The Islamist party said this following a tell-all by the new Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief today.
PAS also reiterated that they still felt a Royal Commission of Inquiry was needed to investigate the scandal.
“When PAS said it was ‘satisfied’, it meant we were pleased with 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda’s rationalisation plan for the state investment fund.
“We still maintain our call for an RCI,” the party’s information chief Nasruddin Hassan told FMT.
Last year, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man was reported as saying that the party was satisfied with the explanation given by Arul Kanda on 1MDB’s debts and the company’s rationalisation plan. This drew harsh criticism.
Tuan Ibrahim later explained that just because the party was satisfied with the rationalisation plan, it did not mean it was satisfied with the alleged misappropriation of funds involving the company.
Earlier today, new MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull lifted the lid on the 1MDB saga, claiming that Najib Razak’s administration had gone after him in an attempt to stop him from talking about the investigation and that he had met the Conference of Rulers to inform them about the case.