Azam Baki shaping up to be the worst head of anti-corruption agency in Malaysian history for half a century – with RM9 billion LCS scandal as his greatest failure although he had access to the Ambrin Report and the forensic audit report on the LCS scandal for over two years
Azam Baki is shaping up to be the worst head of anti-corruption agency in Malaysian history for half a century with the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal his greatest failure although he had access to the Ambrin Report and the forensic report on the LCS scandal for over two years.
Malaysians are entitled to know what Azam did to these two reports – the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement and Finance the LCS (JKUSTUPKK) headed by then auditor-general Ambrin Buang and the report of the forensic audit of the LCS procurement (2011-2014) carried out by Alliance IFA (M) Sdn. Bhd. at the behest of Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) and which contained a myriad of possible corruption charges – when instances of corruption, abuse of power, breach of trust, malpractices and cheating en masse were virtually served on a silver platter to the MACC by these two reports.
After Najib Razak was jailed, the former MACC special operations division director Bahri Mohd Zin recalled how in 2015 he and his team had been under immense pressure when they were investigating the SRC case as they were slandered, threatened and offered bribes to stop their probe.
Bahri said: “What I can’t forget the most is when the MACC deputy public prosecutor and several special operations division officers were arrested and slandered.
“I felt so alone when my men were mistreated, and I myself was transferred to the Prime Minister’s Department at the time.”
Back in 2015, the MACC’s investigation into the SRC case was disrupted when the police ransacked their office, arrested a number of Bahri’s officers who were part of the investigating team and remanded the commission’s deputy public prosecutor.
Was the MACC under Azam Baki free to investigate and act on the RM9 billion LCS scandal or was the MACC back to the 1MDB scandal times as in the last decade?
What is most disturbing in these two reports, which were recently declassified by the Cabinet but available to the MACC for over two years, was that they portrayed that “a very big shark” was behind the RM9 billion LCS scandal, which has become a new 1MDB scandal.
Did the MACC investigate who is this “very big shark” behind the RM9 billion LCS scandal?
National interests warrant the flushing out of this “very big shark” behind the RM9 billion LCS scandal, which is the job of the MACC.
If Azam cannot perform his job, he should step down as MACC Chief Commissioner.
Meanwhile, I am still waiting for an answer from Azam why the three corruption charges against former Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd managing director Tan Sri Ahmad Ramli Mohd Nor had nothing to do with the LCS scandal, as they predate the issue of the LOA (Letter of Award) for the RM9 billion LCS procurement which were issued on 16th December 2011.