PI: Cops left out vital info

document.write(parent.prscreen) By The Star Friday July 4, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR: Police omitted pertinent information allegedly linking Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak with the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case, claimed private investigator P. Balasubramaniam in a statutory declaration. Balasubramaniam declared he had informed police what Abdul Razak Baginda had purportedly told him prior to … Read more

DPM: “It’s a malicious attempt to tarnish my image'”

document.write(parent.prscreen) By Eileen Ng and Irdiani Mohd Salleh, New Straits Times July 4, 2008  KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak reiterated that he never knew Altantuya Shaariibuu as another claim arose yesterday linking him with the murdered Mongolian woman. “It is a terrible lie,” the deputy prime minister said in reference to a statutory declaration … Read more

Anwar: I just want to move on

document.write(parent.prscreen) By Zainon Ahmad and Llew-Ann Phang, The SunJuly 4, 2008 PETALING JAYA (July 3, 2008): Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said when he takes over as prime minister of the country, all he wants to do is to forgive and forget the past, and to move on and be an effective leader of the country. … Read more

Reject calls for the use of the armed forces in the preservation of public order

We, the undersigned civil society groups views with deep consternation and dismay a report carried by the local print media yesterday disclosing that members of the police and the armed forces were carrying out joint security exercises at the Police College in Cheras.  The report stated that such joint security exercises focused on a possible … Read more

The powers that be, 10 years on

By Karim Raslan, The Straits Times July 2, 2008 JULY 2 — Ten years ago a high-level political face-off between two men and their supporters deteriorated into a vile and grubby moral lynching. In hindsight, it’s hard not to conclude that the victor in that face-off ended up being more compromised than the victim, who … Read more

From the Office of Anwar Ibrahim: Press Statement – for immediate release

3 July 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Today we witness another episode of a consistent pattern of abuse of power and manipulation of the criminal justice system. Recently one of the witnesses in the Altantuya trial approached us with detailed information of events connected to her disappearance and murder. The information was shocking. Mr. P. Balasubramaniam, … Read more

Another Statutory Declaration

By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru Thursday, July 03, 2008 “Altantuya susceptible to anal intercourse”. I was hoping for solid evidence that would bring a closure to the Altantuya murder case. I am sure many Malaysians were hoping for the same, too. Instead, I get another Statutory Declaration based on hearsay, a lot of hearsay. Ok, … Read more

“Let Dr M speak on 1988 judicial crisis”

Written by Bernama Published by New Straits Times July 3, 2008 A MEMBER of parliament yesterday suggested that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad be given the opportunity to appear in court to explain the allegations hurled at him over the 1988 judicial crisis. Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN-Kalabakan) said this would help resolve … Read more