Tuesday July 21, 2009
No CCTV recording of political secretary leaving complex, say police
Reports by EDWARD RAJENDRA, MARTIN CARVALHO, CHEN PELF YEEN, SIRA HABIBU, A. LETCHUMANAN, LEE YUK PENG, ANDREA FILMER, SHARON LING
SHAH ALAM: Police have revealed that there was no closed-circuit television footage showing DAP political secretary Teoh Beng Hock leaving Plaza Masalam here where the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency office is located.
Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said there were, however, recordings of him entering the building last Wednesday afternoon.
He also said that certain parts of a window from the 14th floor of the building were found on the fifth floor, the same floor where Teoh’s body was found on Thursday.
The commission occupies the 14th floor of the building.
DCP Khalid was speaking to reporters after Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan’s visit to the Selangor police contingent headquarters yesterday.
With the new clues, DCP Khalid said police would have to check the commission’s office again.
“At the same time, our men needed some documents from the commission’s office and CCTV recording that could give us clues to the case,” he said.
Asked if Teoh had fallen from the 14th floor of the building, DCP Khalid said: “There is a possibility.”
He said the post-mortem report showed that the death occurred four to five hours before his body was found.
“Our men are spending hours of their time trying to make sense of the sequence of events before Teoh’s death,” he said.
As for Teoh’s mobile phone, DCP Khalid said police took it from the commission’s investigation officer on Thursday.
“It never went missing,” he said.
He said police were also looking into the possibility of underworld links in the case.
“Until now 60% of the case is completed and our team will call in three men to have their statements recorded within this week,” he said.
DCP Khalid said police would be calling Teoh’s boss Sri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, Kota Alam Shah assemblyman M. Manoharan and Kajang Municipal councillor Tan Boon Wah.
He said Ean Yong and Manoharan were needed for the probe as the two had spoken to Teoh before he was taken into the commission’s custody.
As for Tan, he said although he had lodged a police report at the Shah Alam police station, he refused to come in for a detail statement to be recorded.
“We do not understand his actions. Now it leaves us with no choice but to issue a notice to summon him to the police station,” he said.
Tan had said he saw Teoh in the commission’s pantry at 6am the morning Teoh died when he was leaving the office after being interrogated.
DCP Khalid said police had recorded statements from 33 individuals, eight of whom were commission officers.
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