[MENGAIBKAN] Diplomat Malaysia Di New Zealand Dituduh Lakukan Serangan Seksual

KELAB GREENBOC

Diplomat M'sia di NZ dituduh dalam kes serangan seksual


Wisma Putra berkata ia akan membuat penjelasan esok berkaitan seorang diplomat Malaysia yang dituduh oleh pihak berkuasa New Zealand melakukan serangan dengan niat merogol.

Rakyat New Zealand berang semalam selepas pihak berkuasa mendapati lelaki berkenaan, dalam lingkungan usia 30-an, telah mengekori seorang wanita berusia 21 tahun pulang ke rumah dan menyerangnya.

Akhbar di New Zealand dihalang daripada mendedahkan nama suspek atau negara asalnya selepas seorang hakim New Zealand mengeluarkan perintah melarang butiran dirinya didedahkan.

Bagaimanapun, Malaysiakini difahamkan bahawa lelaki itu adalah seorang diplomat Malaysia yang bekerja di Suruhanjaya Tinggi Malaysia yang berpejabat di Wellington.

Menteri Luar, Datuk Anifah Aman ketika diminta mengesahkannya, memberitahu Malaysiakini dalam mesej teks bahawa sidang akhbar mengenainya akan diadakan esok.

Malaysiakini tidak menyiarkan nama lelaki itu sementara menunggu respons rasmi dari Wisma Putra.

Menurut Associated Press, polis menahan diplomat itu pada 9 Mei dan mendakwanya atas tuduhan memecah rumah dan serangan dengan niat untuk merogol, kedua-duanya membawa hukuman penjara maksimum 10 tahun.

Bagaimanapun, lelaki itu mendapat kekebalan diplomatik dan telah meninggalkan negara itu.

Perdana Menteri New Zealand John Key mendedahkan pagi ini bahawa kerajaannya telah menuntut kekebalan diplomatik lelaki itu diibatalkan, tetapi telah ditolak. ~mk

NEW ZEALAND WANTS ACTION ON DIPLOMAT’S SEX CHARGE
(AFP) – New Zealand said Monday it would push for a foreign envoy to be prosecuted in his home country after he escaped sex charges by invoking diplomatic immunity.

Neither the man’s name nor his home nation can be published because of a court suppression order but officials in Wellington said they did not want the case “swept under the carpet”.

“We’re going to stay on the case, we’re going to do everything that we possibly can to ensure that this person is held to account,” Prime Minister John Key told reporters.

Police say the man, aged in his 30s, was arrested in the capital Wellington last month and charged with assault with intent to rape after he allegedly followed a 21-year-old woman home and attacked her.

He was also charged with burglary.

However, the prosecution had to be dropped when the diplomat’s country refused to waive his right to immunity and whisked him home a day after he was charged.

Key said the country had given assurances that it was treating the case seriously and his government was closely monitoring developments to see if he was charged in his homeland, since no action could be taken in New Zealand.

“I don’t know why they’ve taken that course of action but they have… it was the strong preference of the (New Zealand) government that the country would waive diplomatic immunity,” he said.

“That’s what we communicated to the relevant body here in New Zealand. The country chose not to do that and the person left the next day.”

Under the Vienna Convention, diplomats cannot be arrested or detained in foreign countries.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully said diplomats still had an obligation to respect the law. He called in the alleged predator’s head of mission to convey New Zealand’s interest in how it responded to the “very serious crime”.

“We have seen nothing to suggest the matter is being swept under the carpet,” he said.

“The ministry is monitoring this investigation closely and will continue to watch developments and consider what further steps are required.”