NST [Print] – TEOH’s MOBILE PHONE FOUND (2009/07/20)
SHAH ALAM: Police investigations into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock, 30, took a fresh twist yesterday when it was revealed that his mobile phone had been found.
Selangor police chief Deputy Commissioner Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that Teoh’s mobile phone had been recovered but declined to elaborate.
“I do not want to reveal where it was found because the information is crucial to our investigations,” Khalid said when contacted.
He said he would issue an official statement today [i.e. Monday 20th]. He also declined to say when the mobile phone was found.
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Points to consider:
The Selangor CPO was videotaped by Mkini (recorded on 20/07/09) during which he revealed that TBH’s mobile phone was retrieved from the MACC investigating officer on Thursday 16th July ’09 (i.e. the day TBH died). It was not clear whether the MACC official was in possession of it BEFORE or AFTER TBH was released at 3.45am on the same day.
Why was KAB being evasive on where and when it was found?
1) I have read reports in which two of TBH’s friends were contacted. Although the exact times were not established, both calls had references to ‘attending a marriage event’ which would definitively repudiate a suicide. Surely, TBH does not need to ‘fabricate an alibi’ and then, proceed to jump off a building.
2) If TBH was assisting the MACC willingly, according to official reports, it would be incumbent for the MACC to keep him safe and alive. TBH would therefore be in possession of his mobile phone when he was released at 3.45am and be able to call his two friends. If so, the mobile phone must also be in his possession when he ‘landed’ several floors below. Did the MACC official retrieve the phone AFTER TBH was dead? Isn’t that tempering with evidence? Or did TBH leave it lying around in the MACC office when he decided to end his life suddenly?
3) If however TBH was indeed a ‘recalcitrant’ witness (but not a suspect), the MACC may have decided to ‘confiscate’ his mobile phone to gather more evidence but that would make it impossible for TBH to call his two friends after being released at 3.45am. And I doubt the MACC would allow TBH to use their office telephone to make personal phone calls.
4) Tan Boon Hwa was reported to have met TBH at the MACC pantry at about 6-6.30am. This indicates TBH presence within the MACC premises when he was also reported to be alive (and sleeping on a settee) by another unidentified witness. If TBH was ‘released’ by the MACC at 3.45am, he would also need a MACC official to help him exit the premises because an electronic card is required to deactivate the security system. Isn’t it therefore more logical to conclude that at about 6-6.30am, TBH was NOT RELEASED by the MACC? By virtue of its containment precautions, the MACC office is in fact a holding cell without any possibility of escape.
5) Very little is known of the period between 6.30am and 1.30pm. The authorities were equally ‘silent’ on this unaccounted grey period. Why? No witnesses, and no CCTV footage either, to offer irrefutable evidence of TBH’s (alive and well) whereabouts within the MACC premises. Was he in fact still under ‘interrogation’? (After all, we only have the MACC’s word that he was released earlier at 3.45am).
6) And if so, did TBH finally summon the courage to surreptitiously record the ‘interrogation’ methods of the MACC during this period with his mobile phone? Confiscating his mobile phone and/or covertly erasing its data may not have sufficed as we do not know whether things have gotten out of hand at this stage. TBH’s lower right leg may have been fractured by now (refer to photos). His phone may also be hidden in a pocket when the MACC officer was trying to retrieve it with TBH struggling which injured his right wrist and his pants getting torn (refer to photos).
7) Therefore, TBH was essentially never officially released by the MACC. His ‘cold’ encounter with Tan Boon Hwa in the pantry, conveniently made possible without an escort, was to gauge and get any conversation/information exchanged, and perhaps, only TBH realised this possibility. TBH’s mind was still lucid as evident through making calls to his friends regarding his impending marriage, hence, suicide was not an option. He slept on a settee because he could not leave the premises, not that he would not.
Will we ever know the truth?
NTR’s 1Malaysia of ‘People First, Peformance Now’ hangs precariously in the balance if the IPCMC is not established and a RCI into the TBH tragedy is not done post haste. Heads must roll lest his become the obvious choice in the next GE.
O.B.E. 
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July 21, 2009 at 10:57 am
Pat
And this is why I read you, Shar 101. For your so-not-to-be-missed: Points to ponder.
So many relevant questions, and no intelligent answers.
I just wish we could be dignified with the truth, and not this rubbish that is so insulting to our common intelligence.
July 21, 2009 at 11:17 am
Paul Warren
Friend ,with all that analysis, you think you got them? Maybe this is the first time you are playing Sherlockholmes. But MACC…only name is new, otherwise so many years of issuing HALAL Certificates for UMNO and BN scoundrels after they had investigated them. They have been so good at exonerating everyone else, you think they don’t know how to get out of this one? Easy man, just wave any number of files they have on any UMNO big wig, and that big wig will shut the hell up. And that includes Najib obviously.
They will get out of this one too!! You bet!!
July 21, 2009 at 12:35 pm
A Voice
Your question:
Why was KAB being evasive on where and when it was found?
Aiyeahhh … tak payah spin and doubt creating for Pakatan. You are losing the plot TOTALLY la bro. Just go for the truth. It will set you free.
Still under investigation so cannot give away la. Sorry have to tell you like this, bro. Tak akan tak tahu.
July 22, 2009 at 10:34 am
Paul Warren
This is an institutional killing and there is no doubt about it. Killing may have not been intended and yet that has been the result.
Narrowing down the “official” killers with James Bond’s license to kill may help to bring some mount of closure to Teoh’s death.
But is this the “prize” that MACC may be determined to protect at all cost? Or is it a “prize” that they might see as a “cheap” cost to pay because their goals are something else altogether and those goals have to be attained at any cost. Teoh’s death may just be an inconvenient interruption.
So what might that goal be?
Perak showed the way. MACC fixed up two PKR ADUNS and charged them for corruption. At the very least they got those two to listen. Listen they did. And before you know it, they quit PKR and of course the prostitute of Jelapang may not have herself compromised, but her husband could have, whatever it is, Perak fell! Were MACC serious about that corruption charge? What has happened to those charges since?
Next, Selangor. Pick on all the Chinese DAP ADUNS and make it look like a race based targeting to confuse what is being done. Once again the question is push comes to shove, how many of them will want to go to prison on charges of corruption. It does not matter if they are guilty, they can be made to look guilty in any Malaysian courts and there are just so many compromised magistrates and judges who will quite happily send them off on their merry way to jail.
Just imagine, does Khalid Ibrahim want to see himself in Jail? How about Hannah Yeoh? Believe me, I do believe Hannah Yeoh too will find herself in jail and really do we care to know if there exists a reason why? That reason can be manufactured.
Obviously someone in UMNO thinks all these people will NOT want to go to jail. So, what are their options? Resign!! But resign as ADUNS or resign from their parties? Certainly UMNO would not want to test the electorate if these people were to resign as ADUNs and force a by-election. So it woud have to be resign from their parties.
Will that happen? Well, we saw two lame ducks in Perak succumb to the threat of being found guilty of corruption.
Is there evidence of this? Well, how else do you explain MACC for overlooking the elephants in the room for the imagined rats? This is a complaint that should be investigated and answered by whether the Royal Commission of Investigation and/or SUHAKAM! After all the consequence of the Perak sting was the fall of Perak. The scale of the investigations in Selangor is so much greater as that is the number of ADUNS who need to be cowed!
Why?
Simple. UMNO is being starved of funds. just imagine, if their ADUNS could all finish off RM500,000 within 2 months in 2008 before the March 8 General elections, how much they can “finish” off if they can get hold of Selangor for a couple of years? UMNO is being denied of funds for its operations and for its pay offs that can be spread around. Right now it would seem like Selangor UMNO has to rely on drippings from Federal projects. Surely this is not enough.
As long as everyone is glued in on requiring retribution and answers for Teoh’ s death, the main incentive for the conduct of MACC itself might go overlooked.
I do hope in drafting any terms of reference for the Royal Commission it will also extend to MACC’s reasons for not looking at all the bigger corrupt practices of the previous Selangor government, including such things as BALKIS and of course Khir Toyo’s palace. their argument of having received complaints of corruption should be ignored.
As for Teoh’s death, the people I think who may have his blood on their hands includes all the advisers of MACC, the Tan Sris and the Datuks that is, whose preeminence as professionals and honourable citizens lends MACC some credibility and I think our MP for Wangsa Maju, Wee Choo Keong as well.
July 23, 2009 at 1:10 am
Zap Zap
Fellow readers,
Please sign the petition to investigate properly the Beng Hock scandal. For great justice!
http://www.petitiononline.com/j4bhmacc/petition.html
Thanks!
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Done – shar101.
July 24, 2009 at 10:46 am
Paul Warren
So, we shall have the RCI to examine the interrogating and investigating procedures. The Inquest to determine cause of death. And the police to determine iff a crime was committed and if so who!!
I suppose the intention is that by the time this potpourri is put together we shall all get thoroughly confused.
And to achieve this they have to recruit the King as well. Now what happens when the King turns around to ask what has come of the Lingam RCI? And he tells them not to make him look like a puppet? What is amazing is that someone in UMNO thinks the King can be recruited to ensure he gives the credentials to this whole scheme of things to cover up for the MACC! Because by the King consenting to this terms of reference he inevitably contributes to this circus intended to ensure information for each of the three parts is kept apart and by so doing leave the opening necessary for the MACC to slide through with ease.
I would also like the potential commissioners of this royal commission to know that by acceding to this terms of reference they would be colluding with the powers that be in UMNO to thwart truth from coming out. That being the case they would be no different from the ordinary con man or the snatch thief who snatches away the life of innocent victims. Maybe worse!!
As for the Magistrate who lords over the inquest, we already don’t trust whoever it is that is going to be that Magistrate…unless of course it is Komathy!! And as for the police? They got a big debt to pay to the MACC already as it is, so what can we expect?
I think the only way to scupper this attempt at conniving and deception we should appeal to the King not to approve the terms of reference as approved so far by the Cabinet. it will only undermine the credibility of Royal Commissions.
August 21, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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