Rosmah grilled for three hours by MACC
Former PM’s wife ‘gave full cooperation and treated well by MACC officers’
THE wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, left the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) headquarters at 3.43pm yesterday.
She was called in by the commission to have her statement on SRC International Sdn Bhd recorded.
Speaking to reporters on behalf of their client, Datuk K. Kumaraendran and Datuk Geethan Ram Vincent said MACC officers had completed recording Rosmah’s statement.
“Datin Seri Rosmah gave her utmost cooperation during the process and was treated well by MACC officers,” they said, adding that the process took more than three hours.
“The process, which took more than three hours, went well. Our client will extend further cooperation if sought by the agency.”
However, they did not take any questions from members of the media. Rosmah only smiled when members of the media asked if she was fine.
Dressed in a blue baju kurung with a red headscarf, she arrived at MACC headquarters in a silver Mercedes-Benz at 10.43am.
She looked calm and was accompanied by her daughter, Nooryana Najwa Najib, and Nooryana’s husband, Daniyar Kessikbayev, apart from her lawyers.
Nooryana and Kessikbayev left the building at 11.40am before reentering the anti-graft office at 2.45pm.
MACC issued a notice to Rosmah last Friday, which required her to turn up at its headquarters to assist investigations into SRC International. The notice was handed over by an MACC officer to Rosmah at her residence in Jalan Langgak Duta, Kuala Lumpur.
Najib had been questioned twice by MACC on May 22 and 24 over the same issue.
More than 100 members of the media gathered at the MACC lobby as early as 8am to follow developments of the case.
SRC was set up in 2011 by the previous government and was a unit of state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd before it was placed under the Finance Ministry in 2012.
The SRC case involves the alleged transfer of RM42 million of the company’s funds into Najib’s personal account.