Individuals in collusion with Raja Petra can be hauled up – Musa
(Bernama) — Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said individuals in collusion with fugitive Raja Petra Kamarudin can be hauled up under the law.
“We can propose to charge them for harbouring criminals but it is up to the court to decide,” he said when asked what police (PDRM) were doing to bring Raja Petra home.
Newspapers recently ran a photograph of Raja Petra together with private investigator P.Balasubramian and Federal Territory Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) chief Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.
Musa said PDRM could not act in haste to record statements from them as procedures had to be followed.
“We can’t go to the country to detain him as it too has laws but this does not mean that we can’t act.”
He said although Interpol had refused to track down the Malaysia Today webmaster, PDRM had other initiatives and strategies to detain him.
Raja Petra fled Malaysia after two warrants of arrest were issued on him for failing to appear in court to answer a charge of writing and posting a seditious and defamatory article on the prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor on Malaysia Today.
In SHAH ALAM, Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin said statements would be recorded from the politician, editors and reporters involved in the newspaper reports on Raja Petra.
He said this would be done based on two police reports lodged in Petaling Jaya and Brickfields on Sunday claiming that certain people were harbouring Raja Petra.
“We will record statements from several reporters this week,” he said after receiving 24 stolen vehicles worth RM1.26 million from Dubai Customs here on Tuesday.
The case was being investigated under Section 212 of Penal Code.
The public should understand that PDRM had to follow procedures and the law when investigating the case of Raja Petra as it involved another country.
“But this does not mean that we do not act. What is wrong in our country may not be wrong in another country,” Bakri added.
The 4WD vehicles recovered in Dubai were reported stolen in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Negeri Sembilan.
They were smuggled out via Port Klang.
