The website’s London-based editor said there was nothing she could supply to the IGP that he had not already been made privy to, reported news portal Malaysiakini.

Rewcastle-Brown was responding to the IGP’s statement that she come to Malaysia to assist police in investigating Sarawak Report’s claim that Prime Minister Najib Razak had paid lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah RM9.5 million.

“These documents must surely have crossed his desk and he must still have copies despite the decision… to close the investigations,” she told Malaysiakini in an email communique.

Khalid, who is the only remaining member of the special task force who is still in office, wants Rewcastle-Brown to provide the police with the supporting evidence and documents.

The others in the task force were replaced, resigned or retired.

In July 2015, then attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail was replaced, following which the task force’s investigations into 1MDB came to an end.

Last year, then Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission head Abu Kassim Mohamed stepped down as the commission’s chief. He continues to serve as an anti-corruption service officer until his mandatory retirement on Dec 6, 2020. He is currently attached to the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria that comes under the auspices of the United Nations.

Bank Negara Malaysia governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz retired after her tenure ended last year.

Rewcastle-Brown said she was not able to comply with Khalid’s request to come to Malaysia to assist with enquiries as there were outstanding arrest warrants for her over “activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy” and “spreading false news” in Malaysia.

She said, however, Khalid was welcomed to send his officers to the UK where she would be happy to meet them and assist with the enquiries.

Pro-government supporters have accused the Sarawak Report editor of being part of a campaign to topple Najib, an allegation she has vehemently denied.