Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh mendedahkan rakaman audio yang membuktikan Ketua Hakim Negara, Tan Sri Zaki Azmi dikatakan mendakwa telah memberi rasuah.Pemimpin pembangkang itu memainkan rakaman tersebut kepada wartawan dalam satu sidang akhbar di lobi Parlimen hari ini.
Menurut Karpal, rakaman tersebut adalah merupakan ucapan Zaki dalam satu konvensyen di Kuching November lalu mengenai integriti, pemangkin pembangunan mapan.Rakaman berkualiti yang rendah, dikatakan mengandungi bahagian di mana Zaki dikatakan bercakap mengenai memberi rasuah kepada kakitangan mahkamah ketika beliau menjadi peguam.
Rakaman audio dalam bahasa Inggeris selama 29 minit itu berbunyi:"It took me six months to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get back into their good books before our files were attended to.""That is my personal experience, I am telling this to all the clerks and all the registries to stop this nonsense."
Karpal: Here’s the tape recording, resign Zaki!
By SK English Team
DAP chairman Karpal Singh, well-known for sticking to his guns, is not about to let Chief Justice Zaki Azmi get away with what he insists is corruption that requires the latter’s immediate resignation.
At a press conference today, Karpal played a cassette tape recording of a speech purportedly made by Zaki in Kuching last November, wherein the top judge had admitted to engaging in bribery.
“This tape is solid evidence,” said the DAP stalwart. “He has become an embarrassment to the judiciary. I would prefer if he voluntarily resigns. If he fails to do so, the Conference of Rulers should withdraw their consent for him to be made the Chief Justice.”
The sound quality of the 29-second recording was poor, but the words were audible.At a press conference today, Karpal played a cassette tape recording of a speech purportedly made by Zaki in Kuching last November, wherein the top judge had admitted to engaging in bribery.
“This tape is solid evidence,” said the DAP stalwart. “He has become an embarrassment to the judiciary. I would prefer if he voluntarily resigns. If he fails to do so, the Conference of Rulers should withdraw their consent for him to be made the Chief Justice.”
“It took me six months to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get back into their good books before our files were attended to.”
“That is my personal experience, I am telling this to all the clerks and all the registries to stop this nonsense.”Speech was reported in the newspapers
“It took me six months to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get back into their good books before our files were attended to. That was my personal experience. I am telling this to all the clerks and all the registries to stop this nonsense.”
However, Zaki immediately denied the report, claiming that :
“Your reporter must have interpreted what I said which is during that period there was corruption in order to get things done at the court registry, as I myself having done it. I have never in my life bribed or received any bribe.”
“Your reporter must have interpreted what I said which is during that period there was corruption in order to get things done at the court registry, as I myself having done it. I have never in my life bribed or received any bribe.”
Nevertheless, Karpal has insisted on his resignation and last month, submitted a letter to the King to protest Zaki’s appointment as Chief Justice.
The veteran politician, who declined to reveal who he obtained the tape from, also slammed the police for not investigating a police report he had lodged on the matter.
He called on the police to take his statement so that he can submit the cassette tape as evidence.
“Within 2 days of police reports made against me, the police came looking for me. Why the double standards?,” asked Karpal.
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