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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Bernama) –– The Royal Commission of Inquiry, which was set
up to probe into the "Lingam video clip", was told today that the recording was
made at the house of lawyer Datuk V. K. Lingam.
Anti–Corruption Agency (ACA) senior superintendent Chuah Lay Choo, 52, said he
reached to the conclusion after making comparisons between 17 pictures taken by
his officer at the guestroom of Lingam's house and what was shown in the clip.
Replying to conducting officer Datuk Nordin Hassan, he said he received a copy
of the clip at about 10.30am on Dec 19, 2007 from superintendent Wan Zulkifli
Wan Jusoh of the ACA Computer Forensic Unit.
After viewing the clip, he prepared a transcript of the conversation shown in it
and ordered senior assistant superintendent Shahadan Mohd Yatim to take pictures
of items at Lingam's house which resembled those shown in the clip.
He said he also gave Shahadan Lingam's house address, namely No. 1,SS7/24,
Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Chuah said he had also gone to Lingam's house and entered the guestroom when he
was carrying out investigations pertaining to the video clip.
After viewing the clip and looking at the 17 pictures taken by Shahadan, he made
comparisons between them and found that all the pictures had resemblance with
the clip.
"In conclusion, based on the pictures and the video clip, I held that they were
taken at the same place," he said.
He said that on Dec 26, 2007, he ordered Wan Zulkifli to send the video compact
disc containing the clip to CyberSecurity Malaysia to see whether it was genuine
and received the disc back on Jan 12, 2008 from Wan Zulkifli.
Replying to lawyer Ranjit Singh who represented the Bar Council, Chuah agreed
with the lawyer's suggestion that the disc that he received was a copy and not
the original clip and the one sent to CyberSecurity Malaysia was also a copy.
Ranjit later told the Commission that there were several differences between the
transcript prepared by Chuah and the other which was made by it.
Following this, Tan Sri Haidar Mohamed Nor who chairs the Commission, asked
Ranjit to identify the differences and give them to Chuah to enable him to refer
to them tomorrow.
The 14–minute video clip was also shown during the inquiry today after Nordin
applied for it.
Meanwhile, Shahadan, 53, who became the first witness called before Chuah, said
he went to Lingam's house on Dec 25 last year and the lawyer did not ask him why
he wanted to take pictures at the guestroom.
Shahadan, who serves at the Intelligence Division of the ACA, said Lingam
allowed him to enter the house, showed him the guestroom and left.
He said that he took 17 pictures at the guestroom using a digital cameras as
ordered by Chuah the day before.
He said that on Dec 25 last year, he was shown the clip showing Lingam talking
on a telephone and the instruction he received from Chuah was to take pictures
of items at the guestroom of Lingam's house which resembled those in the clip.
The 17 pictures were shown by Nordin to Shahadan who explained that among those
that he took were pictures of a porcelain bowl, door knob, chandelier, a
cabinet, framed photograph of Lingam and his wife and a sofa.
Asked whether he could make a conclusion that he took the pictures at the same
room as that in the clip, Shahadan said: "I brought along a laptop computer and
played and freezed the video clip and I found that the room was similar to that
in the video clip."
Video clip made at Lingam's house, inquiry told
14 Jan 2008 12:00 am