Fuzi said Indonesian authorities had not contacted Malaysia on the matter, either.
“Not now, and not at all before,” he said at a press conference in Bukit Aman today.
Yesterday, Indonesian police confirmed that the collaborative efforts regarding the seizure of the Equanimity did not involve Malaysia.
The yacht was seized by Indonesian police in Bali last Wednesday. It had been sought by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in the multi-billion dollar corruption investigation linked to Malaysian state fund 1MDB.
In August 2017, the DoJ asked for a stay on its civil lawsuits seeking to seize more than US$1.7 billion in assets allegedly bought with stolen 1MDB funds because it was conducting a related criminal probe.
Among the assets sought were the US$250 million luxury yacht bought by Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, who is named as a key figure in the US lawsuits.
The lawsuits said Low, who is better known as Jho Low, used proceeds diverted from 1MDB to procure the Equanimity, which it described as a 300-foot (91-metre) yacht registered in the Cayman Islands.
According to the DoJ paperwork in US courts last year, the Equanimity was custom-made and fitted with a sauna, massage parlour, swimming pool and lounge, and maintained with funds amounting to US$250 million (RM1.06 billion) from 1MDB.