PETALING JAYA: Former Attorney-General Tommy Thomas has slammed allegations that he acted in a corrupt manner in handling the case of tycoon Vincent Tan’s son who was arrested for drug offences, when he was in office.

In a statement, Thomas said as is usual in criminal matters, lawyers of the accused submitted written representations to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to reconsider the decision to charge.


“Having studied the representations and the investigation papers, reviewing the relevant provisions and discussion with the case officers, I recall reducing the charges.

“Receiving representations from lawyers and accused, and reducing or dropping charges thereafter are common occurrences in AGC.

“I have no access to any documents, record or file maintained by those who prepared the investigation papers,” he said, adding that he could not provide any further details of the case.

This comes after Twitter account Edisi Siasat, which recently changed its name to Edisi Khas, claimed that although Tan’s son was arrested under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act for being involved in a very large quantity of drugs, the case was classified as an NFA (no further action) by Thomas.

Thomas said the allegation that he was corrupt in the context of the Edisi Khas post simply meant that he was bribed.

“Malaysians must rest assured that throughout my professional career and in my personal life, I have never paid a bribe. During my stint as a public officer, I never received a bribe,” he said.


“Integrity, honesty and truth are precious values to me. Indeed, they are sacrosanct, and I have never compromised them. The allegation that I was bribed when I took this decision is therefore vigorously denied,” he said.

He also said he had never known Tan prior to his appointment and neither had he acted for him or any of his companies, adding he had also not represented the tycoon since he returned to practice after he quit as attorney-general.

“The timing and vileness of this attack on my integrity are linked to the Roger Ng (1MDB) trial that just commenced in New York, involving fraudulent use of monies belonging to Malaysia.

“Our politicians and personalities will be featured when evidence unfolds during this trial, which has received worldwide media coverage. Against this background, I am an easy target and a convenient digression,” he said

Untung jadi anak tycoon.

Tan is madey croni… I mean kawan…
TT appointed by madey…

Sekian terima kasih.

So how much money involved here ??

lge bungalow also can get discount

6.2B

Hmmmmmmm

pfizer = baniprime. both received the same jkom script pagi tadi.

Ok rba.

PH clown

tt = thermaltake

Depends, on how the Polis do raid & investigate!
AG is only a 'filter' to determine, if a case stand-in court or not, as for not wasting the court time!

Both side so bad.

If the Police, do slumber-work simply catch, no do-urine test, no do Jabatan Kimia report! That's so much an AG can do, about the case!
Even if the AG bring the case-on the court, most likely any Lawyer will use the 'technical-error' to nullify the case! Thus, there's always some-sort of discussion of the case between the Lawyer & AG office, on which Law is much more suitable!

There's where having an Queen's Lawyer Vs. moron Lawyer-buruk comes in-play!

This post has been edited by LaSat: Feb 19 2022, 05:03 PM

lel

just born in malaysia ? ... even convicted also roaming free n can gip gomen advise .... apa u mahu lagi ?

Anak helang

Furthermore, for these rich-fag they would had multiple-house so to 'specifically' pin them down to 39(B) which need custodial to the drug is very difficult!
Don't think, he so stupid to live in a Drug-den, most likely an empty apartment used as 'drug-store' most probably! Thus, to charge under 39(B) not possible lah!

This post has been edited by LaSat: Feb 19 2022, 05:13 PM

Wondering will Bijan comments on this or not