PM says unaware of graft in Petronas

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov eleven Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak pronounced today that he had not been told of anti-graft officials questioning inhabitant oil hulk Petronas upon crime allegations.

The Malaysian Insider reported earlier today that a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) raided Petronas in a past weeks after receiving tip-offs of purported crime by project consultants operative upon exploration as well as prolongation efforts in Malaysian waters.

Najib speaks to a press after a BN autarchic legislature assembly upon November 11, 2011. Picture by Jack Ooi

According to sources, MACC officials briefed Najib before he left for a haj final week. The budding minister returned home yesterday.

"No, I'm not aware," Najib told reporters after a Barisan Nasional (BN) autarchic legislature assembly during a Putra World Trade Centre here.

A source had told The Malaysian Insider that a MACC investigators had left in as there had been "many complaints" of some looking gifts in return for creation recommendations for contracts.

Another source reliable a review into a inhabitant oil company, saying a MACC has sensitive Najib as well as his deputy Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The MACC does not endorse investigations for fear of jeopardising a work.

Industry sources pronounced crime has turn prevalent over a years as Petronas has been giving out a host of contracts for a assorted operations, including a new pull for marginal oil fields. But they did not identify that section of Petronas was being investigated by a MACC.

Another source pronounced a Petronas management has had assorted meetings to plead allegations of swindle between a employees, who have been between a best paid in Malaysia with perks including attractive housing loans, healing benefits as well as other incentives.

The MACC available a most arrests associated! to swin dle final year, nabbing 944 people, of whom more than 400 were bribe givers.

Petronas was incorporated in August 1974 as well as is ranked between Fortune Global's 500 largest corporations, coming in 107th final year after being in a tip 100 for 2008 as well as 2009. The company has more than 40,000 permanent employees in Malaysia as well as across a 35 nations where it has operations.

The oil company owns a 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers where a third tower was built recently as well as also Putrajaya, a country's executive capital that is leased to a government.

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