PUTRAJAYA : Former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) assistant governor Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop kept mum on his meeting with the BNM Forex Task Force, today.
He arrived at the Finance Ministry at 3.25pm and spent about 45 minutes to give his statement.
He was seen leaving the premises at 4.10pm, but refused to talk to the media.
On April 27, former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was also the finance minister, said the country lost between RM15 and RM30 billion in the foreign exchange scandal in the 1990s.
Anwar claimed that he had on April 20 informed the special task force set up to probe the losses that this was the final estimated losses.
Anwar, who said he had chosen to voluntarily cooperate with the task force as he was Finance Minister from 1991 to 1998, alleged that Nor Mohamed did not provide a complete report on the billions of ringgit in forex losses suffered by the central bank in the 1990s.
Anwar claimed that the then central bank's governor Tan Sri Jaafar Hussein admitted to him that Nor Mohamed was identified as the officer responsible at the time.
The Special Task Force was set up to probe Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) forex losses in the 1990s will present its findings to the Cabinet in three months. If necessary, this will include the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the matter.