KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today expressed his wish to attend the proceedings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) forex losses. Anwar said he was only able to follow the proceedings with much difficulty through limited contact with his lawyers at Sg Buloh. Anwar described the exchange as a "clear malicious insinuation", that he had implied a cover-up was needed. “I had already been dealing with the issue of the BNM forex losses since April 1993 when I was replying in Parliament based on figures and information in BNM’s published 1992 report and their briefings to me. Anwar was finance minister from 1991 to 1998 and had in the past claimed that former BNM assistant governor Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop did not provide a complete report on the billions of ringgit in forex losses suffered by the central bank.

Source: New Strait Times August 24, 2017 08:15 UTC