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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on December 4, 2018

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang will face the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today over the alleged tampering of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report.

“Ambrin will be giving his statement at 11am (today),” PAC chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ronald Keindee told reporters at the Parliament building yesterday.

He said Ambrin had been identified as one of the witnesses who will be giving statements to the parliamentary committee.

The others include current AG Tan Sri Madinah Mohamad and Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad, the former audit performance director of the National Audit Department.

Madinah recently said that a paragraph stating that financier Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) attended 1MDB’s board meeting had been removed from the final audit report on 1MDB.

Madinah said this was done on the directive of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s former principal private secretary, Tan Sri Shukry Salleh, on Feb 26, 2016, on the grounds that it was a sensitive issue and to avoid the disclosure from being manipulated by the then political opposition.

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