BY MUZLIZA MUSTAFA | TMI 7 September 2014
DAP lodged a police report in Puchong today as part of its nationwide move to pressure the authorities to find the culprit responsible for Teoh Beng Hock’s death following a Court of Appeal verdict on Friday.
The Court of Appeal set aside the open verdict by a coroner on Beng Hock’s death five years ago, ruling that “a person or persons were responsible for his death”.
Kinrara assemblyman Ng Sze Han said someone should be responsible for the political aide’s death as stated in the verdict by the Court of Appeal and that action should be taken against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officers involved in Teoh’s case in 2009.
“They should be suspended from duty immediately as they are not fit to work,” said Ng after lodging a report at the Serdang police headquarters in Puchong today. “After five years of fight, the family finally see some hope. We applaud the court decision.”
He said this was the second police report lodged by DAP. The first was in Ipoh yesterday. More reports are expected to be lodged nationwide by DAP to put pressure against the investigators.
Ng was accompanied by Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo and other DAP members.
On July 16, 2009, Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor landing of the Selangor MACC building. The 30-year old had been due to register his marriage to his pregnant fiancée on the same day.
Teoh was called to the MACC offices in Shah Alam, Selangor, about 6pm on July 15. The Selangor MACC’s offices were then on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam.
He had gone there to give a statement in the agency’s probe into corruption allegations against his boss, Selangor exco Ean Yong Hian Wah.
Ng said the report lodged today stressed that investigation by police should be centred on two points mentioned by the Court of Appeal judges that indicated Teoh’s death from a fall was accelerated by an unlawful act or acts of persons unknown, inclusive of MACC officers involved in the arrest and the investigation of the deceased and also investigation to be carried under charges deemed fit by police.
Judge Datuk Mohamad Arif Md Yusof, who was among three judges on the bench in the Court of Appeal on Friday, said police should also probe into the suicide note allegedly left by Teoh in his bag when investigators reopen the case.