Wrong place, wrong time, wrong job?

Former Special Branch officer turned private investigator Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal was hired by Abdul Razak Baginda (special consultant to the Malaysian Ministry of Defence and a close friend of Najib Razak) to keep an eye on "that Mongolian Woman" Altantuya Shaariibuu who arrived in Kuala Lumpur the first week of October 2006 to meet Baginda and demand that he pay her USD500,000 for her role in the 2005 Scorpene submarine deal. Bala saw Altantuya being abducted from Razak Baginda's residence around 7:30PM on 19 October 2006 by three people, two of whom were personal bodyguards of Najib Razak. She was never again seen alive.

Bala's Bombshell: Press Conference (Part Two)

(Courtesy of Malaysiakini.tv, 4 July 2008)

In view of the high-tension drama raging around DPM Najib Razak's intimate links to the explosive Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case - and Balasubramaniam Perumal's retraction of his July 1st statutory declaration this morning, after a "friendly chat" with the Polis Di Raja Malaysia at Balai Polis Brickfields yesterday evening - it's important that everybody in Malaysia gets to view the full proceedings at the July 3rd press conference. This is already on Malaysiakini but it won't hurt to carry it on this blog too as the well-being and future of our nation is under extreme threat from reactionary forces aligned with the Barisan Nasional.

I was told earlier today that a statutory declaration, by definition, cannot be retracted. Perhaps Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail will have lots of time to revise his basic law while on long vacation at Sungai Buloh Prison?