Azam said Ling had cooperated with MACC and was only called in to assist in the probe.

“She was not our suspect. She is a witness. We never called her with the intent to arrest her,” he told a press conference at MACC’s headquarters today.

He also said the case is now under the police’s jurisdiction.

“This case, I maintain, is outside of MACC’s scope. We leave it to the police,” he said, adding that MACC had given full cooperation to the police in providing information linked to her.

“We have cooperated and provided whatever information needed by the police on the missing person,” nhe said.

Ling, 42, was reported missing on April 9 while on her way to MACC’s headquarters here to give a statement related to an ongoing investigation.

A missing person’s report was received at about 3pm the same day.

MACC had opened an investigation into her and her husband, Thomas Hah, in May last year for alleged corruption and money laundering offences.