Transmenu powered by JoomlArt.com - Mambo Joomla Professional Templates Club

©The Star (Letters Section) (Used by permission)

KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) will seek an audience with the Conference of Rulers as soon as possible over the videotape of a prominent lawyer who was allegedly seen and heard to be brokering the appointment of judges.

“The Rulers have a constitutional role to play in the appointment of judges,” PKR president Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail told a press conference here yesterday.

On Wednesday, PKR released a video clip it obtained recently of the lawyer talking on the phone to someone who seems to be a senior judge about how he (the lawyer) had helped get this judge appointed to one of the top judiciary posts.

The appointment was done through a prominent businessman and a politician, both of whom were close to the then prime minister.

The lawyer also said he was working through the same two contacts to get the judge elevated even further and also get him a “Tan Sri” title.

The names of a number of prominent judges were also mentioned in the video.

PKR vice-president R. Sivarasa, who was also at the press conference, said the videotape was made in 2002 and had implications on the appointment of senior judges since that time.

Later, he and 15 party members went to the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) office here to lodge a report and hand over a copy of the video.

He met with Federal Territory ACA director Abu Zubir Mohd Hassan.

Sivarasa said PKR would also be lodging a police report. The party has also called for the resignation of the judge implicated in the video.

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed