Why treat Pamela as a suspect if she was just a witness, family asks MACC

PETALING JAYA - Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh's family wants to know why she was treated as a suspect if the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) claims she was only a witness in a case.

Their lawyer, Sangeet Kaur Deo, said the recent statement by MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki does not hold water.

“The MACC did not just ‘call’ Pamela Ling, it hounded her," she said in a statement on Friday (May 23).

"She was in Malaysia on the orders of the MACC. So what exactly is Azam Baki talking about?”

She also added that the Kuala Lumpur High Court had granted leave to challenge the arrest warrant issued on Pamela.

“If she were a witness and cooperating too, as stated by Azam, then the conduct of the MACC in arresting her, handcuffing her, keeping her in a lockup, releasing her on RM35,000 bail, imposing monthly reporting conditions and imposing a complete travel ban on her, was clear intimidation and harassment, and an outright abuse of process.

“Why is Azam misleading the public? He should come clean about who ordered Pamela’s arrest and inexcusable treatment, even though her role was merely that of a witness, instead of making shockingly untrue statements,” she said.

At a press conference on Thursday (May 22), Azam said Pamela was arrested earlier for not showing up to the MACC when summoned, and not for ongoing investigations.

“To clear up issues, Pamela was arrested over failure to present herself to the MACC, not over the investigation of the case.

“Failure to present yourself is an offence. That is all, and it is separate from our investigation," he said. - THE STAR