The Selangor government has denied being responsible for leaking the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide document to the Internet yesterday.

Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said he had no knowledge that the classified document was freely available online .

"It should not have happened," he said.

khalid ibrahim at selangor pkr convention 15112009 "Besides, we no longer have the document with us as we have sent it back to MPAJ (Ampang Jaya Muncipal Council)," he said at the sidelines of Malaysiakini's 10th anniversary dinner in Kuala Lumpur last night.

Commenting on the official stamp of a Selangor executive councillor which was found on the leaked documents, Abdul Khalid said the state government "will look into it".

"We never released the document... and about that stamp, we will look into it if it really (came from us).

"However, I do not think it came from the state because we are still waiting for the approval from the federal government (to declassify) the document," he said.

The menteri besar also expressed his frustration over the process to acquire the approval, lamenting that so far the state government had sent four letters to Public Works Department (JKR) and the cabinet.

"MPAJ has recently sent another letter, now we have sent four letters to JKR. Then it (JKR) said that we have to send the letter to the cabinet (instead).

"And then MPAJ wanted another letter from us to send to JKR again, and we are still waiting for the response," he said.

Document removed?

Yesterday, the document, which had been classified under the Officials Secrets Act, was made available on a popular file sharing website Rapidshare.

The 86-page document, which is a clear Xeroxed copy of the original, bore the official stamp of a Selangor executive councillor.

Every page also bore the 'rahsia' (secret) stamp and contained detailed maps of the affected areas.

However, a check by Malaysiakini this morning showed that the file has either been deleted or removed from the sharing website.

bukit antarabangsa landslide victim unglu farid ungku abdul rahman interview 121208 02 The leaked document had showed that a special committee, Slope Engineering Branch of the JKR, was formed to carry out the investigation.

A total number of 21 eyewitnesses were called for interviews with these slope engineers. The interviews were to obtain information regarding the site's history as well as accounts of the events leading to the landslide.

The gist of the report on the cause of the landslide cited water leakages from a pipe along the abandoned houses caused a build-up of high pore water pressure within the slope and increased moisture in the soil, thereby destabilising the slope.

On Nov 18, Abdul Khalid announced that he would exercise his powers under Section 2(c) of the OSA to make the report available for public viewing on Nov 23.

Khalid had also read out the executive summary and the main findings which led to the tragedy at Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa at 3.30am on Dec 6, 2008 which claimed five lives and destroyed 14 houses.

The full report was however held back after the state government was rebuked by the federal government, claiming that the menteri besar had breached the OSA, which carries a mandatory one-year jail sentence upon conviction, for releasing the cabinet red-taped report.