Will police give 1MDB same urgency as Paulsen’s tweet?

Tony Pua wants to know if the police will act as swiftly on the police report lodged against 1MDB as they did with Eric Paulsen’s tweet about Jakim.

PETALING JAYA: DAP National Publicity Secretary Tony Pua has issued a statement asking the Royal Malaysian Police if they will act as swiftly on the police report lodged against 1Malaysia Development Berhad as they have on Eric Paulsen’s recent tweet about Jakim and Friday sermons at mosques.

The MP for Petaling Jaya Utara said, “After all, it has been exactly five weeks since the police report was filed, hence surely, the police must be able to report that statements have been taken from the management and/or directors of 1MDB?”

Pua was referring to the police report lodged against the company by UMNO Batu Kawan Vice Chairman Khairuddin Abu Hassan on December 12, 2014, calling for a “detailed and comprehensive” investigation into the “weaknesses in 1MDB’s management of taxpayers’ funds”.

Yesterday, Khairuddin lodged another report against 1MDB, this time with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

Pua said that despite the severity of the accusations against 1MDB, “… the Royal Malaysian Police has been remarkably silent on this issue, as opposed to others like Eric Paulsen’s one tweet which was given very special attention by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar himself”.

Saying he hoped the IGP would “dedicate his best resources” in the investigations into the 1MDB scandal, Pua added, “We certainly hope that it will not become like many other cases where the Government or Barisan Nasional-related personalities are involved where they will be bestowed the ‘No Further Action (NFA)’ privilege treatment.”

He also said he expected the company’s new CEO Arul Kandasamy, to “provide his full cooperation” in the investigations and added, “This way, Arul will get to start his term with a clean slate, without being tainted or compromised by any dodgy 1MDB activities of the past.”