9/25/2024 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) — Malaysia’s Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN) recently announced it will provide Pastor Raymond Koh’s family and their lawyers with a new copy of a Special Task Force report on the pastor’s disappearance.  

The announcement comes on the heels of a report from Free Malaysia Today stating that the Special Task Force altered the previous report it sent to the family and their lawyers.  

The KDN, however, stressed that the original report contained watermarks because it is an official government document subject to the Official Secrets Act 1972 and the Security Directive (Revision and Amendment 2017), but it had not been altered.  

“The report submitted to Pastor Koh’s family and lawyers is the original report without changes and printed on watermarked paper,” the KDN said. “The use of watermarked paper is to enable the government to identify the ownership of the document in the event that the document is disseminated.”  

The KDN added that the matter has been investigated with the Office of the Chief Government Security Officer of Malaysia (CGSO) to ensure that the security of the Special Task Force report is maintained.   

In addition to the claim that the report had been altered, Free Malaysia Today reported that the legal team for the pastor’s family complained in the lawsuit against the government and the police that they could not read portions of the original report.  

Last month, Malaysia’s High Court ordered the government to provide Koh’s wife, Susanna Liew, with the task force’s full report.   

Liew had filed a lawsuit in 2020 against the police, the inspector-general of police, and several former high-ranking police officers over her husband’s disappearance on Feb. 13, 2017. She seeks to hold the authorities liable for his unlawful abduction and misfeasance in public office. Previously, the government classified the report on Pastor Koh as a state secret. 

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