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Free Malaysia Today
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Give Pamela Ling's family proper updates, says lawyer
Pamela Ling was supposed to give her statement to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission on April 9 but failed to show up. (Facebook pic) PETALING JAYA : The family members of Pamela Ling, who has been missing for a month, deserve to receive proper updates instead of relying on scattered media reports to learn about the investigation, says their lawyer. Sangeet also took issue with police suggestions that Ling might have staged her own abduction, calling these a 'smokescreen' to deflect from early investigative lapses. She said Ling was a mother of three, including a child with a serious medical condition requiring regular treatment, making her voluntary disappearance highly unlikely. Sangeet Kaur Deo. 'Also, why not disappear earlier instead of duly attending not less than nine times for MACC questioning?' she said, referring to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. 'Why disappear two days after filing a judicial review application against MACC, wherein she had detailed her allegations of abuse of power?' she added in a statement. Sangeet also raised concerns over a lack of follow-through on key leads, including reports that 'cloned cars' were used in the abduction. 'Were CCTV recordings from her Cheras temporary residence checked to determine if she was being followed? Were toll records reviewed to identify the movement of those vehicles and trace the RFID or TNG cards used?' she asked. She urged government ministers to break their silence on the case, warning that continued inaction would set a troubling precedent. 'How many more need to go missing in this country before serious action is taken?' she said. Yesterday, Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Isa told reporters that they were looking into the possibility of 'fake police' and a self-staged disappearance, when asked for updates on Ling's case. Ling went missing on April 9 while on her way to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to give a statement. According to her brother, the e-hailing vehicle she was in was intercepted by several vehicles, one of which she was ordered to get into. The e-hailing driver who took Ling to the MACC headquarters said on Tuesday that her abductors were wearing police outfits.
Malay Mail
06-05-2025
- Malay Mail
Police: Woman thrown from van near Awan Besar R&R not Pamela Ling
KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 — A woman who died after being thrown out of a van along the Kesas Highway is not the missing Pamela Ling, police clarified today. Cheras District Police Chief ACP Aidil Bolhassan issued the clarification in a message to the media regarding the incident that occurred this afternoon. 'I confirm that it is not 'Pamela Ling',' he said. According to preliminary reports, the woman was found dead along the Kesas Highway this afternoon after a suspected hit-and-run involving a van. The incident took place near the Awan Besar rest area, heading towards Petaling Jaya, around 2.58pm. A witness who contacted emergency services claimed he saw the woman fall or be thrown from a moving van before it sped off. The woman died at the scene and her death was later confirmed by medical personnel. She was identified as a 44-year-old from Menglembu, Ipoh, believed to be of Chinese descent. Investigators are working to trace the vehicle and determine if foul play was involved. Ling was abducted on April 9 while on her way to meet the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to provide her statement for a money-laundering investigation. Police are investigating whether her husband and several others were involved in her disappearance.
BBC News
19-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Tulip Siddiq attacks 'false' Bangladesh corruption allegations
Former Labour minister Tulip Siddiq has accused the Bangladeshi authorities of mounting a "targeted and baseless" campaign against a letter to Bangladesh's Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), the MP's lawyers say allegations of corruption are "false and vexatious" and have never been formally put to her by investigators, despite being briefed to the resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, with responsibility for tackling corruption in the UK's financial markets, in Hampstead and Highgate MP insisted at the time she had done nothing wrong but that she did not want to be a "distraction" to the government. In a letter accepting her resignation, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a close friend of Siddiq who represents a neighbouring constituency in North London, said the "door remains open" to her had referred herself to the PM's ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus when the corruption allegations first surfaced in Laurie said in his report that he had "not identified evidence of improprieties".But he added it was "regrettable" that Siddiq had not been more alert to the "potential reputational risks" of the ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the deposed prime minister of ACC is examining claims Sheikh Hasina and her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in investigation is based on a series of allegations made by Bobby Hajjaj, a political opponent of documents seen by the BBC show Hajjaj has accused Siddiq of helping to broker a deal with Russia in 2013 that overinflated the price of a new nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. In its letter to the ACC, Siddiq's lawyers, Stephenson Harwood, repeat her claim that she was not involved in the nuclear plant deal in any way, despite being pictured at a signing ceremony in the Kremlin in 2013, with Sheikh Hasina and Russian president Vladimir Putin."It is not uncommon for family members to be invited to accompany Heads of State on state visits," the letter says, adding that she had no knowledge of any alleged financial says claims that a £700,000 flat in London King's Cross gifted to Siddiq in 2004 was "in some way the fruits of embezzlement" were "absurd" and "cannot be true" because it was 10 years before the nuclear his investigation into the allegations, Sir Laurie Magnus said that "over an extended period, she was unaware of the origins of her ownership of her flat in Kings Cross, despite having signed a Land Registry transfer form relating to the gift at the time". She "remained under the impression that her parents had bought the property for her", Sir Laurie added, but had to correct the record when she became a government describes this as an "unfortunate misunderstanding" which meant the public had been "inadvertently misled about the identity of the donor of this gift".In their letter to the ACC, Siddiq's lawyers confirm that the King's Cross flat was given to her by Abdul Motalif, who is described as "an Iman and a very close family friend, akin to Ms Siddiq's godfather".The letter also contains a detailed rebuttal of allegations made by the ACC to the media that Siddiq was involved in the appropriation of land in Dhaka. It describes ACC briefings to the media as an "unacceptable attempt to interfere with UK politics"."At no point have any allegations been put to her fairly, properly and transparently, or indeed at all, by the ACC or anyone else with proper authority on behalf of the Bangladeshi government, " the letter says. "We require that you immediately stop manufacturing false and vexatious allegations against Ms Siddiq and further media briefings and public comments designed to harm her reputation."The letter says the ACC must put questions to Siddiq "promptly" and "in any event by no later than 25 March 2025" or " we shall presume that there are no legitimate questions to answer".The ACC's chairman, Mohammad Abdul Momen, told The Times: "All allegations raised against Ms Siddiq will be proven in any court, including the ones in the United Kingdom."
