Mohtar Abdullah- the most heinous and despicable AG in
the history of Malaya and Malaysia
Mohtar Abdullah popularly known as ' the dugong'
retired as the AG of Malaysia with effect from today.
On handing over office to the new AG, he stated that
history will judge him as to all his actions in his
capacity as the Public Prosecutor.
Without a shadow of doubt, history will judge Mohtar
as the most heinous and despicable AG in the history
of Malaya and of modern Malaysia. The office of AG
came into existence in the year 1948 with the coming
into force of the Federation of Malaya Agreement.
Never before in our history had we a person who is so
weak and so servile and compliant with the will of the
executive. In short throughout his tenure as the AG
and Public Prosecutor, Mohtar could be best described
as a slave to Mahathir who acted at Mahathir's command
and wishes.
Let us state factually what Mohtar had done when he
assumed the office of the AG, and let history judge
him by this factual account; bearing in mind that as
the AG he is the gaurdian of justice and as the PP he
has to act for the interest of justice and the
interest of the public.
a. On assuming office on 1st January 1994, one of
his act as the PP was to close the ACA investigation
of the former Lord President, the corrupt Hamid Omar.
Using his powers as the PP, he put all sort of
obstacles to the ACA such that the ACA was rendered
helpless in their investigation of Hamid Omar. The
case file was eventually closed on Mohtar's
instruction even when the investigation had barely
started. This act of Mohtar was clearly an offence
under the Penal Code of interfering with ACA's
investigation. Furthermore it was common knowledge
that it was Hamid Omar, a henchman of Mahathir, who
had recommended that Mohtar, then a High court judge
and Hamid's subordinate, be appointed the AG.
Mohtar's action is clearly an abuse of public office
and he could be charge with the same offence for which
Anwar was charged.
b. The ACA investigation into Hamid was made based
on the report made by the then MP for KL, ie Wee Choo
Keong. In closing the ACA file, Mohtar then
instructed the ACA to lodge a false report against
Wee, claiming that Wee made a false report against
Hamid. That was to convince the public that Hamid's
case was closed because the initial report lodged by
Wee was supposedly false. This is another clear
offence under the penal code of fabricating false
evidence and interfering with public justice.
Such is the character of the man that we would not be
surprised that he and his cohorts fabricated false
evidences against Anwar to secure the later's
conviction.
c. Another of his sinful and corrupt act is to
withdraw the corruption case of Omar Chin, brother of
the corrupt and disgraced Eusoff Chin, the former
Chief Justice.
d. Mohtar was also instrumental in withdrawing the
corruption charges against Rahim Thamby Chik by
falsely informing the court that he had to withdraw
the charges because of the existence of new evidences
which affected the Rahim's case. The fact is that
the new evidences purportedly obtained did not affect
the ACA's case against Rahim. In fact being a
Malaccan, Mohtar was seen meeting Rahim in Melaka a
few weeks before he withdrew all the charges against
Rahim. It was not because of the so-called new
evidences that the charges was withdrawn, but because
Mohtar had to act on Mahathir's instructons.
Let us compare this man's conduct when he prosecuted
Anwar Ibrahim. Did he withrew the charges when new
evidences were presented by the defence that the
initial charge could not be sustained because the
Villa in which the alleged offence was committed was
still under construction. He did not withdraw the
charges but goes on to amend the charges to suit his
political master to which he was servile, not once but
twice.
e. As the AG he dare not prosecute Rafidah Aziz for
abusing her public office because his political master
told him not to do so; although there was ovewhelming
evidences to convict Rafidah. What kind of AG and PP
is this, acting at the behest of a politician. As the
AG he is the master unto himself but yet does not
possess the courage to act in the interest of the
public, always fearful of Mahathir.
f. A lot of other things could be written about the
misdeeds, corruption and unprofessional attitude of
mohtar and his two henchman in the AG's office. We
know their role in the Eusoffe Chin's case, the Abul
Hasan case( ex-EPU DG ).
Contrary to what he had stated at his final press
conference, history will judge him as the most
heinous, despicable, corrupt, servile and stupid AG
Malaya and Malaysia ever had since 1948. The best
people to judge Mohtar is not the general public but
those people who have to deal with him like the ex-ACA
director, ACA officers, DPPs and even most of the
honest and independent-minded judges. To them Mohtar
is 'shit'. Good riddance to him and may he answer to
the god for the sinful, dishonest, heinous and corrupt
act he had done, especially his role in the Anwar's
case.
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