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On Tuesday, Najib was arrested by the Malaysian authorities in relation to a probe into SRC International, a former 1MDB unit, according to an investigating task force. Sources close to the matter said he may face several charges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Najib, who lost power in an election last month, has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to 1MDB and SRC. A current Najib aide declined to respond to allegations there was meddling and a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Interviews by Reuters with a dozen current and former government officials show that the obstruction of investigators occurred on multiple levels.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SPONSORED STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>One senior MACC investigator said he was convinced there was tampering with key witnesses. The official, who declined to be identified because he is still involved in the 1MDB probe, said he felt that by the time MACC got to talk to the witnesses they had been coached on what to say or were too frightened to talk because they had been threatened.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other witnesses couldn\u2019t be found. \u201cThere were some witnesses who disappeared, ran abroad,\u201d and some were clearly told by officials from other government agencies to do so, said the MACC official. He didn\u2019t name these witnesses because some of them are still being sought.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Najib\u2019s office also sought to tightly control any public comment on 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">MACC is supposed to be an independent government agency that works without government interference, but three former MACC communications officers told Reuters that many of the press releases on the 1MDB probe issued by MACC were written by the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And it wasn\u2019t just at the anti-corruption agency that the heat was intense.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">New Finance Minister, Lim Guan Eng, told Reuters there was an \u201cextensive cover up\u201d at the ministry of finance (MOF).<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cALMOST PERFECT CASE\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Malaysia\u2019s new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told Reuters the week before last that he holds Najib fully responsible for the 1MDB scandal and that Malaysian authorities have \u201can almost perfect case\u201d against him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result of an anti-kleptocracy probe, the U.S. Department of Justice has alleged more than $4.5 billion (\u00a33.4 billion) was misappropriated from 1MDB and that about $700 million of the fund\u2019s money ended up in Najib\u2019s personal bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Najib told Reuters in an interview last month he shouldn\u2019t be blamed for any of the problems at the fund and declared he knew nothing about why hundreds of millions of dollars from 1MDB allegedly appeared in his bank account.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some of the ways in which those looking into the 1MDB scandal had been sidelined have been known for some time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, in July 2015, Najib removed the then attorney general Abdul Gani Patail for \u201chealth reasons\u201d at a time when the official was preparing to charge Najib. He also removed deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin the same month after he had criticised Najib over his handling of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But the intensity of the pressure that MACC faced from other arms of government is only now becoming clear.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>BULLET SENT TO HIS HOME<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In May, about two weeks after Najib\u2019s ousting, the newly appointed head of the MACC, Mohn Shukri Abdull, recalled how his investigation into 1MDB had been blocked in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Shukri, who had been deputy commissioner at MACC until he retired two years ago, recalled how he had faced threats to his job and worse &#8211; a bullet was sent to his home in 2015. He sought and received U.S. police protection during a visit to Washington and New York because he felt he was being followed by Malaysian government agents.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t know who were the main people who were putting the pressure on MACC, but there were many of them,\u201d another MACC official said. It \u201cwas coming from all sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The senior MACC official also said police interfered in MACC\u2019s investigations as they closed in on a probe on how about $10.6 million from SRC went into Najib\u2019s bank account.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said some witnesses in that probe could not be found because they were being held at police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Malaysian police did not respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Khalid Abu Bakar, who was Malaysia\u2019s police chief from 2012-2017, has been barred from leaving Malaysia since the election. 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