Speaking to FMT, Sanjeevan said he found out about the cancellation on Twitter last September but questioned the failure of the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to send him a formal notice informing him of it.
“I wrote to the RoS and the home ministry regarding this, but there has been no reply for more than two months now,” he told FMT, saying that he even made a trip to the RoS headquarters in Putrajaya last Wednesday to seek a clarification from them.
“They asked me why MyWatch was still operational when its registration had been cancelled. I asked them back: since when and why was it cancelled?
“(And) Why was no formal letter sent to us?”
He argued that the authorities could have easily sent him a notice of the cancellation as they had his home and office addresses when they arrested him last year.
He also claimed he appealed against the cancellation more than a month ago, but had yet to receive a reply from the RoS.
Checks with the RoS showed that the whistleblower organisation formed in 2012 had its registration cancelled on Sept 14 last year.
Efforts by FMT to contact RoS director-general Mohammad Razin Abdullah were unsuccessful as of 4.30pm.
Sanjeevan is facing at least 14 criminal charges, including forgery, cheating, defamation and money laundering.
He was first arrested on June 22 for allegedly extorting RM25,000 in “protection” money from an illegal four-digit business operator.
Last November, the authorities seized all Sanjeevan’s vehicles as part of their investigation into his other offences under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (Amla).