Bala Demands Attorney General Probe Into Documents Linking Murder to PM

Kuching
Sunday, 7th November 2010


Let me admit to you that I did sign a false statutory declaration. Yes. I did. I signed a false statutory declaration. It was the second one, not the first one. The first one was entirely truthful. The second one was a complete pack of lies. I admit this.

OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Dear Tan Sri,

My name is Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal.

I think you may have heard of me.

I was Razak Baginda’s private investigator hired by him to protect him from his ex girlfriend Ms. Altantuya Shaaribu (deceased), sometime in 2006.

Remember you charged him for her murder but he got off. Instead, two of the Prime Ministers body guards got convicted. Stranger things have happened, I am sure you would agree.

But I digress. Let me come to the point.

I have been made to understand that you have decided to close the case involving 2 statutory declarations I signed sometime at the beginning of July 2008 in Kuala Lumpur.

The contents of these statutory declarations were diametrically opposed. Both could not have been true and therefore one of them was false. I trust that makes sense to you.

The police, I believe, have investigated the circumstances surrounding the making of these 2 statutory declarations under s.199 of the Penal Code, for an offence which carries a sentence of 3 years imprisonment and a fine. This is not a trivial offence.

The police must have interviewed my lawyer Americk Sidhu, his secretary, the Commissioner of Oaths who attested my signature and a variety of other witnesses you have mentioned who were somehow intrinsically interwoven in the construction and affirmation of both statutory declarations, one way or another.

It has therefore come as a great surprise to me to discover that you have been unable to decipher any wrongdoing from the enormous amount of evidence the police must have been able to accumulate from their investigations.

Please permit me to assist you.

Firstly may I suggest that you re-open this file immediately.

I will make it easy for you.

Let me admit to you that I did sign a false statutory declaration. Yes. I did. I signed a false statutory declaration.

It was the second one, not the first one. The first one was entirely truthful. The second one was a complete pack of lies. I admit this.

This statutory declaration was prepared by some unknown person(s) and I was forced by very thinly veiled threats and intimidation to sign it.

I have already made this known to the world at large and I am surprised your office has not picked this up as yet. Everyone else has.

If you are unable to ascertain this information which I have just provided to you directly, please feel free to contact me at this email address bala.p.i@hotmail.com and I shall forward to you a copy of the video recorded interview I had in the presence of my lawyers in Singapore last November, and a copy of the transcript thereof.

Otherwise you can find this information on all the blogs worth reading (such as Raja Petra’s ‘Malaysia Today’) and also on ‘You Tube’. ( Just type in ‘PI Bala’ into the search column and you will be surprised what comes up).

So you may now consider charging me for making the false 2nd statutory declaration after the clues I have given you.

I do however reserve the right to plead not guilty to the charge as I believe I have a very good defence.

Your prosecutors will also have to make sure they call all the necessary witnesses to prove their case against me. These witnesses will have to include the following personalities:

(i) a lawyer named Mr. Arunampalam a/l Mariam Pillai (who coincidentally does legal work for Deepak Jayakishan and Rosmah Mansor’s personal companies).

(ii) a Commissioner of Oaths (Zainal Abidin Bin Muhayat) who works in the office of M/s Zul Rafique and Partners (Advocates & Solicitors) and who attested my signature when he came to the room in which I was being held at the Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur.

(iii) Deepak and Dinesh Jaikishan ( very good friends and confidantes of Rosmah Mansor).

(iv) Datuk Nazim Razak (younger brother of the Prime Minister), and his wife.

(v) ASP Suresh (a suspended police officer formerly attached to the IPK HQ KL).

(vi) Officers from the Immigration Department Damansara (who assisted in obtaining urgent passports for my family).

(vii) A host of journalists and reporters who were present in the lobby of the Prince Hotel Kuala Lumpur when a lawyer called Arunampalam released my 2nd statutory declaration without my permission.

These are just some of the witnesses I can think of but I am sure you know how to do your job so that should be no problem. I don’t want to be accused of trying to teach an old dog new tricks.

If for some strange reason my defense is called, I will also be able to provide witnesses to support what I have to say. I need not disclose who these witnesses are at this stage and I am sure you know that as well.

I shall now wait for the charge against me to be laid.

I will be more than happy to return to Malaysia to defend myself but you will have to ensure that my safety is guaranteed as there are some people who would prefer that I was not around.

Best regards,
Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal
[Bala (PI)]


The above Open Letter was first published by Malaysian Chronicle

Dato Seri Anwar Plans to Subpoena Premier Najib in Malaysia Sodomy Trial

Kuala Lumpur
Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he will subpoena Prime Minister Najib Razak to testify in his sodomy trial, accusing the premier and wife Rosmah Mansour of conspiring to frame him.

Anwar’s lead counsel Karpal Singh today petitioned the court at an opening hearing in Kuala Lumpur for a delay in order to gain access to evidence. The court adjourned until 2:30 p.m. local time.

“The first thing Karpal will do is to subpoena Najib and Rosmah,” Anwar told reporters outside the courtroom. “Because they were personally involved in this conspiracy and frame-up.” A spokesman for Najib, who asked not to be identified, said it would be up to the courts to decide on the veracity of any accusations Anwar makes during the trial.

A conviction might end Anwar’s political career. The 62- year-old leader of the People’s Justice Party was jailed in 1998 on a similar charge, and barred from parliament for a decade. Najib runs the risk of being seen as using the trial for political gain, said Ibrahim Suffian, director of the Merdeka Center, an independent research institute near Kuala Lumpur.

“If Anwar loses he will be seen as a victim of political persecution; if Anwar wins, he is vindicated,” Ibrahim said. “Either way, it could just end up very badly for the government.”

Anwar’s lawyers want the chief justice to overrule the Federal Court’s decision on Jan. 29 to reject defense calls to review evidence from the prosecution before the trial begins. “Some 13 to 14 documents are necessary for the defense,” Karpal said.

Feeling the Heat

Najib is already feeling the heat from an inter-faith dispute that led to attacks on several Christian, Sikh and Muslim places of worship last month, including arson and the dumping of pigs’ heads in mosques. The government is appealing a High Court decision to allow a Catholic newspaper to use the word “Allah” to refer to God in its Malay-language section, as some Muslims feel the word is exclusive to Islam.

“This trial damages Malaysia’s already descending reputation,” said Ooi Kee Beng, an analyst at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. “Burning churches, sodomy trials, severed boar heads, a ban on singular words. The Prime Minister is going to have a hard time getting foreign direct investment to flow in.”

Malaysia’s government banned non-Muslim publications from referring to “Allah” in 1986 on the grounds it could threaten national security and confuse the country’s Muslims, who make up more than 60 percent of the 27 million population. Anwar supports the use of the word by other religions.

Not Guilty Plea

The sodomy case is now in its second year after Anwar pled not guilty at an August 2008 court session to charges of having sex with a 23-year-old former aide at an apartment in Kuala Lumpur on June 26, 2008. Sodomy, defined as “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in Malaysia, even if the act is between two consenting men.

The trial and the ongoing religious dispute may distract attention from Najib’s policies aimed at boosting the economy and investor confidence in the country. Last year, the government announced measures to open up the financial and banking industries to attract more foreign investment.

In addition to 67 billion-ringgit ($20 billion) of stimulus packages unveiled last year, Najib on Jan. 28 announced a plan to reduce corruption, crime and poverty, while improving education, transport and rural infrastructure.

Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy will probably expand 4.1 percent this year after a 2.3 percent contraction in 2009, the World Bank said last week.

Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was widely tipped to be the next leader of the country, faced similar allegations in 1998. He was sentenced to nine years in jail for sodomy and a separate corruption charge. He was released from prison in 2004 after the conviction was overturned.

Barred from politics until April 2008, Anwar won a seat in his former constituency in Permatang Pauh in August that year.

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