KUALA LUMPUR: More names have come up in the Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) probe into the alleged tampering of the final audit report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd, following today's meeting between the committee and Auditor-General Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad, who had made the tampering claim, according to PAC chairman Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee.

Speaking to reporters after taking Madinah's statement here, Kiandee said there is "no necessity" to call her up again. Madinah's session lasted for six hours from 11am to 6pm, with a one-hour lunch break in between.

She was the second person to be called up by PAC this week after former Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang, who signed off the report in 2016.

After the meeting, Madinah confirmed to reporters that she had provided the PAC with a copy of the unedited version of 1MDB's final audit report. She revealed on Nov 25 that the tampering was committed during the report's preparation in 2016.

The PAC is scheduled to call up former Government Sector Audit Director Saadatul Nafisah tomorrow to have her statement recorded. After that, the PAC's inquiry will continue next month, said Kiandee.

When asked about claims by sources close to the inquiry that Ambrin insisted yesterday that the unedited copy is essentially a draft and not a final version, Kiandee said, "We will weigh on it."

"Madinah's statement today is in line with her press statement [on Nov 25]," he added.

Separately, Madinah said she will leave the matter to PAC, after having provided the committee with the unedited audit report, and that she would submit more documents to support her claim. "Part of it (the documents) has been passed to the PAC," she said.

1MDB's final audit report was submitted to the PAC on March 4, 2016, when Ambrin was Auditor-General.

On Nov 23, Madinah — who was appointed to replace Ambrin on Feb 23, 2017 — briefed the Cabinet at its meeting on the tampering of the audit report. She then issued a statement on Nov 25 on the allegation. It is unclear as to why the matter was not highlighted earlier.

The key amendments, according to Madinah, included the removal of a paragraph or paragraphs stating that Low Taek Jho had attended a meeting of 1MDB's board of directors, as well as the removal of a paragraph or paragraphs stating there were two versions of 1MDB financial statements for the year ending 2014.

The changes were made between Feb 22 and March 1, 2016 — allegedly under the instruction of then-Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his former chief private secretary and former Bank Rakyat chairman Tan Sri Shukry Salleh, and former 1MDB president and CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy.

A local daily reported today that Ambrin insisted the final report was not tampered with, and that the “untampered” report exposed by Madinah was “merely a draft”.