01:17pm: Court breaks for lunch
12:59pm: Teoh’s fiancee Soh Cher Wei, 28, walks into the courtroom and sits at the front row of the public gallery with Teoh’s family. This is the first time she sits in the public gallery. Soh is also listed as witness in the inquest.
12:45pm: To a question by Abdul Razak, Anuar says there were four quotation documents from four different companies found on Teoh’s laptop.
12.35pm: Anuar says MACC team seized Teoh’s laptop and CPU at his office. Teoh appeared restless.
12:30pm: Lawyer for MACC Abdul Razak begins questioning Anuar.
12.15pm: Anuar said he was instructed by Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim to lodge a police report the next day after Teoh was found dead on fifth floor of Plaza Masalam on July 16.
12pm: Anuar admits to Gobind that he had given an incorrect answer during yesterday’s proceedings where he said there was no threat or violence used on Teoh during interrogation. Under intense grilling today, he agrees with Gobind that he could not have known if there was threat or violence used on Teoh because he had slept off for a significant amount of time.
11:51am: Anuar agrees that Teoh “could have something to tell” despite keeping quiet when Anuar last saw Teoh at about 2am on July 16 when Anuar when to check the questioning session. At that time, Mohd Nadzri was recording Teoh’s statement. Anuar walked in and asked if everything was okay to which Mohd Nadzri replied there was no problem. Teoh had kept quiet.
11:40am: Anuar tells the court that he did not probe Teoh on his condition during the questioning session with MACC officer Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim at about 2am on July 16 because there was no need to do so.
11:25am:Court resumes. Gobind continues with his questioning of Anuar.
10:25am: Gobind tells Anuar that there are police reports lodged against MACC for torture during interrogation. Anuar says he is not aware of such police reports.
10:20am: Anuar admits to Gobind that in MACC officers do go by shortnames. Mohd Anuar Ismail goes by MAI, acronym of his name. Gobind suggests that Anuar uses MAI so witnesses will not know his real name during interrogation. Anuar disagrees.
09:57am: Datuk Abdul Razak Musa, lawyer for MACC officers during the inquest, gets up to object.
09:50am: Anuar tells the court that it was normal for MACC to keep witnesses till late at night. However, he agreed to Gobind’s suggestion that it was not normal to keep anyone in the office till late night on general basis.
Gobind: Why do you have to investigate until late night?
Anuar: To hasten investigation
Gobind: Why?
Anuar: Because the issue of state fund disbursements is sensitive. the media reported almost daily a week before that.
Gobind: If you say you need to hasten it, then why did youu sleep all night? (Anuar had earlier testified that after he last saw Teoh at about 2am. He went to the surau and slept. He woke up at 5am to move to visitor’s area (ruang tamu) of the MACC and slept off until 8.30am
Gobind says “Kata nak cepat tapi you slept all night”. The courts break into laughter
09:40am: Anuar says he did not check whether Manoharan was present in the building.
Gobind: Why did you not wait for Manoharan?
Anuar: I didn’t see him
Gobind: Did u ask whether Manoharan was there?
A: No
Gobind later asks if Anuar was aware that Manoharan, had come in his capacity as Teoh’s lawyer and waited for an hour to see his client, Anuar said he wasn’t aware.
09:30am: Drama in court when Gobind Singh Deo grills Anuar on whether he waited for Teoh’s lawyer M. Manoharan to arrive.
Gobind: You said Teoh made a call to someone when he arrived at the MACC building
Anuar: Yes
Gobind: You also said you asked him to switch handphone off. Why?
A: There is a administrative directive arahan pentadbiran that a witness cannot use handphone in building
Gobind: Didn’t you earlier give him permission to use his phone?
Anuar: I used my discretion (budi bicara), I don’t know who he was speaking to. But i did give him permission to call Manoharan
Gobind: So did he call Manoharan? Wouldn’t he be waiting for his lawyer?
Anuar: I don’t know
Gobind: Since you gave him permission to call Manoharan, and you said you heard him saying "Are you coming?" Isn’t it possible that Teoh was calling Manoharan?
Anuar: Yes, most probably
Gobind: Doesn’t it mean he could most probably be waiting for Manoharan?
Anuar knocks the witness stand with his hand out of frustration by the intense questioning by Gobind. Gobind lashes out saying that Anuar is “not that soft spoken person you have made yourself to seem”
09:17am: Mohd Anuar Ismail, a Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officer takes the stand for the third time
09:15am: Day 13 begins for Teoh Beng Hock inquest. His family is present in the courtroom
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