Teoh’s death probe: No CCTV footage of him leaving building
(The Star) SHAH ALAM: Initial viewing of the closed circuit television recordings shows political aide Teoh Beng Hock entering the Plaza Masalam building here where the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has its office on the afternoon of July 15, but there is no footage showing him coming out.
Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said his men were trying to determine the sequence of events that led to Teoh’s death.
The MACC, investigating the alleged misuse of constituency funds by Selangor state representatives, had taken in Teoh for questioning last Wednesday, July 15. It was the last time he was seen alive by the outside world.
The MACC said it had released Teoh at about 3:45 on July 16, after nearly eight hours of interrogation. A janitor found his body at 1:30pm that day on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam.
“We are comparing the post-mortem report; we have found that death occurred four to five hours before his body was found,” DCP Khalid said.
He added that police were also looking into the possibility of underworld links in the case, and said that the investigation was about 60% complete.
On Sunday, police took documents from the MACC office here, as well as CCTV recordings from Plaza Masalam, as part of its investigation.
The police will call in three men — two assemblymen and a municipal councillor — this week to record their statement, he added.
“We need needs the cooperation of Sri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, Kota Alam Shah assemblyman M. Manoharan and Kajang Municipal councillor Tan Boon Wah to help in the investigations,” he said.
Teoh, a former journalist, was Ean Yong’s political secretary.
DCP Khalid said that Ean Yong and Manoharan were needed for the investigation as the two had spoken to Teoh before he was taken into MACC custody.
“We need to know what transpired at that time,” he said.
He said that police had contacted Tan to have his statement recorded, but he refused to go to the police station.
He added that Tan had lodged a police report at the Shah Alam police station but he refused to come in for a detailed statement.
“This leaves us no choice but to issue a notice under Section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code to summon him to the police station,” he said.
Earlier Monday at the Selangor Police Contingent here, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, who had a three-hour closed door meeting with DCP Khalid and other officers, said the police will wrap up the case as soon as possible.
