September 25, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — Customs’ chief said there was no proof its officer was in a sex video recently unveiled by pro-Umno bloggers, adding it’s “cruel” to link it to Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed’s death.
“Although the blog clearly showed sexual acts, until today
there has been no further information over who was involved. As such, it
cannot be conclusively said that it involved a Customs staff,” Customs
director-general Datuk Seri Mohamed Khalid Yusuf said in an SMS response
to The Malaysian Insider.
“Linking the sex act to Sarbaini’s case, which I cannot even see the
link, is a cruel act and an irresponsible one, if it seeks to humiliate a
person who has died,” he added.
If there was proof, then Khalid said the evidence should be passed to the police, not revealed in public.
Earlier this week, Umno-linked blogs released a video in an apparent
attempt to tarnish the reputation of Customs officers ahead of Monday’s
verdict in the Sarbaini inquest.
The video — which appears to have been secretly recorded — shows a
Malay man engaging in sex with a Caucasian woman in what looks like a
hotel room.
Umno-linked blog theunspinners.blogspot.com was the first to release
the video, claiming the man in the recording was a Customs officer while
suggesting the woman was a Russian prostitute.
The man in the video is not named, but the blogger links the
recording, which is titled “Pegawai Kastam Yang Terlampau,” to the
senior Customs officer’s death while in the custody of the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) earlier this year.
The blogger also echoes the position of the MACC and its lawyer Datuk
Seri Shafee Muhamad Shafee Abdullah during the Ahmad Sarbaini inquest.
Ahmad Sarbaini, the Selangor Customs assistant director, is believed
to have fallen from the third-floor pantry of the MACC office in Jalan
Cochrane here on April 6 and landed on the badminton court on the first
floor.
Ahmad Sarbaini’s case is seen as high profile as it was the second death involving a person under the MACC’s care.
Teoh Beng Hock Teoh, a DAP political aide, was found dead on July 16,
2009 on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he
was questioned overnight by MACC officers at their then-Selangor
headquarters.
Shafee had argued during the inquest that there had been no evidence
presented to suggest either homicide or foul play, as claimed by Ahmad
Sarbaini’s family.
The lawyer said that there was also compelling evidence that Ahmad
Sarbaini had climbed out of the window, from which he is believed to
have fallen, on his own.
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