Those in attendance at the Teoh Beng Hock Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) were stunned today when they heard that two analysis reports of mobile phones belonging to six officers of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had not been submitted to the coroner during the earlier inquest into Teoh's death.

The reports were presented to the commission today by conducting officer Kwan Li Sa from the Attorney-General's Chamber.

The commission also summoned Mohd Zaidi Abu Hassan, a computer analyst from the police force, to testify on the reports.

Commission chairperson James Foong was surprised when he learnt that the reports were not submitted to the coroner's inquest, which had delivered an open verdict on the death of Teoh.

"We have immediately found something on the report,” he said after glancing through the report, without revealing the details.

In response, another conducting officer, Amarjeet Singh, explained that the analysis reports were mentioned during the inquest, but nobody requested them to be presented to the coroner.

Amarjeet said he received the reports last week and obtained approval from MACC to present them to the commission.

The first report analyses the mobile phone content of five officers from MACC's Selangor office, namely, head of investigations Hairul Ilham Hamzah, investigating officers Mohd Anuar Ismail, Azeem Hamiz Jamaluddin, Mohd Ashraf Mohd Yunus and Mohd Nazri Ibrahim.

The second report, meanwhile, looks into the mobile phone content of Selangor MACC deputy director Hishamuddin Hashim, who has two mobile phones.

They contain the log of calls, text messages and contact book of the mobile phones.

Zaidi’s testimony postponed

In view that the commissioners and lawyers needed more time to study the reports, Foong has decided to postpone Zaidi’s testimony.

“It is quite important, so we need time to study it carefully.”

The commission will call two investigating officer and two other security officers from Selangor MACC to testify first tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the commissioner also found that some of the data inside the mobile phones was missing in the reports.

These data include the log of calls between July 15 and 17, 2009, when the events happened, and also the exact time and date of some text messages sent and received.

When asked by the commissioner, Zaidi explained that this is due to the compability of the software they used and that the password was set to protect the contents of the SIM card.

“The previous software we used is an old version, while the latest version can support more phones.”

He also added that some of the mobile phones might have had limited memory, so the police were unable to trace back the phone calls made or received between July 15 and 17, 2009.

According to another witness, Inspector Mohd Zulaimi Mohd Zubir, he was only ordered by the investigating officer to confiscate the mobile phones on July 23, which is around one week after the death of Teoh.

There were also some funny moments in today’s hearing when the commissioners read out some intimate text messages received by MACC officers.

One text message send out by a female friend read, “Why everyone is pointing finger against MACC? ...... Let it be, don’t worry, sayang .”

Meanwhile, some other text messages had discussed about the investigation actions by the police on Teoh’s case.