Anwar to meet with Teoh Beng Hock's family next week

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pic) will schedule a date next week to meet with the family of the late Teoh Beng Hock.

“This week, we are having the Rulers Conference and the King's installation. So we will meet next week," the Prime Minister told reporters after meeting after launching the National Bioeconomy Showcase 2024 on Wednesday. (July 17)

Anwar was asked if a specific date had been set for a meeting with Teoh's family.

On Monday (July 15), in his post of X, Anwar pledged to meet with Teoh's family after the Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement was stopped from handing over a memorandum to lawmakers in Parliament.

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On July 16, 2009, Teoh was detained overnight for questioning on the 14th floor of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office in Shah Alam. He was later found dead on the fifth-floor landing of the building.

In July 2011, a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) ruled that his death was due to suicide.

However, in September 2014, the Court of Appeal found that Teoh’s death was caused by multiple injuries from a fall from the building that was accelerated by “an unlawful act or acts of person or persons unknown” who were involved in the case.

In May 2015, the government agreed to pay Teoh’s family RM600,000 as a settlement for a civil suit initiated in 2012 for negligence resulting in his death.

In January last year, Teoh’s parents filed for a judicial review to compel the police to complete investigations into his death.