Part 5: I just want the harassment to end (P. Balasubramaniam)


  

Bala reveals that to date he was paid RM750,000 but the harassment continues and he feels more like a prisoner. He says he has come out of the closet so that the harassment can end and he can lead a normal life again. He just wants his life back.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Q 69. How long had you known ASP Suresh before this incident?

A. I have known him for about 10 years. I met him when he was a senior Investigation Officer at the IPK Kuala Lumpur. I was a private investigator then. ASP Suresh used to ask me to assist him in obtaining fast traces and details on mobile phones as I had contacts in the phone companies and was able to get the information required faster than the police who had to go through official channels.

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Part 4: Bala finds his life turned upside down (P. Balasubramaniam)

Life on the run is not as rosy as most imagine when one’s family has to suffer. Bala finds that the money means very little when family life and the children’s education are sacrificed. He decides to change all that and to regain his normal life but his ‘handlers’ have other ideas. He realises, therefore, he has to break away from them if he really wants to be free.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Q 55. Why did you not tell them the truth about the way the 2nd statutory declaration was made since you had your family with you and they were all safe?

A. I was still in a state of confusion and was still concerned for the safety of my family. I was made aware that Deepak had some very powerful connections, especially after meeting the Malay VIP Datuk at The Curve a few nights previously and his advice was still in my mind.

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Part 3: The Malaysian police catch up with Bala (P. Balasubramaniam)

The Malaysian police catch up with Bala in Bangkok and ask to meet him. However, they are only interested in talking about the first SD and there is no discussion whatsoever about the second SD. The Malaysian police, therefore, know the truth but chose to bury it rather than take action.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Q 41. Where did you go once you landed in Bangkok?

A. Deepak was supposed to arrange for someone to meet us at the airport but there was no one there. As I was feeling very tired, I hired a taxi to take my family and I to the Shangri La Hotel. We checked in to this hotel and we went to sleep.

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Part 2: Bala’s prison without bars (P. Balasubramaniam)

Bala is made to sign the 2nd SD and is bundled out of the country. From thereon they keep him on a tight leash and he no longer has control over what he can say or do. He discovers he has just entered a life of imprisonment; although without the normal bars and padlocks but still a prison nevertheless.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Q 23. What happened next?

A. Deepak gave instructions to Dinesh to book a room at the Hilton Hotel KL Sentral. I left with ASP Suresh to my house in Rawang to see my wife and explain to her what was happening. I was concerned for the safety of my family. Deepak had informed me he wanted me to retract my 1st statutory declaration and then to immediately leave the country with my family. I was in a state of shock as to what was happening. I had anticipated that I would be arrested and interrogated after releasing my 1st statutory declaration but I did not anticipate my family would be threatened so I was not prepared for this. As this VIP Datuk was also involved, I realised the situation was very serious.

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Part 1: The mystery unveiled (P. Balasubramaniam)

What really happened in the 48 hours after PI Bala unveiled his first SD on 3 July 2008? Why did he sign a second SD that contradicted his first SD barely a few hours later? And where did he disappear to for more than a year just hours after signing his second SD? And which SD was signed under duress, the first or second? Today, Malaysia Today will answer all those questions that have been on the minds of Malaysians since July last year.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Q 1. After the press conference held at the PKR headquarters on the 3rd July 2008 you returned to the office of your lawyer where you stayed until about 4.30 pm.

A. Yes that is correct.

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Isteri Datuk Kamarudin meninggal dunia

Anak bongsu Datuk Kamarudin tiba dari asrama disambut abang dan kakaknya.

Anak bongsu Datuk Kamarudin tiba dari asrama disambut abang dan kakaknya.

Isteri Datuk Kamarudin Jaffar, Datin Kamariah Kamarudin meninggal dunia jam 6 pagi ini selepas sekian lama melawan kanser.

Datin Kamariah meninggal di rumahnya di No 2, Jalan SS 7/4, Kelana Jaya, di hadapan anak-anaknya kerana suami beliau, Datuk Kamarudin, anggota Parlimen Tumpat yang juga AJK PAS Pusat masih dalam perjalanan pulang dari Qatar.

Beliau bergegas pulang ke Malaysia selepas mengetahui isterinya tidak sihat malam tadi. Kamarudin, bekas Setiausaha Agung PAS, dijangka akan sampai ke KLIA tengahari ini.

Allahyarhamah Datin Kamariah, 50-an, telah sekian lama menghidap kanser usus dan sedang menerima rawatan di Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC) termasuk kimoterapi.

Suami beliaulah, walaupun dalam keadaan sibuk, sentiasa berada di sisinya termasuk berada bersama beliau setiap kali mendapatkan rawatan kimoterapi di SJMC.

Menjelang Mutamar PAS Jun lalu, Kamarudin telah memberitahu pucuk pimpinan PAS agar tidak lagi melantik beliau menjadi setiausaha agung. Alasan yang diberikan adalah untuk membolehkan beliau mempunyai lebih banyak masa dengan isterinya itu.

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Malaysia halts sedition trial of anti-government blogger

Raja Petra, 59, has infuriated authorities for years by publishing numerous claims of alleged wrongdoing by government leaders. The government has denounced Raja Petra’s allegations as lies.

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A Malaysian court on Wednesday temporarily halted the trial of a prominent anti-government blogger accused of sedition because authorities could not track him down.

Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin went into hiding in April, nearly a year after he was charged with sedition over an article he wrote that allegedly implied the prime minister was involved in the murder of a Mongolian woman.

Sessions Court Judge Rozina Ayub granted Raja Petra a “discharge not amounting to acquittal,” which means the charge has not been formally withdrawn and he can be re-arrested later, said Raja Petra’s lawyer, Jadadish Chandra.

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Raja Petra still a wanted man: CID chief

Former Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin is still a wanted man, says Federal CID director Comm Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin.

Despite being given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal by the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court earlier Wednesday, Raja Petra would most likely still have face the court over his sedition charge.

“It is up to the Attorney-General’s Chambers to decide whether to uphold the charges against him.

“We can still charge him after he comes back as the case has not been thrown out yet. He is still wanted based on the charge,” Comm Bakri said.

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RPK suggests PI Bala may soon resurface to attack Najib

The fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, or RPK, has raised the ante again against Datuk Seri Najib Razak by threatening to expose another statutory declaration by missing private investigator P. Balasubramaniam.

Talk has been swirling for several weeks now that the private investigator was going to surface after going missing since July last year.

There has been speculation that Balasubramaniam would restate allegations against the prime minister he first made in a statutory declaration last year linking Najib to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.

In a posting on his Malaysia-today.net portal, RPK alleges that Balasubramaniam had been living in India since he went missing and had been paid to keep quiet.

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