... you can do your own Agatha Christie's or Sherlock Holmes' trailbustling followuo eh!; I will stick to my newshound -- not from Baskervilles! -- forte:)--YL
From freemalaysiatoday.com...
Report: Bala links Najib’s family member to Altantuya cover-up
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
National
More damning details implying the involvement of a family member of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak have begun to emerge in private investigator P.Balasubramaniam’s allegations of a cover-up in the Altantuya muder.
The allegations included blackmail and threats made against Bala, his wife and children, to force him into withdrawing his first statutory declaration and sign a second statutory declaration which he never read.
Immediately after the second declaration was released to the media on July 4, Bala claimed arrangements were made for him and his family to flee Malaysia and they were forced into hiding until Najib was sworn in as Prime Minister in April.
Such details of the threats by the VVIP and the already reported RM5 million bribe, along with the involvement of military intelligence in keeping Bala’s home under surveillance has added more intrigue – and speculation – about the gruesome murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.
In its latest edition of Suara Keadilan, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat newspaper, reported on the alleged involvement of Najib’s family member and a carpet businessman named Deepak in forcing Bala and his family to go into hiding in Singapore, Bangkok and Kathmandu before ending up in India.
That, along with more other details of Bala’s 15 month ordeal of living as a fugitive, are expected to surface in the coming days as the opposition parties call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
Suara Keadilan cited Bala as saying that he was forced to retract his first statutory declaration of an alleged links between Najib and Altantuya who had a sexual relationship with Najib’s adviser Abdul Razak Baginda.
Razak Baginda has also confessed in an affidavit that Altantuya was his lover while Najib denies knowing the Mongolian model.
Suara Keadilan cited Bala as saying that that the member of Najib’s household teamed up with carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishan in using a carrot and stick approach to “persuade” him into withdrawing the first statutory declaration.
Deepak, who is said to be associated to Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, allegedly offered the private investigator RM5million to retract the statutory declaration, according to Suara Keadilan which obtained a transcript of the interview.
Deepak then ordered Bala to be brought to see a “Datuk” on the same day he made public his first statutory declaration, according to the newspaper.
Bala, a former Special Branch officer, identified the Datuk as a family member of the Prime Minister.
According to Bala, the first statutory declaration, in which he claimed that Najib had a relationship with the Mongolian model, was true.
But Bala withdrew it and signed a second declaration after he was taken to see the Datuk at the Curve in Damansara on July 3 2008 when he was told by the VVIP to “follow Deepak instructions if he (Bala) loves his family,” Suara Keadilan reported.
Bala said the specific instruction to him was to withdraw the first July 3 statutory declaration and leave Malaysia immediately.
Hours after that meeting, Bala signed a second statutory declaration which was prepared for him and later issued to the media.
He and his family were then taken by road to Singapore before being flown to Thailand and and Nepal and eventually landed in India where he has been hiding.
Suara Keadilan reported that Bala gave the startling account of the alleged threats made by Najib’s family member in which he concluded saying: “As a family man, I want to have a normal life. I want to put a stop to all this. ”
In the course of their numerous conversations, Bala said Deepak had related to him how he came to know Rosmah and had even offered to arrange a breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister’s wife.
Although Najib’s smooth ascension to power took place as scheduled in April this year, Bala saw little to suggest that he would be allowed to return to Malaysia to lead a normal life with his family, according to the Suara Keadilan report.
Part 2 of PI Bala’s interview-- Please surf to malaysia-today.net-lah, yopur lazey, hazey BUMmer like Desi -- YL:)
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