Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today an inquest on the death of Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed is only necessary if there are doubts about his death, upon completion of a police investigation.
The prime minister (picture) was responding to a question about the growing calls from the Opposition to conduct an inquiry on the mysterious death, after officiating the launch of the 1 Malaysia Cardiff City Junior Football League 2011 here.
“We need to do this in stages. The first, we should look at the police investigation report and if there's a doubt on his death, then only we will have an inquest,” he told reporters.
De facto law minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz had scoffed at Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) immediate call for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on Ahmad Sarbani’s death, saying the opposition should also press for a similar panel into the alleged sex video of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Opposition leaders on the other hand had called the death at the MACC office a more serious issue, compared to the recently surfaced sex video.
The assistant director of the Selangor Customs died on April 6 after falling from the third floor of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) building on Jalan Cochrane where he was being investigated with others for over a billion ringgit in unpaid taxes.
It was reported that his body was found sprawled on the badminton court at the first floor at 10.15am.
The death comes even as a RCI is being conducted into the anti-graft body’s operating procedures following the death of former DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock, who also fell to his death from an MACC building.
Teoh was found dead on July 16, 2009 on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam, where the Selangor MACC office had then been located.
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Doubts by whom? The MACC? The PDRM? The BN? The public outcry is very loud and very clear, and Najib is talking about doubts!
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