Former minister Paul Low says it was he who reversed the transfer of several MACC officers who investigated 1MDB.
Low says he did his best to protect MACC officers when the 1MDB probe was going on.
PETALING JAYA: Former minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Paul Low Seng Kuan says he did his best to protect Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers when the 1MDB probe was going on.
Speaking to FMT, Low said he was the one who managed to reverse the decision to transfer several MACC officers.
He was commenting on remarks by MACC chief Mohd Shukri Abdull during a press conference at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya that when his staff were transferred, he had asked Low and Shahidan Kassim, another minister then, to stop the move.
Low said: “I reversed the decision and got the two officers transferred back and I did come out with a statement saying that MACC staff should be protected. That’s the stance I made in the press in the past.”
Shukri had claimed that while he was on the lam in Washington, he had received word that several of his officers had been detained while two had been transferred.
He said he then WhatsApped both Low and Shahidan to let his people go and that both responded to his message, assuring him they would handle it.
“The team investigating 1MDB did what it thought was best according to the law,” Low said. “When it did that, obviously things snowballed where the team was being dismantled and removed, but it was not within my powers to stop it.”
Low said Shukri was making it seem as though he (Low) had done nothing. He reminded Shukri that it was a time when everyone but the prime minister had very limited powers.
“As much as the system was not perfect and there were a lot of things that needed fixing, I had to operate within the system and within my powers to change what I could.
“Do we need to restructure the MACC and protect the staff? Do we need to separate the MACC from the executive? Of course we do! But that was the system I worked with back then.”
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