Sarbani’s family wants Commission of Inquiry into his death

(The Star) – The family of late customs officer Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed are now calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate the circumstances leading to his death at the MACC building.

Maziah Manap, 50 said her hopes to get justice over the death of her husband, Ahmad Sarbani, were wearing thin, alleging that police were not taking her statements seriously.

“My family’s hopes are getting dimmer especially since the findings of the Teoh Beng Hock RCI were made public,” she told reporters after lodging a police report at the Kelana Jaya police station on Saturday.

Maziah asked for a fresh investigations to be carried out over a remark made by an Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer about those responsible for her husband’s death.

“Until now the police did not record my statement regarding the officers remark, it wasn’t me, it was my people’, which he made to me when I told him I was dissatisfied over my husband’s death,” she said.

“I am very confident that my husband did not commit suicide but there is foul play,” she said adding that she hoped an RCI would be formed to investigate her husbands death.

Ahmad Sarbani, the Selangor Customs assistant director, was found dead on April 6 after he was believed to have fallen from the pantry on the third floor of the MACC Kuala Lumpur office on Jalan Cochrane here and landed on a badminton court on the first floor.

The most recent outcome from the inquest was a forensic investigator’s conclusion that Ahmad Sarbani did not jump to his death nor was he pushed from the KL anti-graft office.

Raja Petra alleged in his blog on the Malaysia Today website that Ahmad Sarbani accidentally fell to his death after being forced onto the ledge by a senior MACC investigator.

He further claimed that the MACC investigator convened a “conference” with his colleagues to “brainstorm and concoct the most plausible story” to protect their careers.

Up till today, Raja Petra has written a nine-part series on Malaysia Today alleging that Ahmad Sarbani’s death was caused by the anti-graft body’s officers.

When contacted, City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah declined to comment as a public inquiry was already being carried out on the case.