8. First things First

PKR vice-president R Sivarasa and party worker Sim Tze Tzin were both served notices today (by ACA) to reveal the source within seven days.

Sivarasa said he would discuss the matter with party officials and legal advisors before deciding on the next course of action.

“If we have to take the punishment to protect our source, so be it,” he told reporters after receiving the notices at the Federal Territories ACA headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

The notice stated that failure to comply with the demand would be a breach of Section 29 (c) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.

Under Section 58 of the same Act, offenders would be liable to a fine of no more than RM10,000 or a two-year jail term.

The video, released by PKR on Sept 19, shows a lawyer having a telephone conversation with a judge about ‘fixing’ judicial appointments.

Following this, Sivarasa lodged a report with the ACA urging them to investigate the details in the video.

The PKR vice-president said today that the ACA appeared to be skewed towards investigating the complainant and the source of the video clip.

Read full news from Malaysiakini, 5.10 2007.


Agreed that the individuals implicated in the tape be probed. But first things first. The authenticity of the tape has to be established first. The Independent Panel has to do this before the real investigation will be done by another Royal Commission later. If no immunity was required for the tape to be revealed in the first instance, what more immunity is required for revealing the source, from a Royal Commission? If the source was unwilling to be revealed, then why release the tape? Let's get on with the job of cleaning the judiciary. Please co-operate with the ACA and the Panel for justice ! We want the truth.