ANY attempt by the authorities to reach out to any individual must be made via ‘hand-served’ official notice and NOT via phone call or social media platforms such as WhatsApp text/Telegram or SMS (short message service),
Such is the view of civil and criminal lawyer Faizal Rahman after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) claimed that Chai Jin Shern a.k.a. James Chai – the ex-aide to former economy minister Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli – had blocked the mobile number of its investigating officer (IO) on Feb 26 after several futile attempts to contact him.
“That is stated in the MACC Act 2009. Except that the MACC is working according to the Akta Cokia Cap Ayam Madani (slang phrase to describe a half-hearted or very low-quality effort),” jibed the owner of legal practice Faizal Rahman & Co in reaction to MACC having attempted to reach out to Chai via two phone numbers known to belong to him.
“Hmmm … If you want to learn more about how to serve an OFFICIAL NOTICE, call me for a course but must pay me. OK? 
”
In refuting Chai’s claim that “a few simple phone calls to former colleagues or even a LinkedIn search would have ascertained his whereabouts” instead of publicly expose his personal details such as his family address, MACC said its IO had attempted to contact Chai “who had been traced to be in the UK” beginning Feb 24.
“Therefore, the claim that MACC didn’t attempt to contact him before issuing the notice (to assist in investigation) is completely untrue,” clarified the anti-graft agency in a media statement.
“Attempts to portray normal investigative procedures as acts of persecution against an individual are unwarranted and made in bad faith.
“Such narratives not only mislead the public but may also undermine public confidence in legitimate law enforcement processes, particularly while investigations are still on-going.”
Falling prey to scammers
Delving further, Faizal chided the MACC for having recycled the long standing “cokia cap ayam” work system well into the Madani era.
“The so-called institutional reform that is being shouted about is just rubbish level rhetoric. In fact, that’s how things (government functions) worked out in the past till now,” berated the Madani critic who surprisingly is a PKR member.
“Why do you have to serve an OFFICIAL NOTICE? Because Malaysians have the right to fundamental freedoms and those rights are to be freely enjoyed by everyone, UNTIL the OFFICIAL NOTICE is issued and SERVED, only then is an individual subject to the MACC Act 2009.”
“For cybertroopers (who wish to attack Faizal on his view), I don’t expect you to be smart. This is because the MOST COURAGEOUS officer of PMX also produces “cokia cap ayam” quality work.”
As expected, a pro-Madani/MACC netizen called out to Chai to “come out and clear your name instead of hiding if you’ve done nothing wrong for we also need an answer” to which Faizal reiterated that “as long as no OFFICIAL NOTICE is served, Malaysians are FREE to go anywhere”.
“That is a RIGHT guaranteed under the Federal Constitution,” he stressed.
Over on the MACC’s FB page, one commenter defended Chai’s right “to block unknown numbers given there’re many scammers out there”.
Perhaps former PKR deputy president Rafizi is right that instead of ‘clamping down” on Chai who used to be his intern at think tank Invoke Malaysia, the first person MACC should be looking for if indeed there were irregularities in the RM1.11 bil mega agreement between the government and UK-based Arm Holdings plc, “it’s the Prime Minister himself”.
This came about as the Pandan MP alleged that MACC’s head honcho Tan Sri Azam Baki was instead focusing on locating his former aide who had “merely prepared presentation slides and is currently working in Cambridge (UK)”.
- focus malaysia
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