Utusan says loan sharks more trustworthy than Bar Council

By Shannon Teoh

March 11, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, March eleven Umno'sUtusan Malaysiaaccused a Bar Council currently of being a "wing of a opposition," saying a lawyers have repeatedly backed Pakatan Rakyat (PR) as well as mislaid a credibility.

The newspaper questioned currently since a legislature did not defend Umno's Sabak Bernam MP Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakri who was sentenced to six years in jail for swindle not long ago though backed DAP when a former assistance Teoh Beng Hock fell to his death while being investigated by graftbusters.

"It has mislaid a credibility. Given a choice in between putting my trust in a Bar Council or a bunch of loan sharks, we will not demur to collect a latter," wrote Awang Selamat, a pen name for a newspaper's editors, in a weekend editionMingguan Malaysia.

The umbrella physique for lawyers in a peninsular had additionally raised in a annual ubiquitous assembly yesterday a allegations of "conflict of interest" in a RM2.2 billion main road stipulate awarded to firms related to a former chief probity as well as an Umno lawyer. Council president Lim Chee Wee pronounced it would discuss a issue of a 50km-long Kinrara-Damansara Expressway's (Kidex) endowment to companies owned by Umno counsel Datuk Hafarizam Harun as well as a wife of former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi.

Opposition lawmakers have pronounced a lucrative RM2.2 billion stipulate is a prerogative for their assistance in ensuring Barisan Nasional (BN) were successful in receiving over a Perak state supervision in February 2009.

The Malay daily additionally forked currently out how a Bar Council has not shielded former MCA president as well as ride minister Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik in his ongoing trial for intrigue a supervision in a RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone scandal.

! "Maybe s ince Ling Sik is an MCA leader, not DAP," it wrote.

It additionally criticised a legislature for asking a Attorney General not to interest opposite Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's exculpation in January for a sodomy charge.

"The Bar Council itself is denying a rights of typical citizens. No other physique of lawyers in a universe behaves similar to that," Awang wrote, referring to a antithesis leader's prosecution Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

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