1.The PM repeatedly states that the judiciary is so independent that UMNO was banned.The rebuttal is simple.Malaysia's judiciary prior to the Tun Salleh Abas case was highly regarded and independent.After his dismissal it became subservient to the executive branch..Both the heads of judiciary after that have been corrupt men.They oversee what are little more than kangaroo courts.
2.The Anti Corruption Agency found enough evidence for a prima facie case of corrupt practice against the head of the judiciary (Eusoff Chin) more than a year ago.Guess who is sitting on the file?Why? So he can manipulate the judiciary!
3.The AG was an obscure functionary who was brought from nowhere as most observers know. He was selected on Tun Daim's recommendation through Tan Sri Vincent Tan. Proof of this relationship can be seen at http:www.malaysia.net/special.Would he not be indebted to those who plucked him out of nowhere?A satisfied PM has extended his term twice.
4.The judge who heard Datuk Nalla's case and DSAI's habeas corpus case and the chief prosecuter for DSAI are brothers from Sabah. Dato Wahab Patail's appointment as judge was personally recommended by AG Datuk Mohtar.They are very close family friends from the time Mohtar was based in Sabah.Is it a mere coincidence these three figure so prominently in DSAI's cases?Justice Wahab Patail seems to have been transferred in just to hear as many DSAI related cases as the Government can get away with.
5.Datuk Gani Patail had been going almost every day to Bukit Aman
before DSAI's arrest.To make the police's investigation papers as water-tight
as possible perhaps? And yet the AG has the cheek to say their case is
based on the papers submitted by the police.
6.Justice Augustine Paul is the most junior judge in the Criminal
Court.He was transferred two weeks before Anwar's hearing.His elevation
to judge was personally moved by AG Mohtar himself.
7. DSAI's habeas corpus was to be heard by Justice Vohrah. Wahab
Patail called Vohrah to say Eusoff Chin had asked him(Wahab) to hear the
case.This is 1 week after Eusoff Chin told The Star that he did not realise
that Wahab Patail had heard a case in which his brother Gani had
been the prosecuter.Chin admitted it should not have happened.DSAI's
lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah requested Wahab Patail on the 24th October to
transfer the case to another judge.Shamelessly Justice Wahab Patail refused
to do so.
8.In the latest round of musical chairs,Justice Vohrah has reportedly
been transferred to the Civil Court.Lawyers will remember he was transferred
from the Civil Court to the Criminal during the Ayer Molek case.Now
he has been transferred again to avoid hearing DSAI related
cases.
9.Umi Hafilda Ali and other key witnesses have been seen visiting the AG's chambers together with police.Has the the AG's chambers departed from previous practice and is now coaching witnesses?
10.The judge Hasnah who allowed DSAI to testify regarding his injuries was informed of her transfer the very next day.
Keen observers of the Judiciary have known for some time now that the dictum "Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done" has no relevance in Mahathir's Malaysia since the Tun Salleh Abas dimissal.
If this is the extent to which the Government will go in the DSAI case what hope does a foreign investor who runs afoul of the Government in the future have?