Ahmad Sarbani’s death: the lies and deceptions by the MACC (part 7)

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By MT Webmaster On Jul 19, 2011

Nervously, Ahmad Sarbaini climbed onto the windowsill as ordered by Mohd Fauzi who continued taunting and abusing him with insults. Sheikh Niza merely looked on. In that split second, Ahmad Sarbaini’s belt got stuck on the outer part of the window and he lost his balance and his life. And, horror of horrors, what happened to Teoh Beng Hock happened to Ahmad Sarbaini when he fell to his death onto the badminton court below.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

THE TIME HAS COME TO EXPOSE THE KILLERS OF AHMAD SARBAINI MOHAMED

D Day: 6th April

On the morning of 6th April 2011, Ahmad Sarbaini went to the Subang mosque for his dawn (Subuh) prayers. There, he met his good friend, Azman, and told him that he would be amending his earlier statement given to the MACC. In retrospect, he thought that would not be a problem because he had come to regard Sheikh Niza as a friend.

By 8.30 am, Ahmad Sarbaini was already at the KL MACC office. Within minutes, he was speaking to Sheikh Niza who was eager to record a further Cautioned Statement from Ahmad Sarbaini.

Sheikh Niza panicked when Ahmad Sarbaini told him he wished to retract his earlier confession as it was procured through fraud and deceit. Of course, Sheikh Niza hit the roof and stated clearly that it was absolutely impossible!

Ahmad Sarbaini was upset and became agitated when Sheikh Niza rejected his request outright. He pleaded desperately with Sheikh Niza and explained that he had misunderstood what the confession was about. However, Sheikh Niza flatly dismissed him and told him to report the matter to KUS Mohd Fauzi.

Then Sheikh Niza made Ahmad Sarbaini wait while he discussed this crucial turn of events with Mohd Fauzi. By then, Sheikh Niza’s tone was beginning to sound ominous to Ahmad Sarbaini.

As expected, Mohd Fauzi flipped when he was told that Ahmad Sarbaini wanted to retract his earlier statement. He warned Sheikh Niza that this would ruin both their careers as their HQ was already over the moon about Ahmad Sarbaini’s ‘extracted confession’.

Since IO Abd Ghani was sceptical when he first saw the confession, Mohd Fauzi then asked if he had spoken to Ahmad Sarbaini about this confession.

Abd Ghani was approaching retirement age and had been disillusioned when despite his seniority, bypassed for promotion and with the recent happenings in the MACC. Hence, the ambitious Mohd Fauzi — who by now had become IO Abd Ghani’s superior was stricken with fear that IO Abd Ghani might jeopardise the investigation as Ketua Unit Siasatan (KUS).

The cause of death

KUS Mohd Fauzi directed Abd Ghani to track down Wan Zainal while he and Sheikh Niza would ‘straighten out’ Ahmad Sarbaini. Sheikh Niza was also ordered to seize Ahmad Sarbaini’s mobile phone.

Sheikh Niza brought Ahmad Sarbaini to KUS Mohd Fauzi’s office, which was next door to the pantry (remember what happened to Teoh Beng Hock). Here, he was verbally abused. KUS Mohd Fauzi called Ahmad Sarbaini a disgrace to the Royal Malaysian Customs, that he was not fit to wear their uniform. Rather shaken up, Ahmad Sarbaini pleaded for pity and a drink of water.

Shockingly, they brought Ahmad Sarbaini to the pantry. Incredibly, as punishment for attempting to retract his ‘confession’, Mohd Fauzi ordered him to climb out of the window and forced him to stand on the ledge.

KUS Mohd Fauzi wanted Ahmad Sarbaini to ponder and reflect on his actions while standing on the edge as “orang macam kau ni lebih baik mati dari hidup menyusahkan orang lain”.

And, horror of horrors, what happened to Teoh Beng Hock happened to Ahmad Sarbaini when he fell to his death onto the badminton court below.

KUS Mohd Fauzi was in a dizzy panic when what was supposed to be a threat had now turned fatal. He feared his career and future went up in smoke the moment Ahmad Sarbaini lost his balance. In shock and panic, he ran from the pantry back to his room.

Sheikh Niza immediately ran downstairs to the lobby in a state of shock and disbelief. He was at the verge of tears, regretting this tragic death.

Concocting a story

Without further delay, KUS Mohd Fauzi called everyone into his room to brainstorm and to concoct the most plausible story. Abd Ghani, Henrietta, Khalid, Kamal and also Sheikh Niza finally agreed the best storyline was that Ahmad Sarbaini had committed suicide as he was depressed that his confession could not be retracted.The Director, Hj Mohd Yusof, was also brought into the loop and the approval from HQ sought.

The script seemed good enough for a press conference that would be called by Dato’ Mustafar Ali later that day. That would be the storyline they would all narrate to anyone asking about the death.

And that would be the same story they would give when making the 911 phone call to the Police and in summoning an ambulance. And that was also why not one of these officers went downstairs to confirm whether the dead man on the badminton court was indeed Ahmad Sarbaini.

They already knew who was lying dead on the badminton court. They did not need to go downstairs to verify the identity of the dead person. They all admitted that immediately upon discovering the dead body, they huddled into KUS Mohd Fauzi’s room for a ‘conference’.

They would later rehearse this script over and over again and say that they were too afraid and were in a state of shock.

To ensure that there was no evidence as to what really happened, they erased the CCTV recordings. That was why the police audio-visual forensics analyst, ASP Fauziah Che Mat, told the Coroner that the CCTV recordings had been tampered with.

According to ASP Fauziah, more than 22 hours of recordings from the three-dozen CCTV cameras in the building were ‘interrupted by someone who has expertise in using CCTVs’ by ‘changing of operation on the set, manually’.

ASP Fauziah: very definite that the CCTV at KL MACC’s office were tampered by an expert

Concealing the true cause of death

However, after running this story past that brilliant legal mind, Dato Seri Mohd Shafee Abdullah, MACC was told that the suicide story would not go down well with the Malaysian public.

Firstly, another suicide theory would be too close to the Teoh Beng Hock ‘suicide’.

Secondly, other than the ‘confession’, there was no other evidence of Ahmad Sarbaini’s involvement in any corrupt activities. Confessions are mostly procured through torture and intimidation. Without any tangible evidence, the story would not be plausible.

The Police collaborated with the MACC in their attempt to conceal the real cause of Ahmad Sarbaini’s death. The scratch marks on Ahmad Sarbaini’s belt and the paint stains on his pants would be used as ‘evidence’ to explain that he was trying to make a hasty escape by jumping onto the roof from the pantry.

Unfortunately, the Coroner had visited the site and anyone who has been to that building would know that jumping onto that roof would lead nowhere. As such, that could not ever have been an escape route!

The Killers and the Conspirators

We now know the identities of Ahmad Sarbaini’s killers and conspirators. It is for the Coroner to make that finding of the cause of death and thereafter for AG Gani Patail as the Public Prosecutor to charge these people.

In the meantime, to do justice to this poor deceased man and his family, let it be known that other than the so-called ‘confession’ — which was obtained through deception and threats — there is no evidence to show that the late Ahmad Sarbaini was involved in any corrupt practices.

All of the MACC witnesses have admitted that fact in court during the Inquest. Also, the MACC’s own investigations and audit on his and his family’s assets did not disclose any extraordinary wealth — as what we may have found in recent disclosures of the assets of our politicians and leaders.

So let us allow the soul of Ahmad Sarbaini to rest in peace and offer his grief-stricken widow some respite and respect.