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A Saudi distraction, then Washington, then New York, Shukri tells of his flight of fear
[color=#707070 !important]Sheith Khidhir Bin Abu Bakar
| May 22, 2018
Newly appointed MACC chief Mohd Shukri Abdull tells how he spent his days fearing for his safety in the wake of a clampdown on a probe into 1MDB.
 Shukri Abdull says he felt being followed by Malaysian agents while in Washington. (Reuters pic)
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull said Najib Razak’s administration had gone after him in an attempt to stop him from blowing the lid on a sensitive corruption investigation involving the former prime minister and his brainchild 1MDB. He said on July 27, 2015, he was ready to prepare charges with former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, who was also part of a special task force to investigate the 1MDB scandal, which was discontinued just months after it was formed. But Shukri said he got word that he would be arrested on the same day, and quietly prepared to urgently leave for the United States. “Meanwhile, I told everyone that I was going to Saudi Arabia, so Najib’s people had waited for me at the Jeddah airport,” he told a packed press conference at the MACC headquarters here.
Shukri said when he arrived in Washington, he felt he was being followed by Malaysian agents. He said his suspicion was proven true, and got in touch with a contact in the New York Police Department (NYPD) for protection. “The NYPD ended up providing me with protection for a week, including giving me three bodyguards.” The following week, Shukri said he headed back to Washington, having felt safer. But he was then informed that his officers at MACC had been detained, and two of them transferred. “The guilt got to me and I started crying because I had fled to Washington while my people were being detained and transferred in Malaysia. “I immediately texted ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim and Paul Low to let them go or I would use my power as MACC deputy chief commissioner to arrest the officer who gave the order for abusing his power,” he said. “They replied telling me to calm down and that those detained would be released and those who were transferred would be transferred back.” He said upon his return to Malaysia, he decided to retire from MACC, as he did not want to work under Dzulkefly Ahmad who was appointed to replace Abu Kassim Mohamed as the chief commissioner. “I didn’t want to work for him as I thought of him as a traitor to the nation.”
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