KUALA LUMPUR: The wife of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, Toh Puan Naimah Khalid, is expected to be charged under section 36(2) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act tomorrow.
The New Straits Times was made to understand that she is expected to be cited for her alleged failure to declare her assets.
Under the act, the MACC reserves the right to invoke the law and compel a person to declare their source of income in certain circumstances following a formal corruption investigation opened against the person in question.
The act stipulates that any person given a notice by an officer of the Commission (of the rank of Commissioner and above under subsection (1) of the act ) must comply with the terms of the notice.
It underlines that failure to do so or wilfully neglecting the notice amounts to committing a serious offence, which upon conviction, carries an imprisonment term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding RM100,000.
Furthermore, the instructions from the notice issued by the MACC must be followed within a specified time.
In the case of Daim, a notice was served to him under Section 36(1)(a) of the MACC Act 2009, on June 7, 2023 while his family members were served notices under Section 36(1)(b) of the MACC Act 2009.
Naimah and her two sons, Amir and Amin, on Jan 10, were summoned to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to have their statements recorded.
The commission said this was done to ascertain values of some of the high-value assets domestic and abroad held under the companies belonging to them in relation to the probe on Daim.
The family's lawyers had described the entire questioning as 'one giant fishing expedition', aimed at gathering information to charge Daim.
Just earlier, Naimah issued a statement confirming that she would be charged in court tomorrow when the MACC arrived at the hospital where her husband, Daim, is currently being admitted.