Malaysian PM Anwar vows no cover-up in probe into alleged football forgery scandal

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said there would be no cover-up in domestic investigations into alleged document forgery that led to FIFA suspending seven naturalised players of the national football team, the state news agency reported on Nov 21.

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The global soccer body said this week it would launch a formal probe into the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) internal operations and notify the authorities in five countries of potential criminal proceedings, after dismissing the association’s appeal against the players’ suspension.

FAM in October suspended its secretary-general and said it would form an independent committee to investigate.

It also said this week it planned to take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Datuk Seri Anwar vowed transparency in the probe, but stressed that FAM should be allowed to defend itself, and that the government would not act based on FIFA’s findings alone.