COMMENT | MACC chief Mohd Shukri Abdull does not seem to know the remit of the MACC in “New Malaysia”, and he also needs to attend a refresher course in Accounts 101.

After releasing the declared incomes by Pakatan Harapan Ministers and MPs, he said: "The commission only provided the information as given by the government".

It is not as if the MACC does not understand what assets are. When they raided the houses of the former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, they carted away all the cash and valuables found not only in his residences but also in those of his children and even those of his elderly mother’s.

Exhibiting a thoroughness that goes beyond the seizure of tangible visible assets, the entire MACC machinery is still scouring the books and the accounts of Najib’s family and associates...