The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang wants Datuk Seri Najib Razak to guarantee the safety of P. Balasubramaniam to return home, following the latest allegation by the private investigator that he had met Najib’s brother Nazim as part of the deal to leave the country and retract accusations linking the prime minister with the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.
“There is no other option for Najib to ensure national and international legitimacy as Malaysian Prime Minister, following the five-part publication of Balasubramaniam’s interview,” Lim said in a statement today.
In the latest installment today of an interview with Balasubramaniam carried in fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin’s Malaysia-Today.net, the private investigator claimed he had met Nazim, who is the younger brother of Najib, last year.
Balasubramaniam claimed the meeting had been arranged by the mysterious businessman, Deepak Jaikishan, whom the investigator claimed was a close associate of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the PM’s wife.
So far, the private investigator has also claimed returning three times to Malaysia this year since fleeing in July 2008 after issuing contradictory statutory declarations that linked Najib Razak to the murdered Mongolian.
The former policeman claimed he stayed in Nepal and India while being on the run from authorities but managed to sneak into Malaysia without using his passport through the Thai-Malaysia border.
He also claimed he only recited what he was told to say to the police in his Bangkok statement when asked which statutory declaration (SD) was the truth.
In today’s installment, Balasubramaniam said he had only been paid RM750,000 of the RM5 million promised to him for leaving the country.
“Left contradicted and unchallenged, Balasubramaniam’s latest five-part interview will stand as an indictment not only on the prime minister, but the system of government as well as all key institutions in Malaysia,” said the DAP’s Lim today.
The Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan had on Wednesday appealed for information on Balasubramaniam’s whereabouts despite the private detective claiming he gave a statement to the police in July 2008.
Yesterday, PKR MPs had slammed the government in Parliament for saying they did not know the whereabouts of the private investigator.
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This 1Malaysia liar or Najis C4 can only guarantee that Bala somehow committed suicide after coming back !
It was obvious that Bala was forced to retract his 1st SD and forced to leave the country under extreme fear and threats.
The issue of Bala claiming that Deepak did not fulfill his part of the bargain might only be important to Bala himself. What's important to us is the truth and the people involved in Altantuya's murder. Whether the main motivation for Bala's reappearance is to reveal the truth or for money, only he himself knows. But I would venture to say that if the main motivation was money, Bala would more easily have gotten his without the need to come to this extent of re-exposing the most powerful family in Malaysia. Other than for exposing the truth, I don't think anyone would dare to go to this extent of openly blackmailing this family for money.
Like LKS says, Najib has to guarantee Bala's safety and, may I add, face these incriminating accusations head-on to ensure national and international legitimacy as Malaysian Prime Minister. Disallowing proper investigations and avoiding this national and international issue is not the hallmark of a leader. It connotes unworthiness and distrust.
"The truth hurts and the truth will always prevail. And the truth of what's to come will not go away."
The only sensible recourse is for Najib to go on national TV and confess that he has been lying all the while. He must apologize to the nation for having brought dishonor and disrepute upon all of us. Then, to avoid being charged with corruption, abuse of power and complicity in first-degree murder, he must return to the nation 90% of his ill-gotten gains, resign from politics, and enter into voluntary exile from Malaysia for at least 10 years. Either that or him and his wife must face the hangman or a life sentence. Fair's fair. You've had a damn good run and the tide has turned. There is no escape the court of public opinion - nationally as well as internationally. No decent Malaysian can tolerate having a man of such dubious character lead the nation.
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