Task force report on missing duo should be ready, Muhyiddin says


Noel Achariam

Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) is unsure whether the special task force investigating the disappearance of pastor Raymond Koh and activist Amri Che Mat has completed its report. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Kamal Ariffin, December 11, 2019.

MUHYIDDIN Yassin will meet the special task force investigating the disappearance of pastor Raymond Koh and activist Amri Che Mat to discuss its report, as the probe should have been completed by now.

“I don’t know the exact date, but the investigation time frame is six months,” said the home minister after launching the NGO Anak Muda flood relief programme for the east coast, in Putrajaya today.

“I’m still not sure if the report is ready. I will meet the task force to discuss it.”

It has been more than 10 months since the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) came out with its report, which pointed to Special Branch’s involvement in the duo’s abduction.

Following the release of the Suhakam report, Muhyiddin in June announced the formation of a special task force to look into Koh and Amri’s disappearance.

The task force, which was given six months to wrap up its investigation, is led by former high court judge Rahim Uda.

The other members are Bukit Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department director Zamri Yahya, Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission operations director Muhammad Bukhari Ab Hamid, Attorney-General’s Chambers legal officer (public prosecution) Mohd Sophian Zakaria, Home Ministry police force commission secretary Mohd Russaini Idrus, lawyer Roger Tan, and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission inspection and consultancy assistant commissioner Azian Umar.

Koh, 62, was abducted by masked men in Jalan SS4B/10, Petaling Jaya, on February 13, 2017.

Amri disappeared on November 24, 2016 after leaving his home in Kangar, Perlis.

The Suhakam inquiry concluded that they were victims of enforced disappearance.

Inquiry panel chairman Mah Weng Kwai had said it was of the view that the abductions were carried out by agents of the state, namely Special Branch based at the federal police headquarters. – December 11, 2019.


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