Saturday, July 5, 2008

News Update: PI and Family Missing (Update)

MalaysiaKini
Lawyer lodges report over second SD
Andrew Ong Jul 8, 08 6:28pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85780Lawyer Americk Singh Sidhu has lodged a police report to clear his name, saying that “elements of criminal defamation” had been directed at him...

Cops: Missing PI could have left the country
Jul 8, 08 5:34pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85775
Private investigator P Balasubramaniam who went missing with his family after making headlines could be overseas...

PI, family may be held 'against their will'
S Pathmawathy Jul 7, 08 4:10pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85704
Missing private investigator P Balasubramniam and his family might be held against their will, alleged the former’s nephew R Kumaresan.
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He added that Kumaresan suspects that there is a possibility that Balasubramaniam was forced to retract the controversial allegations he made in a statutory declaration...

Desperately seeking Bala and family
Jul 5, 08 6:54pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85638
The private investigator who made an explosive statutory declaration linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak to murdered Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu - and retracted it a day later - has gone ‘missing'.

Also missing is Balasubramaniam's wife and their three children....

Did Bala commit an offence?

Jul 5, 08 11:50am
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85620
So private investigator P Balasubramaniam made two statutory declarations (SD) within two days, declaring on two separate occasions that he signed them voluntarily. The problem is that they were two contradictory SDs - so one has to be true and the other false. Which one is a lie is for the court to decide in due course.

Meantime, did the private eye commit a crime by his action?

Many lawyers think so...

Cops to quiz Raja Petra over SD
Andrew Ong Jul 5, 08 4:02pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85628
Malaysia’s most controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin will have his statement recorded by the Sentul district police today over a statutory declaration he made regarding the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu...

Najib: I know nothing about it
Jul 5, 08 4:36pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85631
Najib Abdul Razak has denied speculations that he was behind the retraction of private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s first statutory declaration (SD) which had linked him with a murdered Mongolian woman....

The Star Online
Najib denies involvement in PI's retraction
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/20080705155354&sec=nation

Balasubramaniam retracts entire content of his first statutory declaration
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/21744815&sec=nation

Lawyer: Second SD was probably made under duress
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/21748837&sec=nation

Bala could face perjury charge
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/21747640&sec=nation

Cops to look into PI’s declarations
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/21745568&sec=nation

No military intel report on Altantuya, says Jeneral
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/5/nation/21747661&sec=nation

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