Haji Johari Adam
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Subject: [sangkancil] [MGG] Justice in Jeopardy: Tun Eusoff's Wife Is
Dato' Lingam's solicitor.
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:55:11 +0800 (MYT)
From: "M.G.G. Pillai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sang Kancil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: SK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SK-MGG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NO MATTER HOW HARD the chief justice, Tun Eusoff Chin, tries to
rationalise his relationship with his favourite holiday companion, Dato'
V.K. Lingam, it just would not go away. For a very good reason. He
does not want it to. He lied about how he met Dato' Lingam at an
establishment, allegedly a zoo, in New Zealand, provides a sheaf of
receipts and credit card vouchers to prove he paid for the trip,
threatens to sue any who suggests otherwise. It was an attempt, like
Judge Nathan's declamation of how proud he would be if his son appeared
before him as a lawyer, to divert attention from the growing controversy
surrounding him. It failed. The relationship between the two men were
well-entrenched well before they left Malaysia for that infamous holiday
in December 1994. His travel agency, controlled by one Tan Sri Vincent
Tan, faxed his itinery to Dato' Lingam. If Tun Eusoff's account is
true, which it is not, that chance meeting of meeting with a Malaysian
lawyer in a strange land led to an even closer relationship. So close
in fact to throw serious doubts about justice in Malaysian courts.
Dato' Lingam has two or three friendly solicitors who engage him as
counsel. Lately, he sticks to one firm, that of the legal firm of the
chief justice's wife. A former secretary-general of the Malaysian
Chinese Association, whose legal firm got much of the cases referred to
Dato' Lingam, found out suddenly that he was out in the cold, and
without by your leave. Almost all cases Dato' Lingam now handles began
in the chambers of Toh Puan Rosaina. No one suggests there is anything
wrong in this. The Bowman report alleges that Toh Puan Rosaina gave
Datin Lingam a four-wheeler. When the latter went for medical tests at
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, New York, shortly after the infamous
holiday, Toh Puan Rosaina was at the house to bid her godspeed. The
Anti-Corruption Agency has seized a pyrex bowl which the chief justice's
wife returned to Datin Lingam, but which she claims is not hers. Since
the chief justice has threatened to sue, he should sue, if necessary in
London, Mr Dan McCarthy, who wrote the report, as he should, indeed, sue
Dato' Rais Yatim for casting aspersions on his "innocent" holiday in New
Zealand with a lawyer he met by chance. Accompanying them from
Singapore was a Mr Tan Chong Pow, a trusted bodyguard of Tan Sri Vincent
Tan. Why?
Dato' Lingam obtained for Tun Eusoff a Mutiara handphone, one of
200 specially reserved for the man behind Mutiara, the eminent
international business man of unquestioned repute, Tan Sri Vincent Tan.
The Bowman report says Dato' Lingam gave Mutiara handphones to Tun
Eusoff, a few other judges, and the former Inspector-General of Police,
Tan Sri Rahim Noo, whose claim to fame is his murderous physical attack
on a blindfolded and manacled ex-deputy prime minister, one Dato' Seri
Anwar Ibrahim. Furthermore, Dato' Lingam even paid the monthly phone
bills in cash. Why? Dato' Lingam now builds a house of such grandoise
proportions; so confident is he of the patronage of the chief justice
and others, he wilfully ignores the Petaling Jaya Town Council's
architect's objections. The architect cannot act because the file has
mysteriously disappeared. Important files do have a distressing
tendency to go on holiday in Ougadougou when they are sorely needed. His
office also would pay off the handphone bills in cash for the judges Tan
Sri Vincent gave Mutiara handphones; so frequent this was that the
Mutiara cashier had occasion to comemnt on it.
The Anti-Corruption Agency and the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Mohtar
Abdullah knows but find nothing unusual to act. But then he himself
went on holiday with his wife to Italy with Tan Sri Vincnet and Dato'
Lingam and theirs. Question arise about who paid for his holiday. In
other words, he too has skeletons galore in his cupboard. So it
surprises me not that he is on course to be federal court judge, if not
successor to Tun Eusoff himself. Justice in Malaysia is best served, it
seems, with judges burdened with as many skeletons they can stuff into
their cupboards. Tan Sri Vincent's awesome stranglehold on the
judiciary is one. So awesome, in fact, that when he sued me for libel,
he could not having imagined in a thousand years that he would destroy
the reputations, such as they are, of a high court judge, a court of
appeal judge, the chief justice himself, and the attorney-general.
Besides, the chief justice did not realise that such friendship come
with hidden costs, which are, to his disgust, now public. Otherwise,
his wife would not have been solicitor to Dato' Lingam. His six-month
extension is now his albatross. As it was his predecessor, Tun Hamid
Omar's. As it would his successor's if he be Tan Sri Mohtar.
M.G.G. Pillai
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