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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:03:24 MYT
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Subject: [BUNGARAYA] Nationwide Campaign to Act on Eusoff Chin
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NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO ACT ON EUSOFF CHIN
12.06.2000
All justice loving Malaysians must have applauded the swift and correct
action taken by the Bar Council on the raging Chief Justice misconduct
scandal. The Chairman of the Bar Council has just announced that the
Council will meet on 23rd June to move for a) the setting up of a
Tribunal or Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the conduct of
Chief Justice Eusoff Chin, and b) the suspension of Eusoff pending the
investigations.
The Eusoff misconduct scandal suddenly plunged to crisis level when
journalist M.G.G.Pillai revealed several days ago incriminating details
relating to the flights taken together by Eusoff and lawyer Lingam to
and within New Zealand, directly contradicting Eusoff’s “pumping into
each other” story. In spite of DAP Chairman Lim Kit Siang’s call on
10th June to Eusoff to “rebut or quit”, the latter has not responded to
date.
Eusoff’s failure to give a prompt response at this critical instant has
serious and sinister overtone – the Chief Justice may be caught lying to
the Nation red-handed! If so, the probe into Eusoff will have to go
beyond a simple “improper socialising” to other aspects of a criminal
nature. For common sense tells us that the Chief Justice of a country
cannot reasonably be expected to commit the desperate act of lying to
the nation, if the offence is merely “an improper social contact” –
there must be a lot more at stake.
This latest development calls for the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) to
move in swiftly to probe into possible collusion and corruption evolving
around not only Eusoff and Lingam, but also Limgam’s client Vincent Tan
(the latter’s body guard was found to be travelling with the Eusoffs and
Lingams in New Zealand, according Pillai). The backdrop to this
investigation is a multi-million dollar defamation suit in which Vincent
was awarded an unprecedented massive sum of RM 10 million, the Appeal of
which was upheld in the Federal Court chaired by Eusoff.
ACA’s response (or rather non-response) to this scandal has not been
encouraging, as it has not to date given a public statement, in spite of
Eusoff’s claim on 6th June that ACA as well as the Attorney General (AG)
had investigated and cleared him of improprieties. Now that this
scandal has rapidly developed into a full-blown crisis, riveting
national and international attention, ACA and Attorney General can ill
afford to continue nestling in their hideouts. The public must demand
that they honour their oath of office and openly state their position to
the Nation this time.
On another front, Minister in charge of law Rais Yatim seems to be
beating a fast retreat. According to Sin Chew Jit Poh dated 1lth June,
Rais called for a cessation of “open dispute” between himself and the
judiciary, particularly Eusoff, and asked society to be the judge. He
hoped the judiciary would consider the people’s feelings and improve on
its image and transparency. He said “Let us all concentrate on our own
works. What has been said, let it be”.
That conciliatory tone by Rais might have been acceptable if the
controversy is over an argument on routine matters between himself and
Eusoff, but it is certainly not okay when the Chief Justice is entangled
with unfolding incriminating evidence that is fast developing into a
full scale national crisis of confidence in the judiciary. The stance
taken by Rais can only be taken as the Cabinet shirking its
responsibility in upholding the integrity of our judicial system.
Worse, it smells of complicity to cover up the decadence in the
judiciary.
Our judicial system has been mauled and mutilated by the Executive so
many times in the past dozen years that many Malaysians must be numb to
another transgression. But I appeal to all who love this Country to
draw a line this time. Let us stand united to oppose the further
destruction of the last guardian of our individual rights – the
judiciary. Let us take full advantage of of the marvels of this IT age
to make our will known to those in power. Let the citizens of this
Country flood the Prime Minister and other leaders and the press with
emails and fax and letters to express our determination to see that
justice be executed expeditiously this time, as a forerunner to the
process of reversing the rotting of our judicial system. And let
political parties and NGOs lead the way by organising activities to
charge up the campaign.
Kim Quek
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