Gani Patail perlu jelaskan dakwaan-dakwaan terhadapnya - Penasihat SPRM

MS : Hang jangan dok senyum saja Gani ai, ce ... jangan dok ingat hang ada pangkat tinggi, hang peguam negara, boleh dakwa orang sana sini, hang ingat hang boleh buat apa saja ka?

Ini lah pemikiran yang ada pada semua yang berpangkat tinggi, samada politik atau pentadbiran kerajaaan. Kononnya mereka ni kebal undang-undang. Tindakan tak boleh diambil. Kalau nak ambil tindakan kena tanya Najib dulu ... sampai bila ianya akan berterusan?

Kalau dengan pembangkang hangpa cukup cepat bertindak. Tapi bila kena batang hidung sendiri, macam-macam alasan diberikan ....

Oleh Debra Chong

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Dis – Pengerusi Yayasan Sosial Penyayang Tan Sri Robert Phang hari ini secara terbuka menggesa Peguam Negara agar membuat penjelasan berhubung dakwaan-dakwaan mengaitkannya dengan personaliti korporat berprofil tinggi, yang turut menimbulkan persoalan komitmen Putrajaya melawan rasuah.

Phang, yang juga anggota panel penasihat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) berkata, cakap-cakap mengenai hubungan rapat Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail (gambar) telah mencalar kedudukan beliau selaku penasihat perundangan tertinggi negara, yang secara tidak langsung membawa kepada persepsi bahawa kerajaan mengamalkan pendakwaan selektif.

Jaksa Pendamai ini menggariskan beberapa kes sebagai contoh, antara ketiadaan tindakan mahkamah di pihak kerajaan ke atas bekas pengerusi Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli berhubung dakwaan skandal kewangan yang membawa kepada kerugian RM8 bilion.

Phang juga mempersoalkan keputusan terbaru untuk mendakwa bekas menteri besar Selangor Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo berhubung isu pembelian dua lot tanah dan banglo di bawah Kanun Keseksaan berbanding akta baru SPRM yang membawa hukuman lebih berat.

Mohamad Khir, 45, didakwa telah mendapatkan untuk dirinya dan isteri Datin Seri Zahrah Kechik, 45, suatu barang berharga dengan suatu balasan yang beliau ketahui tidak mencukupi iaitu dua lot tanah dan sebuah rumah di Jalan Suasa 7/1 L, Shah Alam, daripada Ditamas Sdn Bhd melalui pengarah syarikat itu, Shamsuddin Hayroni, dengan harga RM3.5 juta sedangkan hartanah itu telah dibeli oleh Ditamas pada 23 Disember 2004 dengan harga RM6.5 juta.

“Malangnya jika Peguam Negara sendiri menjadi halangan kepada langkah kerajaan dan SPRM dalam usaha memperlihatkan kerajaan yang Bersih, Cekap, Amanah,” kata beliau dalam satu kenyataan dikeluarkan hari ini.

“Orang awam perlu diberi kepuasan berhubung usaha kerajaan mendapatkan kembali keyakinan publik bahawa ia serius dalam menangani rasuah dan dalam usaha mendapatkan keadilan bagi semua,” tegas beliau.

Gambar-gambar percutian Abdul Gani bersama Shahidan Shafie – yang dikatakan sebagai proksi Tajudin - yang disebar luas menerusi Internet dan saluran-saluran lain, mendesak pihak berkuasa agar membuka semula kes membabitkan kerugian RM8 bilion MAS pada 2001.

Kes itu pernah dibawa oleh Naib Presiden PAS Salahuddin Ayub baru-baru ini.

“Selagi wujud perasaan was-was mengenai tatalaku peribadi Peguam Negara Gani Patail sebagaimana digambarkan dan ia tidak ditangani, kesemua usaha ikhlas di pihak kerajaan dan SPRM akan sia-sia,” kata beliau.

“Ia hanya akan dianggap sebagai satu usaha hubungan awam ataupun slogan semata-mata,” kata Phang.

Dakwaan membabitkan Abdul Gani muncul di portal berita Malaysia Today, yang dikendalikan oleh blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin.

Phang mengeluarkan kenyataan itu hari ini ketika negara dikejutkan dengan surat terbuka pegawai polis kanan Datuk Mat Zai kepada Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Ismail Omar berhubung isu insiden mata lebam Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Putrajaya akan mengumumkan keputusan final Isnin ini sama ada perlu membuka semula kertas siasatan berkaitan insiden mata lebam itu yang berlaku 12 tahun lalu, ekoran dakwaan wujudnya bukti terbaru sebagaimana didedahkan oleh Mat Zain.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz memberitahu The Malaysian Insider kelmarin bahawa beliau akan menjawab gesaan pembangkang di Parlimen minggu depan berhubung isu itu dan keputusan yang bakal diumumkan adalah “muktamad”.

Nazri berkata, penjelasan telah diperoleh daripada Abdul Gani berhubung dakwaan terbaru bahawa beliau telah memalsukan keterangan dalam siasatan kes Anwar dipukul ketika ditahan di lokap Bukit Aman pada September 1998.

Beliau sedang meneliti butiran berkaitan isu tersebut.

Pada 24 November lalu, Nazri berkata, kerajaan akan menyiasat surat terbuka Mat Zain yang mendakwa Peguam Negara mempunyai peranan dalam insiden mata lebam Anwar yang berlaku 12 tahun lepas.

Surat terbuka kedua kepada Ismail dikeluarkan semalam - TMI

1Wrong Malaysia - Tiada pendakwaan terhadap Lingam

1 Wrong Malaysia: No prosecutions in Lingamgate — Richard Wee (loyarburok.com)

OCT 23 — I am going to write this based on what I see, heard and concluded. So at the end of this article, please tell me if I am wrong or correct.

About two years ago, a friend e-mailed a video link of a man on the phone mentioning names of people in the Judiciary. I instantly recognised the man as VK Lingam. (Much later, there was a second video link of the second half of the conversation.) But I am not a 1 Video Forensic Expert, so I could be wrong.

In the conversation, I can hear discussion about getting a Tan Sri-ship to the receiver of that call. The man who looked and sounded like VK Lingam had insisted that the receiver of that tele-conversation should get his Tan Sri-ship as soon as possible. But I am not a 1 Video Forensic Expert, I could have heard wrongly.

Then as I walked out of my office room, I informed my other partners to watch the video. We laughed at the amount of time this person, who sounded and looked like VK Lingam, said the word “Correct, Correct, Correct”. But we were also very upset as the video looked and sounded like a recording of a man fixing up judicial appointments of judges in Malaysia. But then again, I am not a 1 Video Forensic Expert, I may have heard wrongly.

Later, I found out many members of the Malaysian Bar watched this video, and the lawyers were so upset, that over 2,000 of us handed a memorandum to the Prime Minister demanding a royal commission to get to the bottom of this. I was part of that peaceful march and my friend Lee Shih and I were right at the back of that group that morning.

I also recall when a few of us were planning the walk, Lim Chee Wee, George Varghuse and I visited Putrajaya on the Sunday before the walk, where the two gentleman walked from the Palace of Justice to the PM’s Office at Putrajaya, to gauge the distance so as to prepare for the walk that week. I was lucky, I did not have to walk that Sunday — Chee Wee asked me to drive his car and wait for him and George at the end of their walk.

But the thought that lingered in my mind as we did our simulated walk that Sunday was “Is it wrong for us to walk?”

We then had the royal commission where I was asked by Lawasia, an international organisation of lawyers based in Australia, to attend the hearing on a watching brief. I watched and heard the testimonies of many people. Some were defensive, some clearly had something to hide, and some were just cocky and dismissive. But my feelings as I listen to the hearing, was that something was definitely wrong, and that it was likely that the man in the video was in fact VK Lingam. But I am just 1 small Malaysian, I may be wrong.

I thought I was correct at that time. But obviously, I must have been wrong. Despite 2,000 of us who marched that day at Putrajaya, the thousands of comments and articles condemning the content of that video and more importantly the damning hearing and eventual report by the royal commission; our 1 Government — through the 1 and only Public Prosecutor —announced yesterday that the VK Lingam case is closed and no prosecutions will be carried out.

So, now you can see what I said earlier, I made 1 too many wrong conclusions above. I must be wrong, wrong, wrong as I was clearly not correct, correct, correct. — loyarburok.com

STONE: Kah kah kah Richard ... correct ... correct ... correct ... What can we do now? ... We can't do much ... Everything is in their hand. They can do anything, they can say anything ... but we? Just listen to whatever they says ... That is 1Malaysia ... kah kah kah.