Tuesday January 22, 2008
I never represented Mui Fah, says Lingam
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk V.K. Lingam has denied that he was ever Loh Mui Fah's counsel.
“He's never been my client, let me be clear about this. But his (Mui Fah's) father was my client.
“My counsel has the documents to prove it,” he said as soon as leading officer DPP Datuk Nordin Hassan asked him if he knew Mui Fah.
Lingam said that he knew Mui Fah since 1995 and that he used to visit him (Lingam) at his office two to three times a year.
He said Mui Fah had also been to his house about three to four times, sometimes with his son.
Asked why Mui Fah had gone to his house, Lingam replied: “He came to my house as a social friend, sometimes with his son, sometimes with his second wife or mistress.”
Later, Lingam's counsel R. Thayalan produced several documents to substantiate his claims.
Among the documents was an ex parte order from the Ipoh High Court which ordered Mui Fah to produce his father Loh Kim Foh, 94, in court.
Thayalan informed the court that according to the documents, the counsel on record for the businessman were Manjit Singh (deceased) and C. Vijayakumar.
Lingam insisted that he had never acted for Mui Fah despite all the questions posed to him by Mui Fah's counsel Americk Sidhu.
When Americk asked if Lingam's firm had generally utilised Messrs Manjit Singh & Kumar as counsel, Lingam replied that it was only for two to three cases.
Asked if he had ever appointed Manjit Singh or Vijayakumar to be Mui Fah's counsel, Lingam said Mui Fah had chosen his lawyer himself.
Lingam agreed that he would go through any document produced by Mui Fah to suggest that he had indeed acted for him as a lawyer.
Later, when Alex De Silva, counsel for Mui Fah's son Gwo Burne, examined Lingam, details of the Loh family dispute suddenly spilled out at the inquiry.
This happened when De Silva touched on accusations in the Loh family dispute – that one faction of the family had been accusing the other of kidnapping the elder Loh (Kim Foh) – when he was trying to suggest that his client too had dealt in legal matters with Lingam.
In the dispute, Kim Foh was trying to wrest back control of a multi-million ringgit business empire from his second wife Wong Kim and four of their children.
However, Lingam remained adamant that he had neither acted for Mui Fah or Gwo Burne.
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