SEORANG ahli UMNO membuat laporan polis mengatakan bahawa beliau dikasari semasa dalam tahanan oleh pegawai Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) negeri Pahang pada 23 Januari lalu.

Halimi Kamarulzamman, 46, mendakwa kejadian tersebut berlaku di dalam lokap tahanan Tingkat 10, Wisma Persekutuan di pejabat SPRM Kuantan, Pahang.

Dalam laporan polisnya, Hamidi berkata beliau telah menyerah diri pada pagi 23 Januari berhubung siasatan rasuah melibatkan pemilihan UMNO di negeri tersebut.

Menurut laporan polis yang tersebar melalui email itu, Halimi, seorang kontraktor, mendakwa beliau dipukul oleh tiga pegawai SPRM semasa proses soal-siasat.

Selain dipukul, mangsa juga mendakwa dibogelkan dan di minta berguling-guling di atas lantai.

"Bakul sampah yang kotor telah diletakkan di atas kepala saya, dan saya dipaksa untuk menyanyikan lagu Negaraku berkali-kali, lagu UMNO berkali-kali dan disuruh menyebut Rukun Negara berulang kali. Semasa saya dipaksa berbuat demikian bakul sampah di atas kepala saya diketuk berkali-kali," katanya dalam laporan polis yang dibuat pada 28 Januari.

Menurut Halimi, pada 24 Januari, sewaktu di bawa untuk tahanan reman, beliau sudah memaklumkan kepada Majistret di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kuantan dan dinasihatkan untuk membuat aduan kepada Biro Pengaduan Awam selepas dibebaskan.

Katanya lagi, beliau dipaksa untuk mengaku bahawa seorang pemimpin UMNO, Datuk Norza Zakaria terlibat dengan politik wang.

Jelasnya lagi, biarpun didera dan disiksa, beliau tetap memberitahu perkara yang sebenar dan menafikan pembabitan Datuk Norza Zakaria dengan politik wang.

"Sepanjang masa saya dipukul dan didera, mereka telah memadamkan kamera CCTV yang berada di dalam bilik tahanan itu dengan menggunakan plaster," kata beliau.

Di akhir laporan polisnya, Halimi mendakwa, jenayah yang dilakukan oleh pegawai SPRM tersebut kepada beliau adalah mirip peristiwa yang sering berlaku di Abu Gharib (penjara di Iraq).

"Saya amat terkejut dan takut bahawa perkara ini juga berlaku di bawah SPRM yang baru ditubuhkan ini," katanya.

Parlimen akhir Disember lalu memberikan kuasa yang lebih besar kepada SPRM untuk membenteras rasuah di negara ini. Dulunya SPRM di kenali sebagai Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR). - KLPos

By Lim Kit Siang

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must live down its very bad start which has seriously undermined its claim to independence, credibility and professionalism as compared to its predecessor, Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA).

The MACC had swung into action in the past week and although it seemed to be in an “all-out war” mode against Umno “ikan bilis”, it has to convince Malaysians that it is becoming another ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong) which brooks no nonsense in its fight against corruption on two important grounds:

• Firstly, when will it move from Umno “ikan bilis” to Umno “ikan yu” to eradicate corruption in the most corrupt institution in the country; and

• Secondly, its “stop work” in its first 17 days of establishment for fear of jeopardizing UMNO’s victory in the Kuala Terengganu by-election on January 17, although Malaysians were promised that the MACC would hit the ground attacking corruption from January 1, 2009.

In fact, on January 14, three days before the Kuala Terengganu by-election, the MACC was forced to delay charging a former Barisan Nasional (BN) state assemblyman in Selangor for corruption so as not to affect UMNO’s result in the Kuala Terengganu by-election.

Former BN Selangor State Assemblyman (Semenyih), Datuk Ahmad Kuris Mohd Nor, also former head of the Hulu Langat Umno division, was only charged on four separate counts of corruption involving RM200,000 in the Ampang Sessions Court a week later – after the Kuala Terengganu by-election result.

In the event, whether a former Umno state assemblyman was charged for corruption before or after the polling would have made no difference to the outcome of the Kuala Terenggany by-election result.

But would the MACC be so “considerate” as to hold back corruption charges if the accused involved had been a PAS or Pakatan Rakyat leader?

Can we hear an explanation from the Chief Commissioner of MACC, Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan, to these two clear caveats about the independence, credibility and professionalism of MACC in the very first month of MACC existence?