Saturday July 12, 2008
ACA questions Musa and Gani over report
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS
Statements recorded: Gani arriving at the ACA headquarters in Putrajaya to have their statements recorded yesterday. Gani and Musa Refused to Comment
PUTRAJAYA: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, who have been accused by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of fabricating evidence in the 1998 “black-eye” incident were called in to have their statements recorded by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) here.
Musa arrived at the ACA headquarters here at around 8.25am while the Gani entered the building at about 9.50am, smiling as he emerged from his car as photographers clicked away.
Musa and Gani were questioned by a team of investigators headed by the agency’s investigations director Datuk Shukri Abdull.
Reporters, photographers and television cameramen camped outside the ACA office since 7.30am following news that the two men would be called in to give their statements.
Statements recorded: Musa arriving at the ACA headquarters in Putrajaya to have their statements recorded yesterday. Gani was the first of the two to leave the ACA office at 11.40am after being interviewed for one hour and 50 minutes.
When reporters rushed forward for his comments, the A-G declined to speak, saying: “I’m rushing for a meeting.”
Musa walked out of the ACA office at 1.05pm, almost five hours after he entered the building.
“I have nothing to say,” he said to the waiting media crowd.
Asked why he was quizzed for a long time, Musa said: “Tak apa lah ... (it is all right)”.
On July 1, Anwar had lodged a report with the ACA alleging that Musa and Gani had fabricated evidence in the investigation into the 1998 incident where he was beaten by the then-Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor.
When met later, Shukri said the team had questioned 15 people over the case, including Musa and Gani.
He said his team had yet to question Anwar, adding this would be done sometime next week.
“We are expecting to wrap up the case by the end of next week. We will also have to seek another appointment with the A-G (Gani) because we had to cut short his questioning as he was called away,” he said.
ACA director-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan had said that the ACA was asked to investigate the matter because power abuse came under the purview of the agency, and to ensure investigations were “not biased”.
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