PKR Youth wants cops to probe Deepak's revelations

PKR Youth has lodged a police report calling for investigations into businessperson Deepak Jaikishan's allegations about Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor being involved in the second statutory declaration (SD) of P Balasubramaniam.

It was filed at the Petaling Jaya police station at noon by its chief, Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin, who based his report on a video interview with Deepak by HarakahDaily and the allegations of Deepak as published by Keadilan Daily.

Shamsul Iskandar wants the police to investigate Deepak's expose that Rosmah had sought his help in the second SD filed by Balasubramaniam, a private investigator then, as well as the claim that Najib was involved in the preparation of the second SD through a senior lawyer.

"Deepak has also claimed that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) is more interested in closing the case after the exposure on the SD and this should also be investigated," he said.

Shamsul Iskandar listed five questions to be answered in the investigation:

• What are the interests of Najib and Rosmah in calling Deepak on the day Balasubramaniam made his first SD and in asking the businessman's assistance to help out with the second SD? What is the couple's involvement in the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu?

• Balasubramaniam said he and his family were threatened, causing him to issue the second SD. If this is true, what is the role played by Najib and his younger brother Nazim, along with Rosmah, in the threat? What do they intend to hide?

• Balasubramaniam also emphasised that his first SD is the correct one. If this is the truth, then Najib could not have been telling the truth when he swore that he had never met Altantuya.

• Who abetted with the two Special Action Unit police officers, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, in ordering and directing the murder of Altantuya?

• Is it true that the MACC has closed its investigation on Balasubramaniam, resulting in the truth yet to be unfolded?

On these and other grounds, Shamsul called on the police to re-open the Altantuya murder investigations because Deepak's revelations have raised many questions that need to be answered.
Haris names lawyer 
In a related developent, lawyer and human right activist Haris Ibrahim said he has told the Bar Council the name of the lawyer allegedly involved in preparing the second SD.
"Given that by the terms of SD2, Balasubramaniam would be admitting to an offence of swearing out a prior false statutory declaration, was it not incumbent upon the solicitor(s) concerned in its preparation to have taken instructions from Bala and to have warned him of the consequences of affirming the statutory declaration that was being drawn up for his affirmation?" he asked in his blog-post today.

Haris (right) said his letter to the council was received and acknowledged at 1.45pm today.
However, he omitted the lawyer's name from his blog-post "for now".
Yesterday, the council had said that an independent investigation could be carried out if a formal complaint is lodged.