quoted as saying.
The WSJ article on Tuesday named Joanna Yu and Cheah Tek Kuang of AmBank as having been mentioned in mobile phone messages from Jho Low (Penang-born businessman Low Taek Joh).
The article alleged that Yu was Low’s primary contact at AmBank and that Cheah, said to be an adviser to the chairman, had handled Prime Minister Najib Razak’s accounts personally.
The article said the transactions concerned a flow of funds related to 1MDB, amounting to USD680 million that were deposited in the Najib accounts in 2013. The government has said the money was a political donation from a member of the Saudi royal family and the bulk of the money was returned. The WSJ however disputes the government’s assertion, relying on court documents filed by the US Justice Department.
Lim was quoted as saying: “We want the police and bank to investigate and to give us an answer. In my report I have also listed down laws that I felt have been broken.” He would also seek an investigation by Bank Negara.
The WSJ article said an AmBank spokesman and former Bank Negara Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz had declined to comment. Yu and Cheah did not respond to WSJ’s requests for comment, it said.
The article relied on transcripts of phone messages quoted by the US Justice Department in its suits to seize USD1 billion in assets believed to have been bought with funds allegedly embezzled from 1MDB.