Govt Will Deliberate Whether Tommy Thomas Rci Necessary Minister

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PARLIAMENT | De facto Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said he will deliberate with the rest of the cabinet whether or not it is necessary to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on allegations contained in former attorney-general Tommy Thomas' memoir.
He said this while responding to Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim (BN-Baling) who wanted to know if the government had considered his proposal.
Azeez had called for the RCI to investigate the various criminal prosecution cases initiated against various Umno leaders under the previous Pakatan Harapan government.
Under Thomas, Azeez was slapped with 12 counts of corruption and money laundering involving a sum of RM144 million.
Azeez said the RCI can also look into court cases against Harapan leaders that were dropped.
Two other RCI proposals dismissed 
On a separate call by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for an RCI into the alleged theft of RM25 million within the MACC, Wan Junaidi (above) said this was not necessary.
This is as the investigations into the case had been completed and that it was not complex enough to warrant an RCI, he explained. 
Likewise, he also dismissed a request by Salim Sharif (BN-Jempol) for an RCI into former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng's undersea tunnel case after a witness died.
The minister said cases that may appear complex to the public are actually not to the authorities.
"If every criminal case that we perceive to be complex needs an RCI, but is actually not complex, then there would be no end to it," he added.
In comparison, he said, an RCI was established to look into Tabung Haji as the case had grown complex over the years. - Mkini

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