Satu laporan yang menggemparkan institusi polis dalam Akhbar Malay Mail 30 September 2010. Akhbar tersebut melaporkan 9 anggota polis yang terlibat dalam rampasan dadah terbesar negara yang bernilai RM200 Juta pada tahun 2009 kini disiasat atas dakwaan mengambil dadah yang dirampas sebagai ganjaran. Sementara pemandu lori yang terlibat dalam kes tersebut dibebaskan dari hukuman mati tetapi ditahan semula atas tuduhan lain.
Berita sebegini amat menggusarkan kita semua. Apakah ada kes-kes sebegini di balai polis lain ?
Kerana nila 9 titik, habis rosak susu sebelanga.
Macamana pun kita harus berpegang pada prinsip Innocent Until Proven Guilty, iaitu Tidak Bersalah selagi Tidak Dibuktikan Bersalah. Orang yang belum dijatuhkan hukuman salah oleh mahkamah adalah tidak bersalah.
Begitu juga peguam Pathmanabhan Nalliannen yang terlibat dengan kes kehilangan Dato Sosilawati adalah tidak bersalah selagi tidak dibuktikan bersalah di mahkamah.
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Court orders 9 cops to be investigated for theft
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
KUANTAN: The case of the infamous RM200 million syabu bust ended in high drama this morning when the accused was acquitted while nine policemen were ordered to be investigated for theft of part of the seized drugs.
Lorry driver Lee Yong Toe, 48, from Johor Baru, who was facing the death penalty under the Dangerous Drugs Act, was however re-arrested outside the court after his acquittal.
He was charged with trafficking in 753,359kg of syabu with another man still at large in Jalan Chenderawasih here at 6.45am on May 2 last year.
But it was the nine cops who took centre stage in the case of the biggest syabu haul in the country.
High Court Judicial Commissioner Datuk Akhtar Tahir ordered deputy public prosecutor Jamil Aripin to investigate and take criminal action against the policemen for theft of four plastic packages of syabu weighing between one and two kilos each.
The policemen, all members of the raiding team, had admitted taking the packages as “reward for their hard work”.
Three of them were witnesses.They are expected to be suspended pending investigations.
Before the trial began last month, disciplinary action had been taken against some of them for being dishonest and untruthful when they were investigating the case.
Lead defence counsel Datuk V. Sithambaram had in his submission on Sept 15 questioned the credibility and integrity of the cops.
Jamil had in his submission said the packets of syabu taken by the policemen would not interfere or affect the quality and identity of the drugs seized.
He had said the credibility of the witness was the prerogative of the court to decide “but that does not mean all their statements need to be rejected”.
The defence had also contended that the prosecution failed to call two important witnesses, who were also detained, to testify in court.
The duo, including the brother of Lee, had offered a policeman RM500,000 to release Lee and the drugs.
As to why the two were not called to testify in court, Jamil said their testimony would not assist the prosecution because they were detained at a different place and time.
He added that the court must take into account the factor that Lee had knowledge of the drugs because he was the registered owner of the lorry and responsible for the goods he was carrying.
Jamil said the action by the accused to use a type of spray on the police when trying to escape, showed that he knew he was carrying illegal goods in his lorry.
The prosecution called 14 witnesses in the case. Lee was also represented by J. Kuldeep Kumar, Hisham Teh Poh Teik and Bob Arumugam. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Fadhli Mahmud appeared with Jamil
http://www.mmail.com.my/content/50768-court-orders-9-cops-be-investigated-theft
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