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Najib introduced Altantuya to Baginda!!!???
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Wow! Explosive!
11.34 Bangkok time – Anwar Ibrahim tells the media not to “censor” the name of the high profile minister mentioned in the press conference. (More inside!!!).
(About 11am, Bangkok time) Anwar Ibrahim’s press conference today revealed that Najib Tun Razak had introduced “Amina” a.k.a Altantuya Shariibuu to Abdul Razak Baginda at a diamond exhibition in Singapore.
All these were revealed by a private investigator named Balasubramaniam Perumal who appeared in the Altantuya trials.
He fears for his safety and has revealed the details only now because the Prosecution is wrapping up the case. Bala has also made a statutory declaration on 1 July and he was accompanied by his lawyer Americk Singh.
He says that he told the police all that he knew including everything Razak Baginda and Altantuya had told him about their relationships with Najib. These details were omitted from the statement he was asked to sign, after he was interrogated by Bukit Aman for seven consecutive days.
He was present at the press conference and was teary-eyed.
Najib had also told Baginda that he had sexual intercourse with Altantuya.
Najib asked Baginda to “take care” of Altantuya as he did not want her to harass him since he was now the deputy prime minister.
Wow! There is more…
Najib, Baginda and Altantuya had been in a dinner together in Paris.
Altantuya wanted money from Baginda as she said she was entitled to a 500,000USD commission out of the submarine deal in Paris.
When Razak Baginda was arrested, Balasubramaniam was told by him that he had sent an SMS messsage to Najib the evening before (Paragraph 51). Razak also informed Balasubramaniam that he had received an SMS from Najib and showed it to him; the message read “I am seeing IGP at 11 A.M. today …. matter will be solved … be cool”.
See press statement here.
During the press conference, Anwar saaid that the allegations revealed by him raised key questions of public interest: (and wouldn’t you totally agree with him!)
a) Suppression of evidence by the police investigating officers and those responsible for prosecuting this case. Such suppression could only have happened with the full knowledge of top public officials such as the
IGP and the AG.
b) The question is also raised as to whether such suppression of evidence was the reason behind the last minute switch in DPP’s handling the case – where the head of the Criminal Division of the AG’s Chambers, Datuk Yusuf Zainal Abiden was completely sidelined from the case leading him and the senior DPP originally slotted for the case Sallehudin Saidin to put in papers for early retirement some months later.
c) Questions can be raised now with regard to the sudden switching of the judge fixed to hear the case which took place in March 2007 – why was this really done?
d) Did Datuk Seri Najib lie when he said that he had never met Altantuya before?
e) Did Datuk Seri Najib lie when he said that he was not involved in any commission deals for the purchases of the Scorpene submarines”
Mr.Balasubramaniam’s evidence vindicate what we have been saying all along; there has been no proper investigation of the murder of Altantuya and the investigation and proceedings in court seem to following a pre-arranged script for a pre-arranged outcome.
This has serious implications for the administration of justice in the country where the integrity and credibility of our key institutions such as the police, the AG’s chambers and the judiciary are already severely tarnished.
Today’s revelations further confirm a clear and consistent pattern of manipulation of the criminal justice system that we have witnessed in this country since 1998.
The allegations revealed here warrant a full Royal Commission of Inquiry.
