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Bar Council: Give us more evidence
A-G’s Chambers freezes AES summons cases for now
More than one in three Malaysians to get cash handouts on January 15
Kapar MP’s aide murdered
Ariffin’s remarks inaccurate, says PSC
SAPP-Pakatan: It just ain’t working out
Zainuddin article on Habibie improper and unethical, says Indonesian president
‘Frightened Musa wants to save his skin’
No tussle in Sungai Siput, says PSM

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:23 AM PST

Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee has urged anyone with more facts and proof to come forward in regard to the 'Tan Sri lawyer' and son who have been accused of helping draft the SD2.

Teoh El Sen, FMT

The Bar Council has expressed its concern over new developments that revealed that a senior lawyer and his son were allegedly behind the drafting of the second statutory declaration (SD2) by private investigator P Balasubramaniam.

(The SD2 reversed the first statutory declaration which implicated Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in the murder of the Mongolioan national Altantuya Shaariibuu.)

However, the Bar Council stopped short of declaring that it will immediately launch an investigation, saying that more facts and evidence are needed before the disciplinary board can act.

"The Bar Council views these circumstances seriously and invites those who have the facts and evidence to come forward openly and officially and, if there is compelling evidence of any professional misconduct, to lodge such evidence together with a complaint immediately with the disciplinary board," its president Lim Chee Wee said.

The disciplinary board is an independent body statutorily established and tasked with the responsibility of investigating professional conduct and disciplining of advocates and solicitors.

Lim said that while investigation, if there is any, will be rightfully conducted by the disciplinary board, the Bar Council "[will] work together" with the board.

"As it stands now, the facts are not clear. We look at what Deepak Jaikishan and Balasubramaniam have said: have they ever alleged that the lawyer represented the private investigator? We have to go through this with a forensic eye," he said

Lim said that while the Bar is closely monitoring the situation, he lamented that until today, the identities of the said lawyer (s) have not been established, as a video recording of an interview with Deepak bleeped out the names.

Unnecessary speculation

"We have also received yesterday a letter from [lawyer-activist] Haris Ibrahim requesting the Bar Council to launch an investigation to identify the lawyer (s) concerned, when it appears to us that Haris may know the identity of these lawyers."

"This has caused unnecessary speculation and confusion," he added.

Lim also said that the most important person in a complaint against a legal practitioner should be the victim himself, but the apparent "victim" has yet to come forward.

"Who is the victim here? Has the victim Balasubramaniam raised concerns about anything at this point? We need more facts, either from the victim or somebody else."

"People must come forward with the facts. I'm not going on a fishing expedition… knocking on people's office or doors for facts. This is not a case of clients money disappearing.

"This information is revealed by someone whose own background is cause for concern," said Lim, referring to Deepak.

Asked if the Bar Council is reluctant to act, he said: "We cannot say we are not doing anything. Those with more facts, come forward. We will do what is necessary. Even at this time, we will look into this further if necessary," he said.

Lim said the disciplinary board's job is to determine if there is cause for investigation, but this process will not be disclosed to the public and statements will only come from the Bar Council on the matter.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:20 PM PST

(The Malaysian Insider) - The Attorney-General's Chambers (A-GC) has ordered a halt to all court proceedings related to summonses issued under the Automated Enforcement System (AES) to study legal issues that have been raised, it said today.

The A-GC statement came today after an outcry over the AES which has issued nearly 300,000 summonses since it began last September 23.

"In view of the concerns made by certain quarters on the law and other technicalities, the AGC has decided to look into this matter and directed that all proceedings are to be withheld until the concerns have been addressed.

"A decision will be made within the next few days on the above-mentioned issues," the AGC said in a statement today.

The statement, however, added that the AES summonses issued by the Road Transport Department were still valid.

"In respect of the four AES summons cases that have been discharged not amounting to an acquittal, the AGC will re-study them and will be re-registered if they warrant any prosecution," it added.

The Malaysian Insider had reported this morning that Putrajaya was considering holding off the implementation of the system as it appeared to duplicate police speed traps along the highways.

More than one in three Malaysians to get cash handouts on January 15

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:17 PM PST

(The Malaysian Insider) - About 12 million Malaysians, or more than one in three citizens, will receive cash handouts from the government on January 15, in a major boost for barisan Nasional (BN) ahead of elections expected soon after that.

Sin Chew Daily reported today that the estimated 12 million people will receive the cash through the Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia (BR1M) and student aid schemes.

BR1M recipients will get handouts of RM500, while RM100 will be given to students from Standard One to Form Five.

Handouts worth RM250 will also be given out to those 21-year-old-and-above who are single and who earn less than RM2000 a month.

Kapar MP’s aide murdered

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Police say C Nachimuthu, 53, was involved in a quarrel with the man who killed him but a motive has yet to be established

Teoh El Sen and K Pragalath, FMT

An aide to Kapar MP S Manikavasagam was bludgeoned to death today about a kilometre from his home.

C Nachimuthu, 53, was riding his motorcycle this morning when the suspect hit him on the head with a gardening tool.

Bleeding from his wounds, he died on the spot. The suspect was arrested soon after. Nachimuthu had been Manikavasagam's personal assistant and driver for the past two years.

He lived in Puncak Alam, Shah Alam and was also the Sri Kayangan Resident Association's chairman. He is married with four children.

According to Manikavasagam (photo), there were previous reports lodged by Nachimuthu against the suspect.

"Nachimuthu had lodged about four police reports but they did not take any action. I want the suspect charged under section 302 of the Penal Code for murder," said the PKR leader.

Motive yet to extablished

Nachimuthu's body is currently at the Klang general hospital, said Manikavasagam. A post mortem is expected to be done today.

Meanwhile, a police source close to the investigations told FMT that the suspect was a 43-year-old gardener and was arrested in the area within half an hour.

He said that initial investigations revealed that the two men were involved in a quarrel earlier this morning.

"Insults and vulgarities were apparently hurled. But we're still trying to ascertain the cause of the fight," said the source, who did not rule out a possible political motive.

Police said the suspect has confessed to the crime.

Ariffin’s remarks inaccurate, says PSC

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 03:11 PM PST

(The Star) - The Public Service Commission (PSC) has chided newly appointed DAP vice-chairman Dr Ariffin S.M. Omar for allegedly saying that corruption could be wiped out from the public service if it was not monopolised by one race.

News portal AntaraPos.com quoted Dr Ariffin as proposing a massive reshuffle in the police and civil service if Pakatan Rakyat took control of Putrajaya in the coming general election.

He was reported to have said at the recent party congress that corruption could be eradicated more effectively if the two sectors were not dominated by the Malays.

PSC chairman Tan Sri Mahmood Adam brushed off Dr Ariffin's re-marks as "inaccurate".

"Don't just look at the surface, this is a war of perception we have to fight," Mahmood said at the PSC office here yesterday.

He said the commission had embarked on a campaign to encourage more non-Malays to join the civil service and the police force.

"For about seven months, we have worked with various non-governmental organisations, as well as Chinese and Indian associations, and we have seen changes.

"There has been an increase in the number of non-Malays (interested in the civil sector) this year, probably more than five times (the previous trend)," Mahmood said, adding that he would unveil the figures next week.

He said the Malays made up the dominant group in the civil service because out of 1.2 million job applications received each year, 80% were from them.

SAPP-Pakatan: It just ain’t working out

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:41 PM PST

SAPP president Yong Teck Lee is adamant that the party must stick to its principle that a Sabah-based party must take the majority of the state assembly seats.

Calvin Kabaron, FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Mistrust and uncertainty within Sabah's opposition politics could well indeed translate into a free-for-all fight at the coming general election.

Yesterday Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) supreme council met in Likas near here and snippets leaked out indicated that things may not be going too well with its alliance with PKR-led Pakatan Rakyat.

Insider information noted that party president Yong Teck Lee implied that if things don't work out as it should, then SAPP could well be on a collision course with its newly-found allies PKR and DAP in many seats.

The former Barisan Nasional (BN) chief minister told his comrades that SAPP must stick to its "principle" that a local-based party must take the majority of the state assembly seats, something that PKR's Anwar Ibrahim had signaled to SAPP at one time that Pakatan would be willing to concede or consider.

But, to many observers here, that was typical of Anwar's trademark style which was to entice Yong and SAPP to come aboard the Pakatan ship first.

One SAPP leader told FMT that at yesterday's meeting Yong appeared adamant to go for majority state seats (60 in Sabah) purely on what he termed as "on the principle of Sabah autonomy".

"That means he may even defy PKR's seat 'arrangement' with SAPP if the former repudiate," he said.

PKR, emboldened by its recent coup of two BN's defector parliamentarians in Wilfred Bumburing and Lajim Ukin, is unlikely to concede much to Yong and Chinese-based SAPP.

"Yong anticipates that where PKR would not contest (in Sabah), DAP would do so to take on SAPP just to frustrate SAPP and that Anwar could not do anything about it," the SAPP leader stressed.

Trouble in STAR

Meanwhile, over the weekend, another pivotal Sabah opposition leader, Jeffrey Kitingan, told the local press that he was scheduled to meet Yong today.

He however cautioned supporters not to expect too much from the meeting.

The State Reform Party (STAR) he leads in Sabah, while still open to work a minimum seat arrangement with SAPP, is actually poised to leave SAPP out after Yong made his own deals with Anwar on Sabah's seats.

As of yesterday, an insider in STAR claimed that majority of its leaders, more than half are young Turks and many are green horns in politics, wanted their leader to be decisive instead of dragging until last minute to decide on seats and candidates.

Many within STAR complained that Jeffrey's dragging his feet on candidacy and playing "openness" with other players had denied the party a more rigorous campaigning at the grassroots level.

"It would be different if you know you are the candidate already, we can go straight away from house-to-house campaign already.

"But with uncertainty, many potential candidates just shy away from too much promotion which is bad for the party which is already lacking in funds," said one potential candidate who requested anonymity.

He alleged some very good potential candidates from STAR have yet to resign from their employment jobs, fearing they would not be fielded in the end.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:24 PM PST

(Bernama) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the article written by former Malaysian Information Minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin on Indonesia's third President BJ Habibie was improper and unethical.

The article, he said, could jeopardise the good ties between Indonesia and Malaysia.

"We have worked it out, the foreign minister will take diplomatic notes both here and in Kuala Lumpur," Yudhoyono (picture) was quoted by Antara news agency as published by English daily the Jakarta Post today.

Yudhoyono, who is leaving today for Malaysia to attend the annual consultation, the highest forum in Malaysia-Indonesia in bilateral ties, said Indonesia would raise the issues of mutual respect and tolerance during the meeting so that similar incidents would not recur to obstruct friendship between both countries.

Zainuddin's article is considered by many in Indonesia as offensive towards Habibie.

Meanwhile, presidential spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said the president would also raise priority issues including protection for Indonesians working in Malaysia, the boundary, trade and investment at the meeting.

Yudhoyono will have a private, face-to-face meeting with Najib before leading the Indonesian delegation at the ninth annual consultation.

Universiti Utara Malaysia is scheduled to confer the president with an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership of Peace.

‘Frightened Musa wants to save his skin’

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:09 PM PST

Prominent lawyer Rosli Dahlan, who has dealt with Musa Hassan first hand, has an answer as to why the ex-IGP is reappearing in the media spotlight, flanked by PKR members.

Anisah Shukry, FMT

Musa Hassan's sudden criticism of the government and the police is an attempt to reinvent his image and cosy up to Pakatan Rakyat out of fear that should the Barisan Nasional government fall, his head will be the first to roll, according to lawyer Rosli Dahlan.

The prominent lawyer, who previously represented Musa's rival, ex CCID chief Ramli Yusuff, is currently pursuing a legal suit against Utusan Malaysia and 16 others in a case related to the former inspector-general of police's purported links with underworld figures.

As such, Rosli has first hand experience with Musa and has nothing but scorn for the ex top-cop as well as his recent revelations of alleged ministerial interference and criminal elements in the police.

"Musa is a manipulator, opportunist and a liar. He is a principal lecturer at UiTM in media warfare, so we should not be surprised that he is using the media to reinvent his image," he told FMT.

"Clearly, Musa knows he will be in trouble if Pakatan forms the next government," added Rosli.

Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Mat Zain previously accused Musa of fabricating evidence in Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's 1998 black eye Incident.

Rosli said Musa was also the investigating officer in Anwar's first sodomy charge and the incumbent IGP when the second sodomy charge was "orchestrated".

"So it is no surprise that he now becomes a turncoat, against the government that gave him his mercurial rise to be IGP and enjoyed two extensions by contract in order to save his own skin," he added.

Musa appeared at a press conference late last month with several NGO leaders linked to the opposition, fuelling speculation that he would be joining Pakatan Rakyat soon.

The press briefing was organised by a new NGO called the Malaysian Crime Watch Task, or MyWatch, and was the setting for which Musa dropped the bombshell that ministers allegedly meddled in police investigations.

Anwar later said that PKR was open to Musa joining them if he wished to do so, although Musa had firmly stated that he would remain neutral.

'Leopard does not change its spots'

Commenting on this, Rosli said: "PKR must not forget the history of this man; a leopard does not change its spots."

"To me, for PKR to be a credible opposition, it shouldn't use characters who are known to have manipulated the system and fabricated evidence," he added.

Rosli recounted that the ex-IGP's own aide, ASP Noor Azizul Rahim Taharim, had called Musa a "pengkhianat" (traitor) in a 2009 statutory declaration (SD).

The document accused Musa of a slew of wrongdoings during his tenure and exposed how Musa had allegedly manipulated the police succession hierarchy with his associate, an underworld figure known as BK Tan, as well as silencing critics with transfers and trumped up charges.

"Never before in the history of this country has an active serving IGP faced such an accusation from his own ADC (aide de camp)," said Rosli.

"As for being a liar, it is not what I say, but the various people who have dealt with Musa including the damning judgment by Sessions Judge Supang Lian of the Kota Kinabalu court," he added.

Rosli was referring to the 2007 case levelled by Musa against Ramli. Musa had accused Ramli of abusing his power in using a police Cessna plane for his personal benefit. However, the judge found that Ramli was in full uniform and was escorted by four other uniformed police personnel while conducting a border surveillance patrol.

"If the prosecution was serious about finding out the truth, they should have called the two police pilots as the first and second witnesses. Instead, the pilots were called close to the end of the trial. DPP Kevin Morais also amended the charge several times. That is how insidious these people are," added Rosli.

Ramli was eventually acquitted without his defence being called.

When Musa became the final witness for the prosecution in order to rebut the other police witnesses who had given evidence supporting Ramli, the judge delivered the following stinging judgment against Musa:

"[Musa's] evidence is unreliable and is to be disregarded and whatever he says in court lends to his discredit. I am in total agreement with the case for the defence that this lack of support of the evidence of [Musa] on this point lends to his discredit… I found however that the evidence of [Musa] on this to be unreliable and to be disregarded."

According to Rosli that was a polite way of calling an active serving IGP a liar.

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No tussle in Sungai Siput, says PSM

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:06 PM PST

But the clenched fist logo stays, says secretary general Arutchelvan

K Pragalath, FMT

Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) has denied that it is tussling with PKR over the Sungai Siput parliament seat.

Responding to a news report that a three-corner fight was in the making in the constituency, PSM secretary general S Arutchelvan released a press statement today saying there was no friction between said his party and PKR.

The report, which FMT published yesterday, quoted a PKR insider as saying his party might field its own candidate for the seat because PSM was insisting on using its own logo in the campaign for the coming election.

"On the ground, there is no real tussle," Arutchelvan said. "People want to see change and PSM is committed to that agenda."

He added that PSM would support Pakatan Rakyat candidates in all seats except the four that it is contesting—Sungai Siput and the state constituencies of Jelapang in Perak and Kota Damansara and Semenyih in Selangor.

"We hope that PR will not force three-corner fights for these seats," he said, adding that negotiations to avoid this were ongoing.

The current MP for Sungai Siput is PSM's Dr D Michael Jeyakumar. He contested as a PKR candidate in 2008 and beat then MIC president S Samy Vellu.

The PKR insider said yesterday that PSM's logo, which features a clenched left fist, would put off Malay voters.

Arutchelvan rejected claims that voters would reject PSM because of its left-leaning ideology and defended the party's use of its logo in campaigning.

He said PSM had been promoting the logo since its inception in 1998 even though it was registered only in 2008.

"The fist is now a hit among the young people," he added.

"PSM will agree to use a common Pakatan logo if there is one. If there is none, it should be only fair for PSM to use its own logo."

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

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