KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) does not need to comment on Tan Sri Tommy Thomas amid a police investigation over his book, DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke said.
Loke said the police and the relevant authorities should investigate the case, and Thomas is not a PH leader or politician that needs the coalition’s defence.
“We don’t need to answer on behalf of Tommy Thomas, he is not Pakatan Harapan leadership and not a PH politician, and I’m confident he will defend himself.
“We know Ismail Sabri wants to use this as a bullet for election, they want to politicise this issue,” Loke told reporters during a press conference at the DAP headquarters here, referring to Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
Loke was responding to reporters’ questions regarding Ismail Sabri’s remark that PH’s silence on the matter was likely due to guilt.
Ismail Sabri had yesterday said this was the only reasonable explanation for PH’s silence following revelations of possible misconduct by the former attorney general who was appointed during the PH administration.
He was weighing in on the task force’s recently declassified investigative report that found Thomas to have broken several laws.
“If there is a case, let the police and authorities investigate,” added Loke.
A special task force led by Sarawak Legal Adviser Datuk Seri Fong Joo Chung spent nine months investigating Thomas’ assertions in his memoirs My Story: Justice in the Wilderness about what happened behind the scenes during the PH government’s brief 22-month rule.
The task force’s 241-page report was declassified on October 21 and published on the website of the Legal Affairs Division, under the Prime Minister’s Department.
The special task force identified 19 issues in the book that required the government’s attention.
Published last year, Thomas’ book was criticised by various quarters including the Attorney General’s Chambers, lawyers, politicians and members of the public for allegedly containing elements of incitement, insult and defamation.
More than a hundred police reports were lodged against Thomas over his book.
