(Sept 4): Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua was questioned by the police today as a witness in the ongoing investigations into the controversial state-owned fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

He arrived at the Bukit Aman police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur at 2.10pm and was questioned by the D5 crime investigations unit under Section 124(b) and 124(j) of the Penal Code.

The DAP national publicity secretary said that he was asked by police if he knew Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown and former PetroSaudi executive Xavier Andre Justo.

"I was questioned by police as a witness under Section 124 (b) and (j). The questions I was asked includes if I knew Clare and if I knew Justo and other related matters.

"I answered that I knew Clare, having met her once in London but I do not know Justo and neither have I met him," he told reporters outside Bukit Aman.

Pua said that he was also asked by police about details of his conversation with Rewcastle-Brown.

"Questions like what was discussed (in the meeting with her), I said I would only answer these questions if the case was brought to court," he added.

He was accompanied by his lawyer Mohd Haijan Omar and Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng.

Pua said the police were interested to know if he had met Justo.

“If I was involved in the information Justo had presented. I had not received any of the information from Justo except from what I read from Sarawak Report."

Justo was previously reported as saying that he had met with Malaysian opposition leaders and media owners in Singapore before he was arrested in Thailand on June 22.

The Swiss national, who was recently sentenced to three years in jail for blackmailing his former employer, admitted to meeting these individuals in Singapore to negotiate about selling certain documents from PetroSaudi.

Pua said police had taken a copy of his passport that showed his journey to the United Kingdom on January 21 and to Singapore on March 19 this year.

The DAP lawmaker said that he was still under restrictions to travel overseas.

"I still cannot travel overseas and the appeal for the case to challenge this restriction order will be heard in court in October.

"I filed this suit to challenge the order as the Immigration Department did not return with a response to the letter I had sent."

Pua has been one of 1MDB's strongest critics and had exposed many of the state investment vehicle's mismanagement and financial scandals. – The Malaysian Insider