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| Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed |
KAMPAR, April 10, 2011: A senior Selangor Customs officer under investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, 56, fell to his death from the third floor of the MACC building in Jalan Cochrane.
Ahmad Sarbani had been released on bail two days ago after being picked up in the commission's investigation into a syndicate laundering billions of ringgit via tax evasion activities.
His body was found sprawled in an open air badminton court located on the first floor of the five-storey building at about 10.20am yesterday.
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| Ahmad Sarbani is said to have fallen from a third floor window onto a badminton court on the first floor |
He wanted to meet with the investigating officer (IO) in charge of his case, said the commission's director of investigations Datuk Mustafar Ali.
“There was no prior appointment made. At that time, the IO was in a meeting with his officers.
“At about 9.30am, Ahmad Sarbani was brought to a room on the third floor by an officer who told him to wait there as the IO would be meeting him soon,” Mustafar told a press conference yesterday.
He added that the officer then left the room at about 10.15am and when he returned a few minutes later, Ahmad Sarbani was missing.
The officer was then informed that Ahmad Sarbani was found dead in the badminton court.
Mustafar said the police were immediately informed and they arrived shortly to cordoned off the area.
MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed expressed his condolences to the wife and family of Ahmad Sarbani and said MACC would give its fullest cooperation to the police.
City chief police officer Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said a special task force had been formed to investigate on Ahmad Sarbani sudden death.
“I urge the public to let us carry out the investigations without any pressure from any quarter,'' he said.
Chong Kin Xiang, 22, expressed his thought that MACC should protect the custody’s life and enhance the security or add on more CCTVs because this is the second time that person who help in investigation fell down from the building.
Citizen who do not willing to reveal his name commented that MACC shouldn’t build their building more than 2 floors.
This is the second fatal incident happened where the custody found dead outside MACC building. The first case was happened on July 2009, political aide Teoh Beng Hock was bringing to MACC for investigating about allegations of corruption. He was found dead on the next day in the MACC building. This incident had raised the security of the citizen under the custody in Malaysia.
