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by V. Anbalagan

PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency will make an application to the Royal Commission of Inquiry tomorrow to clear its name in the wake of testimony that it had paid a witness to close a 1998 investigation.

This is in relation to the testimony of G. Jayanti on Tuesday, who had said she was given RM3,000 by an ACA officer at the end of investigations into a report lodged against Lingam by his brother, V. Thirunama Karasu.

ACA sources said the agency's senior officers would like to get Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail's consent before submitting a statement to the commission.

"Her evidence has put the ACA in a bad light. We want to clarify what she had testified for public understanding," a source said.

On Tuesday, Jayanti told the commission that ACA officer Wong Chee Kong gave her RM3,000 after she was questioned three times in connection with a report lodged by Thirunama in 1998.

Thirunama had implicated Lingam and former chief justice Tun Mohamed Eusoff Chin for alleged corruption.

Jayanti, a former secretary to Lingam, told the commission she had gone to the ACA office on three occasions in April 1998, but was told three months later that the file had to be closed as it involved high-ranking government officers.

She also confirmed through her counsel, R.S.N Rayer, that it was Wong who gave her the money. Wong, who was from the ACA intelligence unit, has since retired.

Jayanti was the 19th witness to take the stand and she is expected to be examined by other counsel when hearing resumes today.

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