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MACC OFFICER TOLD TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM WITNESSES ON MISUSE OF FUNDS
by Tan Yi Liang him to extract information from them. evidence of torture as the surrounding offices since he was sleeping.
newsdesk@thesundaily.com He said Teoh was questioned by two officers were closed. When Gobind suggested that Anuar did not
from 6pm until 3 to 3.45am the next day, and Anuar said when he went to check on the know if Teoh was oppressed, Anuar nodded.
SHAH ALAM: Senior Malaysian Anti-Cor- described the extended detention as “normal”. recording of Teoh’s statement at 2am by a Under questioning by MACC counsel Datuk
ruption Commission (MACC) officers ordered He said he was not aware that Teoh’s junior officer, Teoh appeared uncomfortable, Abdul Razak Musa, Anuar said the MACC had
an investigating officer to detain Teoh Beng lawyer M. Manoharan had been waiting to as if he was holding something back. seized boxes of documents from contractors
Hock and three other witnesses for questioning see Teoh for more than an hour, although he “I suspected that something was amiss, but linked to Teoh’s boss executive councillor
overnight to pressure them to spill the beans had agreed to allow him to be present during decided not to ask Teoh what was troubling Ean Yong Hian Wah regarding the misappro-
over alleged misappropriation of allocation for the questioning. He said he, however, had not him in front of the recording officer,” said priation, and testified that Teoh had seemed
a state assemblyman, the inquest into Teoh’s checked if Manoharan was there, as Teoh was Anuar, who said he went back to sleep. “nervous” when his laptop and desktop
death heard yesterday. just a witness and had not been arrested. Gobind then accused Anuar of lying to were seized at his office at the Selangor State
MACC investigating officer Mohd Anuar Gobind: “Isn’t it oppressive for an individual the court when he testified on Monday that Secretariat building. He said four pages of
Ismail said this was done because the probe to be interrogated late into the night?” Teoh was not oppressed during the documents printed from the laptop were used
into the case had to be “sped up” as the issue of “It may tire the witness,” said Anuar, questioning, in the questioning of Teoh.
the alleged misuse of pub- who admitted there were was no standard The inquest continues today.
lic funds had become operating procedure for interrogating
“sensitive” as it was witnesses, except the procedures under
all over the media. the Anti-Corruption Act and several
Under intense other laws.
questioning from
Gobind Singh
Deo, for Teoh’s
Anuar also admitted he did not
make a police report immediately
after seeing Teoh’s body at the fifth
Lethal propofol dose killed MJ
family, Anuar floor of Plaza Masalam at 2pm on HOUSTON: Michael Jackson died from the preliminary toxicology results and his prelimi-
admitted he had July 16 as Hishamuddin told him to a lethal dose of the powerful anaesthetic nary assessment of Jackson’s cause of death was
held Teoh and seek further instruction from MACC propofol given in a cocktail of drugs, leading due to lethal levels of propofol (diprivan),” accord-
the witnesses headquarters in Putrajaya. authorities to suspect his doctor of man- ing to a warrant to search Murray’s offices.
over the night “There was panic upon seeing a slaughter, court documents In an affidavit seeking the
of July 15 as body there. I informed Hishamud- showed on Monday. warrant, Houston police officer
Selangor MACC din and sought further instruction,” The Thriller singer suf- Propofol factfile E.G. Chance said US agents had
deputy director said Anuar. fered cardiac arrest and gathered “items constituting
Hishamuddin This response shocked Gobind, died on June 25 at age 50. evidence of the offence of
Hashim and the who asked Anuar whether he cared Since then, an investigation manslaughter that tend to
head of investiga- about the fate of his “star witness”. by state and federal agen- show that Dr Conrad Murray
tions, Hairul Anuar replied that he would have made cies have focused on Conrad committed the said criminal
Ilham, had a report if he was “instructed to do so”. Murray, the superstar’s per- offence.”
direct- Gobind then suggested that Anuar sonal doctor who was at his Murray, who was with Jack-
ed was “actually hiding something”. bedside the day he died. son on June 25 administering
“That’s why you were afraid to The findings, contained drugs to ease the pop star
lodge a police report at that in a warrant to search Mur- to sleep, gave him a range
time, so that you could con- ray’s home and offices, paint of medication including a
ceal the evidence at the Powerful anaesthetic usually used
a picture of an insomniac before and during surgery 25mg dose of propofol via an
scene because it was pop star who could not sleep intravenous drip at 10.40am,
actually the MACC Can be used in small doses to
without heavy medication. reduce stress or anxiety the warrant said.
officers who killed Jackson sought out propofol Jackson referred to pro-
Teoh,” he said. Produced as white, opaque fluid
– routinely used to sedate pa- and administered intravenously pofol as his “milk” because
Anuar denied tients and anaesthetise them of its milky appearance, the
this, along with Known by trade name Diprivan
before surgery – and called it warrant said. In the early
an allegation Used in medical settings with strict
his “milk”. hours of June 25, Murray
Mohd Anuar ... that the MACC guidelines requiring availability
routinely “The Los Angeles Chief of resuscitation equipment also gave Jackson doses
did not inform Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr of Valium and Ativan and
police as he was
questioned wit- Increasingly popular because it
nesses at night Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, works quickly and effectively, sedative Versed, the filing
not instructed to. indicated that he had reviewed leaving very little hangover said. – Reuters
to hide any
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