KUALA LUMPUR – The cops have received a verbal red notice application to locate former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s son-in-law and his lawyer, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain.
However, the top cop said the police will work with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to list Datuk Seri Muhammad Adlan Berhan, 48, and a lawyer, Mansoor Saat, 69, in the red notice.
“God willing, the red notice will be delivered to us later. However, we will cooperate with MACC.
“So far, the red notice has been made verbally,” he said at a press conference in Bukit Aman police headquarters here today.
Last week, MACC chief Tan Sri Azam Baki said the anti-graft body would request that the police submit the names of two individuals, including Adlan, to the Interpol red notice list.
He added that Adlan and Mansor’s passports would be blacklisted if they failed to show up at MACC.
This is after MACC issued a notice for the duo to turn up to assist with an investigation involving corruption and embezzlement relating to the registration, acquisition, and possession of foreign workers’ biometric information in a ministry.
He said the MACC had contacted the lawyers representing Adlan and Mansoor several times to get the two men to come forward, but they had yet to do so.
He also did not rule out the possibility of calling-up Muhyiddin to help MACC’s investigation of the case.
After Azam’s press conference, Adlan, via another lawyer, denied allegations that he was a fugitive on the run.
Lawyer Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu said in a statement that his client had the right to travel to conduct his business in any part of the world.
He added Adlan would return to Malaysia to answer questions and assist the MACC with its investigations, granted that “elements of threats and persecution” are off the table.
The lawyer also said Adlan was threatened with being vilified as a fugitive through the media and with arrest upon arrival in Malaysia, apart from being placed under Interpol’s red notice.
Prior to this, the MACC, in a statement, said checks with the Immigration Department found that Adlan and Mansoor left Malaysia on May 17 and 21, respectively, and there was no record of them re-entering the country.
In December 2020, it was reported that Adlan was linked with S5 Holdings Inc, one of the front-runners under the RM1.2 billion National Integrated Immigration System (NIIS) concession.
The NIIS was proposed by Muhyiddin when he was the home minister under the then Pakatan Harapan government, meant to replace the National Immigration Control System. – August 15, 2023