KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) said today that it will prosecute those responsible for Teoh Beng Hock’s death if police provide sufficient evidence in their renewed investigation.

But the AGC pointed out that the “thorough” police investigation into the death of the DAP political aide at the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) office in 2009 had not resulted in finding anyone criminally liable.

“Now that the police has formed a special team to further investigate this matter, the Attorney-General’s Chambers will decide once the investigation is completed and that if the circumstantial evidence is strong enough to warrant a prosecution, a prosecution will be held,” the Attorney-General’s Chambers said in a statement today.

“However, the Attorney-General’s Chambers would like to stress that suspicion, no matter how strong, will never bring about any prosecution in any case,” it added.

The Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Teoh’s death was caused by the act of “person or persons unknown”, including the MACC officers who had questioned him overnight before he fell to his death on July 16, 2009.

The AGC noted that the appellate court had come to its conclusion based on circumstantial evidence indicating a pre-fall injury.

It also noted that all the evidence collected by the police had been presented in both the inquest and the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Teoh’s death.

“The witnesses called were cross-examined and the evidence adduced were not only in the form of legally admissible evidence, but also extended to hearsay evidence which would ordinarily not be admissible in a criminal court,” said the AGC.

The coroner had given an open verdict while the RCI concluded that Teoh was driven to suicide because of “oppressive, prolonged and aggressive” interrogation by three MACC officers, the AGC noted.

The AGC and the MACC had previously cleared three of its officers of any wrongdoing in the political aide’s death.