PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has asked PKR Youth Chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin to assist them in contacting and locating private investigator P. Balasubramaniam.
Shamsul was called in for questioning by the MACC today after he lodged a report regarding allegations of a cover-up of the Altantuya affair.
MACC has expressed its interest in obtaining a statement from Bala.
Shamsul said he was not in contact with Bala, but believed that he could help by conveying the message to Bala’s lawyer.
Speaking to the media after two hours of questioning by MACC officers, Shamsul denied that his report to the MACC had any political motive.
“This is not mala fide, but is for the interest of the country and (we) want the Prime Minister to be investigated,” he said.
Shamsul also said MACC officials told him the commission would refer the case to the Attorney-General’s office. It is understood that MACC has viewed all the video recordings handed in yesterday and will proceed with investigations after recording the statement from Shamsul this morning.
He expressed the hope that MACC would take action by contacting those whose names Bala mentioned in the video recording, including carpet salesman Deepak Jaikishan and the Prime Minister’s brother Datuk Nazim Abdul Razak.
Shamsul also urged the Prime Minister to come forth to clear his name and settle the issue “once and for all.”
He called for a public hearing on the case to “educate the public about the real issue” behind it.
Balik Pulau MP Yusmadi Yusoff (picture), who accompanied Shamsul to the MACC office, speaking to reporters, said the case was of national interest and had put “1Malaysia on trial.”
Yesterday, Shamsul and a group of Pakatan Rakyat Youth leaders submitted to the MACC CD recordings of the Bala interview which are available on YouTube and other websites.
In the presence of three prominent lawyers last month, Bala made numerous allegations implicating the family of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and associates of Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor in the Altantuya affair cover-up.
One of the allegations was that he was offered RM5 million by Nazim and Deepak Jaikishan to retract a statutory declaration which claimed that the prime minister had close ties with murdered Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Shamsul was called in for questioning by the MACC today after he lodged a report regarding allegations of a cover-up of the Altantuya affair.
MACC has expressed its interest in obtaining a statement from Bala.
Shamsul said he was not in contact with Bala, but believed that he could help by conveying the message to Bala’s lawyer.
Speaking to the media after two hours of questioning by MACC officers, Shamsul denied that his report to the MACC had any political motive.
“This is not mala fide, but is for the interest of the country and (we) want the Prime Minister to be investigated,” he said.
Shamsul also said MACC officials told him the commission would refer the case to the Attorney-General’s office. It is understood that MACC has viewed all the video recordings handed in yesterday and will proceed with investigations after recording the statement from Shamsul this morning.
He expressed the hope that MACC would take action by contacting those whose names Bala mentioned in the video recording, including carpet salesman Deepak Jaikishan and the Prime Minister’s brother Datuk Nazim Abdul Razak.
Shamsul also urged the Prime Minister to come forth to clear his name and settle the issue “once and for all.”
He called for a public hearing on the case to “educate the public about the real issue” behind it.
Balik Pulau MP Yusmadi Yusoff (picture), who accompanied Shamsul to the MACC office, speaking to reporters, said the case was of national interest and had put “1Malaysia on trial.”
Yesterday, Shamsul and a group of Pakatan Rakyat Youth leaders submitted to the MACC CD recordings of the Bala interview which are available on YouTube and other websites.
In the presence of three prominent lawyers last month, Bala made numerous allegations implicating the family of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and associates of Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor in the Altantuya affair cover-up.
One of the allegations was that he was offered RM5 million by Nazim and Deepak Jaikishan to retract a statutory declaration which claimed that the prime minister had close ties with murdered Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu.
04/12/09
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