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Pembunuhan pegawai tertinggi Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia (Kastam) mempunyai kaitan dengan sindiket penyeludupan kereta berpangkalan di pulau bebas cukai Langkawi, kata ahli keluarganya. Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Kastam Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim ditembak mati di Putrajaya pada 26 April, beberapa minggu sebelum keganasan berkaitan pistol tersebar ke seluruh negara.

“Pembunuhan bapa saya dirancang, ia ada kaitan dengan sindiket penyeludupan kereta di langkawi," kata Mohd Akhtar Shaharuddin. Malah beliau sendiri yakin dalang pembunuhan bapanya adalah dari jabatan Kastam sendiri."Saya pasti akan hal itu biarpun polis menafikannya," kata arkitek berumur 30 tahun itu.

"Bapa saya pernah menceritakan kekecewaan beliau terhadap penyelewangan kuasa pegawai kastam yang terlibat dalam rasuah ini berkaitan dengan sindiket penyeludupan kereta di Langkawi.

"Tidak lama selepas membuat aduan itu, beliau menerima surat pertukaran kerja. Surat itu, bagaimanapun ditarik balik apabila Kesatuan Kastam campurtangan dan berjuang mempertahankan hak bapa saya," katanya.

Sebulan selepas itu, Shaharuddin ditembak ketika sedang memandu ke pejabatnya di Putrajaya."Tidak ada siapa faham kehilangan orang tersayang dengan cara kejam begini kecuali bagi mereka yang pernah melalui sendiri kerana itu saya amat berharap kematian bapa dibela," katanya.

Yang lebih menyedihkan Akhtar, empat bulan selepas bapanya ditembak mati, tiada sesiapa didakwa kerana membunuh.Pertama kali bercakap kepada media, Akhtar mengatakan bapanya menerima panggilan daripada pemberita bertanya tentang sindiket penyeludupan kereta di Langkawi, beberapa minggu sebelum ditembak mati.

Tanpa berfikir panjang, orang nombor tiga dalam Kastam itu ke Langkawi untuk menyiasat."Beliau merupakan seorang yang tegas dan tidak pernah menceritakan apa-apa masalah tentang kerja dengan keluarga.

Namun saya diberitahu oleh ibu, seorang wartawan ada menelefon bapa saya bertanyakan mengenai isu sindiket penyeludupan kereta di Langkawi," kata Akhtar.

Akan tetapi beliau tidak pasti sama ada bapanya sempat bercakap dengan pemberita itu selepas pulang dari Langkawi.Akhtar turut mendedahkan bapanya menerima banyak ugutan termasuk peluru dihantar ke rumah mereka.

Menurutnya, beliau membuat pendedahan kerana kecewa dengan layanan dingin diberikan polis ke atas siasatan kes bapanya."Bayangkan sudah hampir berapa bulan kes ini berlaku jangan kata suspek malah sebarang petunjuk tidak diberikan polis," katanya.

Katanya kali terakhir dia berjumpa dengan polis pada bulan Ramadan lalu setelah digesa beberapa kali untuk mendapatkan perkembangan siasatan."Dalam tempoh berapa bulan selepas kejadian saya hanya berjumpa dengan polis dalam dua atau tiga kali.

"Bagaimanapun selepas sebulan mereka langsung senyap dan saya terpaksa mengejar polis untuk mengetahui perkembangan kes," katanya.Menurut Akhtar, layanan diberikan polis terhadap kes bapanya dianggap tidak adil walaupun bapanya merupakan pegawai tinggi kerajaan yang banyak menyumbang kepada negara.

"Kita bercakap tentang pembunuhan Timbalan Ketua Pengarah, siapa beliau.. tidakkah jasa beliau tidak ternilai kepada negara jadi kenapa memperlakukan keluarga kami begini,” katanya kecewa.Tegas Akhtar beliau hanya mahu keadilan bagi bapanya.

"Bapa saya seorang berdedikasi dan pegawai jujur tidak pernah mengambil kesempatan terhadap kelebihan dimiliki walaupun dia boleh berbuat demikian," katanya lagi.

Shaharuddin yang mengetuai bahagian Pekastaman dan Cukai Dalam Negeri hanya tinggal setahun untuk bersara sebelum ditembak mati pada 26 April.Beliau yang dilahirkan di Negeri Sembilan itu sudah berkhidmat selama 30 tahun bersama Kastam dan diberikan jolokan "Mr Clean".

Mangsa yang duduk di bahagian penumpang depan kenderaan pacuan empat roda (4WD) ditembak tiga das oleh seorang daripada dua lelaki yang menaiki sebuah motosikal.

Ketua Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Ibu Pejabat Polis Kuala Lumpur Datuk Ku Chin Wah dilapor menafikan kaitan pembunuhan Shaharuddin dengan sindiket penyeludupan kereta di Langkawi.

“Ia merupakan spekulasi semata-mata,” Ku dilaporkan berkata.Laporan sebelum ini mengatakan polis sudah menyiasat 35 orang untuk kes ini termasuk pegawai-pegawai Kastam dan menahan dua orang untuk siasatan lanjut.

Seorang daripadanya merupakan ahli perniagaan dan seorang lagi merupakan pengedar alat ganti. Kedua-duanya kemudian dibebaskan dengan jaminan.Ku yang dihubungi semula berhubung pendedahan terbaru ini mengatakan, "kami masih menyiasat".

Kes tembak itu berlaku tidak lama sebelum pilihan raya umum ke 13. Kes itu mengejutkan kerana ianya melibatkan pegawai tinggi kerajaan.Selepas kes Shaharuddin, 35 kes tembakan berlaku di seluruh negara yang melibatkan 22 kematian.- malaysian insider

Dah 4 bulan berlalu, tapi polis belum ada pendakwaan

Deputy director-general II Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim was shot dead because...

"My father's murder was planned. It was related to a car smuggling syndicate in Langkawi. My father had previously told his superiors of corrupt customs officers in their midst, claiming that they were linked to a car smuggling racket." 

Mohd Akhtar Shaharuddin, the son of Royal Malaysian Customs deputy director-general II Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim who was shot dead in Putrajaya on April 26.

These remarks were not made out of vengeance or retribution. They came from a man who wants his father's killer(s) to be brought to justice.

However, reading deeper into these annotations and through personal observations and investigations, one cannot help believing that these words have more than a semblance of truth.

A month before Shaharuddin was gunned down, the Customs Department issued a statement that 368 Langkawi-registered vehicles are running in the rest of Malaysia with suspected forged customs declaration forms.

"We have detected 368 vehicles originally registered in Langkawi and subsequently registered in Principal Customs Areas using suspected falsified custom declaration forms without payment of customs duties and taxes," it said on March 21.

(Areas outside of Langkawi and Labuan, it said, were known as Principal Customs Areas.)

It added that it had seized 76 vehicles "for further investigation" and was tracking the remainder. This, according to sources sent many people running helter-skelter to get their cars back on the island.

Cars bought on the island are free of import taxes and excise duties and after five years, they can be brought to the mainland after paying taxes on its depreciated value.

On a trip to Langkawi last year, the numbers of luxury cars on the road were scarce. A handful of Hummers and Porsches were seen on the road but the statistics show otherwise.

For the first seven months of last year, a total of 165 luxury cars were registered on the island:
 
Lexus - 46
Porsche - 56
Ferrari - 22
Jaguar - 10
BMW - 10
Mercedes - 21

Locals said that many people buy the cars and store them on the island and use them when they come on holidays. Otherwise, there are all under the tarpaulin to be "taken to the mainland".

So, what did Shaharuddin discover? A number of dealers working hand in glove with crooked customs officers were bringing in cars from the island without paying the appropriate duties.

But Mohd Akhtar made some telling points:
 
The mastermind was someone in the customs department;

Shaharuddin had told his superiors of corrupt customs officers who were involved in the scam; and subsequently, on reporting the wrongdoers, he received a transfer order;

The order was rescinded after the Customs Officers' Union intervened and fought his case.

These charges are serious indeed. If he was penalised for whistleblowing on his own officers, then that is something that needs looking into by the highest of authorities.

There are two issues of public concern – one is the murder itself and the second is the export of cars without paying the duties.

Since Shaharuddin was Number 3 in the hierarchy, his complaint must have gone to those above him. What action did they take against the errant officers who aided and abetted in this unjustifiable exercise of depriving the government of the revenue?

Was Shaharuddin's reporting that led to the seizure of the cars on the mainland? If so, who were the perpetrators of this fraud? Were they brought to book and were those who bought these cars knowingly prosecuted for cheating on taxes?

Shaharuddin served the department for over 30 years where his work earned him the moniker "Mr Clean". His yeoman service and diligence to the country would go to waste if his killers and those associated with the smuggling of the cars get away or with a slap on their wrists.- R. Nadeswaran,thesundaily.com

YB Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat menerima kunjungan Ketua Pembangkang, YB Anwar Ibrahim di rumahnya 

Seorang lelaki cedera pada jari tangan sebelah kanan selepas ditembak dipercayai ketika bergaduh di kawasan ladang kelapa sawit di Bukit Selambau,Kedah

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