KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 -- The family lawyer of Datin Seri Pamela Ling has labelled recent statements by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as "entirely false", accusing the commission of intimidation and abuse of process.

Their lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo today accused MACC Chief Commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki of allegedly misleading the public when he claimed Ling was never a suspect and had only been called in as a witness.

"He should come clean about who ordered Pamela's arrest and inexcusable treatment, even though her role was merely that of a witness, instead of making statements which are shockingly untrue," the lawyer claimed in a statement here.

She said the MACC had in obtained an arrest warrant for Ling from the Johor...