Not enough for MACC advisory board members to distance themselves: Gomez

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KUALA LUMPUR – Political economist Terence Gomez has demanded to know why he was not informed about a purported decision reached by the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board (LPPR) on the alleged impropriety of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner, if indeed the board had met and discussed the matter on November 24 last year. 

Gomez, who resigned as a member of MACC’s consultative and corruption prevention panel over the alleged conflict of interest, called on the board members to confirm if the meeting, in which Tan Sri Azam Baki was supposedly exonerated took place, as claimed by LPPR chairman Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang.

Abu Zahar had claimed at a press conference on January 5 that the board was satisfied with the explanation given by Azam on the issue of his procurement of shares.

However, in a joint statement yesterday, six members of the board denied having expressed such an opinion, saying that Abu Zahar’s comments were his own “personal view”.

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