{"id":16387,"date":"2023-02-20T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16387"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:03","slug":"tengku-zafrul-confirmed-summoned-by-macc-says-unsure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16387","title":{"rendered":"Tengku Zafrul confirmed summoned by MACC, says \u2018unsure\u2019 why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20<\/strong> &#8212; Minister of International Trade and Industry (Miti) Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz today confirmed that he has been contacted by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he will meet with MACC soon and will extend his full cooperation to help with the agency\u2019s investigation, but declined to say if the investigation was over the Jana Wibawa project.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-1024x555.png\" alt=\"tengku\" class=\"wp-image-14195\" width=\"460\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-185x100.png 185w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-350x190.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-800x433.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will extend my full cooperation. Only after I have met them will I know what it\u2019s about,\u201d he told reporters after a Chinese New Year celebration organised by the ministry and its agencies here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in a post on his Facebook yesterday,&nbsp; Tengku Zafrul said he had nothing to hide and was prepared to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the MACC,&nbsp;in a statement, said that&nbsp;it will call in the former Finance Minister to have his statement recorded to facilitate investigations into the Jana Wibawa project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/crime_courts\/news.php?id=2166101\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 &#8212; Minister of International Trade and Industry (Miti) Tengku Datuk Seri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",1178,638,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-768x416.png",640,347,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM-1024x555.png",640,347,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",1178,638,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",1178,638,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",1178,638,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",1024,555,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-10.22.29-AM.png",720,390,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16388,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions\/16388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}