NONE A UK-based private investigation agency has raised a number of fresh allegations regarding the New Zealand holiday of Chief Justice Eusoff Chin and prominent lawyer VK Lingam in 1994.

According to reports prepared by private eye Bowman Investigations, Eusoff and Lingam flew together with their families for their Christmas holiday in New Zealand in 1994.

Copies of Eusoff's itinerary and Lingam's counterfoil air tickets, which Bowman's team of investigators said they obtained, showed that both took the same flights to and from Singapore, and within New Zealand.

eusoff chin vk lingam new zealand trip photos 240108 front The investigation agency said that Lingam's party flew to Singapore on Singapore Airlines on Dec 22, 1994 and took a connecting flight to Auckland.

Also on the same day, Eusoff and his family took a Malaysian Airlines flight to Singapore and joined Lingam's flight in business class to Auckland.

Both families then proceeded together to Christchurch four days later and returned to Kuala Lumpur via Singapore on Dec 30.

azlan The investigation was apparently commissioned by some insurance companies and a law firm in early 1998 to obtain evidence in relation to corruption, improper associations and other matters in relation to the judiciary in Malaysia to assist litigation involving the law firm.

A copy of two reports written by Bowman's managing director D McCarthy - one dated March 2, 1998 and another dated April 21, 1998 - was anonymously given to Malaysiakini .

Read the full story from May 9, 2000: Eusoff, Lingam face new allegations .

Also read here as to how Malaysiakini came in possession of the Bowman papers.

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