KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 ― The Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) today named DPP Idham Abdul Ghani, who has appeared in high-profile cases like the deaths of Aminulrasyid Amzah and Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, as its new chief executive.

EAIC corporate communications officer Jasliza Jamil said Idham's appointment was made effective last Monday, the day his predecessor Nor Afizah Hanum Mokhtar (picture) was unceremoniously transferred back to the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC).

"Our new CEO is Tuan Idham Abdul Ghani, secondment from AGC," Jasliza told The Malay Mail Online today.

Nor Afizah Hanum was bumped back to the AGC just 18 months after heading the commission that was set up to check abuse of power in the police force and other enforcement agencies.

“No reasons for the transfer were given, nor exactly which department she will be transferred to,” an official who declined to be identified told The Malay Mail Online on Monday.

The A-G’s Chambers official also rubbished rumours that the transfer was due to the plain-speaking Nor Afizah Hanum’s recent public disclosure of the commission’s shortcomings.

Nor Afizah Hanum had revealed last month that the EAIC only has one investigating officer to probe complaints of misconduct against 19 enforcement agencies.

It also has an annual budget of just RM7 million when it needed an annual budget of at least RM25 million, as well as at least 10 investigating officers and 10 research officers.

Idham's appointment comes during the EAIC's maiden investigation into deaths in police custody cases.

The EAIC set up a taskforce on May 28 to probe the deaths of N. Dhamendran and R. Jamesh Ramesh, who had died separately at the Kuala Lumpur and Penang police contingent headquarters on May 21 and May 26 respectively.

The taskforce consultants are former Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee and former Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohd Jamil Johari.

The murder case of Sosilawati, where Idham and two other deputy public prosecutors had appeared, ended last May with death sentences for all four men accused of killing the cosmetics millionaire three years ago.

Idham had also prosecuted in the fatal police shooting of 14-year-old schoolboy Aminulrasyid in 2010, leading to a guilty conviction by the Shah Alam Sessions Court against a policeman a year later.

But the High Court overturned the conviction last December, ruling that Corporal Jenain Subi did not intend to kill the child.

The police also announced another custodial death incident this morning, revealing that a 53-year-old man died after being detained following a chase by two police patrols in Jalan Barat off Jalan Imbi here at about 12.15am yesterday.