KULIM — Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said police will be the ones to decide on the status of the investigation into the assault of Pandan MP Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli’s son.
He said whether the case should be classified as No Further Action (NFA) will be determined based on police’s findings in their investigation.
“When an incident occurs and then a police report is made, the duty of the police is to conduct an investigation and this investigation will be carried out continuously and its progress depends on new clues that we find.
“So whether the classification of the case will be included as an NFA or otherwise at this stage, I leave it entirely to the professionalism of the police force,” Saifuddin said in a Bernama report.
He added that he would not give police any instructions on the case to avoid perceptions of interference with the investigation process.
Rafizi’s 12-year-old son was jabbed with a syringe outside a shopping mall in Putrajaya in August last year. The former economy minister, who had previously expose several scandals involving government-level corruption, subsequently revealed that his wife had also received a threatening message to remain silent or be infected with the AIDS virus.
Yesterday, Rafizi said he had plans to write to the authorities to ask for an NFA classification on the case of his son’s attack if the probe showed no meaningful progress as it has been six months since the incident.
This was to avoid wasting police’s time and prevent “embarrassment” on the authorities if nothing came out of the investigation, he added. — January 31, 2026