Source: The Malaysian insider
SHAH ALAM, April 8 — Police tightened security around the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office here today to prevent protests for or against the anti-graft body, and briefly detained a man who unfurled a placard.
The man was arrested by uniformed officers at around 12.20pm just two minutes after he and six other men unfurled crudely-made placards in front of Wisma PKPS, where the Selangor MACC is based.
The placards read “Biar police siasat, jangan ganggu siasatan police” (Let the police investigate, don’t interfere in police investigations) and “Pergi jahanam DAP” (Go to hell DAP).
Shah Alam district police chief Zabedi Ayob told The Malaysian Insider the man, who looked to be in his 40s, was later released without charge.
“Since the illegal assembly did not happen, we decided to let him off with a warning,” he said.
Klang MP Charles Santiago had earlier wanted to hand a memorandum to the Selangor MACC, along with other Selangor lawmakers and civil society groups, just two hours before the arrest.
Some 50 policeman had cordoned off the road in front of Wisma PKPS in anticipation of a possible protest.
Santiago, who is Selangor DAP vice-chairman, has described the MACC as a “house of death” following the death of Selangor Customs assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed at the MACC office in Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur, the second such death in just under three years.
Ahmad Sarbani was found dead on the ground outside the Kuala Lumpur MACC office at about 10.20am on Wednesday. He is believed to have fallen out of the building’s third-floor window.
His death comes as a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) is investigating MACC operational procedures and the death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock, who died in MACC custody two years ago.
Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009 after an overnight interview at the then-Selangor MACC headquarters on the 14th floor.
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