Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz will be making her first public appearance after coming under siege over the special task force's investigation into RM2.6 billion deposited into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
The special task force, comprising of Bank Negara, police, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Attorney-General's Chambers, has since been disbanded after attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail was replaced by Mohamed Apandi Ali.
Zeti is scheduled to chair a press conference on Thursday at the Bank Negara headquarters to announce second-quarter gross domestic product figures.
Other pressing matters expected to be addressed are the depreciation of the ringgit and falling Bank Negara foreign reserves.
Bank Negara has thus far been silent about Najib's major windfall which would definitely raise red flags in any central bank.
MACC has claimed the deposit in Najib's bank accounts was a "donation" from Middle-Eastern sources.
Najib himself has yet to address the matter but fellow BN leaders such have Abdul Rahman Dahlan and Shahrir Abdul Samad have publicly stated that the premier has done nothing wrong.
On July 3, the Wall Street Journal reported that Malaysian investigators had traced the sum to Najib's private AmIslamic Bank accounts.
This has raised money-laundering concerns and whether the sum is subject to taxation.
Zeti has also been the target of pro-BN bloggers who have accused her of corruption.
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