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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 (Bernama) -- Lawyer Datuk V.K.Lingam told the Royal
Commission of Inquiry today that his younger brother, Thirunama, made
allegations of corruption against him after he failed to give Thirunama a
bungalow, a Mercedez Benz car and a lot of money.
"Thirunama told me that he would make my life miserable if I did not fulfil his
demands," he said.
Asked by his counsel, R.Thayalan, how his own brother could make such
allegations against him, he said it was a very long story but he would try to
make it short for the inquiry.
Lingam said he had six siblings and he was the eldest. After their parents died,
he and four other siblings had taken care of and supported Thirunama and the
youngest brother, Rajendram Vellupillai.
"But they want all free without working and that I did not agree."
He said that when he did not give Thirunama a bungalow, a Mercedez Benz car, a
lot of money and educate his children, the latter threatened to make his life
miserable and said that he had lodged two police reports with the
Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA).
Lingam said Thirunama's counsel, M.Manoharan, called him and told him that
Thirunama had lodged two police reports and asked him whether he wanted to pay
the money to his brother.
He did not want to pay because all the allegations made by Thirunama were not
true and the ACA had already settled the investigation, he said, adding: "My
brother, Thirunama, had physic mental problem."
Questioned by counsel Wee Choo Keong, for Thirunama, he stressed that he bought
a house in Seapark for RM21,000 in 1972 and all his siblings lived together.
He said Thirunama worked for him from February to June 1996 as an administrative
worker and his job was to photocopy documents and assist in binding documents.
"He only worked for two hours a day. He came in about 9.45am and left within two
hours. He did not work full time because he had to take care of his two children
who had asthmatha and his wife worked as an operator in a Sungai Way factory,"
he said.
At this juncture, commission chairman Tan Sri Haidar Mohamed Noor told Wee to
confine his questions to the relevant portion allowed by the commission but Wee
persisted and commissioner Datuk Mahadev Shankar had to remind him not to ask
irrelevant questions.
When Wee still asked irrelevant questions after a 10-minute break, Shankar said
he would take over the questioning regarding the portion in the statement made
by Thirunama.
Referred to the statement that he and Thirunama went to former chief justice Tun
Eusoff Chin's house in early 1995 to send a few files, Lingam said it was not
true.
He also denied the part which said that that he intended to purchase a house for
Eusoff in October 1995.
He said it was also not true that he had instructed Thirunama to deliver to
Eusoff a briefcase with a brown envelope in it, a ladies handbag and a man
wallet, all of which were from Italy.
Lingam was also not sure that between January and March 1996, he had given
Thirunama RM1,200 to purchase a handphone from Mutiara Telecommunication in
Jalan Sultan Ismail for Eusoff.
He also answered in the negative to questions by Malaysian Bar representative
Ranjit Singh on whether he or his wife owned a BMW car with plate number WDN 788
and whether he knew that Eusoff or any Eusoff family member was the owner of the
car.
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