Senior MACC man denies forcing Teoh onto ledge
By Boo Su-Lyn, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — A senior anti-graft officer has denied forcing Teoh Beng Hock to sit on a window ledge in his previous office to scare him, the royal panel investigating Teoh’s death heard today.
Former Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim also denied interrogating Teoh by blindfolding the DAP aide or shaking him by holding his belt.
“You took Teoh Beng Hock and forced him to sit on the ledge to scare him. Did you do that?” asked Bar Council lawyer Edmund Bon at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI).
“Your Honour, that’s not true at all,” replied Hishamuddin, who is currently the Negri Sembilan MACC director.
“I say to you that on that night, one of the interrogation techniques was to hold on to Teoh Beng Hock’s belt and shake him to scare him into giving you your desired testimony,” said Bon.
“That’s not true. It’s an assumption and slander,” said Hishamuddin, 46, adding that he never interrogated Teoh.
Teoh’s body was found on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009 after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers at their then-Selangor headquarters on the 14th floor.
The anti-graft officers were investigating a claim that Teoh’s boss, Ean Yong Hian Wah, was abusing state funds.
Ean Yong is a Selangor state executive councillor and Seri Kembangan assemblyman from the DAP.
