The Anti-Corruption Agency must reveal its investigation on the photographs of Chief Justice Eusoff Chin and prominent lawyer V.K. Lingam which are posted on the Internet, according to an opposition leader.

In a statement today, DAP national vice-president Tan Seng Giaw said that the ACA will have to show the public how it deals with the six-year-old Eusoff-Lingam photographs.

"For example, is it prepared to present its report on the photographs in Parliament?" he asked.

Tan was commenting on a statement made by the ACA deputy director-general (operations) Ahmad Said Hamdan that the agency will monitor information on alleged corruption which appeared in the Internet.

Today, The Star reported Ahmad as saying that the ACA investigated and monitored information from all sources whether they were from the newspapers, magazines, the Internet or from people who went personally to the ACA.

Malaysiakini reported last Wednesday that UK-based private eye Bowman Investigations has alleged that Eusoff and Lingam flew together with their families for their Christmas holiday six years ago.

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

This appears to contradict Eusoff's assertion that he coincidentally "bumped" into Lingam while holidaying in New Zealand in 1994.

Eusoff recently showed journalists a stack of receipts for expenses on air tickets and hotel accommodation.

He said he paid for the New Zealand holiday himself and vowed to sue anyone alleging his trip was paid for by a third party.

Eusoff also admitted that he had been investigated by the ACA, but said he was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Lingam represents tycoon Vincent Tan in a law suit against veteran journalist M.G.G Pillai, whose appeal in the Federal Court, the country's highest court, was heard by a three-member panel headed by Eusoff.

Tan, MP for Kepong, also said that the Cabinet's decision to extend the tenure of the Chief Justice for another six months starting from today has aroused much anxiety.

"The six months will pass quickly but the conundrum of the independence of the judiciary remains," Tan said.