Spy camera: 'Check the fingerprints'

By Rahmah Ghazali and Fazy Sahir - Free Malaysia Today

SHAH ALAM: There may be fingerprints on the spy camera discovered at the menteri besar's office but whose fingerprints are those? Former menteri besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo wants the state government to find out. “If it is true that Umno is involved, lodge a police report. Let’s see whose fingerprints all over the spy camera. Don’t throw wild accusations at us,” he said.

But Toyo seems to know who is behind it.

According to him, the set-up was the work of people known to Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim.

“I want to tell you this: it involves inside people. Khalid knows who is behind it,” he told FMT after breaking fast with the press here last night.

He was, however, quick to add that neither he nor the previous Barisan Nasional administration had any hand in this or knew the culprits.

“I don’t know who the culprits are, but I know this is the work of inside people. It has nothing to do with us; I can guarantee you that,” he said.

Khir dismissed allegations that he had links with Khalid’s staff working inside the state secretariat building, and that they had planted the spy camera in the office.

“No, I have no links with any of the state secretariat officers. No one even dared to come and see me because they were too scared of Khalid,” he said.

He accused the state government of “diverting attention from the real issue”.

About 10 people identified

Meanwhile, Khalid's political secretary Faekah Husin told FMT that about 10 individuals captured on the camera have been identified.

However, she refused to divulge more details.

Asked if the internal task force set up by Khalid last week to look into the matter has held a meeting to call for an investigation, Faekah said “no meeting has taken place yet”.

“We could not do it last Friday (as scheduled) because the menteri besar had to meet the Selangor Sultan, but we will hold the meeting on Monday,” she said.

The spy camera saga took a new twist recently when  Faekah said the culprits may have captured themselves on the camera and that some of them were “insiders”.