By Teoh El Sen
'Carpet man' Deepak
Jaikishan has asked MACC to reopen their investigations related to the murder
of Altantuya Shaariibuu
PETALING
JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was more interested in
covering up, rather than investigating, the secret dealings following the 2006
murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
This was the claim by
controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan, who said that the anti-graft
authority had recorded his statement over his role but had taken no further
action to follow up.
“I was called by MACC for
investigation but the MACC was more interested to cover up the matter,” the
well-connected carpet trader said in an interview with PAS mouthpiece
Harakahdaily, which was posted in a video online recently.
“I have explained the whole
matter. But there was no action. I think they have allowed the case to be
closed.”
Deepak said that he now wanted
the MACC to reopen the investigations, so that the public can “get to the
truth, to find out what really happened. Find out why this matter is left in
this way and on what basis this matter was closed.”
“I am sure in MACC there are
some people who are good. It’s impossible that everyone wants to listen to a
husband and his wife,” said Deepak, in an obvious reference to the Prime
Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor, whom he is said to be close
to.
“I ask MACC to investigate this
truly. The IGP now, or the ex-IGP…anyone… just let the truth come out. So that
we can respect our enforcement, not just [people who] follow the instructions
of a husband and wife.”
Recently, Deepak re-emerged
after a period of silence, in a mission he claimed was to ‘seek forgiveness and
justice for Altantuya’.
In a series of interviews in
the past few weeks, Deepak has claimed, among other things, that Rosmah was the
person who instructed him to seek out private investigator P Balasubramaniam to
change his statutory declaration(SD).
In July 2008, Balasubramaniam
had first revealed the sworn SD which linked the then deputy prime minister
Najib to Altantuya.
However, the next day, the
private investigator retracted his first SD via a second SD. He subsequently
disappeared and flew out of the country with his family.
On Oct 27 2009, Balasubramaniam
came out of hiding and reaffirmed that his first statutory declaration was
true. He claimed was offered RM5million to retract it by Deepak together with
Najib’s brother Nazim.
More recently, in an Aug 2012
interview with Malaysiakini, Balasubramaniam said there were further attempts
to bribe him to implicate PKR by the same people who made him sign the second
SD, including Deepak.
Deepak has now confirmed his
role in the second SD, claiming that he had met Najib and Rosmah at their
residence to discuss the second statutory declaration and that Nazim was sent
to negotiate with Balasubramaniam.
Previously, the MACC had
interviewed Deepak as well as Nazim, but took Balasubramaniam’s statement in
the form of an affidavit. Since then, Balasubramaniam has questioned why there
has been no further action by MACC.
Altantuya was shot and murdered
in October 2006, with her remains destroyed by C-4 explosives.
Her alleged lover and political
analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a close friend of Najib, was charged with the
murder with two other policemen . Abdul Razak was acquitted while the policemen
were convicted, though a motive was never established.
Source:
Free Malaysia Today
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