BY IDA LIM
March 22, 2013
Screenshot of the single of the scenes in the video clip which identifies counsel Alvin Chong as expelled by London-based activist group Global Witness.KUALA LUMPUR, Mar twenty-two The Advocates Association of Sarawak (AAS) today referred two lawyers to an eccentric disciplinary committee for an exploration after they were secretly available discussing potentially reprobate as well as bootleg practices in the covert video.
The duo, identified as Alvin Chong as well as Huang Lung Ong, were shown alone in the video expelled by London-based activist group Global Witness as explanation of untrustworthy land deals in Sarawak which appeared to apply to the states arch apportion Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud as well as his family, with parts of the clip aired upon the Al-Jazeera headlines channel upon Tuesday.
The AAS today sent the short make the difference saying which it had officially referred Mr Alvin Chong Chee Vun as well as Mr Huang Lung Ong to the Inquiry Committee this afternoon.
Yesterday, the AAS pronounced it would refer the Sarawak twin to the Inquiry Committee, which will then control an exploration for probable cases of veteran misconduct.
The Inquiry Committee, the disciplinary body apart from AAS, is additionally the orthodox body with the row of comparison lawyers appointed by the Chief Judge of Sabah as well as Sarawak.
Yesterday afternoon, the AAS lodged the military inform upon the video to enable the examine in to the essence as well as serve movement be taken if there was enough explanation to uncover allegations of criminal acts.
The organisation pronounced the lawyers had in the video spoken upon issues ranging from bootleg means to circumvent the operation of Malaysian laws to allegations of corruption as well as kickbacks to high officials within the state administration.!
T he AAS has referred to the public not to assume upon the matter, saying which the authorities have been now handling it.
In the covert investigation, Global Witness (GW) prisoner upon video sell with Taibs cousins as well as several alternative intermediaries to take thousands of hectares of timberland land which the general NGO pronounced referred to the systematic corruption as well as illegality which lay at the heart of Malaysias greatest state.
In the 16-minute video clip, GW investigators, who posed as foreign investors, available snippets of their conversation with Taibs cousins as well as lawyers, to purchase the land for large distinction as well as which the environmental supporter pronounced would excommunicate thousands of the inland people living there.
Chong, the single of the lawyers in the clip, was available giving details of how foreign investors could evade genuine skill gains taxes (RPGT) as well as circumvent the 51 per cent internal equity requirement.
He allegedly represented two of Taibs cousins, sisters Fatimah Abdul Rahman as well as Norlia Abdul Rahman, who were available describing potentially bootleg land deals.
But the lawyers Kuching-based firm, Alvin Chong as well as Partners released the make the difference of denial to GW, denying which he had represented the alleged party or had discussed tax evasion methods, saying which any such discussions would have been strictly hypothetical.
The alternative lawyer, Huang, had appeared to speak of the probable kickback given by the association purportedly owned partly by an individual named Datuk Hii Yii Peng in sell for the looseness in the state.
But the Sibu-based counsel told The Malay Mail upon Wednesday which he was trapped as well as pressured by the man posing as the foreign investor, saying which the contention in the video was merely coffeeshop talk.
Huang had previously responded to GW, denying allegations which he had represented Hii or had any knowledge of the kickback.
On Tuesday, Taib had referred to which his cousins daughters of former Sarawak Chief Minister Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub as well as others concerned in the video were compelling themselves to be his agents in order to solicit favours.
He additionally referred to which he had the less than considerate relationship with the cousins father.
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