FMT:
‘Disappointed’ NGO wants PM to reopen Teoh Beng Hock inquiry
Association chairman Ng Yap Hwa says they have engaged ministers, deputy ministers, MPs and political secretaries with little to show for their efforts.
The Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement said it is disappointed with the government’s apparent lack of will to reopen the case. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: The Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement said it will visit the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), claiming that requests to reopen the investigation into Teoh’s death have been ignored by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Association chairman Ng Yap Hwa said its representatives will accompany Teoh’s family to Putra Perdana on Dec 13 because they are disappointed with the prime minister’s inaction.
“Over the past year, the association and Teoh’s family have written to the prime minister and home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. We engaged ministers, deputy ministers, MPs and political secretaries to ask for a new investigation.
“However, the unity government did not give a concrete response to our demand,” Ng said in a statement.
He said they were promised by a deputy minister during the 14th-anniversary memorial in July that they would have a meeting with the prime minister, but claimed that nothing had materialised since.
FMT has reached out to the PMO for comment.
Teoh was a political aide to former DAP assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah. He was taken into custody and questioned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on July 15, 2009 over alleged fraudulent disbursement of constituency allocations.
His body was found the next morning on a rooftop adjacent to the MACC office in Shah Alam.
In 2011, a royal commission of inquiry set up to investigate Teoh’s death concluded that he had been driven to commit suicide and blamed intensive interrogation by three MACC officers.
Upon winning the 2018 general election, the then Pakatan Harapan administration pledged to reopen the investigation, with then DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng saying it was the attorney-general’s decision to do so.
In January, Ng said the new government must have the political will to tackle this long-standing issue.
He also urged the home ministry to take the Court of Appeal decision on the case “seriously”. In 2014, the court had ruled that Teoh’s death was a result of, or accelerated by, the unlawful act or acts of persons unknown, including MACC officers.
PETALING JAYA: The Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement said it will visit the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), claiming that requests to reopen the investigation into Teoh’s death have been ignored by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Association chairman Ng Yap Hwa said its representatives will accompany Teoh’s family to Putra Perdana on Dec 13 because they are disappointed with the prime minister’s inaction.
“Over the past year, the association and Teoh’s family have written to the prime minister and home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. We engaged ministers, deputy ministers, MPs and political secretaries to ask for a new investigation.
“However, the unity government did not give a concrete response to our demand,” Ng said in a statement.
He said they were promised by a deputy minister during the 14th-anniversary memorial in July that they would have a meeting with the prime minister, but claimed that nothing had materialised since.
FMT has reached out to the PMO for comment.
Teoh was a political aide to former DAP assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah. He was taken into custody and questioned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on July 15, 2009 over alleged fraudulent disbursement of constituency allocations.
His body was found the next morning on a rooftop adjacent to the MACC office in Shah Alam.
In 2011, a royal commission of inquiry set up to investigate Teoh’s death concluded that he had been driven to commit suicide and blamed intensive interrogation by three MACC officers.
Upon winning the 2018 general election, the then Pakatan Harapan administration pledged to reopen the investigation, with then DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng saying it was the attorney-general’s decision to do so.
In January, Ng said the new government must have the political will to tackle this long-standing issue.
He also urged the home ministry to take the Court of Appeal decision on the case “seriously”. In 2014, the court had ruled that Teoh’s death was a result of, or accelerated by, the unlawful act or acts of persons unknown, including MACC officers.
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