Paper: Bala links Najib’s family member to Altantuya cover-up
(Free Malaysia Today) – MORE damning details implicating a member of the Prime Minister’s family have emerged in private investigator P. Balasub-ramaniam’s allegations of a cover-up in the Altantuya murder.
The allegations include blackmail with threats against Bala’s family, forcing him to withdraw his statutory declaration and sign another that 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. He said he was told to remain in hiding until Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak was sworn in as Prime Minister.
Details of the threat by the VVIP and the already reported RM5 million bribe, along with the involvement of military intelligence in strengthening the threat has added more intrigue – and speculation – about the gruesome murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.
Suara Keadilan, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat newspaper, carried in its latest edition a report on the alleged involvement of Najib’s family member and a carpet businessman named Deepak Jaikishan in the forced exile of Bala and his family. Bala, his wife and children travelled to Singapore, Bangkok and Kathmandu before ending up in India.
That and 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 quoted Bala as saying that he was forced to retract his first statutory declaration of an alleged link between Najib and Altantuya, who had a sexual relationship with Najib’s adviser Abdul Razak Baginda.
Razak Baginda confessed in an affidavit that Altantuya was his lover, while Najib has denied knowing the Mongolian model.
