“They have asked us for a few more details, which we have sent to them,” said federal commercial crime investigation department director Mohd Kamarudin Din.

“We are currently waiting for their response,” he added at a press conference at the police college here today.

The documents and statements needed for the investigation have to go through the MLA process to ensure that they are accepted in court.

In September, Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said Bukit Aman had sent a MLA request to Singaporean authorities in connection with Tawfiq’s case after identifying the documents and statements needed for the investigation.

In 2021, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said that at least RM65 million in 1MDB-linked funds recovered from Singapore were held by a company Tawfiq controlled.

The company is said to have received the funds from fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low.

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 then deputy law minister Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said police were unable to cross the border to Singapore following the suspension of the vaccinated travel lane (VTL) 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 highlighted several reasons for the delay, including the investigating officer contracting Covid-19 and the inability to get witnesses to cooperate.

The authorities from both countries finally met in Singapore late last March, allowing the Malaysian team to identify the documents and statements needed for the investigation.

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