Is MACC man who interrogated Beng Hock 'to death' now EAIC's investigating officer?

Questions have been posed over the credibility of the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission, which has been tasked by the government to investigate two recent cases of custodial death.

This is following the suspicion by DAP members of parliament Steven Sim and Zairil Khir Johari who said they had reason to believe that the EAIC's sole investigating officer was one of the controversial officers from the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission iinvolved in the interrogation of Teoh Beng Hock, whose mysterious death under the Commission's custody sparked a public outcry in 2009.

The duo named Mohd Nazri Ibrahim as EAIC's sole officer.

Nazri was MACC's senior assistant superintendent who admitted to interrogating Teoh hours before the latter was found dead on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam which houses the MACC offices on July 16, 2009.

Teoh, who was political officer for Seri Kembangan state assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was arrested by MACC over an allegation that his boss abused state funds.

Sim and Zairil said if true Nazri is currently in EAIC, the government must explain this "blatant disregard for principle of justice and law".

"How can an officer implicated in a death in custody case be put in charge to investigate similar cases. The MACC officer was also charged by Bar Council to have tempered with evidence during the TBH [Teoh Beng Hock] inquest," said Sim.

The EAIC, led by Heliliah Mohd Yusof, had earlier announced a special task force to investigate the death of N. Dhamendran and R. Jamesh, who died separately under custody of the Kuala Lumpur and Penang police respectively.

Prior to this, EAIC chief executive officer Nor Afizah Hanum Mokhtar had lamented that the two-year old commission only had one investigating officer to probe complaints of misconduct involving 19 government enforcement agencies.

- HarakahDaily