“As the vice-chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, every time we have a meeting, MACC officials are present. So, they will definitely call me,” Kok told reporters after an event today.

She said MACC officers visited her service centre while she was in Parliament, but could not confirm if anything was confiscated.

“It was very sudden. They said their investigation process didn’t involve prior notice and proceeded very suddenly, so I also don’t know (what happened),” she said.

Kok, who is a DAP vice-chairman, said she will give MACC her full cooperation.

Yesterday, it was reported that her former officer, Edmund Teoh, had been remanded until Sunday by MACC, allegedly linked to a speech she delivered in Parliament last year.

Another former officer, Ng Yoot Kuen, was also called in by MACC earlier to provide a statement.

Kok said she had in November raised concerns about the rationale behind the federal territory education department’s request for and provision of smartboards.

She said her speech was published in full on her social media platforms for transparency and public record.

Kok said she found it regrettable and disheartening that she is being unfairly blamed by certain members of her own party and the families of her former staff over MACC’s decision to question Teoh and Ng.

Today, she said it was “very over the top” for some quarters to claim that she was capable of influencing MACC to take action against certain individuals before the party elections.

Seventy DAP leaders are set to battle it out on March 16 for positions on the party’s 30-member central executive committee.