PUTRAJAYA: Toh Puan Na'imah Abdul Khalid, the wife of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, says she will appear in court and fight the charge levelled against her.

       "This is despite the fact that I assured them (the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, MACC) that I would give a statement as soon as my husband's medical procedure is over on Tuesday (Jan 23)," she said, adding she had requested for it to be postponed by 24 hours.

       "I will be in court and I will fight this charge," she said in a statement late Monday (Jan 22).

       It is learnt that she will be brought to the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court at 9am to be charged under Section 36(2) of the MACC Act for failing to declare her assets.

       In December, the MACC seized the family-owned Menara Ilham as part of its investigations.

       The MACC previously said investigations against Daim were based on existing laws and information from the Pandora Papers.

       On Jan 10, Daim and his family filed the application for leave to commence a judicial review against MACC's probe on them.

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       In the application, Daim and Na'imah named the MACC and the public prosecutor as the first and second respondents respectively.