No word from AGC to reopen probe on Teoh Beng Hock, says top cop

No word from AGC to reopen probe on Teoh Beng Hock, says top cop

IGP Fuzi Harun says this in the wake of a DAP leader questioning Putrajaya's silence.

Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
PUTRAJAYA:
Police say there have been no instructions to reopen an investigation into the death of a DAP aide in 2009, whose body was found on the rooftop of the building where he had been detained earlier by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said police had yet to hear from the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

“We have not received any instructions from the AGC,” he told reporters today, a day after DAP’s Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh questioned Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin over the status of the investigation.

Teoh Beng Hock, who was the political secretary to then-Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, hours after he was interrogated by the Selangor MACC in its office on the 14th floor of the same building.

A Royal Commission of Inquiry concluded that Teoh was driven to suicide due to the aggressive interrogation methods used by MACC officers.

It also blamed three officers for their aggressive methods which violated procedures.

In July, Fuzi reportedly said the police would comply with the AGC’s instructions to conduct further investigations into Teoh’s death.

He said police would resubmit their findings to the AGC for further action.

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