KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has pledged a comprehensive internal probe into the death plunge of a Customs officer at its office here today, adding it will cooperate fully with the police which is investigating the case, the second death since its inception in 2009.
MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed also expressed condolences tonight to the family of Customs assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed (picture), who was found dead in the commission’s office earlier today. The 56-year-old Customs officer was among 62 detained last week in connection with billions in unpaid taxes.
“I, as the MACC chief commissioner, express my sadness and sympathy over what has happened. The MACC will carry out a comprehensive internal probe about this matter,” he said in a statement tonight.
In the four-paragraph statement, Abu Kassim hoped that the death would not be “exploited or manipulated by certain quarters for their personal interests”, without elaborating on the statement.
Sarbani’s death comes as a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) is investigating MACC operational procedures and the death of Teoh Beng Hock on July 16, 2009. The DAP political aide was a witness whose body was found sprawled on the fifth floor corridor of the organisation’s Selangor headquarters.
An inquest returned an open verdict of neither suicide or homicide. - Malaysian Insider
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