KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 (Bernama) -- The Lingam video clip inquiry report should be
made public, Tan Sri Haidar Mohamed Noor, Chairman of the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the 14-minute controversial V.K. Lingam Video Clip, said Friday.
He, however, said it was up to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
to decide whether the contents of the report be revealed to the public or
otherwise.
"Personally, I think the report should go to the public, but it is up to the
Prime Minister," he told Bernama after handing the four volume 186-page
report to Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Negara.
The former Chief Judge of Malaya said he was satisfied with the findings of the
17-day inquiry which started on Jan 14.
Haidar said the five-member commission could not divulge the contents of the
report but would recommend to the Prime Minister for the report to be made
public.
"We also cannot reveal the four recommendations the commission had made in the
report," he said when asked whether the commission would disclose its
recommendations to the public.
He said commission secretary Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid, who is also
Director-General of the Legal Affairs Division in the Prime Minister's
Department, would submit the report to the prime minister.
To a question that one of the commission's recommendations was to charge a few
individuals in court, Haidar said it was not true.
Asked on why the commission had sought two extensions to submit the inquiry
report to Tuanku Mizan, he said the commission needed more time to scrutinise
the report as there were over 1,000 evidence to go through.
The commission had earlier fixed March 11 to submit the report to the King but
later sought two one-month extensions which end tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Abdullah Sani said in a statement that Haidar submitted the report at
9.30am in the presence of four other commission members.
They are retired Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mahadev Shankar, former Chief Judge
of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Amar Steve Shim Lip Kiong, former Solicitor-General
Datuk Zaitun Zawiyah Puteh and historian Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Khoo Kay Kim.
The commission was set up in late 2007 to ascertain the authenticity of the
video clip featuring senior lawyer Datuk V.K. Lingam brokering judges'
appointments over the handphone.
Twenty-one witnesses testified in the inquiry including former Prime Minister
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and three former chief judges.
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