KUALA LUMPUR: The conducting officers and Bar Council assigned to assist the commission investigating the death of Teoh Beng Hock handed in their written submissions yesterday.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, similarly assigned, applied for a postponement to Friday to complete their submission.
Commission secretariat officer Muhamad Bukhari Ab Hamid said that MACC counsel Datuk Seri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah sent a letter requesting the postponement yesterday.
The conducting officers Amerjeet Singh, Kwan Li Sa and Awang Armadajaya Awang Mahmud sent their submission through their representative.
Lawyer Christopher Leong handed the Bar Council documents personally to the secretariat office at the court complex in Jalan Duta here.
On May 10, commission chairman Federal Court judge Tan Sri James Foong Cheng Yuen directed all parties to send in their submissions yesterday after 70 witnesses had been called since the start of proceedings last Feb 14.
Outside the court yesterday, Christopher Leong told reporters that he was not happy that the MACC had not sent its submission and would make an application for handing over of submissions to be closed.
He said the council’s submission filled 340 pages.
Teoh, 30, political secretary of a Selangor executive councillor, was found dead on July 16 2009 on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after giving a statement at the MACC office on the 14th floor of the same building.
The other members of the commission are former Federal Court judge Datuk Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, former Court of Appeal judge Datuk T S Nathan, senior consultant forensic pathologist of Penang Hospital Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh and medical faculty dean of Cyberjaya University College of Medical Science Dr Mohamed Hatta Shaharom.
The setting up of the commission was announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak last Jan 26 after the Coroner’s Court delivered an open verdict.
The commission would submit the findings of the inquiry to Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin on June 24. — Bernama