'Teoh murdered': MACC lodges report against Suara Keadilan
Two officers of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today lodged police reports against PKR organ ‘Suara Keadilan’ and pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand of Thailand over an article which confirmed as murder the death of Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock who had been questioned by the MACC.
The report was lodged over an article which confirmed as murder the death of Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock who had been questioned by the MACC.
Two officers of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today lodged police reports against PKR organ Suara Keadilan and pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand of Thailand over an article which confirmed as murder the death of Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock who had been questioned by the MACC. 
The officers, Hisham Mohd Yusoff, 30, and Raub Ghani, 41, of the Putrajaya MACC investigation branch, made the reports at about 10.30am at the Shah Alam district police headquarters.
Hisham said in his report that he read the article in the latest issue of the newspaper - dated Dec 29, 2009 to Jan 5, 2010 - yesterday and found that the article concluded that Teoh, a political aide to a Selangor state executive councillor, had been murdered.
He said in the report that according to the article, Teoh, who was found dead on the fifth floor of the Plaza Masalam building on July 16 last year, was confirmed to have been murdered based on the second post-mortem conducted on the body at the Sungai Buloh Hospital on Nov 22 last year.
"As an MACC officer, I ask the police to conduct a thorough investigation in connection with the article by Suara Keadilan because I feel that what was circulated is subjudice and contrary to the ongoing inquest (into Teoh's death).
"It is also in keeping with a reminder by the Selangor police chief prohibiting anyone from discussing the Teoh case," he said.
Dr Porntip may have ‘leaked’ info
In the other police report, Raub said he made the report against Dr Pornthip because he suspected that she had leaked the information on the forensic report to unauthorised people.
"This (police) report is made because every action of Dr Pornthip was contrary to the court's decision and would further undermine the MACC's image," he said in the report.
MACC chief commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed, when contacted, said he had just resumed work after his leave and would ask for a report from his officers on the article as well as copies of the police report.
"If they have lodged police reports, let the police conduct the investigation," he said.
Police to question reporter
Meanwhile, Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar, when contacted, confirmed that two police reports had been made and that he would call up the Suara Keadilan reporter who wrote the article to find out what was reported before classifying the case.
On July 16 last year, Teoh, 30, the political aide to Selangor state executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam after he had given a statement as a witness on alleged misuse of allocations for state assemblymen, at the MACC office located on the 14th floor of the same building.
Teoh, was buried four days later at the Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih, Selangor, but the body was exhumed four months later after the coroner allowed a second post-mortem on Nov 22.
The second post-mortem was conducted by Sungai Buloh Hospital Pathology Unit head Dr Shahidan Md Noor, with Dr Pornthip in attendance as an observer representing the Selangor government, while MACC was represented by independent forensic expert Prof Dr Peter Vanezis of the United Kingdom.
- Bernama
