July 29 verdict to compel wrap-up in probe over Beng Hock’s death

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Teoh Beng Hock’s family will know on July 29 if they succeed in their legal action to force a wrap-up in the long-standing police probe into his death.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has fixed the date to decide whether to allow the family’s judicial review over the 2009 incident.

The family’s counsel Harshaan Zamani said the civil court last month had heard the action over the death linked to MACC’s intense interrogation.

“July 29 has been set for a decision,” the lawyer told Malaysiakini today.

Teoh was found dead on July 16, 2009, on the fifth-floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after being questioned overnight at the Selangor MACC headquarters on the 14th floor.

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At the time of his death, Teoh was a political aide to Selangor executive councillor and DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Ean Yong Hian Wah.

In 2011, a Royal Commission of Inquiry determined that Teoh was driven to commit suicide following the anti-graft watchdog’s aggressive questioning.

In 2014, the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled his death was caused by the act of “person or persons unknown”, including the MACC officers who questioned him overnight before he was found dead.

In January 2022, Teoh’s parents filed a judicial review due to the alleged failure of the police to complete their investigation into his death.

A few months later in June, Teoh’s father and mother, Teoh Leong Hwee and Teng Shuw Hoi, obtained court leave to proceed with the civil action. – Malaysiakini