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King gets commission's report on Teoh's death

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT

2011/06/23
By Jennifer Gomez
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin receiving the report from Royal Commission of Inquiry chairman Tan Sri James Foong Cheng Yuen at Istana Terengganu in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. — Bernama picture

KUALA LUMPUR: A 124-page report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock was presented to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong yesterday, three days ahead of the June 25 deadline.

Commission chairman Tan Sri James Foong Cheng Yuen told reporters this at a press conference at the Jalan Duta court complex here yesterday.

Present were other members of the commission: former Federal Court judge Datuk Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, former Appeals Court judge Datuk T. Selventhiranathan, Penang Hospital forensics pathologist consultant Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh and Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences medical faculty dean and forensic psychiatry consultant Professor Dr Mohamed Hatta Shaharom. Also present was the commission's secretary Datuk Saripuddin Kasim, who is the Prime Minister's Department's legal affairs division director-general.

Foong said a copy of the report was to be extended to the prime minister.

Foong said the course of preparing the report was "sometimes trying", but that at the end, they were " satisfied to have completed it".

He said members of the commission went through 19,200 pages of notes of evidence and 256 exhibits.

The terms of reference for the commission wwere to establish the cause and probe the circumstances surrounding and contributing to Teoh's death and to look into whether there was impropriety by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission during Teoh's questioning in relation to its standing orders and practices and recommend the appropriate action.

Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam on July 16, 2009, hours after he was taken in for questioning by the MACC over the alleged misappropriation of state funds.

At the time, he was a political aide to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah.

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Taib denies secret stash in Switzerland

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT

2011/06/23
By Desmond Davidson, Nancy Nais and Lian Cheng
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Observers watching a telecast showing Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud denying having a private Swiss account or properties in Switzerland during the Sarawak state assembly yesterday. — NST picture by Mohd Radzi Bujang

KUCHING: Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud denied yesterday that he has stashed illgotten gains in Switzerland as alleged by Basel-based organisation Bruno Manser Fund (BMF).

"Let me state categorically that I have no secret Swiss bank accounts, no assets or investments of any description in Switzerland.

"None whatsoever," the chief minister told the assembly in response to the allegation made online by BMF that he had bank accounts and assets in Switzerland, and that the Swiss financial regulatory body, Financial Markets Authority (Finma), was investigating the allegation.

Taib, who made the unprecedented personal statement after the questionand- answer session, said the allegation by BMF about assets held by him in Switzerland was just a continuation of its malicious efforts to smear the state government and its leaders.

"This allegation by the Bruno Manser Fund has since been used by local politicians to advance their own political agenda against me, and against the state government that I lead once again with a strong mandate from the people during the last state election in April this year.

"As head of the state government, and as a member of the legislature, in keeping with parliamentary practice and tradition, I am accountable to this august house.

"Therefore, it is my right... it's only right and proper for me to make a personal statement to this august house, in accordance with Standing Order 22, regarding this allegation by BMF, a foreign non-governmental organisation not at all accountable to the people of Sarawak." Taib told the assembly he had written to Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rel last month, asking her in clear and unequivocal terms to confirm if she had ordered any investigation into the allegation made by BMF to Finma.

The chief minister said if she had, hewould like her to furnish him with a copy of the allegation so that he could exercise his rights to seek legal r e d r e s s.

He said he would render full cooperation to the Swiss authorities to swiftly bring the truth to light.

"Let me firmly reiterate here that the allegation by BMF is utterly false and, evidently, politically m o t i vat e d .

"BMF has a track record of making scurrilous and scandalous allegations against the state government of Sarawak for many years, including the allegation of cutting down 90 per cent of our rainforests, although local and international forestry experts have certified that 70 per cent of our forests are still being preserved and sustainably managed." Opposition leader Wong Ho Leng (DAP-Bukit Assek) told a press conference later that the opposition was unhappy with Speaker Datuk Seri Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar's ruling that there would be no debate on Taib's statement.

"He is allowed to do that (make the statement) and there is no debate."

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Rabu, 22 Jun 2011

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