He was acquitted of 46 charges of receiving kickbacks from 16 logging firms even before the trial began.
| The shocking acquittal of scandal-ridden former Sabah chief minister Musa Aman from massive corruption charges has rattled the Malaysian political scene.
While both grounds are found to be factually and legally flawed, what is equally if not more disturbing is the lightning speed with which Idrus claimed to have reviewed the entire case and made his decision.on June 5, his department “reviewed the whole evidence for the case” and on morning of June 9 , he applied to withdraw all the charges.
Incidentally, Gani’s legal rationale was an advertent admission that Musa did indeed receive the kickbacks as alleged, except that they were for a purpose that he thought wrongly would justify the illegal act. The abovementioned MACC statement was actually issued to retort former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s attempt a day earlier to shift the responsibility from Gani to MACC over the non-action against Musa.
Unless Idrus gives credible explanations and answers to these disturbing issues and questions, his integrity as the government’s top legal adviser and the prosecutor of our judicial system will be shredded to pieces.
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