Accusing the MACC officers of acting like “gangsters”, he said the MACC should have called him over for questioning instead of stopping him while he was driving and taking his car keys away.

He told a press conference that members of the public had urged him to lodge a police report.

Voon, the PBK candidate for the Batu Lintang seat, alleged that the action was political harassment.

PBK is contesting in the Sarawak elections for the first time, and fielding candidates in 73 of the 82 seats.

In two videos posted on his Facebook account, Voon said he felt “under threat” by the actions of the MACC officers.

In one of the videos, an officer can be heard informing Voon that they were just carrying out their duty to serve him a notice to be present for questioning by the MACC.

Voon said today that subsequent to getting the notice, he went to the MACC office where he was questioned for four hours. He said he was still shocked, demoralised and unhappy after his interrogation.

The MACC clarified that Voon was called up to give a statement in an ongoing probe by the anti-graft agency into a video shared by him.

The MACC said it had tried to contact Voon multiple times before stopping him to hand over the notice to cooperate in the probe. Voon, it said, subsequently presented himself at the MACC office.