MACC will require new witnesses or evidence to reopen its probe on alleged corruption involving Sarawak Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud.<br /><br />MACC chief Shukri Abdull said today that 15 separate investigations were initiated against Taib in the past and submitted to the Attorney-General's Chambers but the latter found that no charges could be pressed against the former Sarawak chief minister.<br /><br />"Based on our investigations, there was truth in some of the allegations made against Taib, But the problem was that he never made any decisions [...] he did not sit in for any of the meetings, someone else sat in for the meetings," Shukri told a press conference in Petaling Jaya after launching a book authored by Transparency-International Malaysia president Akhbar Satar.<br /><br />As such, under the law, no charges could be pressed against Taib for alleged abuse of power, he claimed.
