Shakeup in police force?
SPECULATION is rife that IGP Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun will be asked to leave over the 1MDB issue.
IS Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun facing the sack? Although news of his termination has spread like wildfire following reports of a major shake-up in the police force on online news portals, police corporate communications chief Datuk Asmawati Ahmad said Fuzi was still carrying out his duties.
“He is working as usual,” she said.
Attempts to get Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as well as Fuzi for comments have failed.
When asked to comment on the issue at a breaking-of-fast event at Surau Saadiah in Jalan Bakri, Muar, Johor, yesterday, Muhyiddin’s officer said his boss would be here today to answer any queries.
Reports of a shake-up in the top ranks of the police, including rumours of Fuzi’s removal, were carried by online news portals and Singapore’s Straits Times, all quoting their respective sources.
The Malaysian Insight, citing a “highly-placed government” source, said Fuzi’s removal was due to his failure to act on the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.
“It is a case of dereliction of duty,” the portal quoted a source as saying, confirming a shake-up in the police force.
The Straits Times earlier quoted a source who said: “Yes, there is going to be an 8.5-magnitude shake-up (in the police force) soon in July.”
Fuzi succeeded Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar as the inspector-general of police following the latter’s retirement in September last year.
Khalid is under a travel ban as the government pursues investigations into allegations of corruption and abuse of power by former top civil servants over the 1MDB scandal.
It was reported that former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Tan Sri Dzulkifli Ahmad resigned on May 14, five days after Pakatan Harapan won the 14th General Election.
Dzulkifli, 52, was appointed MACC chief on Aug 1, 2016.
He replaced Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed, who was in the task force investigating the 1MDB scandal.
Former attorney-general Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali’s services was terminated on June 5. He was replaced by Tommy Thomas.
Apandi, who took office on July 27, 2015, had cleared Najib of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal in 2016.