Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail has ordered the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) to close its investigation into the allegation that Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan took RM2 million in bribe to free three criminal suspects held under the Emergency Ordinance.


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 According to
 
 Bernama
 
 , Abdul Gani said the whole of the ACA investigation via witnesses and relevant documents have nothing to link Musa to the allegation.


 "Analysis of Musa's bank account statements also showed no entry of any suspicious amount of money into the accounts," he added.


 The ACA opened its investigation into the matter on June 18 and carried out an extensive probe, including recording statements from several witnesses.


 Apart from checking his bank accounts, the ACA also inspected the assets owned by the police chief.


 
 
 Musa did not order release
 
 




 Gani said the investigations, among others, revealed that:


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 The three subjects were arrested on March 30, 2007 over suspicion of being involved in an illegal gaming syndicate based on the statements given by six individuals at the Kluang district police headquarters.
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 After the three subjects were arrested, Musa received information that there was wrongdoing in relation to their arrest.
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 Musa then instructed acting DCP Khalid Abu Bakar to investigate the arrests since there was information alleging wrongdoing. Musa never ordered for the trio's release but had informed Khalid if there was indeed any wrongdoing, then they should be freed.
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 Khalid's investigation found that the six witnesses who were said to have implicated the trio as syndicate members denied giving any statements to that effect. Following this, Khalid ordered the trio to be released and proposed taking disciplinary action against the police personnel involved.
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 The three subjects were then freed on April 6, 2007 after they were held for seven days.
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 Gani said the investigation by the ACA also found that the six witnesses did not make any statements at the Kluang district police headquarters to link the trio to an illegal gaming syndicate.


 The six also claimed that the signatures on their purported statements were not theirs, he said, adding that signature samples taken by the ACA from the six confirmed this.


 
 
 Johari's ACA report
 
 




 The ACA investigations also revealed that the lock-up register at the Kluang district police headquarters showed that at the date and time when the purported statements were recorded from the six, five were in the lock-up and the other was being taken to court.


 "So it is not possible that all six witness gave their statements on the date and time stated in their written statements," said Gani.


 Three weeks ago, Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharum has also ordered his officers to
 
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 lodge an ACA report
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 against Musa.


 Johari was himself earlier cleared by the attorney-general after an ACA probe for similar allegations - the deputy minister was said to have taken RM5 million in bribes for the release of three underworld figures under the Emergency Ordinance, which allows detention without trial.


 Musa's contract was extended by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi early this year, and is due to retire in September.

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