(Aug 10): DAP has again asked the authorities to shed light on the removal of Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail as attorney-general and whether it had anything to do with the alleged charge sheet draft to arrest the prime minister for corruption.

The party’s parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said the new A-G Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali still owed Malaysians an answer as to whether his predecessor Gani was sacked on July 27 because he was involved in drafting a charge sheet to prosecute Datuk Seri Najib Razak for corruption.

The Gelang Patah MP said this following the police’s announcement that action had been taken against Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officials to find out how a copy of the charge sheet had made its way onto the Sarawak Report whistle-blower website, which had been providing exposes about the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

The Sarawak Report site, which was subsequently blocked by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), posted an article on the alleged charge sheet after Gani was removed as A-G.

The site linked Gani's removal to the charge sheet.

"When the draft first appeared on the website, Apandi in the first instance dismissed it as false. If so, it should have ended the story.

"But Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said police action was taken against MACC directors and its senior officers because there was a need to find out how the draft was leaked and then uploaded by Sarawak Report on its site.

"This would mean that in actual fact, there was such a draft charge sheet against Najib at the premises of MACC (which was raided by the police), and it was leaked to Sarawak Report," he said.

Lim said if this were not the case, it would be a question of why MACC directors and officers were arrested and investigated by the police in connection with the draft charge sheet.

"These new developments would suggest that Apandi did not tell the truth about the charge sheet. Malaysians want to know whether Gani was sacked because he was in some way implicated in the draft charge sheet," he said.

News of Gani's termination as A-G broke as Najib fired Cabinet members who had openly questioned and criticised him over his handling of the 1MDB scandal. Those axed included former deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal.

Najib’s Cabinet reshuffle also sparked talk that Putrajaya was meddling in investigations into the 1MDB scandal when the prime minister promoted four members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into his new cabinet. The promotions came as PAC was running its own probe into the 1MDB controversy. – The Malaysian Insider