August 7, 2012
MACC's Independence as well as Transparency Defended
by www.malaysiakini.com
Despite lingering questions over a autonomy as well as transparency of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) investigations, a row has shielded a probe opposite attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail following allegations of abuse of energy as well as purported swindle over a Ho Hup Construction Bhd affair.
MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull (left) pronounced a anti-graft physique had once formed a three-member row to probe a AG over Anwar Ibrahim's black eye-incident.
Shukri additionally pronounced a commission's Operations Review Panel, which reviews all cases investigated by a swindle body, is additionally unrelenting in giving a views as well as a members have been independent.
"The members have been people who have their own imagination in auditing, forensics, commercial operation as well as others. There have been cases which have been closed, where a row has asked them to be reopened. This led to a prosecutors making a preference to prosecute a accused. Hence, there is an element of check as well as change there," he told Malaysiakini.
Shukri, however, certified which a final preference might lie with a Attorney-General or any Deputy Public Prosecutor as settled in a Constitution. The MACC Deputy Chief Commissioner was asked to criticism further upon either a Operations Review Panel has a powers or rights to arbitrate or confirm upon a control of a sitting A-G as settled in Article 145 (6) as well as Article 125 of a Federal Constitution.
Under a Constitution, a tribunal can be called op! posite a sitting decider or a A-G. Yesterday Shukri pronounced which no cases had been swept under a carpet.
It was reported which former Ho Hup Managing Director Low Tuck Choy had complained about a ostensible lack of swell in MACC's investigations into Abdul Gani's purported abuse of energy as well as swindle when he allegedly interfered in a company's boardroom tussle.
Gani pronounced to favour Lye
Gani is pronounced to have favoured a company's former Executive Deputy Chairperson Vincent Lye, who hails from Sabah, as well as in return is purported to have received RM18,000 for a restoration of a bungalow in Seremban.
While Low has been charged with 4 counts of unwell to notify a changes in his interest in a company within seven days as well as his wife has additionally been investigated, no charges have been imposed upon Lye.
It was additionally reported which a three-member row chaired by Federal Court decider Abdul Kadir Sulaiman as well as comprising Court of Appeal judges Mohd Nor Abdullah as well as Mohd Nor Ahmad, had in 2009 in a majority decision cleared Gani as well as former Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan of allegations of tampering with Anwar's red blood sample.
Abdul Kadir, who is a senior most row member, was a dissenting part of of a row who found there was a case to answer by a two (Gani as well as Musa).
Anwar had lodged a Police inform in 2008 accusing Musa as well as Gani, along with Dr Abdul Rahman Yusof as well as former Kuala Lumpur CID Chief Mat Zain Ibrahim of tampering with evidence.
While Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz had pronounced Musa as well as Gani had been cleared, he had ! however kept silent upon Dr Abdul Rahman as well as Mat Zain.
This resulted in Mat Zain going upon a crusade to clear his name as he settled which it was Gani who might have landed former Attorney-General Mohtar Abdullah in a sticky situation by appointing Dr Rahman, since a Police had allocated a own doctors.
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