KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas said he has no intention of cooperating or taking part in a special task force set up to investigate his controversial bookIn a letter sent to the chairman of the task force of the investigation, Datuk Seri Fong Joo Chung, Thomas said the task force's creation is not only unprecedented but without legal basis, and potentially jeopardises the independence of the Attorney General’s Chambers .
Citing Article 145 of the Federal Constitution, Thomas said the attorney general is appointed by the King on the advice of the prime minister. "Further in operational matters relating to specific individual cases, the PP, even when he was a Member of Parliament in periods after Merdeka, was not accountable to Parliament or to the media," said the 70-year-old lawyer who was AG from June 2018 to February 2020.
Fong was appointed by de facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar to head the task force back in October last year and to look into the allegations in the book by Thomas, which include appointment of judges, excessive intervention by the executive arm of government in the judicial system, and selective prosecution.
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