Keluarga Shaaribu dihalang masuk M'sia

Tahun lepas, peguam 'Scorpene' William Bourdon telah ditahan di dalam pesawat oleh pihak imigresen sebaik tiba di KLIA daripada Penang. Beliau telah dihantar pulang menaiki pesawat ke Paris pada malam itu juga. Hari ini, seluruh ahli anggota keluarga Shaaribu pula dihalang untuk masuk Malaysia. Soalnya kenapa mereka dihalang masuk ke negara ini?

Penulis dapat maklumat ini dari seorang rakan FB. Katanya, seorang sahabatnya yang bertugas sebagai Pegawai Imigresen telah mendedahkan bahawa pihak Imigresen telah mendapat arahan pihak atasan untuk menahan siapa saja di kalangan ahli keluarga Shaaribu yang masuk ke negara ini.

Bagi penulis, tentu arahan ini datangnya dari Najib Rosmah. Jelas sekali arahan menghalang keluarga Shaaribu dari memasuki negara ini membuktikan yang pasangan No.1 negara itu terlibat secara langsung dengan pembunuhan Altantuya 6 tahun lalu.

Nampaknya Najib dan Rosmah terus dibayangi Altantuya sepanjang hidupnya apatah lagi tempoh Parlimen hanya berbaki 7 bulan lagi.

Sampai bila Najib Rosmah mahu menyembunyikan dosa besarnya atas kematian Altantuya? Apakah pasangan No.1 itu mengira boleh terus memperalatkan pihak berkuasa untuk melindungi pekung kedurjanaannya itu? Walau pihak Polis dan Mahkamah digunakan untuk menafikan penglibatan mereka namun satu-persatu pekong mereka dibongkar oleh orang dalam sendiri.

Enough is enough. Sudah sampai masanya Najib Rosmah menerima pembalasan Allah atas segala kejahatan dan kekejian yang dilakukan. Semakin hari rakyat semakin bijak dan tahu menilai antara yang hak dan bathil.

Sebagai rakyat, penulis memang mahu Najib Rosmah dibicarakan di mahkamah terbuka. Jika bersalah, pasangan iblis ni memang patut dijatuhkan hukuman mati.

Wallahu'alam

Altantuya diberi Visa Malaysia atas arahan siapa?

Pilihan raya akan datang akan bergema dengan isu visa yang diberikan di negara ini kepada Altantuya Shaariibuu untuk memasuki Perancis, kata Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar. "Bapa Altantuya mendedahkan bahawa anaknya itu telah memberitahunya bahawa Abdul Razak Baginda telah meminta bantuan (Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri) Najib (Tun Razak) yang pada masa itu Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Pertahanan, dan Altantuya akhirnya diberikan visa untuk pergi ke Perancis dengan menggunakan nama Amina Abdullah," katanya.

Malaysiakini melaporkan, bapa Altantuya, Setev Shaariibuu mendedahkan kesemua itu berlaku antara 2004 dan 2005, sebelum Altantuya dibunuh dan mayatnya diletupkan dengan bom C4 pada tahun 2006.

Mahfuz menegaskan, sekadar penjelasan semata-mata mengenai pendedahan itu adalah tidak memadai dan tidak boleh diterima.

"Kalau penjelasan semata-mata, tentulah Perdana Menteri akan memberikan penjelasan yang menyebelahi dirinya.

"Kalau penjelasannya meragukan sekalipun, media-media di bawah kawalannya tentu akan mencanang-canangkan kononnya itu adalah penjelasan tanpa sebarang keraguan," katanya.

Sebab itulah, kata Mahfuz, pendedahan Setev itu memerlukan tidak kurang dari siasatan sebuah badan bebas yang tidak boleh dipengaruhi atau ditakut-takutkan oleh Perdana Menteri dan kerajaannya.

"Persoalannya, banyak perkara yang berbangkit dari tuduhan itu termasuk elemen jenayah.

"Bila Altantuya diberikan visa dengan menggunakan nama Amina Abdullah, tentulah wujud pasport antarabangsa atas nama tersebut.

"Siapa arahkan pemberian pasport atas nama tersebut kerana Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia tidak mungkin bertindak sendirian tanpa sebarang sebab dan suka-suka memberikan pasport kepada Altantuta dengan menggunakan nama Amina," kata Ahli Parlimen Pokok Sena itu.

Orang yang mengarahkan kesemua itu dan memaksa perkara itu dilakukan, kata Mahfuz, telah melakukan jenayah.

"Kita mahu percaya bahawa Najib tidak terlibat dengan apa jua proses dalam pemberian visa kepada Altantuya atas nama Amina Abdullah.

"Hanya satu cara sahaja untuk kita mempercayainya iaitu dengan menubuhkan badan siasatan bebas untuk menyiasat perkara itu," katanya.

Jika tidak, kata Mahfuz, perkara tersebut akan menjadi salah satu isu utama yang mesti dijawab oleh Najib, terutama dalam pilihan raya akan datang.

"Jika beliau enggan menubuhkan badan bebas untuk membersihkan namanya dari dikaitkan dengan pemberian visa itu, ia boleh mengakibatkan Najib dilihat telah melakukan jenayah.

"Kita lihat sahaja nanti apa terjadi apabila Najib yang dilihat telah melakukan jenayah memimpin Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN) menghadapi pilihan raya akan datang," katanya.

Malaysiakini melaporkan, pegawai kementerian luar Mongolia hairan bagaimana Altantuya mendapatkan visa itu ketika berada di Malaysia.

Beliau memberitahu, warganegara Mongolia tidak boleh mendapatkan visa untuk memasuki Perancis ketika berada di Malaysia.

Pegawai itu, yang berada di Malaysia bersama bapanya Setev berkata, setiap warganegara Mongolia mesti memohon dan mendapatkan visa asing di negara mereka sendiri.

"Tiada cara untuk sesiapa pun daripada kami mendapatkan visa ketika berada di negara lain.

"Kami akan diberitahu supaya kembali ke negara kami untuk memohon mendapatkannya," kata pegawai yang enggan namanya disebut itu kepada Malaysiakini. - hrkh

Altantuya tunjuk gambar Najib...

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 April: Bapa kepada Altantuya Shariibuu, gadis Monggolia yang mati dibunuh dengan kejam di Malaysia, Setev Shariibuu memberitahu, anaknya menunjukkan sekeping gambar sebelum pergi ke Kuala Lumpur menjelang pembunuhannya. Di dalam gambar itu terdapat tiga orang iaitu Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Abdul Razak Baginda dan anak beliau, Altantuya.

Semasa menunjukkan gambar itu, anaknya memberitahu, dia akan pergi mencari orang-orang ini.

Setev berkata demikian dalam sidang media yang diadakan di pejabat Suaram hari ini.

Suaram adalah NGO yang sedang berusaha untuk membongkar skandal pembelian kapal selam Scorpean di mahkamah Paris, Perancis.

Altantuya dipercayai terlibat dalam pembelian kapal ini sebagai penterjemah. Beliau dikatakan mati dibunuh dengan kejam di hutan dekat Puncak Alam, Selangor.

Dua pembunuhnya iaitu pegawai polis yang bertugas menjaga keselamatan Perdana Menteri telah dijatuhkan hukuman mati.

Mahkamah Perancis baru-baru ini bersetuju membincangkan perkara itu di mahkamah terbuka.

"Semasa kali terakhir sebelum anak saya dibunuh, dia telah tunjuk kepada saya satu gambar.

"Dalam gambar itu ada Najib, Razak Baginda dan anak saya," cerita Setev dalam sidang medianya hari ini.

Namun, gambar itu tidak ada lagi dalam simpanan beliau.

"Jika saya tahu apa-apa akan berlaku, sudah tentu saya akan simpan gambar itu," kata Setev dalam sidang medianya.

Ketika itu, kata Setev, anaknya memberitahu, dia mahu jumpa orang-orang yang terdapat dalam gambar itu.

Setev Shaariibuu semalam bersua muka dengan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak di Parlimen, tetapi gagal berhubung dengannya.

Shaariibuu, yang berada di Malaysia bersama dua pegawai kerajaan Mongolia untuk lawatan tiga hari berkata, beliau melihat Najib ketika menunggu lif di lobi Parlimen.

"Pada satu ketika, pintu lif itu terbuka dan Najib bersama beberapa lagi dalamnya, tetapi beliau tidak keluar dan saya tidak dapat hendak bersalam pun," katanya kepada Malaysiakini melalui penterjemah.

Shaariibuu berkata, ini kali kedua beliau datang untuk menemui Najib selepas cubaan pertama pada 2007.

Shaariibuu hadir ke Parlimen untuk mengadakan sidang akhbar bersama anggota parlimen Pakatan Rakyat bagi menyatakan kekecewaannya terhadap saman sivilnya masih belum bermula walaupun dua anggota polis yang dituduh membunuh Altantuya sudah didapati bersalah dan dijatuhkan hukuman gantung. - hrkh

Bapa Altantuya nafi dibayar agar tutup mulut

Bapa kepada Altantuya, Setev Shaariibuu, menafikan dakwaan bahawa beliau telah dibayar wang supaya mendiamkan diri berhubung kes pembunuhan kejam anak sulung itu. Professor di universiti Mongolia itu menegaskan, beliau tidak menerima sesen pun daripada kerajaan Malaysia.

Beliau berkata demikian melalui seorang jurubahasa dalam sidang media di bangunan Parlimen, hari ini.

Setev mengulas khabar angin yang timbul sejurus selepas seorang tertuduh dalam kes tersebut, Abdul Razak Bagida di bebaskan daripada semua tuduhan berhubung pembunuhan tersebut.

Perbicaraan itu mengemukakan fakta Altantuya telah ditembak mati dan diletupkan menggunakan bahan letupan tentera oleh dua orang pegawai Unit Tindakan Khas pada 2006. - mk

Delayed Controversial Murder Appeal To Be Heard March 9

On March 9, the appeal of the convicted murderers in the politically charged case of Mongolian translator and party girl Altantuya Shaariibuu is once again set for Malaysia’s Court of Appeal after being delayed for a month because of boxes of evidence about the case had been sent to the wrong place.

Altantuya was murdered on Oct. 18, 2006. The interminable delays in getting justice for the murdered woman have led to suspicions that the delays are deliberate in order to erase the crime from the public mind. She had been killed in particularly gruesome fashion. She was shot twice in the head and her body was blown up with military explosives, raising suspicions that was to hide the fact that, as she told one of her murderers, she was pregnant.

Altantuya has been inextricably tied to a massive scandal involving the purchases of submarines by the Malaysian Defense Ministry that netted then-Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak’s best friend, Abdul Razak Baginda, a 114-million euro “commission” that is believed to have been kicked back to politicians in Malaysia and France.

Apparently, according to the Malaysian government-sponsored news agency Bernama, 57 volumes of documents about the case were sent by the court to the prison where the two, who were once elite bodyguards for now-Prime Minister Najib, are incarcerated instead of to the lawyers representing them.

J. Kuldeep Kumar, a lawyer for former Chief Inspector Azila Hadri, told the court on Feb. 10 that the documents were being sent back to him in stages, and that he had only received 40 of the volumes over the past six months, so he was unable to file an appeal on Feb. 10 when the matter was to be taken up in the appellate court.

That statement has been met with disbelief by Manjeet Singh Dhillon, a prominent Kuala Lumpur-based criminal defense attorney, who said sending court records to the accused instead of to his lawyers was unheard of. It is also unheard of for a case to be delayed at the appellate level unless the lawyer is a new replacement for one who has dropped out of the case, Dhillon said.

Dhillon is representing a private detective, P Balasubramaniam, who has issued several statements saying Najib had first been Altantuya’s lover and had passed the Mongolian woman on to Razak Baginda because he didn’t want the embarrassment of a mistress when, as expected, he became prime minister.

“In Malaysia, if you have an appeal pending, the documents are served on the accused’s lawyers, they don’t get served on the accused,” Dhillon said. “In Malaysia, if you are facing the gallows, whether in the high court or on appeal, by law you are entitled to a lawyer if you can’t afford one. In a capital case, there will always be lawyers and the papers are always sent to the lawyers.”

There are no excuses for delays in normal appeals cases, Dhillon said. “The lawyer can always say ‘I am not ready,’ but that only comes about if you are newly assigned to the case. The rest do not get leeway from the court. Say you get the date, you will do the case. If you are telling me they shipped such a large amount of documents to the wrong place, that makes no sense. I don’t even look at as a snafu, it is a ridiculous explanation. It is a lot of codswallop.”

Altantuya, the jilted lover of then Defense Minister Najib’s best friend, Abdul Razak Baginda, was by admission in a letter found after her death attempting to blackmail Razak Baginda for US$500,000 Azilah Hadri and his accomplice, Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, were to be paid RM50,000 to RM100,000 to kill Altantuya and two of her companions, according to a confession by Sirul which, though was produced after he had been given a warning of his right to a lawyer, was never produced in court.

The trial of the two elite bodyguards and Razak Baginda didn’t get underway until early February 2008, droned on for more than a year. The US Embassy’s political section chief, Mark D. Clark, wrote in a diplomatic cable liberated by the Wikileaks organization that a deputy prosecutor had told him "there was almost no chance of winning guilty verdicts in the on-going trial of defendants Razak Baginda, a close advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, and two police officers. She described the trial as interminably long."

Ultimately Razak Baginda was freed by the judge without having to put on a defense in October 2009. The two were finally convicted in April 2009 and sentenced to hang. The question of who had offered to pay them to murder the woman was never asked, let alone answered. That was one of many questions not asked or answered in the case.

Testimony in the original trial indicated the immigration records for Altantuya and the two friends who accompanied her disappeared and there was no record that they had been in the country. In a sworn statement, Razak Baginda said he had asked for help to get Altantuya out of his hair from Najib’s aide de camp Musa Safri and Sirul in his confession referred to Musa Safri as well. The aide was never called as a witness nor interrogated by police nor was Najib.

One of the two testified in court that she had seen a picture of Najib with Altantuya. Both the defense and the prosecution asked that the testimony be stricken. The two convicted murderers were always brought to court with their faces covered, which appears to have been unprecedented as well, raising suspicions on the part of cynics about Malaysian justice that someone else – possibly Indonesian illegal immigrants – could be hanged in their place.

The conviction of the two is just now a month short of three years after the conviction -- and five years and four months after Altantuya was shot. A loss at the appellate level means automatic referral to Malaysia’s Federal Court, the nation’s highest tribunal. Given customary appellate procedures, if the two lose at the appellate level it could take as long as two and a half years or more before the case proceeds to the top court. - asiasentinel

Altantuya Killers' Appeal Up Soon

Case reopens doubts about Malaysian justice system

The politically-charged appeal of two elite Malaysian police bodyguards who were sentenced to death two years and nine months ago for the 2006 murder-for-hire of Mongolian translator and party girl Altantuya Shaaribuu is due on Feb. 10 in Malaysia’s Court of Appeal.

The High Court trial, in which everything appeared to have been done ignore the question of who hired the two killers, stands in vivid contrast to the appeal filed by prosecutors on Jan. 19 in the case of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, in which everything appeared to have been done to bend the evidence to try to put the 64-year-old Anwar behind bars. As Judge Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah pointed out in his not-guilty verdict, “the court cannot be 100 percent certain that the DNA evidence against Anwar was not contaminated.”

The two bodyguards, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, were to be paid RM50,000 to RM00,000 to kill Altantuya, according to a confession by Sirul which was never produced in court.

Although the three-judge court is expected to hear arguments, it is unsure if the verdict on the appeal by the two will be concluded on that date. Even if it is, according to criminal defense lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon, that is unlikely to be the end of the case. If the two are found guilty once more, they have the right of appeal to the Federal Court, Malaysia’s highest tribunal. That could take as long as another 2-1/2 years, Dhillon said in an interview.

Although the Malaysian court system has been working to shorten the length of time appeals take, delays remain. However, the length of time this particular case is taking is extraordinary, Dhillon said. Indeed, however, he said, the appeal in Anwar’s case could take a similar amount of time. As with the Sirul-Azilah case, Anwar’s appeal to the Federal Court could also take another two and a half years after the appellate verdict.

The murder case been linked to the fortunes of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. Azilah and Sirul served as bodyguards in an elite police unit supervised by Najib, then the country's deputy prime minister. It has continued to dog him as bloggers and journalists from France and other countries have continued to question his involvement. Also on trial with the two, but acquitted without having to put on a defense, was Altantuya's jilted lover and one of Najib's best friends, political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.

From the start of the year-long trial, during which prosecutors and the judge were hurriedly switched without warning, to the end, when the verdict was delayed since February 2008 until after the United Malays National Organization convention that named Najib party leader and thus prime minister, the case has appeared more about suppressing evidence than determining the guilt or innocence of the accused.

Asked about the failure of investigative agencies to attempt to discover why no attempt had been made to ascertain who had hired the two to kill the woman, Dhillon responded: “Frankly, that is ridiculous. It clearly shows the intention of the investigative agency. If you are a hired killer, someone has hired you, and he is a far greater criminal, whoever it is. If I am the head of the investigative agency, I would want to know who the mastermind is. Everybody wants to sweep this under the carpet.”

The murder was one of the most gruesome in recent Malaysian memory. It is a tale worth repeating. By several accounts, the then-28 year-old woman, who was executed with two bullets to the head in a jungle clearing near the suburban city of Shah Alam and whose body was blown up with military explosives, was at the center of a massive scandal over the purchase by Malaysia of two French submarines and the lease of a third.

The sale of the submarines and other vessels by the French government-linked military contactor DCN to Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan. India and other countries have been investigated sporadically by prosecutors who have alleged it involves a string of murders and kickbacks paid to some of France’s top political figures.

Altantuya, then Razak Baginda's lover according to Razak Baginda’s testimony to police, reportedly was a translator in the purchase, which cost Malaysian taxpayers €1 billion (US$329.1 billion in current dollars). The purchase netted a company controlled by Razak Baginda €114 million in "commissions," according to testimony in Malaysia's parliament.

By Razak Baginda's own cautioned statement to the police, he grew tired of Altantuya and broke up with her after a year-long affair in which he gifted her thousands of dollars. However, she flew to Malaysia to demand as much as US$500,000, according a letter found after her death. Other reports alleged the payment was for her part in the purchase of the submarines.

As she stood in front of Razak Baginda's house, demanding that he come out, the two policemen, accompanied by a policewoman, swooped down on her, tossed her into the back of a car, and she was never seen alive again.

In a cautioned statement that was never introduced in court, Sirul testified that in her last moments, Altantuya begged for her life, saying she was pregnant. Sirul said he and Azilah had attached explosives to the woman's legs up to her abdomen and her head, raising questions why they had sought to destroy her abdomen rather, for instance, than her hands, which could identify the body. Presumably the explosives would have destroyed any DNA samples of whose baby was inside her, if any.

P. Balasubramaniam, a private detective hired by Razak Baginda to keep the woman away from him, swore in an intensively detailed statutory declaration that he was told by Razak Baginda that Altantuya had been the lover of Najib as well, that she liked anal sex, and that she had been passed on to the analyst because Najib intended to become prime minister and didn't want a sex scandal hanging over his head.

In the declaration, Balasubramaniam said he had seen text messages from Najib after Altantuya disappeared, telling him to "be cool" and that he would take care of the matter. After delivering his statutory declaration, Balasubramaniam was summoned to a Kuala Lumpur police station, where he was forced into a total recantation of the document. He and his entire family disappeared. There apparently was never an attempt made by the court trying the three men to find him and ask him to testify as to the accuracy of the statement.

Other questions remain. In Sirul's cautioned statement, the police constable said Azhar told him Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, had ordered them to pick up the young woman. Azhar first suggested going to the Hotel Malaya, where Altantuya and two friends were staying, to kill them all, but decided not to because of the presence of closed-circuit cameras. Neither of the two was ever asked in court about Musa's involvement in the matter, nor about their relationship to Najib.

Burmaa Oyunchimeg, Altantuya's cousin who accompanied her to Kuala Lumpur and one of the two women whom Sirul and Azhar presumably intended to kill in the hotel, testified in the trial that she had seen a picture of Najib together with Razak Baginda and Altantuya. Najib has sworn on the Quran that he had never met the woman.

Both the prosecution and the defense leapt to their feet and asked that her testimony be stricken and she was never asked about it again. She also testified that when she attempted to leave the country, there was no indication that she had ever arrived there, leading to questions of how her records had disappeared from the immigration department. No questions were ever asked about how that could have happened either.

When Razak Baginda was first brought into court in June of 2007, his wife, Mazlina, angrily shouted, asking why he was being brought to trial when he had no ambition to become prime minister, which could have been construed as a reference to the allegation of Najib's relationship to Altantuya that was described by Balasubramaniam. Mazlina has never been asked to explain her statement.

Nor has Najib, along with Musa Safri, ever been asked to appear in court or been questioned about the case. It appears unlikely that they ever will be.

- asiasentinel

Segerakan kes saman sivil, rayu bapa Altantuya

Setelah tergendala sekian lama, bapa kepada warga Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibuu yang dibunuh dengan kejam, merayu kepada mahkamah di negara ini agar mempercepatkan perbicaraan sivil RM100 juta yang difailkannya terhadap kerajaan.

Setev Shaariibuu, yang memfailkan saman itu pada 4 Jun, 2007, menyaman kerajaan Malaysia dan mereka yang bertanggungjawab ke atas pembunuhan kejam Altantuya di sebuah hutan di Shah Alam pada 19 Oktober, 2006.

Dalam sepucuk surat yang diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggeris oleh peguam Mukhsaruul Mijiddorj, Shaariibuu berkata beliau telah membayar sejumlah besar wang kepada mahkamah Malaysia pada tahun lalu.

Wang, berjumlah RM60,000 itu sebagai bon keselamatan, dibayar oleh kerajaan Mongolia bagi pihak Shariibuu.

Walau bagaimanapun, setahun sudah berlalu tetapi beliau masih belum menerima sebarang berita mengenai tarikh kesnya itu akan dibicarakan.

Kesan buruk

"Hakikat bahawa kerajaan anda tidak mengambil sebarang langkah positif terhadap isu yang dibangkitkan oleh Mongolia mungkin (menimbulkan) kesan buruk terhadap ratusan warga Mongolia yang belajar dan tinggal di Malaysia," katanya.

"Sedangkan kerajaan Mongolia telah mencadangkan isu ini dibincangkan dengan melantik dan menghantar wakilnya ke Malaysia, namun satu tahun sudah berlalu tanpa sebarang maklum balas," katanya.

Shaariibuu tidak menjelaskan lebih lanjut mengenai siapa dan bila perwakilan yang dimaksudkannya itu telah datang ke negara ini bagi membincangkan perkara ini.

Adalah difahamkan bahawa surat itu, yang sesalinannya diberikan kepada Malaysiakini, pada masa ini, dalam simpanan peguam Karpal Singh (kiri), yang mewakili Shariibuu dalam kes berkenaan secara pro-bono (percuma).

Awal bulan ini, Karpal melahirkan kekecewaannya, kes saman itu telah ditangguhkan kerana kedua-dua anggota polis yang didapati bersalah berhubung pembunuhan berkenaan telah memfailkan rayuan di Mahkamah Rayuan.

Karpal berkata beliau telah berulang-kali menulis mahkamah untuk memohon pengurusan kes saman itu, tetapi masih belum menerima jawapan. - malaysiakini

WikiLeaks and the Altantuya Murder

Cables show the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur was closely watching the trial

The US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur closely followed the murder trial of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu and frequently discussed whether now-Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was involved in the killing, according to diplomatic cables supplied to Asia Sentinel by the WikiLeaks website, and theorized that the trial of her killers was being deliberately delayed.

Altantuya was murdered in October of 2006 by two of Najib's bodyguards, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, 30 and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 35. who stood trial and were pronounced guilty in April 2009. Abdul Razak Baginda, one of Najib's best friends and Altantuya's lover, was accused of participating in the murder but was allowed to be freed without having to put on a defense.

The murder has been tied closely to the US$1 billion acquisition of French submarines by the Malaysian ministry of defense, which Najib headed as defense minister during the acquisitions. Altantuya reportedly acted as a translator on the transaction, which netted Razak Baginda's company a €114 million "commission" on the purchase. Reportedly she had been offered US$500,000 for her part in translating. After she was jilted, she vainly demanded payment. A letter she had written was made public after her death saying she regretted she was attempting to "blackmail" Razak Baginda.

French lawyers are investigating whether some of the €114 million was kicked back to French or Malaysian politicians. Despite the scandal, the US government has not publicly backed away from Najib. In April 2010, Najib in fact visited the White House and was praised by US President Barack Obama for the parliament's passage of an act allowing Malaysian authorities to take action against individuals and entities engaged in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The cables are replete with accounts of a long series of meetings with Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, in which Anwar repeatedly told the Americans that Najib was connected to corrupt practices in the acquisition of the submarines as well as the purchase of Sukhoi Su-MCM-30 Flanker fighter jets from Russia. Anwar also repeatedly called attention to Najib's connection to the Altantuya murder case.

A Jan. 24, 2007 cable, marked secret, wrote that "Perceived irregularities on the part of prosecutors and the court, and the alleged destruction of some evidence, suggested to many that the case was subject to strong political pressure intended to protect Najib."

In a Feb. 1, 2008 cable, the embassy's Political Section Chief, Mark D. Clark, wrote that a deputy prosecutor had told him "there was almost no chance of winning guilty verdicts in the on-going trial of defendants Razak Baginda, a close advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, and two police officers. She described the trial as interminably long." (That, of course, turned out to be wrong. Sirul and Azilah were ultimately convicted and have appealed their sentence)

"Nearly seven months after the trial began (but with only 83 days of actual hearings), the prosecution now is presenting its 63rd witness out of an anticipated 80 and the defense has yet to make its case." The deputy prosecutor "anticipated the trial would continue for several more months and said that she actively sought excuses to escape from the courtroom monotony."

Clark called the trial a "a prosecutorial embarrassment from its inception, leading many to speculate that the ineptitude was by design. On the eve of the trial Malaysia's Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail dropped his lead prosecutors and replaced them with less experienced attorneys. Similarly, a lead counsel for one of the defendants abruptly resigned before the trial "because of (political) attempts to interfere with a defense he had proposed, in particular to protect an unnamed third party."

The protracted nature of the case, Clark continued, "has led at least one regional newspaper to speculate that "the case is being deliberately delayed to drive it from public view.

Malaysia's daily newspapers rarely mention the case's latest developments, and it is unprecedented in Malaysian judicial history that a murder trial could drag on for seven months and still not give the defense an opportunity to present its case. Such an environment has led many to conclude that the case was too politically sensitive to yield a verdict before the anticipated general elections."

A January 2007 cable called attention to Abdul Razak Baginda's affidavit confirming that he sought the help of Musa Safri, later identified by reporters as Najib's aide-de-camp, in ridding him of the jilted woman, and in other cables pointed out that Musa had never been called for questioning.

In another cable, dated May 16, 2007, Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, a deputy home affairs minister in Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi's cabinet told US embassy officials that he was "certain that government prosecutors would limit their trial activities to the murder itself and the three defendants; prosecutors would not follow up on allegations of related corruption or other suspects."

In the Jan. 27 2007 cable, marked "Secret," embassy officials wrote that "In December we heard from one of (Anwar's) lawyers that Razak Baginda's wife was in contact with Anwar and Wan Azizah, suggesting one possible source for Anwar's information."

Razak Baginda's wife, during one of his first appearances in court, screamed that Razak "doesn't want to be prime minister." That was taken by observers as a reference to the fact that Najib reportedly had been having an affair with Altantuya but passed her on to Razak Baginda because it would be unseemly to have a mistress when as expected he succeeded Abdullah Badawi as premier. Najib has offered to swear on the Koran that he had never met the woman.

However, in July 2008, P Balasubramaniam, a former policeman and private detective who had been hired by Razak Baginda to protect him from Altantuya, filed a sworn statement saying he had been told by the accused man that Najib not only knew the murdered woman but had an affair with her and introduced her to him, passing her on because he did not want the onus of having a mistress in the event that he would become prime minister.

In a telephone interview on May 9, Anwar, however, told Asia Sentinel that Razak Baginda's wife was not the source of his knowledge of Najib's connection and that instead he had been told of the connection by Setev Shaariibuu, Altantuya's father, who said he had wished to present evidence of the then-vice premier's involvement, but was not allowed to do so. Multiple attempts to contact Setev by Asia Sentinel have been unsuccessful.

Almost immediately after he made the statement, Balasubramaniam was picked up and driven to a police station, where he was forced to withdraw the statement and write a new one saying Razak Baginda had told him nothing of the sort. Balasubramaniam fled Malaysia for India. He later said Najib's brother, Nizam, and wife, Rosmah Mansor, had met with him and that he was offered RM5 million (US$1.48 million) to forget his statement connecting Najib to Altantuya. Balasubramaniam displayed a flock of checks drawn on the account of an associate of Najib's wife. The former private detective has continued to make a series of statements from outside the country about Najib's involvement and the Malaysian mainstream press has done its best to ignore.

A February 2008 cable from Political Section Chief Clark gives a hint that then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may have been trying to get rid of Najib by forcing Razak Baginda to implicate him in the murder.

"In the latest turn of the ongoing Altantuya murder trial (reftels), accused political insider Abdul Razak Baginda, who has remained calm and composed through most of the proceedings, unleashed an emotional tirade shortly after the February 20 noon recess on the trial's 90th day," Clark wrote. "Referring to the Prime Minister by his nick-name "Pak Lah," Razak reportedly exclaimed: "You can die, Pak Lah! (in Malaysian - "Matilah kau, Pak Lah!") I'm innocent!" according to unpublished journalist accounts.

"Local newspapers and the government news service Bernama reported the fact of the outburst, but did not print Razak's statements. The short-lived exception was the English language newspaper The Sun, which included the quotations from Razak in its early morning February 21 edition. Sources at newspaper confirmed to us in confidence that the Ministry of Internal Security compelled The Sun to withdraw and recall thousands of copies of their first run paper in which the original quote was included. Prime Minister Abdullah serves concurrently as Minister of Internal Security."

During the trial, Clark wrote, Razak Baginda, "appeared uneasy throughout the morning session of court on February 20. Razak's father, Abdullah Malim Baginda had whispered something to him shortly before the trial had begun for the morning and apparently upset the accused. Razak had remained quiet throughout the morning hearings, but just after the noon recess was called and as he was leaving the courtroom he kicked and banged the door and yelled "You can die, Pak Lah! Die, Pak Lah! I am innocent. I am innocent." He was later seen crying before his lawyer while his mother attempted to comfort him."

"Speculation is rife in Malaysia's on-line community concerning what it was that set off Razak Baginda outburst, including conspiracy theories alleging the Prime Minister's office had urged Razak to implicate Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak …in return for sparing Razak a guilty verdict and its mandatory death sentence.

Regardless, the Internal Security Ministry would want to limit any possibly inflammatory reference to the Prime Minister at the trial, and particularly at this juncture due to the proximity of Malaysia's general election to be held on March 8. Any connection between the Prime

Minister and the murder trial would be scandalous. The GOM (government of Malaysia) reportedly has worked hard to "drive (the case) from public view" … and is not about to allow the case to influence the coming elections."

- asiasentinel

French probe ignites interest in Altantuya death row duo

Altantuya was shot in October 2006 and her body was blown up with military explosives by two bodyguards attached to Najib's office. When Altantuya kept pestering Baginda for money, at his home, Baginda asked Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, to help keep her away from him.

When Najib Abdul Razak was Malaysia’s Defense Minister from 2000 to 2008, his grand plan to upgrade the nation’s armed forces included the purchase of three submarines from the French defense shipbuilder, DCN.

Little did he know at the time, that the spectre of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Mongolian who served as translator for the Malaysian government, would surface like one of the faulty submarines which refused to submerge and still haunt him five years later.

Next month, the inquiry by Parisian prosecutors on behalf of the Malaysian human rights organization Suaram, will be confined to bribery allegations involving the Scorpene submarines and will not look into the 2006 murder of Altantuya.

Altantuya had served as a translator in Paris for the Malaysian government's US$1 billion purchase of three French submarines. The deal was brokered by a firm owned by Abdul Razak Baginda, who belonged to Najib’s inner circle and which netted Baginda a €114 million commission.

The 28-year-old Mongolian was also Razak Baginda's jilted lover, and in a letter found after her death, she admitted she was attempting to blackmail Razak Baginda for US$500,000.

Altantuya was shot in October 2006 and her body was blown up with military explosives by two bodyguards attached to Najib's office. When Altantuya kept pestering Baginda for money, at his home, Baginda asked Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, to help keep her away from him.

Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar who served as bodyguards in the elite police unit supervised by Najib, were sent to apprehend Altantuya.

The two men were aided by Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roslan, who was Azila's former girlfriend. They packed Altantuya into a red Proton Wira from whence she was never seen alive again.

The private detective hired by Baginda, an ex-policeman called P. Balasubramaniam aka Bala, was detailed to prevent Altantuya from harassing him. Bala swore in a detailed statutory declaration that Baginda told him Altantuya had been Najib’s lover initially but when he had designs on becoming Prime minister, Baginda took over as her lover to prevent Najib from further sexual scandals.

Bala also said that Baginda told him she liked anal sex. In the declaration, Bala said he had seen text messages from Najib after Altantuya’s disappearance advising Baginda to “be cool” and that the matter would soon be resolved.

After delivering his statutory declaration, Bala was forced to withdraw the document. After this, Bala and his entire family disappeared.

Meanwhile, Baginda was acquitted in November 2008 and left Malaysia for England.

However, High Court Judge Zaki Yasin said that the two bodyguards were “unbelievable” as “each blamed the other” and convicted the two of murdering Altantuya sometime between Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, 2006. Zaki said, “They failed to raise any reasonable doubt of the prosecution's case”.

The case is mired in controversy as there was no attempt to establish their motive for killing her despite a confession by one of them, which was not allowed in court, but which said they would be paid a large sum of money to get rid of her.

In Sirul's cautioned statement, he said that Azhar informed him that Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, had ordered them to pick up the young woman.

Azhar’s first suggestion was the Hotel Malaya, where Altantuya and her cousin and friend were staying, to kill them all. The presence of closed-circuit cameras prevented this from happening.

How deep and to what extent is Musa's involvement?

In addition, what is the relationship of these two men with Najib?

The press conference in London, in July 2010, held by Bala and his team of lawyers, was supposed to be a platform to discuss issues raised during a scheduled interview of Bala by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). When the MACC cancelled at the last minute, their non-appearance generated more questions than answers.

According to lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon, “What we intended to do if MACC had turned up in London, was for Balasubramaniam to highlight a whole series of events surrounding this Altantuya matter that pointed to the centre of a conspiracy web. A conspiracy at the very highest level to keep out all references to Najib.”

So next month, in Paris, the sordid details of Najib’s submarine deals will surface. Back in Malaysia, our attention will focus on the two bodyguards, charged with Altantuya’s murder.

Some say that the two are convenient scapegoats. Others say that it is curious their faces were hidden from the glare of journalists and say this is because the men will have an identity change and be free to rejoin society under an assumed name. Many questions remain unanswered.

In fact, we have no proof that they men are who they claim to be. No one knows them and has vouched for them. Who knows if they are masquerading as Azilah and Sirul? At the end of the day, it does not matter who the men really are.

It is all a smokescreen for in our part of the world, those in charge of dispensing justice end up protecting those in power. We expect criminals to be experts at keeping secrets and telling lies, but few expect those who are entrusted with keeping law and order, to lie. Governments of all types have a tendency to manipulate information and hide the truth.

Not convinced? Remember the Bank Bumiputra scandal in 1980 when a Bank Bumiputra official was murdered to prevent information about corrupt practices from being unearthed? Bank Bumiputra lost millions and had to be bailed out by taxpayers money. The country that prosecuted one of the accused was Hong Kong.

No, not Malaysia. We tend to shield the guilty.

- Malaysia Chronicle

Pembunuhan Altantuya : PM dicabar kemuka bukti

Datuk Seri Najib Razak cuba mempertahankan kerajaan BN yang dipimpinnya daripada tumbang kerana bimbang didakwa di mahkamah, terutamanya berhubung dakwaan skandal pembabitan pembunuhan perempuan Mongolia, Altantuya Shaaribuu seperti yang didedahkan dalam laman WikiLeaks, kata Ketua Umum PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Sehubungan itu, Anwar yang juga Ketua Pembangkang mempersoalkan media arus perdana yang sengaja "memadam" menyiarkan dakwaan skandal berkenaan seperti yang didedahkan oleh WikiLeaks.

"Sebab apa Najib mahu mempertahankan Putrajaya (kerana) takut didakwa (di mahkamah) kemudian hari... Mengapa media padam perkara (dakwaan) ini (daripada disiarkan)," katanya ketika menyampaikan ceramah di tapak pasar malam Taman Melati di Wangsa Maju malam semalam.

"Saya akan mempertahankan diri saya dan integriti saya. Saya mahu tanya Najib, adakah awak boleh mencabar Singapura agar membuktikan dakwaan itu. Itu sebabnya media Umno tidak berani melaporkan perkara itu.

"Apabila saya dituduh, saya akan melawan, tetapi apabila Najib dituduh apa beliau kata? Ini hanya perkara kecil," kata Anwar.

Dihantui Altantuya

Dalam ceramah itu, Anwar membaca petikan laporan pendedahan dalam WikiLeaks yang mendakwa masa depan Najib dihantui dengan skandal pembunuhan Altantuya.

NONEBerikutan laporan dalam laman web berkenaan, Anwar juga mencabar Najib mengemukakan bukti berhubung dakwaan tersebut.

“Adakah kamu fikir saya ini bodoh untuk memasuki perangkap apabila tahu ia perangkap? Jangan cabar saya terlalu berlebihan! Saya akan dedahkan kes pembunuhan yang telah dilakukan dan cuba ditutup rapat.”

Dalam ceramahnya juga, Anwar turut menyelar bekas perdana menteri Singapura Lee Kuan Yew seperti yang didedahkan oleh WikiLeaks bahawa pegawai perisikan Singapura dan Australia percaya beliau memang terlibat dengan perilaku dalam tuduhan liwat yang sedang dihadapinya.

Anwar yang juga ahli parlimen Permatang Pauh - dalam ucapannya selama kira-kira 40 minit itu - menyifatkan perkara berkenaan sebagai "fitnah" dan mencabar pemimpin kanan itu mengemukakan bukti berhubung dakwaannya itu.

pkr wangsa maju ceramah 141210 anwar 02"Ada bukti? Saya minta peguam saya menjawab. Ada bukti?... Lee Kuan Yew (boleh) bawa ke mahkamah (dan) jadi saksi kepada Najib di mahkamah," katanya.

Menurut akhbar Australia, The Sun-Herald, kabel Jabatan Negara Amerika yang bocor mendedahkan bahawa pegawai perisikan Singapura dan menteri kanan Lee Kuan Yew telah memberitahu pejabat Agensi Perisikan Australia bagi Penilaian Nasional (ONA), bahawa "ketua pembangkang Anwar 'memang melakukan dakwaan perilaku yang sedang dihadapinya'."

“Wikileaks, apa bukti kamu, bawa Lee Kuan Yew ke mahkamah. Saya tidak peduli, kamu fikir saya buat atau tidak. Itu bukan urusan saya. Kamu ada rakaman video atau catatan doktor, bawa ke mahkamah.

"Ia fitnah kepada saya dan saya akan mempertahankan (diri). Ada bukti, keluarkan video, keluarkan... Bawa (bukti) ke mahkamah. Saya akan mempertahankan kehormatan saya. Ini cara saya," katanya sambil mendapat sorakan daripada kira -kira 1,000 orang di ceramah berkenaan.

Kurang ajar sangat!

Selain itu, Anwar juga membaca isi kandungan seperti yang didedahkan dalam WikiLeaks yang mendakwa Najib adalah seorang yang "suka mengambil kesempatan". Beliau juga meminta Singapura supaya tidak masuk campur mengenai urusan Malaysia.

pkr wangsa maju ceramah 141210 audience"Ini bukan soal kamu... Kita (Pakatan Rakyat yang) lawan Najib.... Jaga negara kamu, jangan sombong dan (jangan) kurang ajar sangat," katanya.

Dalam ceramah itu juga, Anwar turut membidas mantan perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yang melahirkan rasa ragu-ragu bahawa beliau adalah sasaran 'perangkap seks oleh musuhnya'.

"Dia sudah umur 80 tahun, jangan gaduh dengan dia. Jangan kacau... Orang dah umur 80 tahun, (sepatutnya) istighfar sudahlah," sindir Anwar sambil mendapat sorakan daripada hadirin.

azlanSebelum mengakhiri ucapannya, Anwar menegaskan bahawa beliau tidak risau dengan apa yang berlaku berhubung pendedahan dakwaan yang disiarkan dalam laman WikiLeaks.

"Saya tidur masih nyenyak. Makan makanan enak. Isteri masih cantik dan setia. Alhamdulillah. Mereka mahu melemahkan kita, lagi banyak kita diserang, Alhamdulillah lagi banyak rakyat datang kepada kita.

Laungan reformasi dan takbir

"Kita ada komitmen dan keyakinan untuk membawa perubahan," katanya sambil melaungkan perkataan "reformasi dan takbir" sebanyak tiga kali yang kemudiaannya disambut oleh para hadirin.

pkr wangsa maju ceramah 141210 anwar 03Majlis ceramah malam semalam - yang bermula jam 9 malam - turut dihadiri antaranya Naib Presiden PKR Tian Chua; ahli parlimen Shah Alam Khalid Samad, Exco Kerajaan Selangor Teresa Kok dan Ketua Angkatan Muda PKR Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin.


Tian Chua (bawah, kanan) dalam ceramah itu berkata, pihaknya sedang berusaha supaya laporan WikiLeaks ini dibincangkan di Dewan Rakyat. Satu usul telah dibentangkan bagi membincangkan hal berkenaan.

“Kita mahu Dewan Rakyat bincangkan laporan terhadap Anwar dan juga dakwaan terhadap Najib berkaitan dengan pembunuhan terhadap Altantunya yang juga disebutkan dalam dokumen WikiLeaks ini,” katanya.

pkr wangsa maju ceramah 141210 tian chuaSebelum itu, semua penceramah yang hadir meringkaskan ucapan mereka untuk memberi laluan kepada Anwar memberi penjelasan berhubung isu-isu semasa yang dikaitkan dengan beliau setelah polis membenarkan waktu ceramah hanya sehingga jam 10.30 malam.

Kira-kira 100 anggota polis dikerahkan untuk memantau keadaan dan seawal jam 9.15 malam, mereka mula berkeliaran di pentas mengingatkan penganjur supaya mematuhi kebenaran masa yang ditetapkan. Tiada kejadian yang tidak diingini dilaporkan.

Semalam, peguam Anwar mengumumkan pihaknya akan menyaman Lee Kuan Yew dan juga Dr Mahathir yang berkata beliau yakin pemimpin Singapura itu tahu Anwar melakukan liwat brkenaan.

Anwar mula menjelajah ke seluruh negara mulai semalam bagi menerangkan isu yang dihadapinya itu kepada rakyat. Esok, 16 Disember, beliau dijadualkan berada di Dataran Muhibbah, Kampung Ismail, Ampangan, Negeri Sembilan dalam siri Ceramah Perdananya sehinggalah berakhir di Pulau Pinang pada 19 Disember ini.

- malaysiakini

Akuan Bersumpah Palsu - Bala Cabar Peguam Negara Dakwanya

KUALA LUMPUR, 6 NOV - Penyiasat persendirian, P Balasubramaniam menyelar tindakan kerajaan kerana menutup kes dua akuan bersumpah yang dibuat beliau. Akhbar portal Malaysiakini melaporkan, Bala dalam satu surat terbuka kepada Peguam Negara, Abdul Gani Patail yang dihantar ke akhbar terbabit menyatakan beliau berasa terkejut dengan hasil siasatan polis bahawa tiada sebarang kesalahan telah dilakukan.

Keputusan itu, katanya dibuat walaupun beliau sudah membuat pengakuan telah menandatangani surat akuan bersumpah palsu.

"Saya percaya polis telah meyiasat keadaan menyelubungi dua kenyataan akuan bersumpah yang dibuat di bawah seksyen 199 penal kod yang membawa kepada hukuman penjara tiga tahun serta denda..Ini bukan satu kesalahan remeh.

Oleh demikian, saya terkejut dengan alasan pihak tuan bahawa tuan tidak dapat menyimpulkan sebarang kesalahan telah dibuat hasil dari bukti-bukti yang ketara dikumpul oleh polis dalam siasatan mereka," tulisnya lagi dalam salinan surat terbuka yang dihantar kepada Malaysiakini.

Sambil berkeras bahawa akuan bersumpah keduannya adalah palsuu, beliau menggesa pihak berkuasa untuk membuka semula fail kes terbabit.

"Akuan bersumpah yang pertama adalah keseluruhannya benar. Yang kedua pula,adalah pembohongan semata-mata dan saya mengakuinya," tulisnya lagi.

Bala, turut mencabar peguam negara utnuk mendakwanya kerana membuat kenyataan palsu dalam akuan bersumpah keduanya sambil menegaskan bahawa beliau bagaimanapun berhak untuk mengaku tidak bersalah kepada tuduhan kerana yakin mempunyai asas pembelaan diri yang kuat.

Beliau seterusnya menyatakan kesediaannya untuk pulang ke negara ini untuk membela dirinya namun meminta jaminan daripada Abdul Gani memastikan keselamatanya memandangkan ada pihak yang tidak menyenangi kepulangan beliau.

Bala, dalam akuan bersumpah pertamanya telah mendedahkan bahawa Altantuya adalah perempuan simpanan Najib sebelum model tersebut diserahkan kepada rakan baiknya, Razak Baginda.

Namun, 24 jam selepas beliau membuat pendedahan berkenaan melalui surat akuan bersumpahnya, Bala dikatakan telah dipaksa menarik balik surak akuan bersumpah terbabit dan seterusnya membuat satu lagi surat akuan bersumpah antara kandungannya mengandungi kenyataan bahawa beliau membuat surat akuan bersumpah pertama dalam keadaan tertekan dan dipaksa.

Bala kemudiannya telah menghilangkan diri bersama keluarganya sebelum muncul kembali beberapa bulan lalu.

Beberapa laporan polis telah dibuat berikutan itu dan Suruhanjya Piencegah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) diarahkan menyiasat dakwaan bahawa kumpulan terbabit telah merasuah dan mengugut Bala untuk menandatangani surat akuan bersumpah keduanya.

SPRM, bagaimanapun tidak menunjukkan kesungguhan untuk menyiasat aduan yang dibuatt dan turut berdolak dalik apabila membatalkan pertemuan untuk merakam kenyataan Bala di London pada saat-saat akhir.

- tvsnews

Rumah Manjeet Singh Dhillon dipecah masuk, laptop hilang

Rumah salah seorang peguam PI Balasubramaniam, Manjeet Singh Dhillon telah dipecah masuk oleh orang yang tak dikenali. Hanya komputer riba saja hilang. Lain barangan tidak terusik.

Baguih betoi 'pencuri' tu kan. Hanya ambik laptop Manjeet je sedangkan barangan lain termasuk barang kemas milik isterinya yang berada dalam bilik yang sama langsung tak terusik. Agaknya ini jenis pencuri VVIP yang dah banyak duit kot. Jadi tak heran dengan barang berharga. Cuma dok syok dan gian rembat orang punya laptop je sebab nak cari maklumat dalam hard disk je.

Memang betoilah kata si mamak tua nyanyuk tu pasal "Malaysia Boleh". Negara lain tak buat, cuma Malaysia je. Hakim boleh dibeli, pendakwaan boleh direka, bukti palsu pun boleh dibawa ke mahkamah, orang besar bebas buat jenayah hingga bunuh dan letupkan anak orang pun takpe. Rompak duit rakyat beratus juta tak salah kerana Polis, SPRM dan mahkamah takde bidang kuasa nak tangkap dan dakwa.

Undang-undang rimba yang ada hanya untuk rakyat yang berani menentang kerajaan. Pelbagai fitnah dan ugutan dilakukan terhadap sesiapa yang dilihat boleh mengancam kedudukan orang No.1.

Sebab itulah rumah peguam PI Bala ni kena pecah selepas temuramah di London dan Paris dibuat. Sebelum tu, insiden molotov cocktail dibaling kat rumah Manjeet selepas temuramah Bala dengan media Singapura.

Beberapa soalan boleh kita kemukakan di sini. Jika dakwaan Bala tidak benar ;

1- kenapa perlu hantar orang ugut peguamnya dengan molotov cokctail dan pecah masuk rumah untuk curi laptop?

2- apa perlunya Nazim (adik Najib) memujuk Bala agar menarik-balik Pengakuan Sumpah pertama, menawarkan RM5 juta, segera meninggalkan Malaysia dan mendiamkan diri terhadap kes pembunuhan Altantuya?

3- kenapa Nazim mengugut Bala dengan berkata "Kalau anda sayang keluarga anda, ikut saja arahan Deepak"?

4- mengapa Rosmah begitu senang hati hingga sanggup bersarapan pagi dengannya bila Bala setuju membatalkan Pengakuan Sumpah 1 dengan membuat Pengakuan Sumpah 2?

Kita semua ada akal yang sihat. So, fikirlah sendiri... Jangan jadi macam orang Melayu yang berfikir dengan menggunakan kepala lutut, bukan kepala otak.

Salam pagi Selasa - 0346

PRESS STATEMENT

I have just been informed that my house in Kuala Lumpur has been broken into and the main item targeted and removed is my laptop. I am flying back immediately from London to attend to this incident.

It is very revealing that this is the second incident targeted at my house proximate to my attending to PI Bala’s matters. I had Molotov cocktails thrown at my house after his Singapore interview and now after his London and Paris interviews I have had my house broken into and my laptop removed. It is telling that many other valuable items in the same room, including my wife’s jewelry, were left untouched.

I have serious concerns that attempts might be made by interested parties to interfere with the contents of my laptop and fabricate material.

I will release a further statement after I reach home and have had an opportunity to view the crime scene personally. I will lodge a police report after that.

Manjeet Singh Dhillon

London, 19 July 2010

Najib, Rosmah, Baginda, Deepak disebut Polis Peranchis

Penyiasat persendirian P.Balasubramaniam menghabiskan masa 3 jam suntuk bersama pihak Polis Peranchis pada Isnin lalu dan sepanjang sesi soal-jawab itu, nama Najib, Rosmah, Baginda, ASP Suresh, Deepak dan Diniesh disebut beberapa kali.

"Ada juga beberapa nama baru yang dimaksudkan oleh Bala. Saya tidak pasti samada dia akan dedahkan perkara itu dalam sidang media. Tapi memandangkan ianya menjadi tumpuan utama umum, kemungkinan peguamnya akan buat kenyataan malam ini atau esok," sumber yang rapat dengan penyiasatan itu memberitahu Malaysia Chronicle.

Nama yang dimaksudkan ialah PM Najib, isterinya Rosmah, kawan mereka Razak Baginda, pegawai Polis ASP Suresh, ahli perniagaan Deepak dan abangnya Dinesh.

Pemimpin Malaysia telah dituduh menerima rasuah berjumlah 114,000,000 Euro atau RM570 juta daripada syarikat gergasi pertahanan Peranchis DCNS atas pembelian 2 buah kapal selam Peranchis yang diluluskannya sewaktu menjadi Menteri Pertahanan.

Najib telah menafikan tuduhan itu tetapi dia memamfaatkan syarikat yang dimiliki oleh Razak Baginda dengan penyelarasan dan sokongan perkhidmatan kontrak bernilai RM570 juta.

ASP Suresh memang telah lama dikenali oleh Bala, sementara Deepak ialah rakan Rosmah. Ketika dia muncul setelah lebih setahun bersembunyi di hujung 2009, Bala berkata ASP Suresh dan Deepak adalah individu-individu yang memperkenalkannya pada adik PM Najib, Nazim.

Dalam pertemuan selama sejam selepas Bala menandatangani Pengakuan Bersumpahnya yang melibatkan Najib, Rosmah, Baginda dalam perjanjian pembelian kapal selam, juga dalam pembunuhan penterjemah warga Mongolia Altantuya Shaaribu, yang cuba mengugut Baginda agar membayar komisyen US500,000 yang dijanjikan kepadanya.

"Polis Peranchis mahu tahu apa yang berlaku kepada Bala selepas dia menghilang. Mereka juga mahu tahu kenapa dia melarikan diri dan siapa yang mengarahkannya meninggalkan Malaysia. Mereka mahu melihat dokumen bukti tentang pembayaran yang Bala kata telah terima daripada Deepak," kata sember.

RM5 juta Keluar Malaysia

Memang, pada November 2009 Bala telah mendedahkan bahawa Nazim telah menemuinya di showroom Volkswagon di gedung beli-belah The Curve di negeri Selangor pada 3 Julai 2008. Isteri Nazim yang sedang mengandung turut hadir sama, dia menceritakan.

Menurut Bala, Nazim telah menawarkannya RM5 juta untuk membatalkan Pengakuan Bersumpahnya, segera meninggalkan Malaysia dan mendiamkan diri terhadap kes itu. Bala juga menjelaskan bahawa Rosmah sangat senang hati bila dia bersetuju untuk menarik-balik Pengakuan Sumpah itu dan bersetuju untuk bersarapan pagi dengannya.

Setakat ini, kata Bala dia telah menerima wang RM750,000 dan ada menyimpan beberapa slip bank yang menunjukkan pemindahan RM50,000 ke akaunnya dalam setiap transaksi.

Bekas detektif SB, kehidupan Bala menjadi terumbang-ambing oleh kes pembunuhan Altantuya dan rasuah Scorpene. Minggu lalu pada jam 11 malam SPRM telah membatalkan pertemuan untuk merakam kenyataannya walaupun mereka telah bersetuju untuk melakukannya di sebuah tempat di London, di mana Bala telah berjanji akan melakukan yang terbaik bagi membantu siasatan.

Meskipun tindakan SPRM itu mencurigakan, Bala meneruskannya ke Peranchis, di mana dia telah ditemubual oleh pihak Polis Peranchis di Direction Centrale de la Police di Nanteree Prefecture. Pihak berkuasa Peranchis menyiasat kemungkinan berlakunya rasuah oleh DCNS dan beberapa ahli politik mereka sendiri. DCNS pembuat senjata tentera laut sememangnya dah terkenal dengan rekod rasuah sebagai satu cara untuk mendapatkan kontrak yang besar.

Badan hak asasi Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) turut mendorong pihak Peranchis melakukan siasatan dengan membuat laporan di Paris atas nama seluruh pembayar cukai Malaysia awal tahun ini. Pengarah SUARAM Cynthia Gabriel menjelaskan mereka telah didesak agar bertindak selepas Najib menolak untuk melancarkan sebarang siasatan terhadap segala dakwaan rasuah yang semakin banyak.

Faktor Nazim

Setakat ini, dua buah kapal selam telah pun berada dalam simpanan negara dengan kos RM6.7 bilion, dan walaupun Najib menegaskan kontrak RM570 juta itu diberikan kepada Baginda bukan sebagai komisyen, firma Baginda - Perimekar - tidak mempunyai sebarang pengalaman dan pengetahuan berhubung teknologi kapal selam.

Yang berkaitan dengan kapal selam ini ialah pembunuhan kejam Altantuya yang jelita berumur 28 tahun, yang ditembak di kepala dan badannya telah diletupkan dengan bahan letupan C-4 bagi mengelakkan pengenalan (penghapusan bukti). Dua orang pengawal peribadi Najib dan Rosmah telah dijatuhi hukuman gantung atas pembunuhan itu tetapi masih timbul spekulasi bahawa ada dalang yang terlibat dan mereka masih bebas.

Tapi pendedahan yang terbaru ialah tentang penglibatan Nazim, adik bongsu Najib, seorang arkitek, yang memaksa kerajaan Malaysia membuka semula siasatan selepas menenggelamkan kes itu ekoran 'kehilangan' Bala.

Dicabar dalam Parlimen untuk bertindak, SPRM telah bersumpah akan menyiasat kes yang kompleks ini sehingga ke akar umbi dan berusaha untuk mewancara Bala. Tapi suruhanjaya itu - tertakluk terus di bawah Perdana Menteri - mengejutkan seluruh rakyat dan pemerhati asing bila mengundurkan diri di saat akhir.

"Ianya memberikan gambaran buruk tentang undaag-undang dan tatacara di Malaysia. Jika SPRM boleh menarik diri daripada kes penting dan berprofil tinggi seperti ini, pastinya mereka telah menerima arahan daripada pihak yang paling berkuasa, dan yang sedihnya, kesemua petunjuk terarah kepada Najib sendiri," Tian memberitahu Malaysia Chronicle.

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Bala surfaces in London and Paris

WHEN something threatens to become public, and the people in power have no desire for you to know the details, an official investigation is arranged. This way, a good old-fashioned whitewash supported by selected facts is guaranteed. Meanwhile, the truth is obscured.

When private investigator P Balasubramaniam (Bala) discovered that his testimony as a witness in Altantuya's murder was not revealed, and evidence was suppressed by both the police and the prosecution, he felt it his public duty to make a statutory declaration (SD1).

He reasoned that if people were to judge truth from lies, in an objective manner, then access to the facts would be crucial. If the whole truth were not to be given during an official inquiry, the findings only amount to a whitewash that robs the public of their chance to determine what really transpired.

So when it appeared that Bala was not going to keep silent, behind-the-scenes activity resulted in Bala retracting his statutory declaration. The day after, he issued a sanitised version of SD1. This second statutory declaration (SD2) omitted all references to the deputy prime minister and defence minister at the time, Najib Abdul Razak.

Did Bala receive RM5 million?

Interestingly, one of the people who 'persuaded' Bala to release SD2 was the younger brother of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who during a meeting near The Curve in Damansara said, "If you love your family, just follow what Deepak (Jaikishan) tells you to do."

Deepak is a carpet salesman and a good friend of Malaysia's "First Lady".

Another extraordinary point was that when Deepak promised Bala RM5 million to guarantee both his family's safety and his silence, it is also alleged that ASP Suresh, who was to facilitate matters for Bala, was offered RM4-million to act as the middleman.

The press conference in London, on 7th July 2010, held by Bala and his team of lawyers, was supposed to be a platform to discuss issues raised during a scheduled interview of Bala by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). When the MACC cancelled at the last minute, their non-appearance generated more questions than answers.

According to the lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon, "What we intended to do if MACC had turned up in London, was for Balasubramaniam to highlight a whole series of events surrounding this Altantuya matter that pointed to the centre of a conspiracy web. A conspiracy at the very highest level to keep out all references to Najib."

Bala's interview with the MACC, which was to have taken place on 5 and 6 July 2010, would have focused on the two SDs and the payment made to Bala to withdraw SD1.

Bala believes his former client, Abdul Razak Baginda, to be innocent of Altantuya's murder. He said, "Abdul Razak Baginda is a scapegoat. He has got nothing to do with the murder. Yes, he was financing her and he had a relationship with her, but as far as I am concerned, he is innocent. In fact, my testimony in court saved him".

He reasoned that if Abdul Razak Baginda hired him until 26 October, 2006, then he can't have known that Shariibuu would be murdered on the night of 19 October 2006.

This is a naïve assumption. What if Abdul Razak Baginda is smarter than we imagine? What is a week's fees if all semblance of innocence can be preserved? That would be the perfect cover and a good decoy. Bala says that Abdul Razak Baginda is a coward and that he lied in his (Baginda's) earlier press conference, soon after his release.

Never mix business with pleasure

Abdul Razak Baginda may have his own reasons for wanting Altantuya eliminated.

If Baginda and his puppet-masters had only paid Altantuya a fraction of what she was promised, it is possible that she would have gone away and none of the Scorpene scandal would have surfaced.

Greed got the better of them and they probably reneged on the deal.

The common themes which seem to drive this sorry saga are greed and sloppy methods. If there is another lesson to be learnt, it is never to mix business with pleasure.

It was reported that Altantuya spoke Russian, Chinese, Japanese and English. There was no reference to fluency in French. How was she assisting Abdul Razak Baginda in the translations? Was he a tight-wad who wanted a translator, on the cheap, who could also double-up as his 'arm-candy'?

Was she an accredited technical translator? The terminology used in hydraulics, electrical systems and chemical exchanges would mystify many ordinary translators.

Altantuya was allegedly promised a commission amounting to US$500,000 for her translating services. Was this the original arrangement or promised by Abdul Razak Baginda in the throes of passion?

Did Altantuya discover, in one of their trysts, that Abdul Razak Baginda's company, Perimekar, would net €114 million in a €1 billion (RM4.5 billion) contract? Did she get too greedy and demand more money?

Taxi driver demanded fare

On the evening of 19 October 2006, Altantuya, her cousin Amy and a friend, went to Abdul Razak Baginda's house by taxi. Two of the girls crossed the road to wait for Altantuya to finalise her business with Baginda, to settle her commission.

When Altantuya was bundled into the red Proton, the taxi-driver rushed after her demanding his RM100 fare. But for his insistence at being paid, we would never have been privy to her murder.

Chief inspector Azilah Hadri was one of Najib's bodyguards who would later be sentenced to death for Altantuya's murder. He was at the scene and only paid the taxi-driver RM50. If he had paid in full, we would never have known the details of the events leading to Altantuya's death.

With Altantuya missing, her two cousins lodged a complaint at the nearest Mongolian embassy, in Bangkok. Amy's testimony forced the taxi-driver who was underpaid, to make a police report at the Tun HS Lee police station. His testimony helped.

If Amy had not been persistent in her search for her cousin, Altantuya's disappearance would have sunk without trace.

Without the evidence of the taxi-driver, to back up Amy's story, Altantuya's abduction may never have surfaced.

This case is just like the submarines purchased by Najib and Abdul Razak Baginda – they have a nasty habit of keeping afloat.

by Mariam Mokhtar - malaysianmirror

Pembelian kapal selam : Bala dipanggil Polis Perancis

Penyiasat Persendirian, Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal telah menerima panggilan rasmi daripada polis Perancis untuk memberi keterangan berhubung kes pengambilan komisen dalam pembelian kapal selam oleh Malaysia daripada Perancis, menurut sumber maklumat yang enggan didedahkan nama.

Saksi penting dalam perbicaraan kes pembunuhan Altantuya Shaariibuu yang kini melarikan diri ke London ini, akan bertolak ke Paris pada hujung minggu ini, diiringi peguamnya Manjeet Singh Dhillon. Balasubramaniam (gambar kanan) yang telah bersetuju untuk bekerjasama dengan pihak pendakwaraya Perancis, akan diambil keterangan oleh polis pada jam 2 petang (waktu Perancis) di Direction Centrale de la Police (DNIF), Nanterre Prefecture.

Sebagaimana yang diketahui, polis Perancis berminat untuk mengetahui maklumat dalaman yang diketahui Balasubramaniam, dalam kes pembelian kapal selam oleh kerajaan Malaysia daripada Perancis. Balasubramaniam akan menjadi saksi utama polis Perancis.

Pendakwaraya yang bertanggungjawab untuk menyiasat pembelian kapal selam oleh Malaysia ini telah mengarahkan satu serbuan polis ke pejabat DCNS, pembuat kapal selam pada bulan lalu. Polis telah bersedia untuk menyiasat siapakah penerima komisen dalam pembelian ini.

Menurut sumber maklumat, mereka daripada bidang perundangan di Perancis cenderung untuk mempercayai bahawa penerima komisen ini melibatkan ahli politik peringkat tinggi di Malaysia dan Perancis. Selama ini, nama DCNS kurang positif, malah sedang berdepan dengan siasatan dalam kes pembelian senjata oleh Taiwan dan Pakistan.

Malah, penjual-belian peralatan pertahanan antara DCNS dengan Taiwan dan Pakistan telah melibatkan kes pembunuhan. Antaranya, pendakwaraya Perancis mengesyaki satu kes peletupan yang meragut nyawa 11 orang jurutera kapal selam pada tahun 2002, mungkin merupakan dendam yang dibalas kerana Perancis mungkir janji untuk membayar komisen kepada pegawai tentera Pakistan yang bernilai jutaan dolar Amerika.

Siasatan bermula Mac 2009

Perancis memulakan siasatan pembelian kapal selam yang ada hubung kaitnya dengan kes pembunuhan wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibuu sejak akhir Mac 2009. Badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia, SUARAM (Suara Rakyat Malaysia) telah memfailkan kes pada Mac 2010 di mahkamah Perancis, untuk menyiasat sama ada kontrak pembelian Scorpene dan Agosta ini melibatkan rasuah.

Pada 28 April, peguam SUARAM Joseph Breham berkata, kes ini berada dalam peringkat inkues (inquest), malah yakin bahawa sistem kehakiman Perancis yang bebas mampu menahan tekanan luar.

Perdana Menteri Najib Razak pernah mengeluarkan kenyataan di parlimen bahawa kerajaan Malaysia tidak memberi komisen kepada syarikat Perimekar. Tetapi, syarikat Perimekar dikatakan menerima 114 juta Euro Dollar, atau RM 500 juta sebagai bayaran "penyelarasan dan perkhidmatan" untuk kapal selam Scorpene dan Agosta daripada DCNS.

Institusi kehakiman Perancis berkuasa untuk menyiasat kes yang berunsur rasuah ini kerana DCNS adalah syarikat Perancis.

Kes ini disiasat kerana beberapa perkara. Antaranya, syarikat Perimekar ditubuhkan pada tahun 2001, iaitu beberapa bulan sebelum kontrak pembelian kapal selam ini ditandatangani. Dengan kata lain, syarikat ini tidak mempunyai pengalaman dalam urus niaga kapal selam. Pemegang saham syarikat ini adalah bekas tink-tank Najib, iaitu Abdul Razak Baginda (gambar kanan, kiri) dan isterinya Mazlinda Makhzan (gambar kanan, wanita di tengah).

Perimekar adalah anak syarikat yang dimiliki sepenuhnya oleh KS Ombak Laut Sdn Bhd, yang dikuasai Abdul Razak Baginda dengan isterinya sebagai pemegang saham terbesar.

Baru-baru ini, Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) membatalkan lawatannya ke London untuk mengambil keterangan Balasubramaniam, atas alasan masalah perundangan. Soalan bertulis yang ingin diajukan kepada Balasubramaniam diserahkan kepada peguamnya melalui kiriman pos laju.

Balasubramaniam pernah mendedahkan bahawa kos perbelanjaan hidupnya ditanggung oleh Deepak, peniaga carpet yang dituduh berkenalan dengan Rosmah Mansor, isteri kepada Najib Razak.

Latar belakang: Bala dedah ditawar RM5 juta

oleh Chen Shaua Fui - MerdekaReview

Pelik kenapa Najib takut 'Altantuya'?

Sewaktu kempen sedang berjalan rancak di PRK Bukit Gantang tahun lalu, saya sempatlah juga berada di sana bersama sahabat. Antara banyak banner yang dipasang oleh parti-parti politik, terselit satu banner ada lambang Polis dan SPR yang tertera "Dilarang menyentuh isu Altantuya sebagai bahan kempen."

Adalah amat mudah untuk difahami apakah maksud banner ini. Punyalah takut UMNO/BN sehingga terpaksa Polis/SPR tempah satu banner khas. Kalau benar Najib tidak terlibat dalam pembunuhan Altantuya, apa perlunya dia takut tak memasal.

Bila isu Altantuya dilarang keras untuk dijadikan bahan kempen, bermakna pihak yang menyediakan banner itu tanpa sedar mengiyakan dakwaan pihak tertentu tentang penglibatan Najib dan Rosmah dalam pembunuhan kejam itu. Namun banner tersebut tidak lama dipasang. Mungkin pihak yang memasangnya sedar tindakan bodoh mereka itu sebenarnya membuka pekong "big boss" mereka.

Walaupun Najib pernah bersumpah dengan Al-Qur'an untuk menafikan hubungannya dengan Altantuya namun kemunafiqannya sudah tidak boleh disorok lagi. Kawan baiknya sendiri Abdul Razak Baginda mengadu pada PI Bala tentang perkara berikut;

1- Najib yang memperkenalkan Altantuya kepadanya dalam satu pameran berlian di Singapura.

2- Najib mengakui memang ada melakukan hubungan seks dengan Altantuya.

3- Najib meminta beliau menjaga Altantuya dan sediakan segala keperluannya kerana bimbang kedudukannya sebagai TPM tergugat dan tiada peluang untuk jadi PM.

Ironisnya, kenapa adik Najib sendiri Nazim dan Deepak Jaikishan (kroni Rosmah) pergi menemui PI Bala dengan niat memujuk, mengugut, memaksa dan menawarkannya RM5 juta untuk membuat Pengakuan Sumpah 2 (PS2) bagi membatalkan Pengakuan Sumpah 1 (PS1) dalam tempoh tak sampai 24 jam selepas SP1 ditandatangai.

Apakah erti semuanya ini???

Kita kena sedar kes pembunuhan Altantuya ini merupakan klimaks betapa dahsyatnya penyalahgunaan kuasa, penyelewengan, rasuah dan bobroknya sistem keadilan dalam negara.

Peguam Negara, Polis dan mahkamah digunakan untuk 'membersihakan' nama orang yang berkuasa walaupun memang terlibat dengan jenayah berat sekalipun.

Memang benar takde siapa yang nampak sapa yang dok tembak Altantuya, kemudian letupkan jasadnya dengan C4 hingga berkecai. Dan memanglah mana ada penjenayah dalam dunia ini yang bunuh orang secara terang-terangan. Namun akhirnya tertangkap juga ekoran penyiasatan rapi pihak CSI serta dibantu dengan teknologi terkini termasuk ujian DNA.

Dan begitulah juga dalam kes Altantuya. Malangnya kes Altantuya ini membabitkan orang No.2 negara pada ketika itu sebelum naik No.1 hari ini. Seperti biasa Polis sudah menerima 'skrip' dalam menjalankan siasatan tersebut.

Oleh kerana undang-undang negara ini hanya memberi keadilan kepada golongan atasan saja, maka terjadilah beberapa tindakan Polis yang meloyakan kita. Orang yang membuat Pengakuan Bersumpah pulak yang ditahan, didakwa dan disiasat walhal niat mereka mahu membantu siasatan Polis dalam kes ini.

Kalau benar Polis dan SPRM menjalankan tugas secara profesional, mengapa tak tahan dan siasat Nazim (adik Najib) dan Deepak (kroni Rosmah) yang mengugut dan memaksa PI Bala membuat PS2 bagi membatalkan PS1-nya. Mereka juga menjanjikan RM5 juta kepada Bala.

Pihak Polis dan SPRM tak usah 'berlakon' di depan rakyatlah... Majoriti rakyat sudah semakin cerdik dan tahu menilai serta kenal benar dengan Polis dan SPRM. Rakyat juga tidak pernah lupa dengan konspirasi politik 1998 hingga DSAI meringkuk dalam penjara selama 6 tahun tanpa bersalah.

Ya, memang benar sekarang Najib dan Rosmah bebas melakukan apa saja demi kuasa rakus mereka. Sementara kedudukan No.1 negara masih dalam genggaman, maka bolehlah memperhambakan Peguam Negara, Polis dan SPRM untuk menyembunyikan segala perbuatan jenayah dan rasuah mereka.

Walau pada zahirnya pasangan iblis ini nampak ceria setiap kali muncul di khalayak umum, namun percayalah mereka berdua sentiasa berada dalam ketakutan dibayangi oleh Altantuya 24 jam sehari. Dan yang paling ditakutinya ialah kehilangan kuasa.

Ketakutan ini semakin kronik bila PI Bala melakukan 'counter-attack' dari London. Ditambah pulak siasatan pihak berkuasa Peranchis berhubung skandal rasuah Scorpene.

Mungkin percaturan Najib Rosmah bahawa isu Altantuya ini dah selesai bila Mahkamah Tinggi mendapati 2 anggota Polis (Azilah Hadri dan Sirul Azhar) bersalah membunuh Altantuya dan dijatuhi hukuman mati.

Walau mahkamah dan menjatuhi hukuman mati terhadap mereka berdua, namun rakyat merasakan 2 anggota Polis ini adalah mangsa kambing hitam untuk menyelamatkan orang di koridor kuasa. Cara perbicaraan dijalankan menimbulkan kesangsian umum. Hakim bertindak macam pendakwa.

Waima apa pun, tunggulah rakyat membuat keputusan dalam PRU13 nanti. Kita akan pastikan seluruh penjenayah, penyangak dan penyamun VVIP yang bermaharajalela sekarang ini akan dibawa ke muka pengadilan untuk diadili dalam mahkamah rakyat.

Segala kekayaan mereka hasil daripada rompakan harta negara dan rakyat akan kita rampas kembali dan pulangkan kepada perbendaharaan.

Sejarah membuktikan mana-mana pemimpin zalim dan menindas rakyat pasti akan jatuh dalam keadaan hina. Saddat, Saddam, Kamal Ataturk, Shah Iran, Taksin dan ramai lagi, semuanya jatuh dengan kuasa rakyat.

Kalau kita sayangkan negara dan masa depan anak cucu kita, lakukanlah perubahan dalam PRU13 kelak.

"Rakyat bijak, negara selamat"

Mesti Baca! - SPRM barua dan pembohong !

Pada 7 Julai, Bala bersama 3 orang peguamnya telah mengadakan sidang akhbar di Holiday Villa London bagi menjelaskan kedudukan sebenar bagaimana dan mengapa dengan tiba-tiba saja SPRM sendiri membatalkan pertemuan mereka dengan Bala di Holiday Villa London walhal persetujuan telah dicapai. Rakyat boleh menilai sendiri bagaimana SPRM yang kononnya bebas namun hakikatnya suruhanjaya ini dah jadi barua orang yang berada di Putrajaya.

What the PI Bala PC revealed, but was not reported by the media

Americk kicked off the press conference by telling the assembly that this whole thing started when the PKR Youth leader, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, lodged a report with Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission or MACC soon after private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s video interview was released on Youtube (see below).

MACC’s response to Shamsul Iskandar’s report was that they would like to meet Bala to record his statement. However, MACC does not know how to get in touch with Bala so they would like to seek the assistance of Shamsul Iskandar in contacting him (Bala).

On reading this statement by MACC, Americk sent MACC an e-mail to inform them that he is the lawyer acting on behalf of Bala and if they need to meet him (Bala) to record his statement then he (Americk) would help arrange it.

MACC replied by saying that they are not prepared to deal though an ‘unofficial’ e-mail and that all communications must be by way of official letter only. Americk then wrote an official letter offering to arrange the meeting between Bala and MACC so that they could record his statement.

Many months were spent haggling over the venue, date and terms of the meeting. Finally, after ding-donging to-and-fro, it was agreed that the meeting between Bala and MACC would be held in the Holiday Villa in London on the 5th and 6th July 2010. MACC said that they would like to make the arrangements for the meeting room in the Holiday Villa London.

However, no booking was made for any meeting room in the Holiday Villa London. Americk then wrote to the Holiday Villa to make the booking on behalf of the MACC and he also told the MACC this. Meanwhile, the lawyers and Bala had already made flight arrangements and hotel bookings so that they could be present in London at least a couple of days before the meeting with MACC on 5th July.

On Thursday, MACC sent Americk an e-mail saying that they would not be coming after all. This was after they had confirmed they would be coming. In fact, they even told the mainstream media that not only would three officers be sent to London but that Bala’s lawyers could be present in the meeting as well.

The problem was, by then, most had already arrived in London and those who were yet to arrive were already in the plane on the way to London. And the reason MACC gave for aborting the meeting was that they could not record a witness’s statement outside Malaysia, as it would not be admissible in court.

As what Manjeet told the assembly, not only is this not true, but in fact there is a provision in the Act that specifically states MACC can record statements of witnesses outside Malaysia. Furthermore, MACC would have surely done their research before asking to meet Bala, knowing that the meeting was going to be held outside Malaysia.

Bala’s lawyers could not accept this excuse as a legitimate reason for aborting the meeting. What MACC said is not true. In fact, it is opposite to what MACC said. And did not MACC go to a few countries to record statements of witnesses in the Eric Chia-Perwaja corruption case? Furthermore, added Manjeet, MACC is assuming that Bala would not be prepared to go back to Malaysia to testify in court had the need arisen.

If MACC takes action and charges the ‘right persons’ in court, said Manjeet, certainly Bala would be prepared to testify in court as to what he told MACC on the 5th and 6th July 2010. He would stand by his story and testify in court to support what he told MACC in his meeting with them in London.

Bala’s lawyers are of the opinion that MACC has missed a golden opportunity to get to the bottom of the Statutory Declaration that he signed and the ‘u-turn’ he did barely a day later in what has now been dubbed as SD1 and SD2.

When Bala signed his first SD, it took him two months to prepare it. The following day he held a press conference to inform the world about this SD. Less than 24 hours later, he signed a second SD that contradicted what he had said in his first SD. A few hours later, he and his family disappeared. His nephew subsequently made a police report about the disappearance of Bala and his entire family.

And this was supposed to be the focus of MACC’s meeting with Bala on the 5th and 6th July 2010. MACC was not interested in the Altantuya murder or who may be behind the murder or whether she was having an affair with certain Malaysian personalities or about bribery involving the purchase of submarines or whatever. MACC wanted clarification from Bala as to his allegation that immediately after signing the first SD he was paid money to come out with a second SD to contradict his first SD.

So it was a very specific issue. It was to focus merely on the allegation that after he signed his first SD some parties paid him money to sign a second SD to contradict his first SD. This was merely an investigation into a crime of corruption committed by certain individuals.

Actually, under Malaysian law, corruption is more than just about money. If you can remember, Anwar Ibrahim was arrested, charged, put on trial and found guilty of corruption although it did not involve any money. His so-called ‘corrupt act’ was in allegedly abusing his power to get a witness to withdraw a certain allegation against him.

Therefore, in Bala’s case, whether money was involved or not is one issue. Even if no money was involved and even if only what the guilty parties did was to persuade, cajole, threaten, etc., Bala to sign the SD2 to cancel the SD1, that would also be corruption. And in Bala’s case they used threats plus money to force him to sign the SD2 so that the SD1 could be ‘neutralised’.

Of course, MACC’s focus should have been wider than that. But even if they narrowed the focus to Bala’s allegation that after he signed SD1 certain parties abused their power to threaten him and bribe him to sign the SD2, that in itself would be a good start. And we must remember, Bala alleged that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s brother together with Deepak Jaikishan, Rosmah’s business partner, were the two parties who threatened and bribed him. And, to assure Bala that this came from the highest office in the land, they offered to arrange breakfast between Bala and Rosmah Mansor, the Prime Minister’s wife, now given the official title of First Lady of Malaysia, although she is actually Najib’s second rather than first wife.

Bala said he was promised RM5 million but received only RM750,000. And to support this allegation he had prepared copies of his bank statement, pay-in slips, etc., which he was going to hand over to MACC on 5th-6th July. None of the members of the media who attended the press conference on 7th July 2010 asked to see these copies. I would have imagined they would have all been curious to see whether Bala’s allegation that Deepak Jaikishan had paid him RM750,000 could be proven or not.

I saw the copies of these documents and what I saw certainly supports the allegation that Deepak had paid Bala RM750,000. The dates and amounts reconcile with what Bala alleges. No one else, however, was concerned with the evidence. And considering that MACC’s focus and the statement they wanted to record from Bala centers on the allegation that he was bribed plus threatened to sign the SD2 to cancel the SD1, then the key to the entire issue would be whether Bala has any evidence that Deepak paid him RM750,000 and if he did then for what purpose and on whose instructions.

Everyone shouts about wanting to see the ‘smoking gun’. They want to see hard evidence that there is more than meets the eye and that the two police officers found guilty of Altantuya’s murder had acted on instructions from certain forces in the corridors of power. This smoking gun does exist. But it does not exist in the literal sense. It exists in the form of certain evidence and documents that all leads to the door of those who walk in the corridors of power.

It is unfortunate that MACC called off the meeting which, as Americk said, was a golden opportunity for them to get to the truth. It was equally unfortunate that the media did not demand that Bala prove his allegation that he was threatened and bribed into signing his SD2 with the purpose of contradicting his SD1. He did have the proof. But, somehow, no one wanted to look at it.

Americk told the assembly that MACC cancelled the meeting by sending him an e-mail. At the beginning of this whole thing, MACC had said that they do not deal through e-mails. All communications must be by way of letter to make it official. If by e-mail then at best the communication would be regarded as unofficial.

But then, when MACC cancelled the meeting, they did not send any letter. They sent Americk an e-mail. By MACC’s own standards, this would make the cancellation of the meeting as unofficial. Why did MACC not dare send Americk a letter to officially cancel the meeting? Why unofficially cancel it by sending an e-mail?

This was one more point raised by Americk. MACC had always demanded that all communications must be in writing and must be by way of official letter. Then, when they cancel the meeting, no longer need it be official and by way of letter. A simple and ‘unofficial’ e-mail would do just fine.

After cancelling the meeting, MACC sends Americk a letter asking that Bala reply to a few questions. The letter is marked RAHSIA, which means it can’t be revealed to the public.

Now, there are two things wrong here. First, if Bala’s statement can’t be recorded outside Malaysia because, as the MACC said, it would not be valid, how then can Bala’s reply to their questions be valid since he is replying also from outside Malaysia? Whether the MACC officers come personally to London to meet Bala to record his statement or whether they send a letter to London with a list of questions for him to reply to, would not the same thing apply -- that is, both are done outside Malaysia (in London)?

Secondly, the letter is marked RAHSIA. That means if you are in possession of a copy of this letter in Malaysia then you are guilty of a crime. But since MACC sent his letter to London and since, in the UK, Malaysia’s laws do not apply, then there is nothing to stop Bala or his lawyers from circulating copies to the media.

Furthermore, only the letter is marked RAHSIA. Bala’s reply to the questions in the letter is not marked RAHSIA. So there is nothing to stop the media from publishing Bala’s replies even though they may not be prepared to publish the questions lest they fall foul of the Malaysian government.

Americk told the assembly that he is halfway through preparing Bala’s replies and he held it up for everyone to see. No one asked to be allowed to look at it though. They did not appear interested to know what MACC was asking and what Bala’s replies to these questions are.

Bala and his three lawyers said many other things during the press conference. Some were just reiterating what he had already said before and some were new information. The new information that could be considered interesting is that not only are the two police officers who murdered Altantuya linked to the Prime Minister’s office, but in addition to Musa Safri, Najib’s ADC, we now have Nasir Safar, Najib’s personal assistant, who was at the scene when they picked up Altantuya in front of Razak Baginda’s house.

The point Manjeet was making is that it now looks like all those who are somehow involved in Altantuya’s murder work for Najib. We have his police bodyguards, his ADC, his personal assistant, and his best friend and adviser. Can it be mere coincidental that all these five people who are linked to Altantuya’s murder all work for Najib?

Bala’s lawyers also pointed out that the police detained Bala for 14 days under a section of the law that is used for those suspected of murder. This means Bala was a murder suspect and was being remanded for a murder investigation.

However, earlier, the Attorney General announced that only three people are involved. So, if Bala was being remanded for suspicion of murder then it can’t be only three people who are involved because Bala would be the fourth person.

Why announce that only three people were involved in Altantuya’s murder and then detain Bala for suspicion of murder? Was this to frighten Bala so that he would cooperate and agree to whatever the police wanted?

Bala’s lawyers told the assembly that the police recorded Bala’s statement no less than five times. They took five statements from Bala over the period of the investigation. The police then edited Bala’s statement and made him sign the edited statement.

This is illegal. The police are not supposed to edit your statement. Worse, they are not supposed to force you to sign a statement that the police drafted and which is not what you actually said.

But Bala was facing a charge of murder. At least that was what he was being remanded under. So, if he wants to be set free and allowed to go home then he has to agree into signing this edited statement although that was not his statement but what the police conjured.

When Bala signed his first SD, it was consistent to his statement to the police. In other words, what he signed in his SD1 is exactly what he had told the police. The police already knew what Bala had signed in his SD1 because Bala had already told them exactly the same thing.

This was just some of what was revealed in the press conference yesterday and which the newspapers and online portals do not seem to want to report. Why they would rather keep silent on all these issues and instead just report that Bala said Razak Baginda is not guilty of murder is beyond me. For all intents and purposes, that was merely Bala’s personal view or suspicion and was not what the press conference was all about.

The main focus of the press conference is that Bala was prepared to have his statement recorded by MACC, and that he would have offered them evidence that what he signed in his SD1 is true, and that this is exactly what he had told the police, and that he was threatened and bribed into signing the SD2, and that he can support this allegation with documents.

This was lost to the media people who attended the press conference yesterday.

The PI Bala interview on Youtube

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX0l1V_Ms4

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZdiTk48400

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tVzHDuyzyE

by Raja Petra Kamaruddin - MalaysiaToday