KUALA LUMPUR: The family of Teoh Beng Hock may be called to give statements again should the need arise, say the police.
Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said they will look into any new information that could aid in the case.
“When we say reopen the case, it means we will restart everything and evaluate any new information.“The possibility of calling them (the family) back is very much there,” he told a press conference in Bukit Aman yesterday.
Comm Mohd Shuhaily was responding to a question about the reopening of investigations into Teoh’s death in 2009.
This comes a day after Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said in a Facebook post that the government had agreed for police to reopen investigation papers into the case.
The Prime Minister also gave his assurance that the probe will be carried out “transparently and fairly without any external interference, especially after taking into account the views of the Appeals Court regarding the case on Sept 5, 2014”.
On July 16, 2009, Teoh, then a political aide to Selangor DAP leader Ean Yong Hian Wah, was detained overnight by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for questioning on the 14th floor of its 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 found that Teoh’s death was due to suicide.
But in September 2014, the Court of Appeal ruled that his death was caused by multiple injuries from a fall from the building, which was accelerated by “an unlawful act or acts of person or persons unknown” including MACC officers 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 2022, his parents filed for a judicial review to compel the police to complete investigations into his 2009 death.
The High Court is set to deliver its decision on Oct 29.
