It is understood the police recorded his statement following the lodging of two reports over a Facebook post on July 27.

Mahathir is expected to hold a press conference regarding the matter this afternoon.

On July 27, Mahathir published two Facebook posts, with one asserting that Malaysia should be recognised primarily as a Malay country rather than a multiracial one.

“Many countries do this. But these countries remain the land of the definitive people,” he wrote.

In the second post, Mahathir questioned whether Malaysia has been colonised by migrants and their descendants.

“Singapore has, but the Malay states and the Borneo states have not been conquered. They remain the countries of the indigenous definitive people,” he said.

It is not known which of the Facebook posts is under investigation.