KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — There was confusion in Parliament today when Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein (picture) said that the V.K. Lingam case was still under investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
“The investigation in relation to V. K. Lingam’s video case is still under investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the police are no longer handling the case,” he said in a written reply to Wangsa Maju MP Wee Choo Keong.
Minister in the Prime Minister Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz had in a written reply last week to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said that no action would be taken against Lingam.
He said Attorney General Tan Sri Gani Patail had found “no case” against the senior lawyer.
Nazri explained today that he never said that the case was closed and blamed the media for misinterpreting his words.
“That is your reading. I never said it. That is why I was wondering if the case was closed. You all concluded that it is closed,” he told reporters in Parliament.
He said that there was “no further action” but it was not closed and added that the case can be reopened if there are new witnesses.
PKR vice-president Sivarasa Rasiah had this week promised to present the missing key witness in Datuk V.K. Lingam’s infamous New Zealand trip with the former Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin in Parliament soon.
The MACC had said that it was unable to proceed with the investigation into the New Zealand trip because it could not locate a key witness.
Nazri said today that he was still waiting for Sivarasa to bring the witness.
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