Subang PKR lawmaker R. Sivarasa said Anwar, who was the finance minister then, was merely giving statements based on the findings by the Auditor’s General (AG) Report on the forex trading. The press conference was called not long after a 528-page report on the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into BNM’s forex dealings was tabled in Parliament. Sivarasa argued that professional accountants represented the AG and BNM, adding that it was the AG who had signed off the report. RCI found that BNM had incurred losses amounting to RM31.5bil as opposed to the initial RM10.5bil losses detected in 1997. “If the RCI was completed on Oct 19, they could have tabled the report on Oct 23 when Parliament convened.

Source: The Star November 30, 2017 08:48 UTC