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Mubarak pleads ‘not guilty’ at Cairo trial
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Court, Crime, Middle East/Africa on Thursday, 4 August 2011
Al Jazeera
03 Aug 2011
Former Egyptian president maintains innocence over charges that include corruption and unlawful killings of protesters.
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ousted president, has denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial in Cairo.
At his first court appearance on Wednesday, Mubarak spoke from a hospital stretcher where he lay inside a cage for defendants.
“I categorically deny all the charges,” Mubarak said.
The proceedings, in a temporary court at the Police Academy in Cairo, was shown live on state television. Read the rest of this entry »
RCI is utterly wrong to label TBH death as suicide
Posted by Kit in Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Friday, 29 July 2011
By Dr Chen Man Hin, DAP life advisor
The decision of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock to declare it a suicide is unconscionable and unacceptable to the people who want justice for Teoh Beng Hock and his family.
An incredulous roar of disapproval erupted throughout the country, when the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock announced their verdict that his death was due to suicide.
‘IMPOSSIBLE’ the people said. There was no earthly reason for TBH to commit suicide. He had everything going for him. He was getting married the next day to a wonderful girl and he was going tob e a father, he was holding a good job and faces a bright future. Yes, he was due for questioning by MACC today, but only as a witness and not as a suspect, and only for a few hours. He was the most unlikely candidate to be suicidal.
Unfortunately, TBH after a day of questioning by MACC officers on day 15th, he was found dead the next day 16th on the premises of MACC. There was a coroner’s inquest which returned an open verdict.
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Resign Or Snap Election For Najib, Here’re The Reasons
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Corruption, Crime, Defence, Mahathir, Muhyiddin Yassin, Najib Razak, Razaleigh Hamzah, UMNO on Thursday, 28 July 2011
As much as I would like to stop writing about PM Najib administration, the plot just got interesting and I think he may just hit the bull’s eye as far as my prediction that his downfall may be faster than his predecessor, Abdullah Badawi, is concerned. Compared with Najib, Badawi now seems like a cute adorable little kitten, who merely likes to sleep (on the job). Malaysians tend to be more forgiving on lazy prime minister but not a prime minister who lies, cheats, brutal, dirty (allegation on Mongolian Altantuya’s murder), hypocrite but above all stupid yet arrogant.
One cannot help but fell off the chair laughing after read that Najib said he cancels a family vacation because he wants to spend more time with Malaysians. This was perhaps the best joke ever by premier Najib since he took over from Abdullah Badawi. This joke actually worth a thousand “Like” on his facebook page. Forget about Bersih 2.0 because this guy may quit under pressure – not from opposition parties or Bersih 2.0 but from his internal UMNO party. Boy, if it was true that the US$24 million controversial diamond ring indeed belongs to his wife Rosmah Mansor, that ring is cursed.
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Najib must honour his solemn undertaking to TBH family on 28.7.09 that “no stone will be left unturned” to find out the causes and circumstances of TBH’s death
Posted by Kit in Crime, Najib Razak, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
Yesterday, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he left the decision of penalising the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) trio named in the James Foong Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Teoh Beng Hock’s (TBH) death to the MACC, the police and the Attorney-General.
This is the supreme “passing-the-buck” by the Prime Minister which is as good as saying that no one would be held responsible for Beng Hock’s death.
In the first place, the TBH RCI did not just name three names but quite a list of MACC officers who not only committed a host of crimes, including perjuries at the Royal Commission of Inquiry and the TBH inquest but must be held responsible for Beng Hock’s death.
However, even for the three MACC officers concerned who have been suspended from investigations duties but not as MACC officers, namely Hishammuddin Hashim (Negri Sembilan MACC director who was at the relevant time Deputy Director Selangor MACC and “mastermind” of the massive operation based “on a mere belief and without supporting facts” from a telephone call resulting in Beng Hock’s death); Anuar Ismail the “IO” of the operation and Ashraf Mohd Yunus (described by RCI as “Ashraf the abuser” – “who was Machiavellian in his method to secure evidence”), nothing serious is expected apart from “slap on the wrist”!
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Teoh’s death: ‘Four new leads for police’
Posted by Kit in Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
By Teoh El Sen | July 27, 2011
Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang yesterday urged police to re-open investigations into the death of former political aide Teoh Beng Hock based on four new “leads” that the recently released Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report revealed.
Lim, the Ipoh Timor MP, said police should be investigating Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers for perjury based on the report’s finding that named most of the
MACC officers as “liars”. Read the rest of this entry »
RCI report: Gobind throws Gani a challenge
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Law & Order, Teoh Beng Hock on Thursday, 28 July 2011
By G Vinod | July 27, 2011
Free Malaysia Today
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national legal bureau chairman Gobind Singh Deo wants Attorney- General Abdul Gani Patail to explain why the three MACC officers found responsible for the death of Teoh Beng Hock cannot be charged under the Penal Code.
“If you can’t find anything under the Penal Code to charge them with, come debate with me and I will tell you how,” said Gobind.
Gobind said under the Federal Constitution, only the Attorney-General’s office has the power to prosecute anyone in a court for a criminal offence.
He was speaking at a forum attended by about 500 people at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall here yesterday.
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MACC a house of criminals, says Kit Siang
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Crime on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By Joseph Sipalan and Lee Way Loon | Jul 27, 11
Malaysiakini
INTERVIEW Responsibility for the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock lies squarely on the shoulders of the BN, which created a monster in the form of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), senior DAP leader Lim Kit Siang says.
Lim said the recently released report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Teoh’s death details a “horror” story that clearly outlines the gross abuses of the power MACC wields.
“… we let Parliament pass it (the MACC Act of 2009), gave it increased powers and funding, all sorts of support (were) given. What has happened? It became a monster,” he told Malaysiakini in an exclusive interview.
Lim, who marks 45 years in active politics this year, accused the BN of using the MACC, particularly the Selangor MACC, to further its political agenda in wresting the state back from Pakatan Rakyat rule.
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Teoh Beng Hock – unresolved death
Posted by Kit in Crime, Najib Razak, Teoh Beng Hock, Zunar on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
AG must go if MACC trio not charged, says DAP
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Law & Order, Teoh Beng Hock on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal | July 27, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — DAP has given Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail an ultimatum: Either prosecute the three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers linked with Teoh Beng Hock’s death or resign as Attorney-General.
MACC announced on Saturday the temporary suspension of the three officers named in the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report — former Selangor MACC deputy director Hishammuddin Hashim and enforcement officers Arman Alies and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus — pending the outcome of an internal probe.
The commission also said yesterday that it will only probe the three officers, and has remained silent on extending investigations to other officers in connection to this case.
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Mat Zain’s Open Letter on TBH RCI report
Posted by Kit in Crime, Police, Teoh Beng Hock on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Mat Zain bin Ibrahim
26hb.July 2011.
Kepada;
YDH Tan Sri Hji Ismail bin Haji Omar,IGP,
Ketua Polis Negara,
Ibu Pejabat Polis DiRaja Malaysia,
50560 Bukit Aman,
Kuala Lumpur.
Email:iho@rmp.gov.my Dengan Email
YDH Tan Sri,
SURUHANJAYA JAMES FOONG-TINDAKAN SUSULAN POLIS.
Assalamualikum wbt.
1. Sebelum membincangkan perkara tajuk,sukacita saya merujukkan Tan Sri kepada surat saya bertarikh 24.1.2011 yang dialamatkan kepada YBhg.Datuk Idrus Harun,Peguam Cara Negara dengan salinannya kepada YAB Perdana Menteri dan Tan Sri sendiri. Dalam surat tersebut saya telah kemukakan maklumat terprinci berkaitan perbuatan pemalsuan dan manipulasi keterangan serta penggunaan keterangan palsu dalam prosiding Suruhanjaya Read the rest of this entry »
Mat Zain says MACC officers can be charged for Teoh’s suicide
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
By Shannon Teoh | July 26, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — A former senior police officer said today that three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers should be charged for abetting Teoh Beng Hock’s suicide following the release of the royal commission of inquiry’s (RCI) findings.
Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim told the Inspector General of Police in an open letter that then deputy director for Selangor Hishammuddin Hashim, officers Arman Alies and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus were culpable in the interrogation of Teoh.
The former Kuala Lumpur CID chief noted the RCI said the three men had left the former DAP aide “almost a mental and physical wreck.”
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UiTM lecturer: MACC officers should be brought to court
Posted by Kit in Court, Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Monday, 25 July 2011
Bernama | Jul 24, 11
Malaysiakini
Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) law lecturer Assoc Prof Abd Halim Sidek said an investigation should be carried out on the allegation by the Bar Council that Teoh Beng Hock died due to the negligence of MACC officers named in the RCI report.
“If Teoh was driven to suicide as a result of the MACC officers’ action then they must be brought to court,” he said.
“I think the Bar Council president’s statement was premature and he jumped the gun. They must be patient and wait for the investigation,” he added.
Meanwhile a member of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Consultation and Prevention of Corruption Panel, Syed Akhbar Ali, said the non-acceptance of the RCI conclusions by some could also be construed as disrespect for the laws of the country.
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Teoh’s blood is on MACC’s hands
Posted by Kit in Crime, Teoh Beng Hock on Monday, 25 July 2011
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 25, 11
‘Whether they committed suicide or not, MACC cannot be excused from the responsibility of having taken the lives of those two people.’
Teoh’s ‘suicide’ – fact or fantasy?
TKC: From the outset, the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Teoh Beng Hock was compromised. The original terms of reference (TOF1) was only to inquire into the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) procedures, but after much pressure, they included the second TOF2 to ascertain the cause of Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
Had the scope been restricted to TOF1 only, it would have been rather easy for the RCI because it was glaringly obvious that MACC procedures were rotten to the core and would require an overhaul.
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When will Hishammuddin or IGP announce that it is unlawful and a police arrestable offence for anyone to wear or sport yellow until July 9?
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Court, Crime, Hishammuddin, Najib Razak, Police on Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Just four days ago in Ipoh on Saturday, I had called on the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein to “stop the madness where a person can be detained by the police for wearing the Bersih 2.0 T-shirt, as if he/she is more dangerous than Osama bin Laden”.
Clearly, I had directed my call at the wrong person as Hishammuddin is now at the heart of the “madness” with his announcement this morning that Bersih 2.0 T-shirts are illegal and that it is a police arrestable offence to wear them.
The question Malaysians must pose is whether Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s “Government Transformation Programme” has reached a stage where Ministers can unilaterally make laws like Hishammuddin declaring Bersih 2.0 T-shirts are illegal to justify police arrests and seizures?
Hishammuddin did not mention under what law the Bersih 2.0 T-shirts could be considered illegal and unlawful. The reason is simple – there is no such law, unless Malaysia’s democratic governance has degenerated to a stage where a Minister could unilaterally declare a law “on the run” as the Home Minister has done this morning.
The question is whether the Malaysian judiciary has degenerated to a new low where it would uphold the such Ministerial abuses of power in arbitrarily and unilaterally making a law “on the run” without parliamentary sanction. Read the rest of this entry »
But wait, Bersih didn’t threaten to torch Umno HQ
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jun 29, 11
‘Bersih leaders were the first to receive death threats, yet there were no Bersih supporters outside PWTC threatening to burn down Umno’s HQ.’
Umno Youth ‘threatened’ to torch PKR HQ
Swipenter: We are all sick of the threats of violence verbalised by Perkasa and Umno supporters every time when things are disagreeable to them.
This is reminiscent of the threats issued by Umno Youth to burn down the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (SCAH) over the issue of vernacular education.
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Najib GTP in past two years a depressing failure
I posed a supplementary query in Parliament to Question No. 5 to the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon who had boasted about the great success and achievements of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s Government Transformation Programme to date.
Puncturing his balloon, I pointed out that the purpose of Najib’s GTP is to restore national and international confidence in the efficiency, independence, integrity and professionalism of key national institutions but the reality in the past two years had been the very opposite – with even greater plunge of public and international confidence in the efficiency, independence, integrity and professionalism of key national institutions like the police, judiciary, elections commission and the anti-corruption commission, the MACC.
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Dr Jeyakumar detained, Ibrahim Ali walks free
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jun 28, 11
‘Ibrahim will walk away with a small fine, but Pakatan Rakyat leaders will find themselves ineligible to contest elections.’
Ibrahim Ali hauled up for alleged sedition
DannyLoHH: The double standard of treatment is glaring. Sungai Siput MP Dr D Micheal Jeyakumar was arrested and remanded for seven days for having some T-shirts with him, whereas Ibrahim Ali, who had openly threatened bloodshed and violence, is “probed” for two hours and then let go.
Penang deputy police chief Abdul Rahim Jaafar, you are doing a really good job of portraying the image of the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) as the running dogs of Umno.
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Gani Patail playing judge in Altantuya case, says Mat Zain
By Shannon Teoh | June 27, 2011
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 — A retired senior policeman has accused Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail of superceding the courts by dismissing private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s statutory declarations (SD) regarding the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu.
Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim said in an open letter to Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar today that the Attorney-General was trying to ensure that the Mongolian’s murder case is not reopened.
The Shah Alam High Court ended a 159-day trial in April 2009, meting out death sentences to two police officers who are now appealing the judgment.
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Malaysia No. 2 in Asia-Pacific for cargo theft
By Yow Hong Chieh
June 25, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — Cargo theft in Malaysia is now the second highest in the Asia-Pacific by value and looks to increase as more cargo from Singapore, the world’s busiest port, is routed overland through the Malay peninsula, the New York Times has reported.
The US daily, quoting figures compiled by the Transported Asset Protection Association, said more than US$22.7 million (RM68.9 million) worth of goods was reported stolen from Malaysian ports, airports, warehouses and trucks from 2007 to 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Death threat: We shall not be cowed
Malaysiakini Your Say | Jun 24, 11
‘Who are the pariahs here – those calling others demeaning and insulting names or those who put up a fight for our democratic rights?’
SMS death threat against Ambiga making its rounds
TehTarik: I hope that Malaysia doesn’t sink to the level where we see political assassinations. Unfortunately, we seem to be rapidly heading in this direction, particularly due to inaction and selective prosecution by the police and the judiciary.
As many have said, some of the leaders of Perkasa should have been arrested a long time ago under the ISA and interned in Kamunting. Perkasa appears to be similar to the ‘brown shirt’ of the Nazi Party which was formed by Adolf Hitler, and was responsible for political threats and violence, and even assassinations.
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