Dec 4 2025, 04:45 PM, updated 3w ago
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 — Lawyer Latheefa Koya, who is also a former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief, today questioned why the authorities were going after her client Albert Tei when he is just a “small fish” providing information on alleged corruption.
Latheefa asked why her client Tei was not given whistleblower protection, unlike other alleged bribe-givers who had been given protection in order to testify as witnesses in court against corruption cases.
Latheefa said it was “shocking” that Tei had been charged with corruption earlier today, when he has been exposing alleged corruption among high-ranking officials in Sabah.
“What I don’t understand is in which situation would you be able to go for corruption, if you go and charge the whistleblower or the so-called giver,” she told the media at the Kuala Lumpur court complex here, describing Tei as a “small fish” when compared against those he had allegedly been exposing.
“He’s a small fish. Go after the big fish,” she said, arguing that going after the “small fish” is not how the anti-corruption fight should be done.
Latheefa cited Lim Guan Eng’s and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s corruption cases, where the alleged givers of bribes were not charged to enable them to testify as prosecution witnesses in those cases.
“But why in this case which involves Albert Tei, there’s no such consideration?” she asked.
“We are supposed to protect the whistleblower, we are supposed to protect the informant,” she said.
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Latheefa asked why her client Tei was not given whistleblower protection, unlike other alleged bribe-givers who had been given protection in order to testify as witnesses in court against corruption cases.
Latheefa said it was “shocking” that Tei had been charged with corruption earlier today, when he has been exposing alleged corruption among high-ranking officials in Sabah.
“What I don’t understand is in which situation would you be able to go for corruption, if you go and charge the whistleblower or the so-called giver,” she told the media at the Kuala Lumpur court complex here, describing Tei as a “small fish” when compared against those he had allegedly been exposing.
“He’s a small fish. Go after the big fish,” she said, arguing that going after the “small fish” is not how the anti-corruption fight should be done.
Latheefa cited Lim Guan Eng’s and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s corruption cases, where the alleged givers of bribes were not charged to enable them to testify as prosecution witnesses in those cases.
“But why in this case which involves Albert Tei, there’s no such consideration?” she asked.
“We are supposed to protect the whistleblower, we are supposed to protect the informant,” she said.
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