KUALA LUMPUR: Former Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) chairman Tan Sri Isa Samad and his wife have been called by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to have their statements recorded.
Sources told the New Straits Times that the commission has summoned the couple to its headquarters in Putrajaya tomorrow at 10am.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced that Isa had voluntarily relinquished his post as FGV’s chairman, and appointed Tan Sri Sulaiman Mahbob as acting chairman.
FGV is currently being investigated by MACC for possible misconduct and abuse of power following a boardroom tussle between Isa and suspended chief executive officer Datuk Zakaria Arshad.
On June 9, the NST reported that one of MACC’s focus areas was on alleged power abuse by a top official who had allowed FGV to pay for his wife’s travels on first-class flights although she is not entitled to such benefits.
Sources said this was among the details included in the documents that had been seized by the MACC earlier this month from the FGV headquarters at Menara Felda.