PETALING JAYA: Controversial businessman Albert Tei (
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Tei’s lawyer Zaid Malek claimed that MACC officers forcefully entered the businessman’s home in Puchong before arresting him and ushering him out in handcuffs. Tei was brought back to the house minutes later.
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However, Malaysiakini quoted another of Tei’s lawyer, Mahajoth Singh, as saying the graft-busters had a warrant to raid the businessman’s home.
In a statement, Zaid said MACC and police officers were both present at the home, and that he was denied his request to meet his client.
The Lawyers for Liberty director said this was a breach of Tei’s constitutional right to counsel.
“Subsequently, they brought Tei out handcuffed. He was surrounded by balaclava-clad armed officers. It was as if they were arresting a terrorist.
“The officers refused to identify themselves or state where Albert was being brought to,” he said.
FMT has reached out to MACC for comment.
Tei and a woman named Sofia Rini Buyong were summoned to give their statements on Monday to assist in an investigation involving Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s former senior political secretary, Shamsul Iskandar Akin.
Tei, the businessman at the centre of the Sabah mining scandal, is currently facing trial on two counts of giving bribes. - FMT
