KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Naimah Khalid, the wife of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption (MACC) is insisting for her to be charged tomorrow despite her husband still being hospitalised.
In a statement, she said, a team of MACC officers suddenly arrived at the hospital where her husband is warded demanding to record her statement despite having already taken her statement earlier on Jan 10.
She said she had asked for the charge to be done on Wednesday, the day after Daim completes his medical procedure on Tuesday, but this was refused.
"Today a team of MACC officers suddenly arrived at the hospital where my husband is being warded, demanding to record my statement, having already taken my statement earlier on Jan 10.
"This was despite the fact I assured them that I would give them my statement as soon as my husband's medical procedure is over on Tuesday.
"I was then told that I was to be charged on Tuesday at 9am which is tomorrow under section 36(2) MACC 2009 for purportedly failing to comply with a notice asking to disclose information on assets
"I will be in court tomorrow. I will fight this charge," she said.
Naimah is set to be charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court tomorrow.
Naimah and her two sons, Amir and Amin, on Jan 10, were summoned to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to have their statements recorded.
The commission said this was done to ascertain values of some of the high-value assets domestic and abroad held under the companies belonging to them in relation to the probe on Daim.
The commission said a notice was served to Daim under Section 36(1)(a) of the MACC Act 2009, on 7 June 2023 while his family members were served notices under Section 36(1)(b) of the MACC Act 2009.
The family's lawyers had described the entire questioning as 'one giant fishing expedition', aimed at gathering information to charge Daim.