RCI catches another MACC man watching porn
By Boo Su-Lyn, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — An anti-graft officer watched pornography on his office computer hours before Teoh Beng Hock was found dead, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) investigating Teoh’s death said today.
The RCI secretariat released today its special investigator’s analysis of Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer Raymond Nion John Timban’s computer and the computers belonging to five other anti-graft officers.
The RCI revealed last Thursday that Selangor MACC assistant superintendent Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus had also viewed pornography on his office computer in the wee hours of July 16, 2009, after interviewing Teoh.
“Raymond Nion… Access to pornography sites, movies, music,” said RCI special investigator Michael Leslie Squires in his interim report today.
“Used for access to Internet browsing overnight on 16/07/2009,” he added.
Keeping and distributing pornography is an offence in Malaysia.
Ashraf has said he and another MACC officer, Arman Alies, had interviewed Teoh from 10.30pm on July 15, 2009 to 12.30am the following day.
Teoh’s body was found hours later on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after the interview at the then-Selangor MACC 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.
MACC investigating officer Mohd Anuar Ismail told the coroner’s inquest into Teoh’s death last August that Nion was the last to see the DAP aide alive, who was sleeping on a couch in the MACC office at about 6am on July 16, 2009.
RCI chairman Tan Sri James Foong pointed out last Thursday that there was a government directive which prohibited viewing smut in a government office.
But former Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim said he was not authorised to punish Ashraf for watching pornography in the office.
Hishamuddin, who is now the Negri Sembilan MACC director, had said Ashraf’s behaviour was not a work-related matter.
Squires’ report stated that Ashraf had downloaded movies, music and various pornography websites on his office computer.
“On 16/07/2009… (the computer) was used in the early hours (midnight to 01.20) to access a pornography site,” said Squires, 58.
The former chief investigator with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) also disputed MACC assistant superintendent Arman Alies’ claim that his laptop was infected by a virus.
“There is no evidence that the laptop was infected by a virus in June-August 2010. However that is not absolute proof that it was not,” said Squires.
“However, there is no evidence that it was subsequently repaired and an anti-virus installed as stated by Arman Alies. There is evidence that Avira Anti Virus was installed in June 2011,” he added.
