KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 (Bernama) -- Prominent lawyer Datuk Muhammad Shafee
Abdullah has in his possession the negatives of 33 photographs of Datuk
V.K.Lingam and former chief justice Tun Eusoff Chin taken on a holiday trip in
New Zealand in 2001. (Please
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Malaysian Bar representative Ranjit Singh, who disclosed this at the Royal
Commission of Inquiry here today, also said that Muhammad Shafee had given him
15 tickets of the trip to him.
Ranjit revealed this after Lingam questioned Ranjit whether they (the Malaysian
Bar) had the negatives of the photographs they had produced and tendered in the
inquiry as evidence.
Lingam told the inquiry he wanted to have a look at the negatives as the
photographs shown to him in the proceedings today were taken 13 years ago and
that there was a possibility some photographs could have been taken from the
internet and patched up.
To this, Ranjit assured Lingam that the negatives were with Muhammad Shafee who
had indicated that he would produce them (the negatives) if the commission
required him to do so.
On one occasion, commissioner Datuk Mahadev Shankar questioned Ranjit who "Shafee"
was, since Ranjit only referred to Muhammad Shafee Abdullah as Shafee when he (Ranjit)
informed the commission that he (Ranjit) had obtained the ticket of the Lingam-Eusoff
trip from Shafee.
Mahadev: Who is Shafee?
Ranjit: Shafee is a practising lawyer as well as human rights commissioner.
Mahadev: And he had all the tickets?
Ranjit: He was also involved in some of the litigation involving Raphael Pura.
(In this case, the parties sought to adduce the Lingam-Eusoff Chin trip as
evidence but it was thrown out).
Earlier, 33 copies of 5R photographs of Lingam, his wife and two daughters and
Eusoff, his wife and his son and a daughter on that trip were produced at the
inquiry.
Ranjit claimed that the photographs were taken at the skyline gondola restaurant
in Queenstown, and also on a fishing expedition in lake Wakatipu, Queenstown.
However, Lingam said he could not recollect the exact place but said it was in
New Zealand.
There was a roar of laughter during the proceedings when Ranjit mentioned the
name of the lake "Wakatipu" during his examination on Lingam on the fishing
expedition in Wakatipu lake.
Lingam answered: No I don't recollect the name. It looks like Papua New Guinea!
Ranjit further asked Lingam: "Are you saying you went there (Papua New Guinea)?"
Lingam replied "the name of the lake "Wakatipu" suggested it. Lingam's answer
once again drew laughter at the inquiry".
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