PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency will study the Royal Commission of Inquiry's report on the Lingam video clip to look for new evidence on the relationship between the lawyer and former chief justice Tun Mohd Eusoff Chin.

ACA deputy director-general Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed said they would study the report.

"There was an earlier investigation that was closed. I do not know why. But if that is the recommendation of the commission, we will have to study the report."

The commission in its report recommended that the ACA re-open investigations on the New Zealand holiday that Datuk V.K. Lingam and Eusoff's families took together in December 1994.

The commission had noted that an earlier investigation into this holiday was closed by former Attorney-General, the late Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah.
Mohtar in November 2000 had announced that there was no case against Eusoff for alleged misconduct.

He said there had been a "full-scale investigation" by the Attorney-General's Chambers, police and ACA into a photograph showing Eusoff and Lingam holidaying together in New Zealand.

Eusoff had been heading a panel to hear an appeal case for businessman Tan Sri Vincent Tan, who was represented by Lingam.

The royal commission also recommended that the ACA investigate a number of judges who allegedly received gifts from Lingam.