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Teoh put under pressure MACC OFFICER TOLD TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM WITNESSES ON MISUSE OF FUNDS by Tan Yi Liang [email protected]

SHAH ALAM: Senior Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers ordered an investigating officer to detain Teoh Beng Hock and three other witnesses for questioning overnight to pressure them to spill the beans over alleged misappropriation of allocation for a state assemblyman, the inquest into Teoh’s death heard yesterday. MACC investigating officer Mohd Anuar Ismail said this was done because the probe into the case had to be “sped up” as the issue of the alleged misuse of public funds had become “sensitive” as it was all over the media. Under intense questioning from Gobind Singh Deo, for Teoh’s family, Anuar admitted he had held Teoh and the witnesses over the night of July 15 as Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim and the head of investigations, Hairul Ilham, had directed

Mohd Anuar ... did not inform police as he was not instructed to.

him to extract information from them. evidence of torture as the surrounding offices since he was sleeping. He said Teoh was questioned by two officers were closed. When Gobind suggested that Anuar did not from 6pm until 3 to 3.45am the next day, and Anuar said when he went to check on the know if Teoh was oppressed, Anuar nodded. described the extended detention as “normal”. recording of Teoh’s statement at 2am by a Under questioning by MACC counsel Datuk He said he was not aware that Teoh’s junior officer, Teoh appeared uncomfortable, Abdul Razak Musa, Anuar said the MACC had lawyer M. Manoharan had been waiting to as if he was holding something back. seized boxes of documents from contractors see Teoh for more than an hour, although he “I suspected that something was amiss, but linked to Teoh’s boss executive councillor had agreed to allow him to be present during decided not to ask Teoh what was troubling Ean Yong Hian Wah regarding the misapprothe questioning. He said he, however, had not him in front of the recording officer,” said priation, and testified that Teoh had seemed checked if Manoharan was there, as Teoh was Anuar, who said he went back to sleep. “nervous” when his laptop and desktop just a witness and had not been arrested. Gobind then accused Anuar of lying to were seized at his office at the Selangor State Gobind: “Isn’t it oppressive for an individual the court when he testified on Monday that Secretariat building. He said four pages of to be interrogated late into the night?” Teoh was not oppressed during the documents printed from the laptop were used “It may tire the witness,” said Anuar, questioning, in the questioning of Teoh. who admitted there were was no standard The inquest continues today. operating procedure for interrogating witnesses, except the procedures under the Anti-Corruption Act and several other laws. Anuar also admitted he did not make a police report immediately after seeing Teoh’s body at the fifth the preliminary toxicology results and his prelimiHOUSTON: Michael Jackson died from floor of Plaza Masalam at 2pm on nary assessment of Jackson’s cause of death was a lethal dose of the powerful anaesthetic July 16 as Hishamuddin told him to due to lethal levels of propofol (diprivan),” accordpropofol given in a cocktail of drugs, leading seek further instruction from MACC ing to a warrant to search Murray’s offices. authorities to suspect his doctor of manheadquarters in Putrajaya. In an affidavit seeking the slaughter, court documents “There was panic upon seeing a warrant, Houston police officer showed on Monday. body there. I informed HishamudPropofol factfile E.G. Chance said US agents had The Thriller singer sufdin and sought further instruction,” gathered “items constituting fered cardiac arrest and said Anuar. evidence of the offence of died on June 25 at age 50. This response shocked Gobind, manslaughter that tend to Since then, an investigation who asked Anuar whether he cared about the fate of his “star witness”. show that Dr Conrad Murray by state and federal agenAnuar replied that he would have made committed the said criminal cies have focused on Conrad a report if he was “instructed to do so”. offence.” Murray, the superstar’s perGobind then suggested that Anuar Murray, who was with Jacksonal doctor who was at his was “actually hiding something”. son on June 25 administering bedside the day he died. “That’s why you were afraid to drugs to ease the pop star The findings, contained lodge a police report at that to sleep, gave him a range in a warrant to search Murtime, so that you could conof medication including a ray’s home and offices, paint Powerful anaesthetic usually used ceal the evidence at the 25mg dose of propofol via an a picture of an insomniac before and during surgery scene because it was intravenous drip at 10.40am, pop star who could not sleep Can be used in small doses to actually the MACC the warrant said. without heavy medication. reduce stress or anxiety officers who killed Jackson referred to proJackson sought out propofol Produced as white, opaque fluid Teoh,” he said. pofol as his “milk” because – routinely used to sedate paand administered intravenously Anuar denied of its milky appearance, the tients and anaesthetise them Known by trade name Diprivan this, along with warrant said. In the early before surgery – and called it an allegation Used in medical settings with strict hours of June 25, Murray his “milk”. guidelines requiring availability that the MACC also gave Jackson doses “The Los Angeles Chief of resuscitation equipment routinely of Valium and Ativan and Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr Increasingly popular because it questioned witsedative Versed, the filing Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, works quickly and effectively, nesses at night said. – Reuters indicated that he had reviewed leaving very little hangover to hide any

Lethal propofol dose killed MJ

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