Now Nazri says VK Lingam broke no law

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 — Minister in the Prime Minister Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz sparked an uproar in Parliament today when he said “judiciary fixer” VK Lingam, had been let off the hook “because he had broken no law.” Nazri also suggested that Lingam breached no laws as he might “have just acted to fix the appointment of judges as if he was brokering the appointment of senior judges to impress people”. “I am not denying that it was Lingam in the tape. But I am also saying that there are a lot of conmen in this world. Who knows he might have just acted when he was calling the so-called judges to impress,” said Nazri in his ministerial winding-up speech on the 2010 Budget debate.

Opposition MPs had during the debate session demanded answers as to why the Attorney General had decided to take “no further action” towards Lingam despite the findings of a Royal Commission set up to probe the infamous “correct, correct, correct” video recording that allegedly saw the senior lawyer brokering the appointment of judges. The Royal commission had proposed that action be taken against Lingam and several others purportedly involved in the recording including former Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and tycoon Vincent Tan, a close friend of former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.