UMNO SEC-GENERAL SUMMONED BY ACA OVER VK LINGAM VIDEO CLIPS

ACA SUMMONED TENGKU ADNAN FOLLOWING COMMISSION'S FINDINGS, LAWYER TELLS COURT
Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (Bernama) -- The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) had summoned Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to record his statement following the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the V.K. Lingam video clip, the High Court here heard today.

Tengku Adnan's counsel, Datuk Bastian Pius Vendargon, said the ACA's move was in respect of a criminal case and made a few days after he filed an application for leave to seek a judicial review of the commission's findings.

"Tengku Adnan only gave statement once to the ACA. This is an actual prejudice to Tengku Adnan," he said.

At this juncture, Datuk V.K. Lingam who represented himself, also told the court that he had also been called twice by the ACA to have his statement recorded after he filed a similar application.

Counsel Datuk Hazman Ahmad, who represented former chief justice Tun Mohd Eusoff Chin, also told the court that his client had also been called by the ACA following the commission's findings.

Vendargon said that due to the commission's findings, there seemed to be sufficient cause to invoke criminal sanctions against Tengku Adnan.


He said that by reading the commission's findings, it would become abundantly clear that in summary, the commission had found Tengku Adnan had been involved in a conspiracy to influence the appointment of judges.

He added that Tengku Adnan who was called as a witness in the inquiry, was unaware that he was a subject of the commission's investigation.

Vendargon was replying to preliminary objections raised by Senior Federal Counsel Azizah Nawawi on July 16 to strike out the application by five individuals who sought leave for a judicial review of the commission's findings.

The applicants were Lingam, tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan, Tengku Adnan, Eusoff and another former chief justice, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim.

They wanted certain parts of the commission's report which implicated them deleted.