Cops begin probe into altered 1MDB audit report

Cops begin probe into altered 1MDB audit report

Commercial CID chief Amar Singh says police will call up several witnesses to record their statements on the matter.

PETALING JAYA:
Police have launched investigations into claims that the 1MDB audit report was tampered with, and will call up several witnesses to give their statements on the matter.

Bukit Aman Commercial CID director Amar Singh said the investigations into the claim by Auditor-General Madinah Mohamad revolved around several aspects.

“This includes the involvement of civil servants in creating inaccurate records, falsification of records with the intention to cheat and falsification of records by a civil servant in their official capacity,” he said in a statement today.

Yesterday, Madinah said the former principal private secretary to former prime minister Najib Razak had ordered the Audit Department to remove any mention of controversial businessman Low Taek Jho’s presence at a meeting with the 1MDB board of directors from its report on the troubled investment arm.

She also said that Najib, in a meeting with former chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa, former auditor-general Ambrin Buang and Najib’s former principal private secretary, ordered a paragraph in the audit report which contained two versions of 1MDB’s 2014 financial statements to be removed and ordered a full investigation by the authorities.

As a result, the audit report which was supposed to be presented to the Public Accounts Committee on Feb 24, 2016, was postponed to March 4 and 7 of the same year, Madinah said.

She also listed several more meetings where more amendments were made to the report.

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