The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) will wait for the police to complete their new round of investigations into the death of Teoh Beng Hock before deciding whether anybody has to be prosecuted.

"If the circumstantial evidence is strong enough to warrant prosecution, a prosecution will be done," the AGC said in a statement today.

The police are re-opening the case again following the Court of Appeal's landmark judgment last week that Teoh's death at the Selangor headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office in Shah Alam was not suicide.

"However, the Attorney-General's Chambers would like to stress that suspicion, no matter how strong, will never bring about prosecution in any case," it added.

The chambers said that the perpetrators, if any, would have been charged before if the prosecution was “convinced and satisfied” with the evidence gathered by police in the previous probe.

“However, the police, having conducted a thorough investigation, concluded that no one was criminally liable based on the legally admissible evidence,” the statement said.

“Hence the public prosecutor directed that the inquiry into this death be conducted,” it added.