The former governor of the Bank of Malaysia does not know the flow of funds to Najib

Zeti Akhtar Aziz rejects Najib Razak's request for funds in his account

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUALA LUMPUR – Former Governor of Negara Bank Malaysia Zeti Akhtar Aziz said he was not aware of the flow of funds Ringgit 2.6 billion fund on Najib Razak's account in 2013. This is Zeti's response to Najib's claim on the flow of funds into his account.

Zeti recounts that he was summoned to the prime minister's office on July 3, 2015, when the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) case began to emerge. "He (Najib) has asked me to publish a statement that he made no mistake in his account," Zeti said in a statement released Tuesday (19/3). Zeti rejected Najib's request at that time. "I told him that I could not issue such a statement because I have no knowledge of the transactions that took place in his account," he said.

He also revealed that there was a minister in Najib's cabinet asking him to do the same thing. The application was also rejected by him. But Zeti did not reveal the minister's identity.

This Zeti statement was published a few hours after Najib's arrest by the anti-corruption commission of Malaysia. His arrest was related to the 1MDB case.

In an interview to Malaysiakini's news site last week, Najib said that Bank Negara Malaysia had not given him notice while there was a flow of 2.6 billion ringgits in his account in 2013. "If the State Bank I think they'll tell me," Mr. Najib said.

But Najib said that there was no notice to him when the funds went into his account. "Then I badumed everything was fine," he said.

Najib was arrested by the anti-corruption commission of Malysia on Tuesday (3/7), around 15:00 local time. He has been charged with committing a money laundering crime of $ 700 million worth of $ 1 million.

1MDB is a strategic development company owned by the Malaysian government. 1MDB was created to encourage strategic initiatives for long-term economic development by forging global partnerships and promoting direct foreign investment.

In 2015, a number of media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, called 1MDB, were used to siphon public money into the private account of then prime minister Najib Razak. Currently, the case of 1MDB is at least the subject of a survey in six countries.