KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 4): The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said today it has yet to discuss on the RM2.6 billion that was allegedly transferred to Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Razak's personal bank accounts.

"PAC has yet to discuss on the matter.

"But anything (including the accounts) that concerns the government, (it) is within PAC's jurisdiction," said PAC deputy chairman Dr Tan Seng Giaw at the press conference when asked about PAC's stance on money being transferred from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) to Najib’s personal account.

Tan also reiterated that under the Parliamentary Standing Orders, the present PAC has sufficient powers and members to continue its investigation on 1MDB and other issues concerning the government. This is despite the committee’s chairman Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed and three other Umno MPs joining the cabinet recently.

Tan was commenting on 1MDB’s press statement to publicise that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has confirmed that “no funds from 1MDB was transferred to the Prime Minister”.

"To continue to suggest otherwise, as PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli did in his blog yesterday, is highly irresponsible and a deliberate attempt to undermine the company," said 1MDB president and group executive director Arul Kanda Kandasamy in a statement today, referring to one of most vocal critics of the debt-ridden strategic investment fund.

Yesterday, MACC announced that no funds from the state investor had been put into Najib's accounts at AmBank, saying the US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) had come from donors instead.