KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 – Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz today claimed that Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) key witness is not the witness that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Committee (MACC) is looking for.
“We are talking about our witness, not whom they think is our witness and certainly that person that they mention is not the one we are looking out for.
“It is not her, whether she is important to us or not it entirely depends on us,” he told reporters at the parliament lobby.
PR MPs yesterday presented the alleged key witness that may support their claims that senior lawyer VK Lingam and former chief justice Tun Eusoff Chin had planned their New Zealand trip together.
They hope the alleged key witness, Lingam’s former secretary Jayanthi Naidu, will prove that the government is attempting to cover up the scandal which has raised suspicions about possible collusion.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had said there was no case to answer and that a key witness could not be located.
It had also said that Lingam had not broken any laws for fixing judicial appointments as there was no evidence he had a hand in the appointments.
Nazri said that the witness might be important to PKR but not the government.
“She may be very important to Sivarasa or she may be important to others but to us she is not the important witness because if later on we take this matter to court we have to depend on the witness that we want and not who they think we want,” he explained.
He added the government knows what it is doing and does not need PKR to interfere.
“I think if PKR wants to prosecute, let them prosecute. We are doing the prosecution so we know who is important and who is not.
“We have investigated what she has informed us and we have also weighed it against other evidence and all the evidence that are given were already replied in parliament but we need this other person,” he said.
Nazri also clarified that Lingam case has been classified as “no further action” until further evidence is produced.
“Corruption is an offence which has no period or limitation ... if in 10 years time, we get this person, the case can be open and the term is no further action,” he said.
Nazri sparked an uproar in Parliament when he said “judiciary fixer” Lingam had been let off the hook “because he had broken no law”.
Nazri also suggested that Lingam breached no laws as he might “have just acted to fix the appointment of judges as if he was brokering the appointment of senior judges to impress people”.
When pressed on which aspect of the investigation was crucial, Nazri replied, “I think it was more on the case of Eusoff Chin talking about the tour,” he said.
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