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- Nazri agrees to debate with Kit Siang over Teoh RCI
- Bourdon disputes minister’s claim
- Clones: ‘EC confessed so cops must act’
- Probe MACC trio for culpable homicide, PKR tells cops
- MACC officers ‘concocted’ story to protect careers
- Mat Sabu disputes police video, maintains knocked down by cops
- Anwar wants condo owner, four others interviewed
| Nazri agrees to debate with Kit Siang over Teoh RCI Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:09 PM PDT By Clara Chooi. The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz today declared his willingness to debate the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Teoh Beng Hock's death with Lim Kit Siang. Through his media officer, the minister in the Prime Minister's Department, who is now in London, said he would accept Lim's offer but suggested that the meeting with the DAP stalwart be held after the fasting month of Ramadan. In a blog posting yesterday, Lim had slammed Nazri (picture) for saying that the Teoh RCI had absolved the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) of murder charges and called on the minister to justify his stand. He invited Nazri to do so at a forum tonight entitled "Teoh Beng Hock Royal Commission Inquiry Report — Where is the promised truth?" scheduled for 7.30pm at the Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall here. In a Twitter posting this afternoon, Nazri's aide said: "Nazri Aziz accepted YB Lim Kit Siang's challenge for a debate as posted on the latter's fcbk @limkitsiang stil waitng 4 a response from YB." The aide added: "Nazri accepted the challenge n suggested the forum is 2 b held after Ramadhan" and explained later that the minister is now in London for the 57th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference which goes on until Thursday. When contacted, Lim acknowledged the tweet and said he would respond at tonight's forum. "I did not use the word 'debate'... I invited him to the forum tonight to explain his position. But, through his officer, he said he accepted the debate so I will respond tonight," he said.
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| Bourdon disputes minister’s claim Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT
The French lawyer disputes Hishammudin Hussein's accusations of a social visa violation. (Free Malaysia Today) - Prominent French human rights lawyer William Bourdon is baffled to learn that his deportation is attributed to a violation of his social visa. According to him, he never had such a visa in the first place. Home Minister Hishammudin Hussein yesterday said that Bourdon, 55, was deported last Friday because he violated his social visa by giving a speech in Penang and insisted that there was no hidden political agenda. "I don't know what the minister is talking about because I didn't even have a social visa. So it is very strange that he is speaking of one," Bourdon told FMT in an interview from Paris. His fiancee, Lea Forrestier, confirmed this in a later text message and added that citizens of the European Union do not need a visa for travel into Malaysia. She also said that the only documentation Bourdon had filled up was a small card on which he had clearly specified that he was in Malaysia for "professional purposes". "My personal interpretation is that there is political motivation behind my deportation. There was no basis for the decision. And this is a very sensitive case for Malaysia," Bourdon said.
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| Clones: ‘EC confessed so cops must act’ Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:42 PM PDT
By Teoh El Sen, FMT PETALING JAYA: The police must investigate allegations of "clone voters" now that the Election Commission (EC) has confessed to its existence in the electoral rolls. PAS Youth secretary Khairul Faizi Ahmad Kamil said the discovery of several new cases of "clone voters" is irrefutable proof that phantom voters existed on the EC's voter lists. Khairul, who lodged a report at the Dang Wangi police headquarters today, said that since the EC itself had admitted to the existence of "clones", the police must take immediate action. "This is serious. These cases seem to show that anyone in Malaysia can get two ICs and two different people can have a same IC number. "Malaysia's democracy is now under threat because voting itself is being questioned," he said. Khairul's report was a follow-through to the party's expose last week. PAS Youth's democratic rehabilitation and mobilisation committee chairperson Suhaizan Kaiat last week revealed that one of the main "players" in these "clone voters" cases was the National Registration Department (NRD). "Two big offences have been made by NRD and EC. One is that the NRD has issued old ICs to two identities. "Secondly, EC has allowed a voter the right to vote more than once," said Suhaizan, who is also Johor PAS Youth chief. Suhaizan had previously revealed the existence of double registration of voters on the electoral rolls. Double deals The first case involved one Mariam Su, who was registered with two new registered identity cards (NRIC) – 720616025472 and 720610025738. This was despite her having only one old IC with the number A2278510. A second case involved one S Murugan, who was registered with the same birth date, gender but was registered as a voter in both state and parliamentary constituencies. Murugan had two NRICs that are nearly identical save for the last four digits. Murugan, whose old IC number was A2909056, is currently registered under two NRICs, 731002025877 and 731002025201. Today, Suhaizan also provided another two examples of "double registration" in the electoral roll. He said two voters with different names are Low Kim Lian and Tom binti Din. Both were registered under the same old IC 1790975. Both are voting in the same state and parliamentary constituency. Another case is of one Baharom Abd Rahman. He has the same birth date, gender but is registered in a different voting locality. He is registered under 550331025859/4774090 and RF65018 (believed to be identity for postal vote). "All these are proof of mistakes, and there are many more. How could there be such problems that NRD and EC did not verify in the first place? "There's something wrong with their SOP (standard operating procedure)," Suhaizan said. EC 'U-turn' Suhaizan noted that despite proof of overlapping data in the electoral rolls, the EC has no right to strike out the compromised list unless someone goes through a lengthy court process. He said this was because under Section 14 of the Election (Conduct of Elections) Regulations 1981, the electoral roll serves as evidence to determine whether a person is entitled to vote. Suhaizan also said that EC is making a mistake in saying that it is confident in its election process. "The EC does not understand the problem: the biometric system can only be used when you have a complete and authentic electoral roll. "At this point in time and until we have solved problems with the integrity of the electoral roll, this system is not suitable for Malaysia," he said. On Sunday, The Star quoted EC deputy Wan Ahmad Wan Omar as saying that the EC needs the help of political parties and individuals to purge "clones" from the electoral rolls.
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| Probe MACC trio for culpable homicide, PKR tells cops Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT By Debra Chong, The Malaysian Insider PETALING JAYA, July 26 — PKR pushed the police today to renew their investigations into three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers linked to Teoh Beng Hock's death under the Penal Code. The party's communications chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad named the trio as Hishammuddin Hashim, Mohamad Anuar Ismail and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus. "Actually, they could be investigated under sections 304 and 304A of the Penal Code which is culpable homicide and be jailed up to 20 years," he highlighted to reporters today. The Selangor state lawmaker noted the cops had already rejected initiating criminal investigations into the three graftbusters and chose instead to pass the responsibility back to the MACC, which has chosen to suspend the trio pending a domestic inquiry."Seeing as how this issue has been repeatedly raised, it is clear that an internal inquiry is not the solution," he said, adding: "As the English say 'who will guard the guards?'" Nik Nazmi made the call today while pushing for Putrajaya to form another royal panel to look into the death of senior Customs officer Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed, who was the second person — after Teoh — to die while in MACC custody. He noted that Teoh's RCI had taken a long time to set up and only because there was great political pressure following an open verdict in a coroner's inquiry, forcing Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to agree to it. Teoh, a DAP political aide, was found dead on July 16, 2009 on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers at their then-Selangor headquarters on the 14th floor. He was 30 years old. "The Teoh Beng Hock Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report has only strengthened the case for a free and independent investigation into the death of Sarbaini," said Nik Nazmi, the Seri Setia assemblyman.
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| MACC officers ‘concocted’ story to protect careers Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT
PKR wants a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed's death while in MACC custody. (Free Malaysia Today) - Opposition party PKR is backing a demand by the family members of Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed that a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) be set up to probe the Customs officer's death at the KL MACC headquarters. Party communications director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said today the exposure made by the RCI on Teoh Beng Hock, who died in a similar situation, reinforces the need for one. Teoh died while under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) custody in Shah Alam in 2009. Nazmi told reporters at a press conference at party headquarters here that the 'indepth' posting by Raja Petra Kamaruddin in his blog MalaysiaToday also justified the need for a RCI on Ahmad Sarbaini's death. Raja Petra in his posting claimed Ahmad Sarbaini accidentally fell to his death after MACC officers made him stand on the ledge of a window to force a confession out of the Selangor Customs deputy director. He claimed that MACC investigator, Ahmad Ghani Ali, who allegedly said "it wasn't me, it was my people" to Ahmad Sarbaini's widow, had convened a "conference" with his colleagues to "brainstorm and concoct the most plausible story" to protect their careers. Ahmad Sarbaini was found dead on April 6 after he was believed to have fallen from the pantry on the third floor of the MACC Kuala Lumpur office in Jalan Cochrane and landed on a badminton court on the first floor. Recently a forensic investigator in the ongoing inquest on Ahmad Sarbaini concluded that the senior customs officer did not jump to his death nor was he pushed from the KL anti-graft office. Apart from convening the RCI, Nik Nazmi who is also the Seri Setia assemblyman, urged the Najib administration to implement the recommendations made by the RCI on Teoh's death. He described the government's response towards the RCI's findings on Teoh, as 'lacklustre'. Teoh was said to have been driven to commit suicide resulting from "aggressive, relentless, oppressive and unscrupulous interrogation" by three MACC officers. The three officers named were the then Selangor MACC director Hishammuddin Hashim, and enforcement officers Mohd Anuar Ismail and Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus. Opposition leaders have called for the three MACC officers to be charged under Section 304 and 304A of the Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. But the police have said that they cannot take action as none of the three had violated the law. All three have been suspended pending an internal investigation into the RCI findings. MACC, on their part, have said that it will set up a panel to look into reforming its investigative methods.
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| Mat Sabu disputes police video, maintains knocked down by cops Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT
(The Malaysian Insider) - Mohamad Sabu accused the police today of misleading the public when he claimed that the motorcycle he was riding on to get to the Bersih rally on July 9 was hit on purpose by a Proton Waja police car and not a Mitsubishi Pajero as suggested by official video footage. He (picture) pointed out to reporters that in his July 14 police report which was distributed at a press conference, he had said that the Waja had hit the motorcycle, injuring his right leg, and he was then detained by police officers who carried him into a Mitsubishi Pajero. "We are disappointed with the internal security and public order (KDNK) director, who is willing to be a tool for Umno and Barisan Nasional by lying and claiming that my medical condition is fake. Questioning someone's health is such low politics," he said. The KDNK chief Datuk Salleh Mat Rashid had screened a CCTV recording last week, showing that there was no contact between the PAS deputy president and the police four-wheel-drive vehicle during the chaotic scenes seen during the rally calling for free and fair elections. "From our investigations we adduced that while attempting a U-turn Mat Sabu's motorcycle hit a divider and the front part of the police car," he had said. Salleh also claimed that Mohamed's injuries were not serious as "there was no fracture. I don't know how or why he's using a wheel-chair." Mohamed said today that "in the video itself, behind the Pajero, you can see the Waja cross the road and hit me." "The question is that while our opponents are Umno and BN, why do we have to be confronted by police, who should be professional and neutral?" he added.
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| Anwar wants condo owner, four others interviewed Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:59 PM PDT
(Bernama) - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has filed an application to interview five witnesses before he takes his stand in his ongoing sodomy trial on Aug 8. In the application, filed this morning via Messrs Karpal Singh & Co, Anwar named two of the witnesses as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. Anwar stated that under the law, the onus is on the prosecution to facilitate witness interviews by the defence and that the costs will be paid by the prosecution. In a supporting affidavit, Anwar said that his counsel S.N. Nair had received a letter from the Brickfields Criminal Investigation Department, dated July 18, stating that Mohd Rodwan, Najib, Rosmah and Musa had declined to be interviewed but agreed to be defence witnesses on condition that a subpoena is issued against them. At the close of their case, the prosecution offered 71 witnesses, of whom the defence chose to interview 25. |
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