PETALING JAYA: Show your face today and speak under oath - that’s the Royal
Commission of Inquiry’s message to the person who admitted making the V.K.
Lingam video clip.
Commission chairman Tan Sri Haidar Mohd Noor said until and unless the person
came and testified, there was not much he could do.
“We will wait for the person to appear on Monday and not jump to any conclusion.
“It is of course helpful if the person comes and I hope he really comes,” Haidar
said when contacted yesterday.
“I do not want to say whether we at the commission welcome this development or
not because we have always said that anyone who does not want to go to the
Anti-Corruption Agency can come directly to us.
“Now, he has chosen to announce it to the press first.”
Haidar said the commission was empowered to issue a subpoena directly to the
video clip maker even if the ACA had not taken a statement from him.
“It does not matter whether he had given a statement before or not. He can be
called to testify,” he said.
A businessman named Loh Mui Fah reportedly said on Saturday that his son was the
person who had recorded the clip.
The 57-year-old also said that he and his son were prepared to testify before
the commission.
An ACA source said that the agency had tried to trace the video clip maker from
the start but had only been able to speak to his father on the telephone.
“The father said he did not want to meet us in the ACA, saying he wanted to go
to the commission directly with his son.
“He said his son was working abroad and so we could not serve any subpoena on
him. Now, he has come out to the press. Maybe if he comes tomorrow (Monday), he
can testify straightaway,” said the source.
Loh could not be reached for his comments.
So far, those listed as possible witnesses include former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamad, PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and retired chief
justices Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah.
Others on the list of 16 are Tourism Minister Datuk Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor,
tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan and lawyer Datuk V.K. Lingam.
The inquiry is scheduled to begin at 10am today at one of the Appellate and
Special Powers Division High Courts on Level Three of the Kuala Lumpur court
complex in Jalan Duta.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry was set up on Nov 16 to investigate the video
clip, which allegedly shows a lawyer resembling Lingam brokering the appointment
of judges.
Anwar released the five-year-old tape, which has sparked an outcry over the
independence and credibility of the judiciary.
The ACA had earlier quizzed some of the witnesses over the tape.
Apart from Haidar, the other commission members are retired Court of Appeal
judge Datuk Mahadev Shankar, former chief judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri
Steve Shim Lip Kiong, former solicitor-general Puan Sri Zaitun Zawiyah Puteh and
Malaysian Human Rights Commission commissioner and Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr
Khoo Kay Kim.
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