INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun has rejected claims that police were covering up the probe into the death of former DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock.

The top cop told reporters that investigations were ongoing and that police were going through several recommendations made by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

“We received instructions from the AGC and the police taskforce will go through the recommendations,” Fuzi said this morning. 

Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had also earlier this week denied there was a cover up.

It was previously announced that a special police taskforce had been formed on July 17 last year, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police K. Manoharan, to reinvestigate the case.

On July 16, 2009, Teoh, 30, was found dead on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam.

He had been at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s Selangor office on the 14th floor of the building to give a statement.

Teoh, who was an aide to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, fell to his death after he was taken in for questioning over a corruption probe. 

In 2011, magistrate-cum-coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas said in an “open verdict” that Teoh’s death was not a suicide nor homicide. 

However, the Court of Appeal in 2014 ruled that the verdict was wrong. – January 16, 2019.