SPRM: Berilah saya tempoh satu tahun
Pengerusi Baru: “Berdikari, Transparensi dan Profesional”
Laporan Akhbar Sin Chew(Front Page):
1/Feb/2010
(Kuala Lumpur) Pengerusi SPRM Datuk Abu Kassim mengaku kes Teoh Beng Hock telah menyebabkan imej dan kepercayaan orang ramai terhadap SPRM menurun ke tahap yang paling rendah. Dia berharap agar dengan tindakan yang praktikal akan membantu SPRM mengembalikan kepercayaan dari orang ramai.
• Katanya, reform SPRM adalah perlu, iaitu dengan “Berdikari, Transparensi dan Profesional”
• Dia berkata, matlamatnya ialah satu tahun agar SPRM boleh dianggap transparensi dan berdikari
• “Saya memandang berat tentang perbuatan kasar oleh pegawai SPRM, dan sudah memberikan perintah kepada pegawai siasatan dilarang menggunakan cara kasar dalam soal-siasat..
• Dia beritahu SPRM akan menerima apa jua keputusan mahkamah tentang kes Teoh beng Hock
• “Kalau boleh, masa boleh mengalir kembali, saya amat berharap kes Teoh Beng Hock tak berlaku. Kalau boleh membetulkan segala-segalanya, agar perkara (kematian) Teoh tak berlaku langsung!”
• “Saya mahu semua bukti dibentangkan, semua saksi hadir di mahkamah…tiada sesiapa akan dihalang memberikan fakta di mahkamah. Semoga kebenaran dituntut dan memperolehi keputusan muktamad. SPRM masih ada banyak kerja kena buat dan dilanjutkan.”
• Katanya, Teoh Beng Hock mati dalam masa soal-siasat, malah dalam perkarangan dan sekeliling lokasi bangunan SPRM, maka tak kira apa jua sebab dan alas an pun, SPRM tetap kena menanggung tanggungjawab.
• “Jika selepas mahkamah membuat verdit atau keputusan, masih ada orang ramai atau rakyat yang menuduh saya(SPRM), dalam tahap atau hakikat tertentu, saya mesti menerima penuduhan berkenaan.”
• Dia berkata, dia memahami kemarahan dan perasaan atas kes Teoh, baginya juga sama merasa kesal dan sakit hati, dan beranggapan bahawa kes yang sedemikian rupa tidak sama sekali harus berlaku.
• Dia menerima wawancara ekslusif dari akhbar Sin Chew di Putrajaya dan menyindir diri bahawa dalam tempoh dan keadaan yang amat sensitive ini menyandang jawatan pengerusi, tak tahu itu perkara mujur atau sebaliknya.
• Dia berharap kes Teoh Beng Hock boleh diselesaikan secepat mungkin agar SPRM boleh memulakan tapak dan langkah positifnya semula.
Berita-berita lain:
Abu Kassim:Sentiasa Menjadi Titik Pemerikasaan
Menyoal-siasat Kerajaan Selangor Melampaui Parti
Abu Kassim menjelaskan tuduhan SPRM membantu Barisan Nasional(BN) mengganyang atau menjatuhkan kerajaan Selangor yang di bawah pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat(PR).
• “Kami memeriksa semua orang, tak kira latar belakang parti politik,”
• “Tahukah anda siapakah Datuk harun, Siapakah TanSri Mohd, Taib? Bekas Menteri Besar Negeri Selangor, siapa yang disoal-siasat mereka?Jabatan Pencegah Rasuah!”
• EXCO Selangor UMNO Saidin, setiausaha politik bekas MB Selangor juga disiasat, masa itu BN yang memerintah Selangor
• “SPRM mengambil berat pada negeri Selangor kerana negeri ini paling kaya, peluang perniagaan banyak, maka peluang rasuah juga lebih banyak.”
Kes Khir Toyo—SPRM sudah siap siasatan
Kini sudah hantar ke pihak Timbalan Pendakwaraya
Katanya kes Khir Toyo sudah siap disiasat dan menghantar ke pihak Timbalan Pendawaraya. Sebenarnya mereka adakah pejabat di sini(ibupejabat SPRM), kerja kami hanya menyiasat, tak kira ikan besar, ikan bilis, semua disisat, tetapi pendakwaan bukan kerja kami.
• Bagi kami, semua kes harus didakwa, kalau tidak, apa guna membuat siasatan dan ini semata-mata “membuat diri seronok sahaja”
• Biasanya pihak pendawaraya akan mematuhi saranan kami, tapi mereka juga boleh membantah kalau menganggap bukti tak cukup kukuh
• Jika ingin mahkamah memutuskan seseorang itu bersalah amat memerlukan bukti kukuh, tanpa bukti kukuh tak mungkin boleh mengatakan seseorang itu bersalah
• Katanya, SPRM tidak berhak mendakwa, SPRM hanya membuat siasatan semata-mata, seperti ICAC Hong Kong. Dia menegas sekali bahawa, SPRM hanya menjalankan penyisatan, tanpa menjalankan pendakwaan.
Media Massa Tidak Boleh Membuat liputan kerana mengelakkan gangguan
Katanya,pihak media dilarang membuat liputan kes rasuah kerana tidak ingin kes rasuah diketahui dan mengalami gangguan
• Dia bpernah berhubung dengan tokoh No.2 ICAC Hong Kong dan menanya kenapa kurangnya berita rasuah dilaporkan, dan pihak ICAC kata kes-kes rasuah yang diadu tidak dilaporkan di akhbar agar mengelakkan gangguan
• Katanya, ini seperti kes culik yang harsu dirahsiakan, kalau penculikan dibocorkan akan membawa kleburukan
• Kes-kes rasuah yang belum lagi diketahui orang ramai harus dirahsiakan dan tak boleh dilaporkan dalam akhbar
• Satu kes yang terbaru ialah ada seorang membuat laporan kepada SPRM bahawa ada seorang ADUN/YB Selangor menyalahgunakan peruntukannya. Tapi orang itu memberitahu pihak media, maka orang yang bersabit atau bersubahat akan mengetahui cara-cara menjawab dengan pegawai SPRM atau meninggalkan tempat buat sementara
• Kalau perlu, media boleh menanya kami progress atau lanjutan kes, si pembuat lapor juga boleh menanya kami tentang progress kes berkenaan
• Kebanyakan kes rasuah melibat rakan atau orang yang dikenali, contohnya saya pegawai kerajaan,anda adalah peniaga, maka anda berikan wang kepada saya, manakala saya akan berikan projek. Kami kena buat “ambush”, jangan bagi kedua-dua orang mengetahui SPRM sedang menyiasat
Parti pemerintah dan pembangkang melaporkan musuhnya menyebabkan aduan rasuah amat dipolitikkan
Katanya, pada dua tahun kebelakangan ini, yang diadu rasuah berkaitan rapat dengan orang politikus, amatlah dipolitikkan. Tak kira BN atau PR, masing-masing membuat aduan rasuah untuk mengancam atau membinasakan karier musuhnya
Menjawab pertanyaan wartawan yang mengatakan pada pandangan orang ramai/rakyat yang menganggap SPRM pro-kerajaan pemerintahan, dia menolak dakwaan ini. Katanya tak mungkin kerana dalam system baru sudah ada 5 kumpulan kecil memantaui perjalanan dan operasi SPRM.
• Saya ingin mengatakan system yang setelah saya menjawat jawatan baru ini, saya sudah berbincang dengan pegawa- dan bawahan saya. Walaupun kami menganggap kami berdikari dan transparensi, tapi hakikat dan faktanya ialah orang ramai masih sangsi dan menganggap kami berpilih kasih/ tak berdikari dan tak transparensi.
• Saya akan bermula dengan Akta SPRM 29(4), saya mahu orang ramai melihat kami adalah berdikari dan transparensi.
• Katanya, tugas utamanya ialah memastikan keberdikarian atau independent, transparensi dan profesioanlisme dalam SPRM.
• Mudah-mudahan, ini boleh dilaku dalam tempoh setahun
• Dia juga berharap berdiskusi dengan peniaga Tionghua agar mengetahu masalah mereka dan cara-cara mengelak dan mengurangkan kes-kes rasuah
• Dia juga menyarankan kepada kerajaan agar system tender terbuka(open tender) diadakan
• Pada tahun 2008, kes penyalahankuasa dan rasuah dalam bidang birokrasi telah disiasat, tapi hanya 15 orang dituduh yang merangkumi 94 kes rasuah serta penyalahgunaan kuasa.
• Menjawab apakah harapan dan hasart dalam senarai dan indeks anti-rasuah, katanya indeks itu tak penting, yang penting orang ramai dan rakyat boleh mengerti dan menyaksi usaha anti rasuah yang dijalankan
• Dia berharap boleh memupuk satu alam perniagaan dan alam ekonomi yang sifar rasuah kerana alam perniagaan yang sihat, tanpa rasuah boleh menggalak persaingan yang sihat dan kompetasi.
KES KEMATIAN TEOH BENG HOCK
Saya memberi jaminan, kalau pegawai SPRM yang bersalah, maka saya akan mengambil tindakan, kini, saya berharap semua menunggu keputusan mahkamah
• Peranan pihak SPRM adalah melindungi nyawa insane kerana rasuah boleh membunuh, laksana projek banguan yang runtuh membinasakan nyawa; seperti senjata api diseludup masuk juga mengancam…tapi Teoh Beng Hock telah mati, saya berasa sedih dan juga marah kerana kes yang sedimikian rupa langsung tak seharusa dan sepatutnya berlaku.
• Kerana dalam lingkungan banguan SPRM dan dalam masa soal-siasat oleh pegawai siasatan, maka tak kira apa jua alas an dan dalih pun, kami tetap bertanggungjawab. Jika pihak mahkamah memutuskan SPRM harus menanggung segala duti dan responsibility, kami menerima dan mereka yang bersubahat akan dikenakan tindakan tegas
• Selepas kes Teoh Beng Hock, kami telah membuat banyak perubahan agar kes tragedy ini tak berlaku dan berulang lagi, Kami memindahkan pejabat kerana bangunan ini terlalu tinggi, pihak Jawatankuasa Aduan(Komiti aduan) menyarankan kami memindah ke satu lokasi di mana bangunannya tidak tinggi, di samping itu, kerja keselamatan juga dipertingkatkan
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• “Saya amatlah berharap, kalau masa boleh berulang pada hari tragedi itu, kami boleh membetulkan segala-gala kesalahan dan kesilapan agar boleh mengelakkan tragedi sengsara ini berlaku”
• “Saya memahami perasaan orang ramai dan rakyat kenapa saksi yang sepatut dan seharus diperlindungkan, tapi sebaliknya nyawanya dirampas. Apabila saksi meninggal dunia, saya benar-benar berasa amat sedih dan pilu,”
• Wartawan menanyanya bagaimana boleh memastikan segala soal-siasatan boleh dijalankan dengan normal dan lebih transparensi? Jawabnya, dia telah menghantar pegawai ke Hong Kong dan mengkaji ICAC menyoal-siasat saksi, sekarang kami sedang memasang alat perakaman video dalam bilik soal-saisat, agar boleh memantau prosedur soal-siasat yang dijalankan,
• “Saya amat menagmbil berat tentang pegawai SPRM menyoal-siasat dengan cara kasar, cara keganasan. Ini tidak boleh berlaku lagi. Sebenar dan sepatutnya, kami harus menganggap saksi adalah rakan, kawan kami, kerana mereka membantu kami menyiasat kes-kes.”
• Menjawab soalan wartawan tentang adakah pada masa lampau, berlaku pegawai SPRM yang menggunakan cara keganasan semasa soal-siasat, dia berkata bahawa:”Saya tak kata dulu pernah berlaku, saya nak menegaskan bahawa, sekarang perkara yang amat dipandang serius, dalam pimpinan saya kini ialah memastikan bahawa seperkara(satu perkara) yang paling penting ialah menguruskan dengan cara professional. Jika nak memulihkan kepercayaan orang ramai, kami mesti berprofesional.”
• Menjawab tentang siasatan PKFZ, katanya masih dalam proses siasatan, tiada yang boleh diberitahu atau dibentangkan.
• Kami akan menyiasat kes skandal PKFZ, semua akan disoal-siasat, kami juga akan menyarankan mereka dituduh di mahkamah. Inilah komitmen kami, iaitu penyiasatan sehingga tahap penghabisan.
• Dia juga menegaskan SPRM tak boleh menuduh seseorang berdasarkan emosi atau kerana tak suka/benci seseorang. Menuduh seseorang berdasarkan emosi amatlah bahaya.
• Ditanya wartawan tentang:”Aadakah.anda menganggap kalau mahkamah sudah membuat keputusan nama buruk SPRM akan dapat dibersih jernihkan?” Jawabnya: “Yang paling penting, kami sudah berkomitmen dan berjanji, akan menghormati segala keputusan mahkamah, di samping ituy, kami menjalankan langkah positif untuk mengelakkan tragedi itu tak berulang. Kami sudah berasa kesal dan sedih. Saya mesti mengaku, insiden atau kes ini sudah menghancur-luluhkan imej SPRM, kami ingin orang ramai mengertahui, kami sama-sama berasa sedih, pilu dan susah hati. Marilah berdoa agar mahkamah memutuskan kes (Teoh beng Hock) secepat mungkin.”
Dia juga mengatakan dia sudah memberi perintah kepada pegawainya menerangkan kepada MB Negeri Selangor, sama juga Naib Pengerusinya juga menerang kepada kerajaan Kelantan bagaimana mengelakkan rasuah berlaku. Katanya, semua orang yang anti rasuah adalah kawan SPRM.
Dia juga menafikan SPRM yang semata-mata mementingkan kes rasuah yang kecil dan remeh. Katanya semua kes penting dan juga bersangkut-paut dengan nyawa insane, maka tetap diambil berat.
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Getting Away with Murder in Malaysia
Tag it:Written by Our Correspondent
Monday, 26 October 2009
It's best to be connected to the ruling national coalition
See also:
Malaysian Aide's July Death 'Probably Homicide'
On July 16, according to the testimony of a Thai pathologist, Teoh Beng Hock, a 29-year-old aide to an opposition politician, was probably beaten during a marathon questioning session, sodomized, strangled unconscious, dragged to a window of the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission in Kuala Lumpur and thrown to his death.
The country's law enforcement establishment maintains that Teoh committed suicide by leaping from the MACC building after the inquiry was concluded into irregularities in his boss's accounts. But it is far from the first "suicide" in custody and what happened to Teoh happens all too frequently when the luckless collide with the powerful in Malaysia. His real killers are unlikely ever to be identified. As many as 350 people have died in custody since 1990. The privileged are rarely brought to trial.
The most infamous recent case before Teoh's is that of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a 28 year-old Mongolian translator who was murdered in 2006 by two bodyguards of then-Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. Altantuya had been jilted by Najib's best friend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and was demanding money from him.
Although numerous witnesses and evidence connected Najib to the affair, he was never questioned or put on the witness stand, nor was his chief of staff, Musa Safri, who Baginda said in a cautioned statement he approached about getting Altantuya from ceasing her harrassment. His two bodyguards were convicted of the murder although one, in his confession, said the two men were to be paid RM100,000 to kill her. The court never asked who would pay the money. The confession wasn't allowed in court. Baginda was acquitted without having to put on a defense and promptly left the country and Najib was eventually named Prime Minister.
Such questionable cases go back to at least the early 1980s when Sultan Mahmud Iskandar of Johor was dubbed the "killer king" by the British tabloids after he shot a trespasser to death on his property. He also reportedly assaulted and killed a golf caddy who was said to have laughed when the sultan missed a golf stroke and he maimed the caddy's brother. He later was alleged to have assaulted and injured a hockey coach, kicking off a constitutional crisis that led to former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's removal of legal immunity from prosecution for all of Malaysia's nine sultans, although Iskandar was never either arrested or jailed.
There are plenty more. In 1988 an attractive young woman named Mustakizah Jaafar, who owned a video rental business in Malacca, was found hacked to death by unknown assailants. Mustakizah reportedly was pregnant at the time of her death. She was believed to be having an affair with Megat Junid Megat Ayob, the onetime UMNO deputy home affairs minister, who died in January 2008 of cancer.
No one was ever charged with Mutakizah's murder. The widespread gossip about Megat Junid's connection with Mustakizah didn't do his political career any harm. He was ultimately named Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister in 1997 although he lost his parliamentary seat two years later and retired from politics.
In 2002 the decomposed body of Haslezah Ishak, the attractive young second wife of Raja Jaafar Raja Muda Musa, second in line to the throne of Perak, whom he had met in a karaoke lounge, was found under a bridge, clad in a bra and jeans. Four men, including a palace aide, a bomoh or witch doctor, a fisherman and a carpenter were arrested and jailed for the murder. No one was ever arrested or questioned for hiring them to kill her although suspicion fell on the prince's wife, Rajah Mahani, who had been publicly consulting witch doctors over her suspicion that Haslezah had put a spell on her husband.
In 2003, another attractive young woman, Norita Shamsudin, was found murdered in an apartment in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. A night club guest relations officer, Norita had been rumored to be having an affair with Shahidan Kassim, then chief minister of the state of Perlis. Although another individual was arrested and charged with the murder, he was later declared not guilty and no one else was ever charged. According to local news reports, the inspector general of police, Mohd Bakri Omar, classified the case under Malaysia's Official Secrets Act and no details were ever released.
Earlier this year, authorities finally completed an inquest into the 2007 death of beautiful ethnic Indian actress Sujatha Krishnan, who also worked part-time as a secretary to S.Vell Paari, chief executive officer of Maika Holdings and the son of S. Samy Vellu, the head of the Malaysian Indian Congress, a component of the ruling national coalition. Sujatha died in a hospital in a Kuala Lumpur suburb of Klang three days after she had been rushed in for treatment. Her body was cremated almost immediately after her death. The coroner ruled she had died after poisoning herself by drinking poison. The family vainly requested an investigation into her death.
For those at the bottom end of Malaysia's power spectrum, life can be considerably tougher if suspicion falls on them. According to the reform organization Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET), a distressing number of suspects have died in custody. "Relying merely on data provided by the government, it has been disclosed that there have been 150 deaths from 1990 until 2004 (10.7 per year), 108 deaths between 2000 and 2006 (18 per year), and, 85 deaths between 2003 and 2007 (21.25 per year)," the organization said.
According to a 2003 report by the Asian Human Rights Commission – the same year Norita was killed ‑ statistics released in Malaysia's parliament in October of that year by the Home Ministry, showed 23 people died in police custody between 2002 and July 2003. Of those, 16 died in 2002 although according to the report, other figures indicated that 18 had died in custody in the first nine months of 2002 alone. Parliament was told in October 2002 that a total of 34 persons had died in police custody since 2000 ‑ six in 2000, 10 in 2001 and 18 from January to September 2002.
According to the report, then-Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung denied that methods of torture used to obtain information from suspects led to their deaths. He claimed that the majority of deaths were the result of attempts to escape from police custody. Typical seemed to be the case of Hasrizal Hamzah, who had been detained on suspicion of murder in October of 2003. According to a senior assistant police commissioner, Harizal confessed to the murder and then, as he was being moved to a new location, supposedly shoved the accompanying policeman aside despite being handcuffed, and leapt over a balcony to his death.
Earlier this year, the Indian community was enraged by the death of a 22-year-old named Kugan Ananthan who was detained on Jan. 15 on suspicion of stealing luxury cars. He reportedly collapsed during questioning and died on Jan. 20 from "acute pulmonary edema," or fluid in the lungs. However, after his body was released to his family, an autopsy found that he had suffered from internal bleeding in his heart, left lung, spleen, kidneys and scalp area. The soles of his feet had been beaten and the back of his neck and spine area were bleeding. His back was covered with contusions, beating marks and bruises. He had sustained more than 10 serious burn marks, probably as the result of being burned by a heated v-shaped iron bar. He had also been starved during the entire time he was being tortured, allegedly by as many as seven police officers, his family charged.
"There is a clear lack of supervision, medical care and concern for the general well-being and rights of suspects while under police remand," the Human Rights Commission said in its 2003 report. It does not appear that anything has changed. The odds are that the cases involving both Kugan and Teoh will end up the same way scores of others have.
See also:
Malaysian Aide's July Death 'Probably Homicide'
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