Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua was called to the Bukit Aman police headquarters today to give his statement regarding "activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy" involving the 1MDB fiasco.

Pua said he was queried about Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown ( photo ) and former PetroSaudi employee Xavier Justo under Section 124B (activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy) and Section 124J (receipt of documents and publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy) under the Penal Code.

His statement was given to an officer from the Special Investigation Unit - prosecution and law division (D5).

"I told them I knew Clare from Sarawak Report and have met her in the UK. I've never met or known Justo," he told reporters after his statement was recorded.

However, Pua, who was accompanied by lawyers Lim Lip Eng and Mohd Haijan Omar, said the police only called him in as a witness on a yet to be mentioned case.

Pua also said the police took a copy of his passport which showed him travelling to the United Kingdom on Jan 21 and Singapore on Mar 19 this year where he met Rewcastle-Brown.

The DAP national publicity secretary was also barred from travelling overseas in July.

Review on unless travel ban lifted

Pua said the leave application for judicial review to quash the order was filed on Aug 19.

"I still cannot travel when I checked last week and our application leave hearing for the judicial review will be in October and it will proceed unless the ban is lifted.

"The reason we filed for the judicial review is because after writing to the immigration several times (to find out why), there were no response from them. This is extremely unprofessional of them," he said.

Pua had also asked for damages to be awarded for losses suffered following the restriction to travel out of the country.

He named the department’s director-general and Putrajaya as respondents.

He said the decision to stop him from travelling abroad was arbitrary as he was not given prior notice.