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Sunday, August 9, 2015

‘Police oppression in the name of democracy’

Transparency International says it's an offence under MACC Act to interfere with officer or investigation
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police action against the anti-corruption agency MACC compromises parliamentary democracy, while at the same time the police claim to be protecting the same parliamentary democracy, Transparency International Malaysia said today.
The group condemned action by the authorities to obstruct MACC investigations, saying such action was unlawful under Section 48 of the MACC Act. The section makes it an offence to assault, obstruct, hinder or delay any MACC officer in carrying out his duty. It is also an offence to interfere with, put fear into, threaten or abduct any person involved in an MACC investigation or to attempt to do so.
TI-M’s president, Akhbar Satar, said Malaysia was becoming an oppressed state as a result of government actions which have derailed investigations into the debt-ridden government investment arm 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
Akhbar said the Inspector-General of Police and his deputy had both denied interference, but the arrests, detention or questioning of seven MACC investigators since July 31 proved otherwise.
Akhbar pointed out that MACC’s special operations director had blamed “hidden hands” while the deputy chief commissioner had stated that the police action had “more or less disrupted the smoothness of the investigation process.”
Akhbar said there appeared to be “a systematic dismantling and neutralisation” of the MACC. The agency has been investigating the affairs of the troubled government investment arm 1Malaysia Development Bhd and the links between a former subsidiary and the deposit of US$700 million and RM42 million into the personal banking acounts of the prime minister, Najib Razak.
“How the tables have turned!” Akhbar said. “It is as if some are allowed to operate above our own anti-corruption laws and are immune from MACC’s statutory powers.”
He said the authorities actions against the 1MDB investigations had cause public confidence to plummet, “as parliamentary democracy is being compromised daily” while ironically some of these unjustifiable actions were made in the name of preserving parliamentary democracy.

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