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Cop denies recording ear nude squats
Says Suhaimi lied about him showing the video clip and that he saw it on friend's phone
Maria J. Dass and S. Tamarai Chelvi
KUALA LUMPUR: Constable Mohd Zulfatah Shaari yesterday refuted L/Cpl Suhaimi Nordin's allegations that he took a video recording of a nude woman doing ear-squats at the Petaling Jaya police station in the early hours of June 29.
When the video was played for him to identify, Zulfatah said: "I've seen this video clip once before the puasa month but I cannot remember when."
Asked where he saw it, Zulfatah said: "In the phone of a friend, Dzulkarnain, who is a policeman at the Petaling Jaya police station."
(Dzulkarnain was not called as a witness when the commission ended its inquiry.)
On Tuesday, Suhaimi had told the commission that Zulfatah, who was on duty with him at the Taman Sri Manja police beat base, between midnight and 8am that day, had left for a four-hour break and returned at about 7.30am.
Suhaimi said upon his return, Zulfatah had showed him the recording on his phone and told him he had stopped by at the Petaling Jaya police station for a while after having a meal.
"I deny that I showed him a video clip," said Zulfatah when asked by commission chairman Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah if what Suhaimi said was true.
He also denied stopping by at the Petaling Jaya police station that morning.
Zulfatah refuted his colleague's claim that he had gone out for food at about 3am and returned only at 7am that morning.
"I had a meal by myself at the Sri Manja Curry House between 3.30am and 3.45am, then returned to the beat base," he said.
"I did not go out after that," he told the inquiry. He also denied having a conversation about the video clip with Suhaimi.
With his statement, the 13th commission witness bombed speculation leading to who actually recorded the video clip, which will be left to police investigations, as this is not in the terms of reference for the commission.
Zulfatah also denied knowing Ong Yoong Keong who worked in the handphone shop.
During the earlier line of questioning by officer conducting the inquiry, Suhaimi Ibrahim, Zulfatah said he owned a Nokia 6630 phone which he bought in April, 2005.
He said the phone which could make video recordings was no longer in working condition as he had accidentally put it into a washing machine in July.
However, in a later twist, he told the commission he had sold his old handphone in May, 2005 and bought a new set sometime during the fasting month and that that was the set which ended up in the washing machine.
To this, Mohamed Dzaiddin then said: "If you want to make up stories, do it properly or else we will find you to be lying."
Asked why he did not get the phone fixed since it was still under warranty, Zulfatah said: "I had opened the seal so the warranty is void."
Asked if he was on good terms with Suhaimi, Zulfatah admitted he had a small misunderstanding with Suhaimi over work-related matters in 2003.