KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today claimed to have been under pressure during the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's July 2018 investigations on him, and suggested that he had no choice but to sign the witness statements which he claimed investigators had pre-prepared.
Asked by lead prosecutor Datuk Raja Rozela Toran about the MACC probe where he had been shown his credit card statements as well as his recorded statement to the MACC, Ahmad Zahid confirmed that he did not tell the MACC officer who recorded his statement that he had never ordered anyone to use Yayasan Akalbudi's cheques to pay his credit cards.
He also said his statement which was recorded by the MACC was prepared by the recording officer, and said the recording officer had used the same phrase but with different figures as his recorded answer to the payment of his and his wife's credit card bills for different months. Raja Rozela then suggested that whether the original cheques or cheque images were shown to him during the MACC probe, it would still not be an obstacle for him to deny to the MACC about his involvement in the use of Yayasan Akalbudi cheques for the credit card bills.
Previously on Tuesday, Ahmad Zahid told his lawyer Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Zainal that he had been called by the MACC to provide his statement over five times in the past, and said he was usually at the MACC office from 8am until 6pm and sometimes until 10pm for their investigations. Raja Rozela suggested:"Even if you had to give the statements a hundred times, if you did not do it, you can just say I did not do it."
Of course when kantoi one will be under pressure
Who can pressure the x DPM then?
Yes under pressure to use more
Under pressure my foot.
BS
Under pressure to eradicate his “poverty”?