The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it will summon former finance ministers Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz and Lim Guan Eng to testify before the committee in its investigation into 1MDB asset recovery.
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00:00The Ministry of State Securities and Monetary Affairs has also held a proceeding
00:05in connection with the commitment to reissue OneMalaysia Development Berhad 1MDB assets
00:11and 1MDB debt repayment guarantees, as well as a proceeding
00:15in connection with the management of accounts not yet received by the Malaysian State Revenue Agency
00:20on Monday, November 4 and also on Tuesday, November 5.
00:25The two proceedings are based on the issues raised in the State Audit Chief's Report
00:32for the third quarter of 2024.
00:35The statement of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia in 2023
00:38was also raised at the People's Council on 14 October 2024.
00:43In the proceedings, in connection with the commitment to reissue OneMDB assets
00:49and 1MDB debt repayment guarantees,
00:51PHC has also heard the explanation and explanation from the late Dato' Johan Mahmud Merikan
00:59and he is also the Chairperson of the Ministry of State Securities and Monetary Affairs
01:04and also the late Dato' Sri Johari bin Abdul Ghani, who is the Chairperson of the OneMDB Task Force.
01:12In the proceedings, which took more or less two hours,
01:15PHC has also heard the Government's efforts to reissue OneMDB assets and 1MDB debt repayment
01:23amounting to 9.456 billion.
01:27So, to complete this proceeding, PHC will call the late Dato' Sri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz,
01:36who was the former Minister of Finance in 2020-2021.
01:42And secondly, we will also call the late Mr. Lim Guan Eng, former Minister of Finance in 2018-2020,
01:50the late Dato' Asri bin Hamidun, former Chairperson of the Ministry of Investment in 2020-2023
01:57and the Government's firm, Rosri Dahlan Saravanan, RDS Partnership
02:01to provide an explanation in connection with the efforts to get OneMDB assets
02:07while they were in power under OneMDB.
02:10This proceeding is expected to be held on the third week of November 2024.
02:16Meanwhile, for the proceedings in connection with the management of unaccounted accounts
02:20by the Malaysian Institute of Internal Affairs,
02:22PHC has also heard the explanation from the late Dato' Johan Mahmud Merkan, KSP MOF
02:30and also the late Dato' Dr. Abu Tarik bin Jamaluddin, Chief Executive Officer of LHDNM.
02:36We will continue this proceedings on the third week of November 2024.