Latheefa: MACC probing Ku Nan’s extraordinary wealth
PUCHONG: The MACC had been instructed to probe the extraordinary wealth possessed by former Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
Speaking to reporters outside the Kuala Lumpur High Court, its chief commissioner Latheefa Koya said that her team will probe Tengku Adnan, after Umno leader revealed that he had assets worth over RM800 million.
“This is a serious matter and I have given orders for investigation to start,” she said, after appearing as a defence witness in the former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s SRC International graft trial.
Yesterday, Tengku Adnan lost his temper in the court when deputy public prosecutor Julia Ibrahim pressed him on details of his net worth.
“When I say I don’t want to declare myself publicly, you know why.
“Because now I have a problem with nearly a billion (ringgit) of assets. Because they want to sensationalise, that’s why I feel I have been deprived,” the Putrajaya MP.
Initially, Tengku Adnan asked the court for a private meeting to declare his assets but Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan rejected it on grounds that he wanted the trial to be transparent.
In his trial today, the former minister also claimed that there was no need for him to accept money from anyone as RM2 million was like a ‘pocket money’ to him.
On the matter, Latheefa said that the focus of MACC’s investigation would be on how Tengku Adnan managed to accumulate such extraordinary wealth.
“Our issue is not about the revelation of the assets, but on how he got the assets,” she said,
Tengku Adnan is facing a charge of accepting RM2 million from businessperson, Chai Kin Kong via a cheque belonging to Aset Kayamas, deposited into a bank account belonging to Tadmansori Holdings, a company owned by him.
He is charged with committing the act at CIMB Bank Berhad, Damansara City Centre branch, on June 14, 2016, under Section 165 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to two years or fine or both, upon conviction.
