DAP national legal head Gobind Singh Deo (pic) has given Umno-controlled daily Utusan Malaysia 48 hours to respond to a letter of demand over two defamatory articles.
The two articles headlined "At last the drama has ended" and "Kit Siang manipulated CEC elections?", were dated August 17 and 18.
The first article quoted the Equity Report said to be written by a Father Augustus Chen, while the other report was that DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang had manipulated the party polls last December.
"The article quoting the Equity Report had no verification. Editor Zulkifli Jalil and reporter Kasthuri Jeevendran as well as Utusan Malaysia, have to answer all the allegations," Gobind said at the party's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.
The Federal Court will decide whether the court can interfere with the punishment imposed by Parliament on its members for misconduct.
This key constitutional point on separation of powers would be dealt by the apex court in the hearing of an appeal brought by the Dewan Rakyat speaker against a Kuala Lumpur High Court declaration that Puchong Member of Parliament Gobind Singh Deo's suspension was legal, but Parliament could not deprive him of his remuneration and other privileges.
In March this year, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's decision.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi got into a heated exchange today with Gobind Singh Deo and other opposition MPs over a police report made against him for alleged assault.
It started when Gobind, the MP for Puchong, asked the home minister why there was no police investigation when a report was lodged that a person had physically abused and threatened another person.
"I am referring to none other than you minister," said Gobind. Ahmad Zahid sat quietly as other MPs voiced support for him or Gobind.
N. Dhamanderan’s wife, Marry Maria Susay, and family members arriving at the magistrate’s court in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Three in the dock over death of detainee N. Dhamanderan
KUALA LUMPUR: THREE policemen were yesterday charged with the murder of N. Dhamanderan, who had been held at the city police headquarters under remand for investigations into attempted murder involving firearms.
Sgt Jaffri Jaafar, 44, and Corporals Mohd Nahar Abd Rahman, 45, and Mohd Haswadi Zamri Shaari, 32, were jointly charged with the murder of Dhamanderan, 31, at the special investigation division on level 7 of the city police headquarters here between 12.20pm and 2.50pm on May 21.
They allegedly committed the offence with another person still at large. No plea was recorded.
Magistrate Nur A’minahtul Mardiah Md Nor set July 9 for mention pending the post-mortem and chemistry reports.
Datuk Hazwan Ahmad and Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu acted for Jaffri and Nahar respectively, whileGeethan Ram Vincent appeared for Haswadi.
The family of N. Dhamendran, who died in police lock-up, is claiming harassment by the police and Prime Minister's Department.
However, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Paul Low has denied the allegation.
Dhamendran's father V. Narayanasamy, 59, alleged Wednesday that he received calls from a man claiming to be from the Prime Minister's Department on two occasions.
"I received a call around 9pm on May 27 from a man named Ravindran, who told me he was from the Prime Minister's Department under Minister Datuk Paul Low.
"He said they were interested in meeting us but that we should keep it a secret from our lawyer and also advised me to hire new lawyers," he told a press conference at the PKR headquarters here.
Dharmendran, 32, died while he was detained at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters lock-up on May 21. He had complained of chest pains and was sent to Hospital Kuala Lumpur but died upon arrival.
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was chided today for doling out preferential treatment to police officers suspected of having a hand in lock-up deaths instead of prioritising justice for the families of the victims, which an opposition MP warned served only to demoralise the public further towards law enforcement.
The DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo (picture) censured the home minister for getting his priorities reversed, highlighting the latter’s reported remark that action against policemen linked to custodial deaths “must be done delicately to avoid demoralising the police force”. “With respect, this is utter nonsense,” the Puchong MP said in a statement, adding that such treatment “proves yet again what we have been saying in the past which is that the government practises double standards when it comes to deaths in custody.”
The inquest into the death of Teoh Beng Hock resumed Thursday, with investigating officer ASP Ahmad Nazri Zainal testifying that did not dare disclose the contents of the note found in the political aide's sling bag before it was tendered to the coroner.
Asked by Teoh's family counsel Gobind Singh Deo why he did not mention the note earlier, when the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) officers involved in questioning Teoh were on the stand, Ahmad Nazri said he had wanted to do so when he was being cross-examined.
He also said he had handed over the document to his superiors.
The inquest investigating the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock will be hearing an application by the Selangor government for Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand to give her testimony via video link.
A small hut within the rubber estate where bombers were suspected to have visited.
Thanks to the information and evidences provided by Pornthip and her team, the identity of the much wanted suspect has finally come to light.
Obvious bruises showing up in the arms of the female victim unlikely dying of suicide.
Pornthip is well aware of the danger around her. Photo courtesy: Guang Ming Daily
Attracted by the Guang Ming headline report that Teoh Beng Hock's family has agreed to exhumation of his body.
Enforcers moving on to the next target for more clues.
Saliva sample being collected for smear tests from a woman believed to have come from Indonesia
Carrying out investigations in a bush.
Checking on an unidentified child.
Talking to a suspicious man and obtaining DNA and mouth swap.
Pornthip's family photo.
On the convocation day with family offering their congratulations
Pornthip and husband taking care of her cancer-stricken mother. On the right is Pornthip's father.
All the chains and rings she is wearing have something to do with Buddha.
Doing her chores in the kitchen.Dr Pornthip like to cook for her family also.
Guang Ming correspondents trying out her cooking with staffs.
Talking to Guang Ming Daily correspondent in Pattani in her first ever interview with a Chinese language media.
Boarding the military helicopter to Pattani. Photo courtesy: Guang Ming Daily
Closely escorted by the military police. Photo courtesy: Guang Ming Daily
Being escorted by the military police when visiting a village in Narathiwat province. Photo courtesy: Guang Ming Daily
Pornthip is a highly respected pathologist in Thailand. This, coupled with the commotion in southern part of the country and her job nature, has put her under constant danger. Photo courtesy: Guang Ming Daily
Teoh Beng Hock, the 30-year-old political aide to a Selangor executive councillor who died and was buried in July, will be exhumed this morning for another autopsy in Hospital Sungai Buloh tomorrow.
The new team’s role is to confirm if he really did die because he jumped off a high building unaided or was pushed out a window after being beaten up to the point of passing out.
Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand engaged by Teoh’s employer, the Selangor state government — had testified in an inquest last month that there was a 80 per cent probability that his death was a homicide rather than a suicide, which was the finding of the first autopsy by two local pathologists.
The coroner’s court has agreed to let Dr Pornthip and one other British forensic expert — hired by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) — observe the second autopsy, which under Malaysian laws, must be performed by local doctors.
It is only Dr Pornthip’s second time advising a case outside of her native country.
But the 53-year-old stern-faced doctor remained fully composed when met by The Malaysian Insider here recently, when she flew in to join the third Asian Forensic Sciences Network Conference
Her first consultation outside Thailand was three years ago, in Muslim-majority Aceh, she related.
Like Malaysia, Indonesia’s laws limit a foreign forensic expert’s role in an autopsy.
She had been called in to assist a second and independent post-mortem on an opposition member who was thought to have been killed by the country’s powerful military.
“It was more than six months after his death. He was also Muslim. The body was not in good shape,” Dr Pornthip said.
Unlike a Christian burial where the body is encased in a coffin, a Muslim body is wrapped up in a shroud and laid directly into the earth.
Dr Pornthip had previously testified that a post-mortem is best done within the first six months of burial as the natural decaying process holds a higher risk of eating up evidence in suspicious deaths.
Even so, in Aceh, the second autopsy confirmed the public sentiment that foul play was involved in the victim’s death.
What happened next to the case?
Dr Pornthip shrugged her thin shoulders, sending her multi-coloured lion’s mane fluffing sideways.
She does not know. She was specifically engaged for her scientific knowledge only.
In Thailand though, things are slightly different for her.
As the director-general of the Bangkok-based Central Institute of Forensic Science Institute (CIFS), she reports directly to the chief secretary in the Ministry of Justice, and is granted greater clout in the investigation process.
She explained that there was an attempt in Thailand a few years, to bring the various investigative and prosecution divisions under the same roof, namely the Ministry of Justice, to better co-ordinate the entire justice system.
But it failed. She blamed it on politics, noting that then Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra — who she says once worked as a police constable — refused to push the Bill in Parliament.
The police itself, said Dr Pornthip, reports directly to the prime minister, again unlike Malaysia where its powers are curbed by the home minister.
Then, as now, the police force decides what cases go to court for prosecution, unlike Malaysia where it is the Attorney-General who decides.
Earlier, she spoke enthusiastically about the Asian Forensic Sciences Network Conference, which she had been invited to and regarded it as a brilliant idea to “build a network among Asian countries to share knowledge”.
She added that some eight countries participated this year, which included newcomers South Korea, Laos and Vietnam.
All but Thailand had sent representatives from both the scientific side as well as the police side.
No police official came to speak for her country, she said disappointedly.
“The system of investigation in Thailand is under police authority. We are still very far behind other countries… even Malaysia,” Dr Pornthip lamented.
Apart from these outward divisions of power, the two countries are bound by a common public perception that the authorities — the police especially — frequently abuse their power and have a deeply entrenched practice of selective prosecution.
These two points were critically highlighted in the Corruptions Perceptions Index launched worldwide earlier this week by global corruption watchdog Transparency International.
Dr Pornthip is often at odds with the chief of police in public over her institute’s findings, which more often than not, contradict the findings of the police investigation teams, and this has put her personal and professional life at risk.
Strident critics in Thailand have labelled her an “egomaniac”, a fact she is well aware of, but was surprised to learn that those hateful comments have also started springing up in Malaysia in the wake of the Teoh Beng Hock case.
She turned her head away sharply in a dismissive gesture.
“A lot of Asian people like that, just like Thai,” said Dr Pornthip. “Maybe because of my appearance.”
“I don’t want to be something like a hero, heroine. When they want to find the truth, I don’t want my name to be first,” she added, and explained that it was because of high-profile cases that received a lot of media attention that she became famous.
Dr Pornthip remarked that it had started when a member of the Thai Parliament was involved in a case.
The MP’s brother was found dead. Police investigators claimed he had shot himself but she carried out an independent investigation and found that it was impossible for him to have shot himself and backed it up with her scientific findings.
“For me, I don’t care about politics or sensitive issues. I just try to help the victims find the truth,” she said.
The forensic science institute she now leads was established seven years ago, she said, to give “a choice for the people to come in and ask for help in investigation” when the main door for justice through the police had slammed in their faces.
She related that anyone can walk in to CIFS from the street and request their help for a second opinion.
Dr Pornthip explained that CIFS aimed to boost the standard of investigation practices in Thailand, to make it more accountable and transparent.
The work they do is a combination of forensic science, which deals with death investigations, and forensic medicine, which deals with living patients, she added.
“We are trying to train crime scene investigators to be specialists,” she summarised.
Currently, the CIFS is manned by 300 people, with 85 per cent made out of scientists who hold great knowledge but little field work experience.
It gets five cases a week involving unnatural death where foul play is suspected. Thirty per cent of their investigations confirm those suspicions.
But mainly CIFS is kept busy with work in rural areas to help identify anonymous bodies. This amounts to 1,000 missing people reported a year.
Those jobs, though, she delegates to the rest of the staff. For now, she has thrown herself into investigating a series of “organised crime” in southern Thailand, which has been put under martial law.
Leading her 15-man team — few of her colleagues want to head south to work and she doesn’t want to force them — Dr Pornthip collaborates with the local military force to collect evidence and trains the soldiers on how to conserve, collect, secure and handle crime scene investigations.
That consumes most of her time and energy. She related that the serial killings are highly organised hate crimes and take many forms, from beheadings, which are the most difficult to piece together — because the heads are often missing from the crime scene — to bombs.
Dr Pornthip noted with concern that the use of explosives was on the rise and foresees a trend for them in strife-torn regions across Asia.
Smiling brightly, she added that Malaysia was lucky to be spared such forms of terrorism.
Summary of events so far in Teoh case.Click to enlarge.
Cemetery workers preparing to open up Teoh Beng Hock's casket after it was exhumed at the Nirvana Memorial Garden in Semenyih.
Truth at all cost: Meng Kee (front) and Lee Lan leaving the Shah Alam Coroner’s court yesterday after filing an application for Teoh’s remains to be exhumed.
Pathologist Pornthip Rojanasunand suspects Mr Teoh was murdered
The body of a Malaysian opposition activist who died in police custody has been exhumed after a pathologist said there was an 80% chance he was killed.
Teoh Beng Hock fell nine stories to his death from the offices of the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission in July.
He was said to have committed suicide after being questioned over allegations that his boss had misused public funds.
The authorities will be conducting a second autopsy on the body, following suspicions of foul play.
Last month Thai pathologist Pornthip Rojanasunand said marks on the body suggested Mr Teoh had been tortured and strangled.
Her testimony had been sought by the opposition-led authorities in Selangor state - where Mr Teoh was an aide to a member of the state cabinet.
Abuse of power?
The BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur says her story gave credence to a widely held belief that Mr Teoh's interrogation was part of a government drive to discredit opposition politicians after their success in 2008 elections.
The ruling coalition's confidence was shaken after it lost its two-thirds majority for the first time in four decades.
The country's anti-corruption commission has called on a British pathologist to observe the second post-mortem on Mr Teoh's body.
The Malaysian government has accused the opposition of politicising his death.
In July, a member of the governing coalition quit to join the opposition Pakatan Alliance.
Chua Jui Meng said he was concerned about alleged abuse of power and Mr Teoh's unexplained death.
Teoh body finally exhumed for 2nd Autopsy will be witness by Britain and Thai forensic expert.
The exhumation had been ordered by the inquest into the political aide’s recent death, after Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand testified that his likely cause of death was homicide and not suicide.
The body, reportedly in good condition, was sent to the Sungai Buloh Hospital where it was subjected to X-ray and CT scans.
Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office in Shah Alam on July 16 and an inquest into his death is ongoing at the Shah Alam Coroner’s Court.
Members of the media started gathering at the Nirvana Memorial Garden in Semenyih early in the morning and there were almost 40 pressmen by the time the prayer rituals started at 9am.
The grave had been cordoned off with about three metres high of white canvas, thus obscuring the view of the pressmen and passers-by.
By 10.40am, 10 cemetery workers had disinterred the casket and Teoh’s body was identified by his siblings Teoh Lee Lan and Teoh Beng Kee.
The casket was then wrapped up in plastic sheets before it was placed in a hearse and headed for Sungai Buloh Hospital, where Teoh’s parents were waiting.
It is learnt that Soh Cher Wei, who went through a marriage ceremony with Teoh after his death, stayed home as she is six months pregnant with his child.
Dr Pornthip was present to observe the exhumation, together with Sungai Buloh Hospital chief pathologist Dr Shahidan Md Noor.
Lee Lan had earlier told the press that she felt heavy hearted over the exhumation but hoped the second autopsy would reveal her brother’s cause of death.
“We are prepared to find out the truth,” she said. Gobind Singh Deo, counsel for the Teoh family, said the body appeared to be in good condition.
“As far as I can tell, it looked like it was in good condition. But I am a lawyer, not a doctor, so we’ll see what the experts say,” he said, adding that there were six pathologists present including Dr Pornthip.
“Dr Pornthip was here to observe the exhumation. We don’t want any complaints later on (about the procedures). The post-mortem will be done tomorrow at 9.30am, and I was told they hope to get it done by early afternoon,” he said.
Gobind added that he did no see anyone from MACC, saying they “should have sent a representative”.
Also present were Teoh’s former boss Selangor state executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang and another Selangor state executive councillor Ronnie Liu.
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Teoh Beng Hock's body was exhumed Saturday for a second autopsy at the Sungai Buloh Hospital. The exhumation had been ordered by the inquest into the political aide's death, after a Thai pathologist testified that his likely cause of death was homicide and not suicide. -----------
Kugan family members, lawyers and politicians hold pictures of Kugan outside the court.
Muthama (left) and Renuja talk to the press after the court hearing. At the back is Gobind.
Policeman V. Navindran today claimed trial to two counts of causing grievous hurt to extract information or a confession from suspected car thief A. Kugan, who died in police custody last Jan 20.
The 28-year-old constable is accused of committing the offences at 7am and again at 4pm on Jan 1 at the serious crime interrogation room at the USJ Taipan police station.
Session Court judge Aslem Zainuddin set bail at RM10,000 for both charges and the case was fixed for mention on Nov 5.
Navindran, who is married with a child, was in court today as early as 6.30am and press photographers had problems getting pictures of him.
While in the dock, court policemen were seen greeting him before he was charged.
Family cried Injustice.
Outside the courtroom, Kugan’s family expressed outrage that only one policeman was charged for his death and it was not for murder.
Following Kugan’s death, 11 rank and file policemen were transferred to desk duty at the Selangor police headquarters.
“We don’t want this, we want them to be charged for murder,” said Kugan’s aunt S. Renuja.
With tears in the eyes, Kugan’s grandmother G. Muthama, 60, said she still cries every night over the loss.
“The police think they are so big.” she said.
Kugan’s uncle M.S. Mahendran, 47, sarcastically said this is 1 Malaysia.
“If there was really 1 Malaysia, they should be fair. We are also humans but the law is dead.”
“The multiple injuries on his body speak for itself. It’s hard to believe only one person is responsible.”
Gobind said he will write to the Attorney-General (A-G) for an explanation.
Gobind said the suspect also should have been charged for murder and the matter should have been left to the court to decide.
“Never mind if the court later decides the charge should be reduced.”
He said the timing of the charge, which is ahead of the upcoming by-election in Bagan Pinang, was also questionable but he did not elaborate.
Kugan died after five days in detention at the USJ police lockup on suspicion of being involved in the theft of luxury cars.
Police initially denied any foul play and attributed his death to water in his lungs, which was the findings of an initially post-mortem report at the Serdang Hospital.
Following a public outcry the A-G instructed for the case to be reclassified as murder and a second post-mortem, which was carried out on the insistence of Kugan’ family and detailed massive injuries on his body.
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Video menunjukkan keadaan mayat A Kugan yang didakwa meninggal akibat paru-paru berair ketika berada dalam tahanan polis
File picture of Teoh’s family. They received a perplexing text message last Friday.
Gobind (right), Teoh’s parents and today’s witness Woo Chuan Sing (in black), Teoh Meng Kee (blue) and Tan Boon Wah (white) arriving at the Shah Alam court.
The Attorney General (AG) appears to be closing doors today in an attempt to bring a quick end to the high-profile inquest of a DAP political aide, Teoh Beng Hock, which started three months ago.
A private lawyer hired to act on behalf of the AG raised more than eyebrows today when he tried to limit the witnesses which lawyers representing Teoh’s family and the state government want to bring in.
Former deputy public prosecutor, Tan Hock Chuan who is assisting the coroner’s court, had argued that there was no need to call senior graft busters, Hishamuddin Hashim and Hairul Ilham Hamzah, into the witness box, despite testimonies from the MACC rank-and-file that they had got their instructions from the two.
Gobind Singh Deo and Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, lawyers for the Teoh family and Selangor respectively, were outraged at what they claimed was a gross injustice preventing them from finding out what had really happened to Teoh.
Malik stressed that both Hishamuddin and Hairul Ilham were the most senior MACC officers involved throughout the investigation and would be the best men to shed light on several puzzles, especially as their junior officers had clearly said they got orders from the duo.
The argument went back and forth, with voices getting progressively louder.
The magistrate finally said he would decide on the matter when the inquest resumes tomorrow morning.
Mystery DNA man in Teoh belt.
Tan had earlier told the court that the mystery of the unknown male DNA found on Teoh’s coat and belt had been solved.
Government DNA expert, Dr Seah Lay Hong, will be recalled to the witness box to reveal the identity of the mystery man.
Teoh family asked to go for ‘mental test’
In another twist to the ongoing drama surrounding Teoh Beng Hock's mysterious death, the young political aide's family and friends recently received a perplexing text message asking them to go for a psychiatric evaluation at a government-run hospital in Selayang this morning.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Teoh's younger sister, Lee Lan, 28, told The Malaysian Insider that her father, Leong Hwee, and would-be sister-in-law, Soh Cher Wei, both received a similar text message last Friday afternoon.
The family members and friends decided against going to the hospital after being advised by lawyer Gobind Singh Deo, who is acting for the Teoh family.
But he stressed that it is rightfully the magistrate who is acting as coroner in the inquest who must decide on the need at this late stage in the inquest.
“The prosecution must be very careful,” he warned.
He pointed out that two pathologists had already given evidence in the coroner's court and concluded that Teoh had committed suicide even though they admitted they did not question Teoh's family to find out the deceased's state of mind.
“Is the prosecution saying they will recall witnesses and change their stand?” Gobind challenged.
Teoh family and employer claim foul play and not suicide.
“He’s a very loving and helpful person,” Teoh’s elder brother, Meng Kee, 33, told the coroner’s court today when he stepped into the witness box.And when lawyer Gobind asked him point-blank if he knew of any reason that would push his baby brother to suicide, Meng Kee said: “No, sir!”.Two pathologists who carried out the autopsy on Teoh had previously said that the signs point to suicide.
MACC lawyer, Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, who crossed-examined Meng Kee after Gobind, hinted that Teoh,who was pressed to hold a shotgun wedding because his girlfriend was two months pregnant then, may have faced money woes.
He suggested that traditional Chinese weddings were costly affairs running into the tens of thousands, and Teoh could have hardly afforded it on his political secretary pay of only RM1,800 a month.
But Meng Kee disagreed. He said his brother had savings and that Chinese weddings could cost under RM20,000. He added that the siblings would also help Teoh out financially.
Teoh’s friend, Woo Chuan Sing, who had been invited to be the best man at the wedding planned for Oct 3 that will now never be, told the court that he was unaware that his best friend had faced any recent problems.
He had last spoken to Teoh over the phone on the morning of July 15.
Lawyer Malik has been struggling for the past month to bring in a Thai forensic pathologist to support their theory of possible homicide in Teoh’s inquest. He finally succeeded today.
Magistrate Azmil fixed Oct 20 and 21 to hear Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand’s testimony.
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More than 2,000 people gathered for the funeral of Teoh Beng Hock in Alor Gajah, Malacca. During the funeral rites, which began at 9.45am, Teoh's pregnant fiancee Soh Sher Wei read out a moving tribute.
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Lim Guan Eng spoke about MACC, Police and the controversial death of Teoh Beng Hock, who was a special assistant to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah.
Teoh's body was found on Thursday sprawled on the roof of an adjacent building after he had undergone questioning late into the night at the offices of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
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More than 3,000 people have packed the Kelana Jaya stadium in a two-hour gathering to mark the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock. Pakatan Rakyat top brass, including Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, took turns to address the crowd.
Teoh Body found sprawled on the 5th floor , believed drop from 14th floor of MACC building. Police Forensic team searching and gathering evidence.
Teoh's fiancee who is pregnant , suppose to register the day Teoh found death.
Teoh Beng Hock's mum, Teng Shuw Hor reading about her late son's on-going case
Teoh Beng Hock funeral attended by many. Hundreds gathered to seek justice and answer for Teoh Death.
The family of the late Teoh Beng Hock condemned the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for claiming in the coroner's court last week that the DAP political aide had received “kickbacks”.
Mohd Anuar, under questioning from the MACC lawyer, Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, told the coroner's court on Aug 26 that Teoh had personally received money from a private company totalling RM112.
The other lawyers, from the Teoh family lawyer Gobind Singh Deo to the lawyer from the Attorney-General's Chambers assisting the coroner, Tan Hock Chuan, objected strongly to Abdul Razak's line of questioning.
Teoh's boss, first-term Selangor DAP executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah who sat in when Mohd Anuar testified, has reassured Teoh's family that the claim is “totally baseless” and that he has all the documents to prove his innocence.
The RM112, Ean Yong told them, is a refund for an earlier payment for a banner.
But Lee Lan said: “The damage has been done.”
On behalf of her family, she demanded that the MACC show proof to back up its allegation immediately, or publicly apologise to the family for defaming her deceased brother.
“Proof is needed for truth and justice to prevail,” she said.
“To make a serious allegation against a person who cannot defend himself is malicious and is totally unacceptable,” she added.
The 28-year-old auditor from Alor Gajah repeated her plea for anyone with information on her brother's death to step forward and pass the details to Gobind.
Teoh Beng Hock's mum, Teng Shuw Hor reading about her late son's on-going case
