KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Lim Kit Siang told Datuk Seri Najib Razak today to declare any plans for a tribunal to investigate criminal allegations made by a former senior police officer against Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail and former national police chief Tan Sri Musa Hassan.
The DAP advisor said the prime minister should heed former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim’s warning that he could also be liable for criminal charges should he choose to ignore the allegations, which are “already within his knowledge”.
Gani and the two retired policemen had investigated Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s “black-eye” assault case in 1998.
“How long is Najib to remain ‘blind, deaf and mute’ to the mounting pressures for a judicial tribunal to investigate serious allegations against the Attorney-General Abdul Gani and former Inspector-General of Police Musa for subversion of the rule of law and the perversion of the course of justice?” Lim wrote in a statement here.
The Ipoh Timor MP was responding the Mat Zain’s latest round of allegations against the two men, both of whom the former policeman have accused repeatedly of falsifying evidence in the “black eye” incident.
Mat Zain, who was the investigating officer in the case, had earlier revealed that neither Abdul Gani nor Musa have ever been cleared of or investigated for evidence fabrication, adding that this was a “new lead” that would warrant the formation of the tribunal.
He wrote in an open letter today that graftbusters had only opened a probe against the duo under Section 15 of the Anti-Corruption Agency Act in 1998 for abuse of power and not evidence fabrication.
Mat Zain stressed that the investigation had no relevance to the accusations of evidence fabrication against Abdul Gani and Musa.
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