Court orders blogger RPK’s computers be re-analysed  

The prosecution succeeded in its bid to get a court order for a computer forensic investigator to re-analyse two computers seized from blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin.

Sessions Court judge Rozina Ayob allowed the application by the prosecution under Section 425 of Criminal Procedure Code for the purpose.

Rozina said she granted the prosecution’s application to extract documents that were not opened by the seventh witness, computer forensic investigator ASP Wa’ie Isqal Kria Abdullah, 38, during his analysis.

“It has to be done with the presence of both parties, including the accused,” she said in her decision.

Rozina said the court must evaluate all evidence available in both computers.

“It is to achieve justice,” she said in the eighth day of sedition trial on Wednesday.

The Malaysia Today editor had on May 6 claimed trial to publishing a seditious article on its website on April 25.

The judge’s decision was read out by magistrate Ho Kwong Chin as Rozina was on medical leave.

Lead prosecutor DPP Ishak Mohd Yusof applied for the order on Tuesday after ASP Wa’ie testifed to have spotted several folders in both computers but did not open and read those files as he followed the instructions of investigating officer DSP Mahfuz Abdul Majid.

ASP Wa’ie said DSP Mahfuz just ordered him to find an alleged seditious article titled “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell’’ and accessibility to the Malaysia Today website in both computers - a CPU and a notebook.

Ho then set four days from Dec 16 for continuation of the sedition trial.

Outside the courtroom, DPP Ishak told reporters that there is a possibility for ASP Wa’ie to extract those folders at the police station, including at Bukit Aman.

“However, we also have an option to do so at court but not before the judge as she does not know the content and maybe it could be prejudicial,” he said.

DPP Ishak said the defence team also intended to bring their own expert during the process.

Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo said the defence team would discuss with Raja Petra over their next course of action.

“They (the prosecution) are looking into ways and means to improve their case against Raja Petra due to weakness of their witness.

“So, they have to resort to the last and it is an desperate attempt in getting the court to assist them to investigate,” he said.

However, Gobind Singh said the defence team respected the court decision and would act according to the judge’s directive.

1. Ha Ha, another boo boo in the making. The other files contain evidence of Najib's complicity in murder perhaps. Perhaps pictures of Najib with Altantuya.Oh dear!!!!
2. According to what was publised in MSM local press...The police expert was quoted as saying they has to re-examine the data residing in the CPU. YOU lawyers for RPK, could you ask them please to explain how the data resides in the CPU? I am not even an it grad, just a kampungan man..and i know data cannot reside in cpu to be reexamined again.. AND FOR SURE... the police did not consfiscate RPKs laptop to look for proofs against him.. BUT RATHER to destroy all possible prooof against their big bos MR C4. And to all supporters of RPK, why dont you supply RPK with a cheap decoy laptops to be placed in his work study, office and home. These laptops would ideally have internet connecting ports with nothing inside but blanks , a very cheap small hardisk that contains nothing but the modified UMNO song...you know the one that goes..."tipu, kita terus menipu, kita tipu melayu..." and this song starts playing as soon as the laptop is turned on. After finishing playing the song with no interupt facility.. the laptop then just SELF DESTRUCT just like they do in the MISSION impossible series.
3. The software used by the Police to check the Pc's is Guidance Software's EnCase Forensic. However in order to be correctly used, it does not do a direct physical examination of the hard drive. If it does so, there is a danger that informatoion can be written to the drive, even a small seemingly harmless bit renders the drive inadmissible as evidence as it has been "tampered with" or "contaminated"! In order to forensically investigat the drive EnCase first makes a bit by bit exact copy of the original drive. It is this copy that is then investigated. the original drive remains sealed, untampered and uncontaminated. It also allows the defendant's expert to verify that process and take a copy to verify the authenticity of the police work. EnCase is extremely powerful in it's capabilty to search for deleted files and to reconstruct them successfully, even when special programmes have been used to wipe the disk. Deleting files with a wipe programme may remove the file and render it unreconstructable, but Windows is such that there are many other areas, which store your access to the net, your caches & cookies, etc. Of course it is harder to prove the case if you can't get to the exact file. If I were the Defence Team, I would start by finding an Encase expert and getting a verification that the Police have not examined the original disk directly, as this would mean that it has been tampered with. One may try Frank Butler ex UK Police Forensics with Guidance as one of their Senior Trainers, now their Director of Business Development, UK- an honest & upright man. Watch Mahfudz shit himself if he has tried to fix the original disk. Frank Butler trained him and will ot be happy that Encase is being abused, if that is the case!