Amanah Youth submitted a memorandum to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya today urging the commission to look into the claims contained in Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown's defence.

“The claims are serious and it is in public interest that MACC conducts a swift, thorough, free and fair investigation,” the wing's deputy chief Faiz Fadzil told Malaysiakini.

Rewcastle-Brown filed her defence with the London High Court on Oct 11 in relation to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's defamation suit against her over an article which implied that the Islamist party received RM90 million from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

In his memorandum, Faiz said the Sarawak Report editor had indicated that a portion of the sum involved 1MDB funds...