Lawyer not part of MACC review on Balas SD probe, says panel chief


KUALA LUMPUR, December twenty Prominent counsel Tan Sri Cecil Abraham was not partial of a graftbuster examination team which had sealed a record upon P. Balasubramaniam's argumentative second sworn matter over a 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a conduct of a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Operations Review Panel (PPO) pronounced today.
Abraham had been declared as a mystery counsel suspected to have drafted a in isolation investigator's(picture)contradictory second orthodox stipulation (SD) by several high-profile figures questioning a probable dispute of seductiveness as a former additionally sits upon board of a MACC examination panel.
"PPO had agreed with a decision by a Deputy Public Prosecutor to stop investigating a box upon grounds a categorical witnesses' testimonies were not supported by any other declare as good as a credibility of a categorical witnesses were disputable.
"PPO wishes to state which a single of a row members, Tan Sri Datuk Cecil Abraham was not present as good as was not concerned in which meeting," Tan Sri Hadenan Abdul Jalil, authority of a eight-man MACC operations examination panel, pronounced in a media matter today.
Hadenan pronounced a case, which was linked to which of runner businessman Deepak Jaikishan Rewachand, had been presented at a PPO pre-meeting upon November 8.
However, he was wordless upon a allegations surrounding Abraham.
The Malaysian Insider had contacted Abraham's law firm, Zul Rafique & Partners, though was unable to strech a counsel for comment.
"PPO's membership comprises from those with expertise as good as represent veteran bodies which make decisions but interfering upon any a single side. Therefore, any matter which doubts a clarity as good as independence of a PPO is much regrette! d," Hade nan said.
The MACC examination panel's evident response comes upon a heels of a flurry of questions surrounding Abraham's probable dispute of seductiveness as a counsel purported to have drafted Balasubramaniam's second SD as good as a part of of a examination row which had sealed a investigation record upon a case.
A cloud of mystery had been hanging over a temperament of a counsel who had drawn up Balasubramaniam's second SD, dated a day after his initial upon Jul 3, 2008, regarding Altantuya's 2006 murder, for which dual elite police commandos have been convicted as good as have been confronting death sentences.
In a harried press discussion upon Jul 4, 2008, Balasubramaniam, accompanied by counsel M. Arulampalam, came out to repel his initial SD, where he negated a essence of a initial statement, claiming it had been sealed underneath duress.
He afterwards constructed a second one, which he claimed after in 2009 had been rebuilt by another lawyer, whom he did not meet with as good as who did not deliberate him when drafting a document.
A former MACC adviser, Tan Sri Robert Phang had progressing currently publicly declared Abraham in a headlines discussion as a counsel in question.
Three others have lifted a issue publicly runner businessman Deepak Jaikishan, former minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, as good as a political activist, Haris Ibrahim.
Deepak, who is additionally in a centre of a controversy surrounding Balasubramaniam's dual orthodox declarations (SDs), had not long ago slipped out a name of a counsel behind a second SD during an talk with PAS organ Harakah.
But when a talk was carried upon PAS' "TVPAS" channel upon Youtube, a lawyer's name was pale out.
Politician Zaid, who was a de facto law minister in a Abdullah administration, had additionally called for a probe over a allegations which is being lifted in a run-up to pass inhabitant polls.
Haris, a fo! rmer law yer, has written in to a Bar Council perfectionist it examine a counsel for misconduct.
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