KOTA KINABALU: A Special Branch personnel testified in the High Court here yesterday that he did not have any other interception products from other individuals apart from the targeted persons given to him.
When asked by Philippines government-assigned counsel Datuk N. Sivananthan that “Apart from the communication interception products that I referred to you, did you have any communication interception products from any other individuals?”
“None,” said coordinating officer of the Bukit Aman Special Branch ASP Wan Kamal Rizal Wan Daud, 35, before Justice Stephen Chung yesterday.
To a suggestion by Sivananthan, the witness testified that he was not sure who handed over these communication interception products to his office prior to his assignment for Ops Sulu (later known as Ops Daulat) but he believed maybe it must have come from the Special Branch technical unit in Bukit Aman.
The witness also said that those communication interception products that he had in his file were sent to be classified as top secret under the Official Secrets Act 1972, but he was not the person who had sent it for classification.
Sivananthan: Did you send these products (as in your file) for de-classification?
Witness: Yes.
The trial was against 30 accused persons, including one woman and a nephew of the late self-styled Sulu Sultan III, Datu Jamalul Kiram, who faces various charges of committing terrorism acts.
They were arrested at several places in Lahad Datu, Semporna, Kunak and Sandakan between February 12 and April 10, 2013.
The indictments carry the mandatory death sentence while the rest provide for an imprisonment for life and a fine, upon conviction.
The trial held at a hall doubled as an open court at the Kepayan prisons here under tight security checks by police and prison personnel, will continue today.