MACC must take full blame for Beng Hocks death, says Kit Siang

April 26, 2011

Lim said the MACC tried to implicate the DAP right from the start of its investigations. File picKUALA LUMPUR, April 26 The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must now take full responsibility for Teoh Beng Hocks death as investigations showed no proof of graft against his boss Ean Yong Hian Wah, said Lim Kit Siang today.The DAP parliamentary leader said that the anti-graft body could no longer push the blame to the DAP as there was no motivation for Teoh to have committed suicide after being questioned at the Selangor MACC office on July 16, 2009.All fingers point back to MACC now, he told The Malaysian Insider.The Teoh Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) was told today that the MACC failed to find evidence to prove Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong abused state funds and the public prosecutor instructed it to stop investigations.Results from investigations showed there was no testimony that could link YB Ean to wrongdoing under section 18 of the MACC Act 2009, acting senior superintendent Ahmad Shafik Abdul Rahman said at the inquiry today.Lim said the lack of evidence showed that the investigation was politically motivated and done in bad faith.Right from the start MACC tried to implicate DAP. This is not something an independent agency should do.MACC should never have gone into this as it is another blow to their credibility, the Ipoh Timur MP said.Teoh was found dead on July 16, 2009 on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers at their then-Selangor headquarters on the 14th floor.Teoh, 30, was the political secretary to Ean Yong, the Seri Kembangan assemblyman from the DAP, at the time of his death.A coroners inquiry into the death delivered an open verdict, ruling out both homicide and suicide.The resulting outcry forced Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to form the RCI, 18 months aft! er Teoh fell to his death.