Mat Zain keeps pressure on Shafee, lodges another report against the lawyer
V. Anbalagan, TMI
Retired police officer Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim is not letting up the pressure on Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pic) as he lodged another report against the Umno lawyer for allegedly giving false evidence in an affidavit.
The former Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigations Department (CID) chief filed the complaint about Shafee’s second affidavit on December 18 which was made in reply to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s application to disqualify the Umno lawyer from acting as Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP).
Shafee has been appointed DPP by Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail in August to lead the prosecution team in the Court of Appeal to set aside the former deputy prime minister’s acquittal for sodomy.
On December 20, the Court of Appeal dismissed Anwar’s application to disqualify Shafee on grounds that the politician could not rely on Mat Zain’s statutory declaration (SD) about Shafee and his knowledge of Gani’s affairs.
On December 15, Mat Zain had also lodged a police report against Shafee, alleging that the Umno lawyer’s first affidavit to the Court of Appeal contained inaccuracies. He also alleged that Shafee had suppressed material evidence with the intention of deceiving the court.
Mat Zain, in his 31-page SD, had said that he went with Shafee and former Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Ramli Yusof to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s house during the Hari Raya period this year where they allegedly discussed the wrongdoings of Gani.
Mat Zain in a statement today claimed that Shafee had committed an offence under the Penal Code which upon conviction was punishable with jail.
He said his report at the Putrajaya police station on Thursday was also to urge Gani to reopen the investigation on the Anwar black eye incident in 1988.
Anwar had made a report in 2008 where he had claimed that Gani, former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, forensic consultant Dr Abdul Rahman Yusof and Mat Zain had fabricated evidence during the black-eye investigation.
Mat Zain cited three reasons to justify reopening the case.
