MACC asks Deepak to return with documents, no statement recorded
Ida Lim, The Malaysian Insider
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today did not record controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan’s statement in relation to P. Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration in 2008 on the 2006 murder of Altantuyaa Shaariibuu.
Deepak said the MACC today asked him to furnish a long list of documents, including those of a financial nature.
“He asked me to give him a lot of documents. So I’ve agreed. We’re going to meet early next week,” he told The Malaysian Insider after the meeting at the anti-graft body’s Putrajaya office.
Deepak claimed that three men came to his office earlier to ask a lot of “unneccessary questions”.
Earlier today, Deepak told The Malaysian Insider that he expects to reveal everything to the MACC, saying: “Yes, I believe I’ll be revealing everything in writing, the entire facts”.
“They want me to give a statement on the SD2,” he had said, referring to private investigator Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration, which contradicted his first sworn statement.
Deepak had recently admitted that he helped to get Balasubramaniam, a private investigator, to repudiate his earlier statutory declaration on the matter, including finding two lawyers to draft the new statement.
The Bar Council is investigating the identity of lawyers and possible misconduct in the drafting of Balasubramaniam’s second sworn statement about the 2006 murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.
A cloud of mystery has hung over the identity of the lawyer who drew up Balasubramaniam’s second SD, dated a day after his first on July 3, 2008, regarding Altantuya’s 2006 murder, for which two elite police commandos have been convicted and are facing death sentences.
