Commercial crime investigation department director Kamarudin Din said the progress of the investigation on the husband of former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz came after discussions and cooperation with Singapore’s Commercial Affairs Department from March 29-31.

“As a result of the discussions, the team identified the documents and statements needed for the investigation.

“However, to ensure that they are accepted in court, they have to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance process, which will be managed by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC),” he said in a statement today.

Police, he said, had referred the investigation papers to the AGC for further action.

Tawfiq is alleged to have received 1MDB-linked funds, which were transferred to a bank account in Singapore.

Singapore police were reported to have alerted BNM of suspicious transactions in 2015 and 2016 involving a company owned by Tawfiq and one of his sons.

Previously, controversy arose over the investigation when deputy law minister Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said police were unable to cross the border to Singapore following the suspension of the vaccination travel lane programme.

Singapore had then stated that it had proposed for the Malaysian team to visit between Feb 8 and 9, to which the Malaysian side only responded on March 10.

Subsequently, police had highlighted several reasons for the delay, including the investigating officer contracting Covid-19 and the inability to get witnesses to cooperate.