KUALA LUMPUR: The declassification of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report is the prerogative of the Cabinet, says Public Accounts Committee Chairman Datuk Hasan Arifin.
He said the 1MDB audit report was different than the National Audit Report which is released annually and presented to the Parliament.
As for 1MDB, it is a special audit report which only needs to be presented to the PAC, said Hasan. “The Cabinet requested the National Audit Department to prepare an audit (on 1MDB) and present it to the PAC. “Whether or not the report should be declassified, is entirely up to the government,” he told reporters at the Parliament House here today.
Hasan was responding to certain quarters who wanted to know the reason for the report’s classification under the Official Secret’s Act.
He had claimed earlier that the Auditor-General’s report would be declassified once PAC’s report on 1MDB was tabled in Parliament.
Meanwhile, Hasan said the PAC would carry out proceedings involving the Immigration Department, Sabah State Water Department and the National Disaster Management Agency with regards to the Auditor-General Report 2015 Series 1, which was tabled in Parliament today.
“We will call for the proceedings as soon as possible and ask each of the departments to clarify on issues such as construction management, repair of flood victims’ houses, Sabah rural water supply programme and the Malaysian immigration system,” he said.
Hasan said however, the overall performance of the three departments was satisfactory.
The Auditor-General’s Report on the Federal Government, Federal Statutory Bodies and the State governments’ activities in 2015 are tabled in a series, twice this year.
The Series 1 report was tabled in Parliament today after receiving the consent from Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah.-- BERNAMA
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