Najib says, "Don’t dispute panel’s integrity"

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today no one should dispute the integrity of the three members of an independent panel set up to determine the authenticity of a video clip on a telephone conversation between a lawyer and an alleged senior judge on the appointment of judges.

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Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said the council should act professionally to be respected and should not allow itself to be used by certain individuals for their own political interest.
He said the Bar Council was no longer professional by pressuring the government to set a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the unauthenticated video clip of a telephone conversation of a senior lawyer purportedly brokering the appointment of judges in 2002.

 

Source: Bernama

 

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Sivarasa said the ACA had been informed that he and PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim have viewed the full video recording.

“The other part of the recording clearly shows Datuk V.K. Lingam (the senior lawyer in the video) telling the people in the room, after the telephone conversation, that he was speaking to (Chief Justice) Tun Ahmad Fairuz (Sheikh Abdul Halim).”

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