by Din Merican
Today, Bernama reported that MACC Assistant Superintendent, M.Mohan, was charged in the Sessions Court Shah Alam on Friday with bribery involving RM250,000. Bernama’s report is reproduced below:
“An assistant superintendent with the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was charged in the Shah Alam Sessions Court today with bribery, involving RM250,000.
M Mohan, 37, who is charged with two counts of bribery, however, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial to both the charges before judge Azhanis Teh Azman Teh. He is alleged to have solicited RM250,000 from one A. Sinnaiah as an inducement not to proceed with the investigation on him for allegedly bribing officials of the National Registration Department and the Immigration Department. Mohan is also charged with corruptly agreeing to receive bribe of RM200,000 from Sinnaiah for the same purpose.
The offences were allegedly committed at the Selangor MACC office, 14th Floor, Plaza Masalam, Jalan Tengku Ampuan Zabedah, E9/E, Section 9 here, between 11am and 1pm on October 22 last year. Deputy public prosecutor Mohd Asnawi Abu Hanipah suggested bail at RM10,000 in one surety.
Lawyer Ratha Krishnan, who represented Mohan, when requesting for an appropriate bail, said his client, who had a wife and child to support, had been with MACC for 15 years and gave his cooperation during investigation of the case.
Azhanis set bail at RM7,000 in one surety and ordered Mohan to surrender his passport to the court. He set four days, beginning August 23, for trial.” – Bernama (February 19, 2010).
The Persecution of Lawyer Rosli Dahlan
M.Mohan a/l P. Mutaiyah is the same officer named as the 11th Defendant in Lawyer Rosli Dahlan’s RM50 million suit against Utusan Malaysia and the Government of Malaysia. He is the same officer who led a team of other officers who stormed into the lawyer’s office in 2007. He is the same MACC Tua Kau (Big Dog) who came without any warrant and then shouted at and humiliated Rosli Dahlan in front of his staff.
Mohan is the same Enforcer, with a shiny MACC Badge pinned on his black jacket, which he used as a license to manhandle, assault and abuse Rosli. He is the same Intimidator who playfully taunted Rosli with the handcuffs in his hand. He is that arrogant Mohan who then handcuffed Rosli so tightly that Rosli’s wrist bled and swelled almost immediately, and then refused to allow Rosli to make a police report of the injury he had suffered.
M.Mohan of MACC did all that to Lawyer Rosli on the eve of Hari Raya Puasa 2007 so that the government controlled mainstream media could splash on the front pages of all the major newspapers about the arrest of that lawyer as Hari Raya reading for all Malaysians. That, in a nutshell, was the MACC’s game plan, that is, to inflict maximum embarrasment and humiliation to Lawyer Rosli and to wreck and ruin his law practice. This is a SOP (standard operating procedure) when a citizen becomes MACC’s target. And this much admired and courageous lawyer was unfortunate to be that target in 2007.
Why did all that happen to Rosli Dahlan?
It is only because Rosli acted to defend the Director Commercial Crimes Investigations Dept (CCID), Dato’ Ramli Yusuff, against the conspiracy by A-G Gani Patail and IGP Musa Hassan to eliminate Ramli from the hierarchy of the Royal Malysian Police (PDRM) because Dato’ Ramli’s investigations of the Along syndicate was leading to some big names in the Force. It is also because Rosli acted for the CCID against that underworld operator Goh Cheng Poh @ Tengku Goh.
Gani Patail in Washington DC for CSIS Seminar on “Governance and Rule of Law in Malaysia”
In the end, Attorney-General Gani Patail released the criminal but charged 6 police officers including Dato’ Ramli and his lawyer Rosli. It is this same Attorney General who will be at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC together with Malaysia’s de facto Law Minister Nazri A. Aziz and Former Chief Justice of Malaysia and Chairman, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Abdul Hamid Mohamed for a seminar titled “Governance and Rule of Law in Malaysia and Malaysian Legislative Initiatives” on February 24, 2010. Fancy that happening! What has this AG to say in Washington when the world knows that our judiciary is clearly incapable of administering the law and when the Rule of Law has broken down.
That is what happens to all of us, Rosli Dahlan and Raja Petra Kamaruddin and other Malaysians when we take on those in the corridors of power. And Lawyer Rosli had to taste that bitter pill because he thought he was doing national service in assisting the CCID to eradicate crimes and because he believed in the Rule of Law.
Teoh Beng Hock’s Case and Ongoing Inquest
Fast forward 2009, the MACC is deeply humiliated when Teoh Beng Hock died while in its custody. The camera spotlights are now turned on every time the MACC officers turn up in court. It is these officers who now cover their faces and shy away from the cameras. The hunter has become the hunted.
The famous Thai pathologist and forensic expert, Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, confirmed that Teoh was murdered. After delaying and buying enough time, the government pathologist, Dr Shahidan Md Noor, finally managed cook up a report to rebutt Dr Pornthip’s findings.
Whatever is said now by the Government’s pathologist matters no more to Malaysians. Malaysians no longer believe them. Malaysians no longer believe in the integrity and independence of our government institutions. You can fool some people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time. That is the sorry state of our country and its institutions.
In the manner that Malaysians fight over ownership of “Allah”, it shows how devoutly religious the majority of Malaysians are. In that case, there is surely Godly sign in the events that happen or befall us.
MACC humiliated Rosli and killed Teoh. Today the MACC is the subject of scorn and hatred. Today, the MACC is humiliated. Sorry, Dato’ Abu Kassim, no amount of PR exercise can redeem that tarnished image. You need real change. We need change that people can believe in.
IGP Musa Hassan is the chief conspirator who wanted to eliminate Ramli and bring down Rosli to appear as a dishonest lawyer who hid Ramli’s ill-gotten assets. Ramli has since been acquitted in Sabah and Judge Supang Lian has totally discredited IGP Musa Hassan as a wholly unreliable witness in an unprecedentedly scathing language ever used against an IGP of the PDRM. None of that was accidental. Any self respecting person would have resigned. But not Musa Hassan, that son of a religious man.
Raja Petra on IGP Musa Hassan
Recently, RPK reported that Bukit Aman was abuzz with news of an MACC “visit” to the IGP’s house which led to discovery of RM1.5 million in cash. And that IGP Musa Hassan attended at the MACC HQ for 3 hours to be interviewed. He was actually there to cut a deal. I deliberately used the word “discovery” and not “recovery” because the deal was cut and the MACC has since denied that incident, hence no recovery of any case exhibit to warrant any further investigation or prosecution.
MACC Kevin Morais on the brink of being impeached for perjury
In Rosli’s own trial, a certain DPP, Kevin Morais, admitted that Rosli was just a witness and was not a subject of any investigation. Kevin was also shown to have turned and twisted his testimony and lied. Kevin is at the brink of being impeached and has exposed himself to perjury.
Mohan is just a small fish in a big pond
Mohan is now exposed as the crooked officer that he is. But he is not the only one. He is just a small fish amongst other big fishes in a big pond. Among the mid-level ranking MACC officers, Sok One a/l Esen is known to be more “proactive” than Mohan. But Sok One is safe, for now at least, because he has forged alliances- yes more deals.
That is how some people can escape MACC’s investigation and prosecution…..by cutting deals with the MACC raiding team, the Investigating Officers and the Prosecutors. It is the way things are done. But Lawyer Rosli would not yield to any of it and that is why he was abused and charged.
To those who think that they can “fix” everything, be reminded of the saying “Man proposes but God disposes”. To God-believing Malaysians, I say do not give up hope. There is Divine Retribution, God is watching from a distance.
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