Can Malaysians trust and cooperate with officers from a department responsible to uphold principles of morality and integrity when they keep on lying to the public?
Hishamuddin Hashim
(look at this MM report dated Oct 15, 2009)
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) deputy director for Selangor today told the inquest into the death of Teoh Beng Hock that the commission was not responsible for the political aide’s death because the deceased was no longer under its responsibility when he died.
Hishamuddin Hashim in his testimony, said Teoh had been allowed to go home after giving a statement at the Selangor MACC’s office on the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam here, before he was found dead on the fifth floor of the same building on July 16.
Negeri Sembilan MACC Director (current) Hishamuddin Hashim Lied in Court
But the RCI concluded that Teoh was never released and was still detained by Selangor MACC as other witnesses were also not allowed to go home and “his attendence was practically effected by force although claimed otherwise and therefore the panel cannot percieve Teoh would have wanted to stay a minute longer if he was free”.
( Meaning that Teoh was still in the custody of MACC when he died. Hence MACC MUST take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for his death. )
Blue wall of silence
The RCI stated that the conferment of extensive powers on MACC without checks and balances would inevitably result in those powers being abused, and such abuse becomes difficult to prove as the only witnesses would be those officers whose conduct was being probed.
The RCI had earlier found that anti-graft officers in Selangor viewed witnesses and suspects as “the enemy” and were brutal in their interview techniques,
“The investigation into this will bring in its wake the inherent and harsh realities of meeting ‘a blue wall of silence’ based on brotherhood ties among those officers. The characteristics of this ‘blue wall of silence’ came amply into play in the present case as evidenced by untruths spouted by MACC officers to cover-up the nefarious activities that took place on July 15 and 16.
(Isn’t lying in court /RCIs an act of Pejury i.e. The deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony under oath.)
“This clinging to brotherhood ties by those officers has resulted in our facing extreme difficulties in gathering evidence to arrive at the truth.”
It noted that the Selangor MACC’s operation to obtain evidence to support its corruption case had led to the death of, whom it described in the report as “a young man in the prime of life who had everything to look forward to’ and whose family had been “robbed” of a son, brother, husband and father.
FORCED SUICIDE IS HOMICIDE AND ACTION MUST BE TAKEN AGAINST TBH’S MURDERERS. JUSTICE MUST BE DONE!!
We want our government to tell us the truth; we want them to deliver justice; we want our communities to live in peace; and we want respect for the dignity of all Anak Bangsa Malaysia and humankind.
