Attorney-General Abdul Ghani Patail today stressed the probe into allegations that RM2.6 billion was deposited into Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's private bank accounts does not rely on documents published by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

Instead, he said all documents received were directly from government investigators.

"The attorney-general emphasised that all investigation documents received by the attorney-general are provided by the special task force.

"Therefore, there is no issue of the attorney-general using documents published in WSJ or elsewhere," said the special task force in a joint statement.

The statement was jointly issued by attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Abu Kassim Mohamed.

This came after Najib yesterday said the special task force must determine whether documents published by the WSJ accusing him wrongdoing were genuine or not.

He also said the special task force was to determine whether WSJ 's claim that RM2.6 billion was deposited into his private bank accounts had a basis or otherwise.

However, WSJ has consistently pointed out the documents it obtained were from "Malaysian government investigators" and do not belong to the publication itself.

WSJ did not disclose which "Malaysian government investigators" it got the documents from.

However, as soon as WSJ published the documents on Tuesday, both Ghani and Khalid vowed to find the leak, stating that the documents were a subject matter of their investigation.