While the three-man panel led by former Chief Judge of Malaya Haidar Mohd Noor has restricted itself to probing only the authenticity of the infamous VK Lingam tape, Malaysiakini examines the 'facts' contained in the eight-minute conversation.

In the grainy video clip , senior lawyer Lingam was talking to purportedly Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim on his mobile telephone. The video is believed to be taken in 2002.

Below is a compilation of the facts established from various sources with a side-by-side comparison to parts of Lingam's conversation with Ahmad Fairuz.

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