Case on Dr M closed, says A-G

PUTRAJAYA: The case of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's alleged interference with the Anti-Corruption Agency's (ACA) investigations on a senior government official in 1998 is officially closed.
Attorney-General (A-G) Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said this case, like any other, would only be considered for reopening if fresh evidence surfaced.
"If proper and complete investigation has been done, what else is there to investigate? So long as the evidence remains as such, that is the end of the matter. Please let it rest," he said after a four-cornered forum involving the A-G's Chambers, the judiciary, the ACA and the police on the second day of the judges' conference.
Earlier, when approached, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, who also attended the forum, said he would discuss the matter with Gani.
Asked whether the case would be reopened for investigation, he replied: "What for? Are there any other witnesses? It would be the same thing."
On Wednesday, Federal CID director Datuk Comm Mohd Bakri Zinin said police would check the contents of the investigation papers to ascertain if the probe was conducted properly.
On Tuesday, ACA director of investigations Datuk Shukri Abdull told the press that it was the police and not the agency that had carried out investigations into the alleged interference, following a letter by Dr Mahathir, which was published in a local English daily.
In his letter, Dr Mahathir claimed that he had summoned former ACA director-general Datuk Shafee Yahya after receiving a complaint from the Economic Planning Unit’s director that the agency had been very “offensive towards him” during a raid.
Dr Mahathir also said he did so because he knew that Government officers were sometimes overzealous and would overstep or abuse their authority.
It is learnt that in the trial notes from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy case, it was mentioned that Dr Mahathir had kept quiet when Shafee informed him as a matter of courtesy about the investigation on the EPU and the impending raid.
The same trial notes were the basis for the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges Datuk Param Cumaraswamy’s call for a probe on Dr Mahathir into the alleged interference with ACA investigations.
Param had cited the testimony by Shafee during Anwar’s trial that he had been ordered by Dr Mahathir to stop an investigation into the affairs of the then director-general of the EPU.

tunku : anyone with fresh evidence, please go and report,if there is any.