No plan to meet with PI Bala, says Deepak

Carpet trader Deepak Jaikishian says he has not decided whether to meet with former private investigator P Balasubramaniam, who intends to return to Malaysia on Sunday and remain here permanently.

Deepak said he does not plan to meet Balasubramaniam at the KL International Airport when he arrives.

"Not at the moment. I have not thought of meeting him.

"Welcome home, Bala, hopefully now the couple who ordered the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu will instead run away to Sulawesi," he said in jest, in a text message sent to this writer.

Deepak played a role in getting Balasubramaniam to come out with a second statutory declaration (SD) to undo his first one, in which Balasubramaniam claimed Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had a role in the murder of the Mongolian translator.

The first SD, which was was issued in 2008, states that Najib had links with Altantuya in 2006, when he was deputy prime minister and defence minister.

Balasubramaniam also claimed that the then inspector-general of police Musa Hassan told Najib that he (Musa) would help 'to take care' of the murder case in which political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, - who had hired Balasubramaniam - was implicated.

A day after making his first SD, the former private investigator retracted it and made the second SD, which Balasubramaniam later said was made under duress.

Last August, Balasubramaniam returned to Malaysia and since then, there have been some significant developments regarding the SDs following Deepak's fallout with Najib.

Deepak then named a well-known "Tan Sri" lawyer and his son as being involved in the drafting of the second SD.