Vote for justice, says Altantuya’s dad

RK Anand 

Setev Shaariibuu is still looking for closure. And he urges Malaysians to vote for justice on polling day, which falls on the eve of his daughter’s birthday.

Seven years have passed since the gruesome murder that sent shockwaves throughout the nation. But it continues to haunt the political arena.

The life of a beautiful, young woman had been tragically robbed. She was shot, and her remains blown up with explosives.

Despite his repeated denials, there are those who still believe that the blood trail leads right up to Najib Tun Razak’s doorstep.

Trial to probe Najib’s hand: Americk & Cecil to be subpoenaed

SUARAM

On 19 April 2013, 2 SUARAM secretariat, and key spokespersons of the Ops Scorpene campaign, Ms Cynthia Gabriel and Ms Fadiah Nadwa, went on an urgent mission to PARIS at the request of SUARAM’s French lawyers, William Bourdon and Apoline Cagnat.

The two judges in charge of the case Roger LeLoire and Serge Tournaire, have been following recent new information offered by various persons on the death of Altantuya Shaaribuu.

The brief mission discussed the following details:

This GE13, as you walk to the polling station – remember Altantuya!

J. D. Lovrenciear

Among the host of issues, concerns and aspirations that we carry within our bosom as we walk to the polling station to define a future for all Malaysians, we must also be mindful of the late Altantuya (who was murdered by two former bodyguards of Prime Minister Najib Razak).

Even as we are about to choose the political party that we want to form the next government, we have no answers as a nation as well as have not delivered justice for poor Altantuya.

The late Altantuya is far more than just a murder. It is far more than just a loss of life. It has everything to do with national integrity.

INCREDIBLE BN SPIN ON ALTANTUYA: Not Najib or Rosmah but AMBIGA, CHINESE TO BLAME!

MAILBAG

A fortnight before she disappeared (presumed murdered) Altantuya received a call from French born Miami based arms trafficker Jean Bernard Lasnaud warning her to keep her head low.

Altantuya is understood to have communicated information about that call to her ‘sister’ and possibly to the late self proclaimed Private Investigator Balasubramaniam. Balasubramaniam corroborated that information about the Lasnaud Altantuya telephone conversation in a telephone discussion between himself and a Malaysian journalist in September of 2012.

Jean Bernard Lasnaud was furious. He was in fact livid. Lasnaud who is widely believed to have been on the payroll of the French foreign intelligence service had a number of other irons in the fire and did not want Altantuya in her new life in Malaysia jeopardising his many opportunities in the trade with her loose talk about the French Malaysian deal.

Bar Council: AGC has enough proof to reopen Altantuya murder file

DEBRA CHONG

The recent public testimonies by Deepak Jaikishan, P. Balasubramaniam and the dead private detective’s lawyer Americk Sidhu are strong enough grounds for the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to reopen the controversial 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Malaysian Bar’s new president said today.

Christopher Leong, who took office earlier this month, told the public prosecutors they should not defer further investigating the case that have thrown two former elite policemen on death row.

“The revelations by Deepak Jaikishan, the late Balasubramaniam Perumal, and Americk Singh Sidhu raise sufficient concern to warrant further investigations by the authorities.

A-G has no power, desire, guts or clearance?

Ravinder Singh

What rubbish is the Attorney-General talking “I have no power to investigate Bala’s SD2”? So who has the power, or has nobody such power? Are we to believe that feudalism still holds sway in Malaysia?

The case is about the two police officers Sirul Azhar and Azilah Hadri who were sentenced to death. Has the case against them been proven beyond doubt? SD2 casts a very serious doubt on their guilt. They may have pulled the trigger, wrapped the corpse in C4 and ignited it, but all this by itself does not prove their guilt. It must be shown that they had a motive to do what they did. If the intention to annihilate all traces of Altantuya Shaariibuu was not theirs, then they cannot be sentenced to death even though they pulled the trigger.

Altantuya chapter closed with Bala’s death?

Jeswan Kaur

Does PI Bala’s untimely death also put an end to the battle for truth to be revealed? Does his passing close the Altantuya murder ghastly chapter for Najib and Rosmah?

The country’s sixth prime minister has blood on his hands; yet Najib Tun Razak did not even once consider the aftermath of his actions and continues to rape the laws of this nation.

From allegations that he was involved in the murder of Mongolian native Altantuya Shaariibuu to the  startling revelation by seasoned lawyer Cecil Abraham (through another lawyer) that Najib had directed him to prepare another version of the statutory declaration that absolved the premier from having anything to do with Altantuya, the prime minister has to reconcile with the fact that the rakyat no longer wants a scheming leader to lead the country.

‘Feet-dragging Najib being unfair’

Hawkeye

The prime minister is being unfair to the people by keeping them on their toes with regard to the election date, says a PKR man.

GEORGE TOWN: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is being unfair to the people if he continues to indulge in the guessing game on when the general election will be held, said a PKR official.

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, who is the party’s communications director, said although it is the prerogative of the prime minister to decide when best to call the national election, Najib’s strategy is unfair to Malaysians as it shows he is selfish.

Najib must step down; he cannot function as PM any longer!

Aliran

Years of speculation as to who drafted private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration dramatically came to a close on 16 March 2013 at the Bar Council’s 67th annuel general meeting when Bala’s lawyer, Americk Sidhu, revealed the identity of the person.

Najib must step down pending a probe

Years of speculation as to who drafted private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration dramatically came to a close on 16 March 2013 at the Bar Council’s 67th annuel general meeting when Bala’s lawyer, Americk Sidhu, revealed the identity of the person.

Scorpene lawyer found DEAD

Malaysia Chronicle

THE DEADLY GAME OF SUBMARINES

A star lawyer appointed by French arms maker DCNS to act on its behalf over the Malaysian Scorpene corruption inquiry has been found dead near his private island in Brittany.

The body of Olivier Metzner, a top French lawyer whose clients ranged from Panama’s ex-dictator Manuel Noriega to former prime minister Dominique de Villepin, was found floating in the sea in Brittany, north-west of France. The police found a suicide note.

But Noriega, whom Metzner had defended in 2010, said in a note sent by his eldest daughter that he was “surprised” and “deeply hurt” to learn of the death. The former Panama leader also staunchly rejected suggestions of suicide, saying the act was “incompatible with (Metzner’s) personality”.

Najib instructed Cecil on SD2, Bar AGM told

Hafiz Yatim

Senior lawyer Cecil Abraham has allegedly admitted acting on Najib Abdul Razak’s instructions to prepare the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s controversial second statutory declaration (SD).

Bala’s lawyer Americk Sidhu revealed this during the Malaysian Bar annual general meeting (AGM) today in Kuala Lumpur.

The AGM was debating a motion on setting up an independent committee to investigate who had drafted the second SD.

Altantuya, C4 & the Immigration: Who gave the order & deleted the records?

J. D. Lovrenciear

The savage murder of the late Altantuya continues to haunt Malaysians’ imagination, logic and emotions all across the nation.

It is a ‘blockbuster story’ that permeates every nook and corner of cities and villages. Just utter the word ‘Mongolia’ and everybody gets the drift.

It certainly continues to puzzle many across our borders, and surely the Mongolians are not exhausted of wondering too.

Back in our own yard, the Altantuya episode continues to plague and haunt the political terrains on both sides of the divide – the BN and Opposition parties, as the politicians and their die-hard fans fight it out over the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ of the episode.

PI Bala: I swear first SD was the truth

Leven Woon

The first statutory declaration linked Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shariibuu.

SEPANG Former private investigator P Balasubramaniam returned to Malaysia today and immediately declared that the first statutory declaration (SD) he made in 2008 on the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shariibuu was the truth.

Holding up a Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita, he swore that the allegation linking Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to the murder contained in the first SD was a fact.

CONTRACTS & SEX: Flora Ong, an Ampang girl & part of NAJIB’S HAREM?

Maria Begum

Controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan has turned the heat on Prime Minister Najib Razak. Stripping off the gloves, the 40-year-old former confidante of Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor has just unleashed a fresh barrage of allegations that could submerge the political fortunes of the Malaysian PM and his Umno party.

Flora Ong is now the name on the lips of many followers of the Altantuya Shaaribuu-Scorpene submarines saga, even though she is not directly linked to the murder and corruption case that Deepak has accused the first couple of having a hand in.

“Flora Ong is an intimate lady friend of Najib. She was awarded 2 major contracts  – a power grid line in Sabah and Sarawak worth RM2biland a water treatment plant in Lembah Pantai,” Deepak told MC

Breakthrough in Scorpene probe

Leven Woon

Suaram says a key negotiator has agreed to testify.

The French probe into Malaysia’s purchase of two Scorpene submarines has taken a leap forward with a key witness agreeing to assist the investigators, according to the human rights organisation Suaram.

Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel told FMT that the witness, whom she described as “the key negotiator” in the purchase, offered his co-operation after receiving a second subpoena notice last month.

Suaram filed a complaint with the French authorities in 2009, saying it suspected that corruption was involved in the deal.

Will Najib survive after GE13?

Athi Shankar

The question is if Umno will allow Najib to continue to helm the party and country if BN only wins with a smaller majority or without parliamentary two-thirds.

Can Najib Tun Razak survive as prime minister after the country’s 13th general election?

This was the biggest political question today as Malaysians await the forthcoming dissolution of the parliament, said DAP’s Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong.

Of course, he said Najib would sure to lose power if Barisan Nasional was defeated.

Deepak says will reveal all on Bala’s second SD to MACC today

Ida Lim

Controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan said today he expects to reveal everything about P. Balasubramaniam’s second sworn statement in 2008 in relation to the 2006 high-profile murder of Mongolian model Altantuyaa Shaariibuu.

Deepak (picture) said he was summoned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) this morning at about 10.

“They want me to give a statement on the SD2,” he said, referring to private investigator Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration, which contradicted his first sworn statement.

Malaysian PM caught up in murder, bribery scandal

Lindsay Murdoch

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Photo: AFP

THE plot has all the trappings of a B-grade movie: the murder of a glamorous Mongolian socialite amid allegations of high-level bribery, blackmail, betrayal and political cover-up.

But these are real-life events, and they could set back the chances of Malaysia’s ruling coalition in an election that Prime Minister Najib Razak must call by midyear.

Mr Najib denies involvement but the allegations will not go away. The internet in Malaysia is running hot with allegations by a disaffected businessman, Deepak Jaikishan, who is well connected in the ruling United Malays National Organisation.

Najib Denies Some Things But Not Others!

Sarawak Report

Grim faced for a healthy man – the Prime Minister denies stroke rumours today

The Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, chose to make an interesting denial earlier today, in response to our report about the rumours which have been circulating, that he suffered a minor stroke.

He was pleased to say that the reports are wrong and urged Malaysians not to read anything that has not been licensed and censored by his regime.

“Don’t listen to the blogs please” he pleaded, neglecting to acknowledge that he clearly had himself.

Najib Stroke?

Sarawak Report

Enough to cause a stroke?

Word is seeping out that the Prime Minister of Malaysia suffered a ‘minor stroke’ over the weekend.

Given the scandals building around him, perhaps the pressure has started to tell?

So far, Najib Razak has provided no substantial answers to the deadly accusations over the past couple of weeks, further linking him to the cover-up over the murder of the model Altantuya Shaariibuu and to the kickbacks from the French Scorpene submarine deal.

Only one man stands to gain from Bala’s second SD

Americk Sidhu

Private eye P Balasubramaniam affirmed his first statutory declaration (SD) on July 1, 2008. It was released at a press conference held at the PKR headquarters on July 3 that year. It was 55 paragraphs long.

A host of personalities were mentioned in this first SD. They are as follows (in the sequence they appear); Abdul Razak Baginda; private investigator Ang; murdered Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaaribuu; Rowena Abdul Razak; Suras Kumar; Dhiren Norendra; Najib Razak; Lance Corporal Rohaniza; Azilah Hadri; Sirul Azahar; Amy; DSP Musa Safri; DSP Idris and ASP Tonny.

For May 13 truth, just declassify our documents

Kua Kia Soong

The director of the film has said as much, that the film is aimed at contradicting the thesis of my 2007 title that the racial violence was a veiled coup d’etat by the emergent state capitalists in Umno against the aristocrats under then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.The call by the Umno Youth leader for The Edge to retract their story about May 13 is laughable when Finas is just about to release their much trumpeted film Tanda Putera, which is aimed at reinforcing Umno’s version of the incident.

The continued postponement of the film’s release is as perplexing as the continued postponement of the appeal by the two men sentenced for the murder of the Mongolian lass, Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Musa denies knowledge of SD, Najib’s SMS

Teoh El Sen

Musa Hassan confirms that he met then DPM Najib Tun Razak to tell him that analyst Abdul Razak Baginda was to be arrested. Najib, however, told him to “carry on”.

The intensifying chatter of an alleged conspiracy in the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaarribuu has put a SMS purportedly sent by Najib Tun Razak to his close friend Abdul Razak Baginda back in the spotlight.

The SMS was first mentioned in P Balasubramaniam’s first statutory declaration [SD], where the private investigator claimed that Razak Baginda showed him the text message from the then deputy prime minister the morning before he was arrested.

Malaysian Carpet Dealer Names a New Figure in Scandal

John Berthelsen

So far Cecil hasn’t said yea or nay

Deepak Jaikishan names well connected lawyer in murder cover-up

Perhaps the most crucial – and quoted – document seeking to tie Najib Tun Razak, the current prime minister of Malaysia, to a murdered Mongolian beauty named Altantuya Shaariibuu was a sworn declaration filed on July 1, 2008 by a Kuala Lumpur-based private detective named Perumal Balasubramaniam.

That document, which detailed allegations of an affair between Najib, the then-defense minister and the 28-year-old woman, lasted just three days before it was dramatically reversed. Police allegedly picked up Balasubramaniam and took him to a Kuala Lumpur police station where he was told his family was in serious danger if he didn’t reverse his statement.

Torrent of Revelations Against Najib Continues

John Berthelsen

Anybody seen Deepak?

A rattled Najib tries to figure out how to counter allegations of criminal cover-up

A controversial businessman and onetime family friend of Malaysia’s prime minister appears to be doing what the country?s political opposition has been unable to accomplish for years: publicly tie the top UMNO leader to serious and politically damaging crimes.

In a spate of interviews with opposition and independent websites that seemingly deliver new and damaging revelations each day, Deepak Jaikishan has now connected Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, Najib?s brother Nazim and Najib?s wife, Rosmah Mansor, to the politically charged cover-up of the 2006 murder of the jet-setting Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu, itself a part of a much bigger scandal involving ?114 million in kickbacks to top Malaysian politicians for the purchase of French submarines.

Rolling out a dirty carpet

FMT

A carpet trader has reignited a firestorm with his promise to reveal more dirt about the behind-the-scene dealings surrounding the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Call it tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy, the Deepak drama has been unfolding on the national stage to the entertainment or horror of the audience. Here is a cast of characters that makes interesting reading for their role – direct or indirect – in a story that refuses to fade from national memory. It is a dark tale of murder, intrigue, conspiracy, threats, money – all the baser instincts that drive humans to commit deeds most foul.

French judges want FULL RECORDS of Altantuya murder: She is a KEY LINK

Maria Begum

The French investigative judges hearing the Scorpenes case in Paris have decided that murdered Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu is a key link in the Malaysian government’s purchase of two submarines from DCNS. They want her connection to be probed further in order to shed light on the corruption allegations raised against DCNS.

The French investigative judges have asked for records of her murder trial and may come to Malaysia, where she was murdered, if they deemed it necessary to do so, according to Apoline Cagnat, one of the French lawyers acting on behalf of Malaysian activist group SUARAM.

PM explain Altantuya link

Mkini

Now that the ghost of Altantuya Shaariibuu has once again appeared to haunt Najib Razak as Umno delegates meet at the party’s 66^th general assembly, the prime minister is urged to explain his family’s involvement in the scandal.

PAS vice-president Husam Musa said the statements made by carpet trader Deepak Jaikishan to three alternative media this week both “directly and indirectly” linked the prime minister’s family to the murdered Mongolian national.

“Najib should provide a full explanation. It is not just him but Umno too which would be adversely affected seeing that the general election is very near,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Altantuya murder appeal put off again – at last minute

Hafiz Yatim

The Court of Appeal has again put off hearing into the appeal brought by two police personnel sentenced to death for the October 2006 murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The hearing slated to be heard in August had been put off as well in July, with the new hearding dates fixed for Oct 31 and Nov 1.

Hazman Ahmad, counsel for Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, when contacted yesterday said the postponement is indefinite, meaning that no fresh dates were fixed.

Hazman did not reply to Malaysiakini‘s text message seeking the reason for the postponement.

IF NOT GUILTY, WHY SO SCARED? Scorpenes submerging Umno-BN

Submerging Lah

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim ’s attempt to bring in the French lawyers to brief Parliament on the on-going court case in France could probably be rated as the single most intelligent maverick political strategy ever pulled so far.

That credit rating of a clever plan however cannot be ascribed to Pakatan Rakyat; it actually is all because of BN’s own doing. So BN better stop nailing DSAI.

By officially stating and obstructing the lawyers from being allowed to address Parliament, the BN has started the submerging of its own credibility to greater depths.

Who wins GE13 depends on who pleases the Rakyat, not astrology or numerology

Straight Talker

As we draw closer to our 13th General Election day – a date that is still in wraps of sorts shamefully, many fortune tellers and astrologers (as reported in The Star newspaper, 4 September 2012) are pinning BN’s victory on the dates and planets.

Indeed editors need to be told that this piece of ‘news’ is very Fourth-World indeed for a nation pretending to achieve First-World status in seven years time.

Let us get real for once, can we. Here is a MUST DO list that will qualify a political party to emerge victorious. This list is not BN motivated or colored by Opposition agenda. Politicians must have the honesty, courage and integrity to recognize that it is the rakyat’s (people’s) wish-list.

Dr M, Rosmah & Altantuya: The 3 HOTTEST names in M’sia – WHY?

Telescope

Indeed it calls for more serious study. Why is it that each time the names of Tun Dr Mahathir, Datin Seri Rosmah and the slain Altantuya pop up in the internet media, you get such huge comments and responses.

Indeed it calls for serious appraisal – without fear or favor, to ascertain why too almost always the postings on the net are never sympathetic nor favorable towards the Tun and the Datin Seri and why too the sympathy and support for the late Mongolian citizen is overwhelming.

Let us test it out here, right away.

WHO KILLED ALTANTUYA: Until there are answers, ‘Janji Detepati’ remains hollow

Soul of Justice

How many more agonizing years do we and the world have to wait to find out the following:

1. Who gave the order to ensure that all immigration records of the late Altantuya’s entry and egress records were wiped out from the system?

2. Who gave the green light for the controlled explosive C4 to leave the guarded and vaulted premise?

3. Who authorized the use of military grade C4 to be used on the shot and dead lone woman?

4. Why did the current PM send text messages to his business buddy Baginda Razak of his assurance to assist and what assistance did he give?

Altantuya’s dad question’s Najib’s innocence for refusing to help in Scorpenes trial

Wong Choon Mei

When even the father of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the young Mongolian woman who was murdered in Malaysia, questions why Prime Minister Najib Razak is so reluctant to take part in the French Scorpenes corruption trial, then it is indeed time for Najib as the leader of his nation to step forward and clear his name and his government’s for the world to see.

Setev’s words are not only loud and clear for all to hear but have deep implications for Malaysia, which has been dragged into the centre of the 6-year-long global scandal. If Najib doesn’t dare to defend his own name, then he must be hiding something or is even guilty of the damning allegations made against him. This is what Setev is saying.

Altantuya’s dad insists she visited France

Setev Shaariibuu, the father of slain Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, said his daughter had travelled to France under her other name, Aminah Abdullah.

“We have proof that she did indeed travel to France and will produce the evidence if so required,” said Setev in a press release today.

His press release was read out by Kelana Jaya parliamentarian Loh Gwo Burne at the lobby of the Selangor legislative assembly.

Setev was responding to a news report which stated that Altantuya never travelled to France between 1999 and 2007 based on French immigration records.