PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency has cleared Datuk V.K. Lingam of all
but one of the allegations of corruption made against him by his 49-year-old
brother, V. Thirunama Karasu.
Sources said the investigation would now focus solely on
Thirunama's claim that "in 1995 he witnessed Lingam corrupting a former
Industrial Court chairman by handing over a cheque for RM50,000".
The sources said the ACA examined and found no case to answer in the 13 other
allegations contained in Thirunama's March 19 police complaint against Lingam
and reported to the agency in the course of a seven-hour interview on Tuesday.
ACA deputy director-general Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed said the next day that the
investigation into the allegations, first made in 1998, was being reopened in
the light of "new leads" provided by Thirunama.
It is understood that the ACA had on Wednesday recorded a statement from the
judge, in his 70s, who is alleged to have received the money from Lingam.
The judge came to the ACA headquarters around 11am and left about 2pm.
Lingam said on Wednesday that the RM50,000 had been paid as a bonus after his
firm hired the then already retired judge.
"He retired in 1991 and I employed him. Subsequently, in 1995, I paid him a
bonus of RM50,000 which was declared to the Inland Revenue Board," Lingam told
reporters after he was quizzed by the ACA following his brother's report.
In a statement yesterday, opposition politician Wee Choo Keong said he was
informed that Thirunama had never received a medical report Lingam had given
reporters as proof of his brother's psychiatric condition.
"If it was true that Lingam had a copy of such a medical report, action will be
taken against him for breach of confidentiality."
Wee had made public Thirunama's police report at a press conference on Sunday.
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