Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 5)

Malaysia Today has been left with little choice but to now proceed with parts 5 to 8 on the lies and deceptions by the MACC. The truth will now have to be revealed and those slime-balls and scumbags who walk in the corridors of power will have to be stripped naked for all and sundry to see.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

THE TIME HAS COME TO EXPOSE THE KILLERS OF AHMAD SARBAINI MOHAMED

Do you remember last month Malaysia Today ran a four-part series on the lies and deceptions behind the death of Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed, the Customs Deputy Director who was killed on 6th April 2011 while under the custody of the MACC?

We stopped at Part 4 because we wanted to give the MACC, the Police and AG Gani Patail a chance to redeem themselves and, for once, to come clean and tell the truth.



Police removing evidence of the cause of death of Ahmad Sarbaini from the MACC Office

Malaysia Today promised that Part 5 would only be published if they try to whitewash the Inquest and sweep everything under the carpet. It looks like the MACC and those in collaboration with them remain unrepentant after the fiasco of Teoh Beng Hock’s death.



Police forensic fixing up Teoh Beng Hock’s cause of death

Malaysia Today has been left with little choice but to now proceed with parts 5 to 8 on the lies and deceptions by the MACC. The truth will now have to be revealed and those slime-balls and scumbags who walk in the corridors of power will have to be stripped naked for all and sundry to see.

The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of Malaysians by getting DSP Sharul Othman Mansor of PDRM’s Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) to say in the Inquest that Ahmad Sarbaini did not commit suicide and neither was his death a homicide.

To placate Ahmad Sarbaini’s family and the powerful Customs Union, AG Gani Patail has used that Mr Fixit Lawyer Extraordinaire, Dato Seri Shafee Abdullah, to cook up a story that Ahmad Sarbaini was attempting to escape by jumping out of the window to a nearby concrete roof and ended up falling to his death instead.

In others words, Ahmad Sarbaini died while attempting to escape by flying out of the window like a little bird.

Well, this is not what our Little Bird tells us, our Deep Throats in the top echelons of the Royal Malaysian Police or PDRM. What they have told us is a very different story indeed.

Malaysia Today does not wish to be contemptuous of Coroner Aizatul Akmal Maharani. However, since the Coroner has already made a site visit to the MACC building at Jalan Cochrane, he can himself see how preposterous that theory of ‘accidental death’ will sound to the family, the Customs Union, and to all Malaysians who wish to see the name of an innocent dead man cleared and his murderers identified and brought to justice.



Coroner Aizatul Akmal making a site inspection of the MACC building in Jalan Cochrane

Now, first of all, allow Malaysia Today to help you recap and understand the facts and the evidence to this whole tragedy. Then we will reveal the identities of the killers. Hopefully, Coroner Aizatul Akmal will also arrive at the same finding or else he is going to look like one very silly dude.

Ops 3 B

On 28th March 2011, the MACC HQ launched a sensational Ops 3B. On 1st April (probably it was meant as an April Fool’s joke), the MACC arrested 62 officers in Penang, Johor, Selangor and Pahang. The arrested Customs officers were supposed to have been part of a nationwide syndicate that had cheated the government of tax revenues in excess of RM108 billion.

How the MACC came up with that figure is a mystery and a candidate for an entry into Ripley’s Believe it or Not. In any event, the MACC no longer cited that figure of RM108 billion in their official statements. They probably realised that this was just a figment of their imagination, a fantasy they created and ended up with them having to fix people to make it believable.

The task and objective given by the MACC HQ to the respective state offices, including MACC KL, was to detect and detain (kenal dan tahan). Thus, these raids and arrests were made without any prior investigations. After all, the MACC’s modus operandi is to arrest first and conduct an investigation later.

The mainstream media was fed with leaked stories of Customs officers owning extraordinary wealth in their bank accounts and seizures of gold bars and bags of cash (like you see in the ‘Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves’ movie). This created a public frenzy.

However, until now, not a single one of these officers has been charged for any crime.

Ahmad Sarbaini’s Arrest

On 1st April at 12 noon, Customs IO Sheikh Niza Khairy Bin Sheikh Mohamad went to Ahmad Sarbaini’s office with several other MACC officers to arrest him. Although Ahmad Sarbaini was embarrassed, as a God-fearing man he remained calm and collected.

These MACC officers admitted in court that from the very beginning they noted that Ahmad Sarbaini was very co-operative and calm. When asked about his assets, without any hesitation Ahmad Sarbaini brought them to a house that he co-owned with his wife and which they had rented out, and to the house that he was staying in at that time (medium and low cost).

At his own house, he told his daughter to tell his wife that he would not be coming back that evening.

Ahmad Sarbaini also managed to compile and provide Sheikh Niza’s team with all his and his wife’s available bank statements. All this information was provided by Ahmad Sarbaini at the time he was arrested.

Because the MACC did not conduct any prior investigation on him, they did not know what questions to ask him after they had arrested him. So they kept him overnight at the police lockup in Bukit Jalil.

That is also part of the MACC’s modus operandi to strike fear into the hearts of those arrested.

Ahmad Sarbaini’s First Cautioned Statement

Although he was arrested at noon of 1st April, Ahmad Sarbaini spent much of that April Fool’s Day in the lockup. By the next day, on 2nd April, as the permitted 24-hours detention period was up, the MACC realised they would have to release him or apply to remand him.

Since the MACC did not have any evidence of corruption against him, the MACC could not seek to remand him. So the Ketua Unit Siasatan (KUS) Mohd Fauzi Bin Hussin @ Che Mamat directed MACC IO Mohd Rosly Bin Mohd Saupy to record Ahmad Sarbaini’s statement as an arrested/accused person. By doing so, Fauzi wanted to cover up for the MACC’s false arrest against Ahmad Sarbaini.

That Cautioned Statement recorded under section 53(3) of the MACC Act was the first statement given by Ahmad Sarbaini and covered six pages where he gave a detailed description of all his and his family’s assets. It was recorded in 45 minutes and Ahmad Sarbaini specifically denied having ever received any “wang imbuhan” while discharging his Customs duties.

Malaysia Today will publish a copy of that Cautioned Statement in Part 8 of this report and you will be able to see at the beginning of page 4 where he made that categorical denial.

TO BE CONTINUED

ADDENDUM
Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 1)
http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/40947-ahmad-sarbanis-death-the-lies-and-deceptions-by-the-macc-part-1

Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 2)
http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/40949-ahmad-sarbanis-death-the-lies-and-deceptions-by-the-macc-part-2

Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 3)
http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/40951-ahmad-sarbanis-death-the-lies-and-deceptions-by-the-macc-part-3

Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 4)
http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/no-holds-barred/40952-ahmad-sarbanis-death-the-lies-and-deceptions-by-the-macc-part-4