SHAH ALAM (August 23, 2009): Police will probe only certain allegations in a mystery letter which are relevant to the Teoh Beng Hock inquest while the rest of the explosive claims will be investigated for abuse of power by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar declined to specify what they are looking at but said the investigations are almost complete and the investigating officer will hand over the findings directly to the coroner within this week.
Police are acting on the instruction of coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas who adjourned the inquest on Wednesday after he was given a typewritten letter by Gobind Singh Deo, the lawyer for Teoh’s family.
The content was not revealed in court, but a five-page document on MACC letterhead, purported to be the same as that which was tendered to the coroner, was published on some websites. It indirectly implicated a senior officer of the Selangor MACC and a prominent Selangor politician.
It is learnt that among the areas police are probing is a DNA profile of the senior MACC officer mentioned in the letter to find a match with two other unknown DNA samples found on Teoh’s body. Despite extensive sampling, the owners of the samples have yet to be identified.
Meanwhile, Kapar MP S. Manikavasagam, who had also received a copy of the mystery letter, lodged a police report on Friday, urging police to investigate the two individuals named in it.
Manikavasagam, who lodged the report at the Brickfields district police headquarters, said his report was transferred to Klang police and subsequently to Shah Alam police. He said he received a call from a senior police officer from the Shah Alam commercial crimes investigations department (CCID) on the same day and was told that his report was being looked into.
He said if nothing moves, he will hand over a memorandum to the Inspector-General of Police.
“The letter contains serious allegations linked to Teoh’s death and they should be looked into seriously. An investigating team from Bukit Aman should handle this,” he said.
Manikavasagam said copies of the letter, which also had the MACC letterhead, were also sent to Pakatan Rakyat leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Seputeh MP Teresa Kok and an official of PAS.
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