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Friday, December 10, 2010

CJ's alleged misconduct: Karpal to move motion


By FMT Staff

PETALING JAYA: DAP chairman Karpal Singh is moving a parliamentary motion to debate on the alleged misconduct of the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Zaki Azmi, for allegedly admitting that he had bribed court officials.

In a press statement today, the Bukit Gelugor MP said that he has sent a letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Mulia Amin to notify of his intention to move the motion which he termed as "definite, urgent and of public importance".

"I seek leave to move the house... to discuss the conduct of Zaki who has completely ignored my letter of complaint dated Aug 8 against him for misconduct despite he being required in his capacity as the public authority and not judicial to do so pursuant to Section 13 of the Judges Code of Ethics, 2009," said Karpal.

Karpal said that in his complaint he had stated that Zaki has misbehaved himself when he gave a speech on June 11, 2010, at the prize-giving ceremony at the Federal Court Excellent Service Awards.

Zaki had purportedly said: "I will not sympathise with those involved in corruption, be it in the form of monetary gains or mobile phones, flight tickets, hotel vouchers or anything else. Some say if there are no givers, there won't be any corruption, but I say if there are no receivers, there will be no givers."

"(He said this) when he had, in fact, publicly admitted on Nov 7, 2008, in Kuching to a corrupt practice by giving a bribe to court officials when he was in private practice in 1987 thereby breaching Section 7(8) of the Judges Code of Ethics, 2009.

The section states: "A judge shall not conduct himself in any manner which is not befitting of a judge or which brings or which is calculated to bring disrepute to his office as a judge."

Karpal added that Zaki had not replied to his letter despite public reminders and a letter dated Dec 1, demanding that the chief justice respond in seven days.

He said that the conduct of the chief justice must be discussed by the House as the he should not be allowed to defy a law passed by Parliament.

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