Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Teoh inquiry: MACC officer denies SMS exchange


A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer Wednesday denied an SMS exchange with a colleague two days after the death of Teoh Beng Hock.

Klang MACC Asst Supt Zulkelfly Aziz told the Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of the political aide that the handphone involved was not his.

He made the denial when for the first time, the commission allowed the witness to make a call in the middle of the inquiry proceedings.

The 15-minute exchange from 11am was to confirm the contents of the SMS exchange, which lawyer Cheow Wee of the Bar Council claimed was sent by Zulkelfly on July 18, 2009 to MACC investigating officer Mohd Anuar Ismail.

Cheow Wee then read out a SMS text to Zulkelfly whose nickname is 'Ustaz Zul'.



"Sabar banyak-banyak bro. Gunakan pengalaman yang ada untuk selesaikan masalah...lari bukan jalan penyelesaian doa orang yang teraniaya tiada hijab di sisi Allah pasti pegawai atasan beri sokongan." (Have lots of patience bro. Use the experience you have to solve the problem...running away is not the answer, the prayers of the oppressed go directly to Allah, I am sure the higher ups will give support).

However, after calling the number given by Cheow Wee, Zulkelfly told the inquiry that the real owner of the telephone number was one 'Zul', and not himself based on the person at the other end.

Another MACC officer Mohd Yusmizan Mohd Yusof told the inquiry that he was not involved in MACC's operations in Seri Kembangan and Kampung Tunku.

Mohd Yusmizan also said he had been close to Selangor MACC officer Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus (one of the MACC officers who questioned Teoh).

He said Mohd Ashraf had contacted him on July 16, 2009 but the call was about a house put up for sale.

"He knew I was looking for a house but I told him I was not too keen about the one he mentioned. I then told him about Teoh's death and asked him to come to the Selangor MACC office.

"I was shocked to hear from him that there no one had told him about Teoh's death and that I was the first to inform him about it," he said.

Teoh, 30, who was the political aide of Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009, after being questioned overnight at the Selangor MACC office on the 14th floor.

The commission was set up to investigate the cause of Teoh's death after the Coroner's Court returned an open verdict


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