NGO wants Teoh’s death probe reopened
PETALING JAYA: It has been almost 10 years since the death of Teoh Beng Hock and a non-governmental organisation wants the police to complete their investigation into the case.
The Teoh Beng Hock Trust for Democracy secretary Ngeow Chow Ying said the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) had sent a letter to Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun in June last year demanding the investigation into Teoh’s death be reopened.
Ngeow claims the police have yet to act on the AGC’s letter.
“It has been seven months already, and we still have no news and updates about the investigation.
“This is the reason we are here today, to remind him (Fuzi) that there is a job not done, and we are waiting for justice for Teoh,” she said.
Ngeow was speaking to reporters after handing over a memorandum to the Federal police headquarters’ corporate communications officer Deputy Supt Faizal Samsuddin at Bukit Aman yesterday.
“We have given them two months to complete their investigation and as a responsible police force, they should at least give the family, and Malaysians, some answers,” she said.
The NGO’s spokesman Ng Yap Hwa, who was also present with Ngeow, said the police would be in serious violation of their duties if they decide not to reopen the investigation.
“I think the new government must instruct the police to speed things up,” Ng said.
The group, however, did not elaborate on what it would do if the police did not heed the calls to reopen the investigation.
The memorandum proposed a special task force to monitor the progress.
Teoh, 30, was found dead on July 16, 2009, on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, after giving his statement at the Selangor MACC office on the 14th floor of the building.
Teoh, then an aide to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, had apparently fallen to his death after he was taken in for questioning over a corruption probe.
On Jan 5, 2011, magistratecum-coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas delivered an “open verdict” that Teoh’s death was not a suicide nor homicide.
However, in September 2014, the Court of Appeal ruled that the “open verdict” was wrong.
The panel held that Teoh’s death was caused as a result of, or accelerated by, acts by persons unknown, including the MACC officers involved in his arrest and probe.