In July 2009, right after 3
months the Barisan Nasional (BN) president Najib Abdul Razak became the new
Prime Minister of Malaysia, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
launched a large scale operation involved 33 MACC officers from various states
to investigate 7 Selangor state assembly persons (ADUN) for allegedly
misappropriation of their constituency allocations. (Andrew Ong, 2009) All of
the 7 ADUN were from Pakatan Rakyat (PR), a coalition of political parties that
defeated BN and won Selangor state in 2008 general election. PR ADUNs accused
the operation was political motivated because the investigations were only
targeted the PR ADUN.
On 15 July 2009, MACC
officers raided the office of Ean Yong Hian Wah, State Assemblyman for Seri
Kembangan and Selangor Executive Councillor, at the 15th floor of
State Secretariat building of Selangor. Ean Yong and lawyer quarreled over
MACC’s right to search office, MACC officers took Teoh Beng Hock back for
questioning at the headquarter of Selangor state MACC located at Plaza Masalam,
Shah Alam at 6pm. (James Foong et al, 2011:1)
