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TIM bantah Suruhanjaya teruskan prosiding secara tertutup
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Mon | Jan 28, 08 | 4:29:36 pm MYT KUALA
LUMPUR, 28 Jan (Hrkh) - Presiden Transparency International Malaysia, Tan Sri
Ramon Navaratnam membantah tindakan Suruhanjaya DiRaja siasatan Pita Lingam
yang mengambil keputusan untuk meneruskan prosiding dalam keadaan tertutup.
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"Ia merupakan satu keputusan yang malang dari sudut ketelusan, integriti dan
kebertanggungjawaban," katanya menurut laporan akhbar Sunday Star 27 Januari
lalu.
Beliau berkata, isu yang menjadi bahan siasatan merupakan isu perhatian
ramai, melibatkan perlantikan hakim dan integriti badan kehakiman.
Justeru katanya, keadilan mesti dapat dilihat dilakukan dalam hal ini.
Apabila ditanya tentang kepentingan untuk melindungi individu yang tidak
bersalah daripada diseret dalam kancah kontroversi isu tersebut, Navaratnam
berkata, dalam hal ini beliau yakin tentang kebijaksanaan ahli suruhanjaya
yang ada untuk menentukan apa yang relevan dan apa yang tidak dalam prosiding
terbuka.
"Jika soalan yang dikemukakan tidak kena, mereka boleh menghentikannya, atau
jika jawapannya tidak relevan, ia boleh digugurkan. Itulah cara sebaiknya,"
kata beliau.
Pada 25 Januari lalu, Setiausaha Surahanjaya DiRaja siasatan Pita Lingam,
Dato' Abdullah Sani Ab Hamid berkata suruhanjaya tersebut mengambil keputusan
untuk meneruskan prosiding dalam keadaan tertutup.
Tindakan ini diambil katanya bagi mengelakkan keterangan yang diberikan dalam
posiding disensasikan terlebih dahulu oleh media sebelum ia dapat ditentukan
sama ada ia relevan atau sebaliknya. - mns
Englishsection
Anwar attacks Royal Commissions "procedural decisions"
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 (ES) - Former deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim has come out in the open by issuing a statement attacking the
"procedural decisions" of a Royal Commission formed to investigate allegations
of judicial fixing.
"While the creation of the Royal Commission gave Malaysian public some hope
that the credibility and integrity of the Judiciary might be restored, we are
unimpressed with the proceedings and the procedural decisions made by the
Commissioners thus far," he said.
Anwar who is also de facto leader of opposition National Justice Party
(KeADILan) said the Royal Commission must operate with the "highest level of
integrity and transparency" so as not to be seen as "feeding the rot which has
tarnished the Malaysian Courts".
In a statement posted on his blog today, Anwar also referred to the released
third segment of the video clip recording which allegedly implicated lawyer VK
Lingam further on his role in judicial appointment.
Lingam had testified in front of the Commission and had neither denied nor
confirmed that he was the person featured in an earlier related clip.
Anwar said the third segment of the video clip which was given to him on Jan
25, "adduces additional evidence that the conspiracy currently being
investigated by the Royal Commission extends beyond the attempt to fix the
appointment of (former chief Justice Tun) Ahmed Fairuz to the Federal Court".
Commission rejects Anwar testimony
Anwar said the new 5-minute segment directly implicates former Chief Justice
Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah who was alleged to have received bribes from
Lingam and another corporate figure so that he couldn't "attack" those two
individuals publicly.
Dzaiddin Abdullah was the Chief Justice of Malaysia from December 2000 until
2003.
According to the transcript of the clip, a man featured in the grainy recording
was quoted as saying: "And we have given him the most expensive gift. Dont ask
about it lah. I have given him.."
In a related development the Commission today reportedly decided not to call
in Anwar as a witness.
Two other PKR leaders - R Sivarasa and Sim Tze Tsin - have also been told that
they would not be needed to testify.
Similarly two secret witnesses offered by Anwar will also not be called in to
testify.
Commission chairman Tan Sri Haidar Mohd Noor said that the evidence to be given
by these witnesses are not directly linked to the inquiry. - Saadon Aksah/ES
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