Salmah Ahmad
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:45:47 -0700
THE STATUTORY DECLARATION
I, Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal (NRIC NO: xxxxxx-xx-6235) a Malaysian Citizen of
full age and residing at xxxxx, Selangor do solemly and sincerely declare as
follows :-
1. I have been a police officer with the Royal Malaysian Police Force having
jointed as a constable in 1981 attached to the Police Field Force. I was then
promoted to the rank of lance Corporal and finally resigned from the Police
Force in 1998 when I was with the Special Branch.
2. I have been working as a free lance Private Investigator since I left the
Police Force.
3. Sometime in June or July 2006, I was employed by Abdul Razak Baginda for a
period of 10 days to look after him at his office at the Bangunan Getah Asli,
Jalan Ampang between the hours of 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m each working day as
apparently he was experiencing disturbances from a third party.
4. I resigned from this job after 2 ½ days as I was not receiving any proper
instructions.
5. I was however re-employed by Abdul Razak Baginda on the 05-10-2006 as he had
apparently received a harassing phone call from a Chinese man calling himself
ASP Tan who had threatened him to pay his debts. I later found out this
gentleman was in fact a private investigator called Ang who was employed by a
Mongolian woman called Altantuya Shaaribuu.
6. Abdul Razak Baginda was concerned that a person by the name of Altantuya
Shaaribuu, a Mongolian woman, was behind this threat and that she would be
arriving in Malaysia very soon to try and contact him.
7. Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that he was concerned by this as he had been
advised that Altantuya Shaaribuu had been given some powers by a Mongolian
‘bomoh’ and that he could never look her in the face because of this.
8. When I enquired as to who this Mongolian woman was, Abdul Razak Baginda
informed me that she was a friend of his who had been introduced to him by a
VIP and who asked him to look after her financially.
9. I advised him to lodge a police report concerning the threatening phone call
he had received from the Chinese man known as ASP Tan but he refused to do so
as he informed me there were some high profile people involved.
10. Abdul Razak Baginda further told me that Altantuya Shaaribuu was a great
liar and good in convincing people. She was supposed to have been very
demanding financially and that he had even financed a property for her in
Mongolia.
11. Abdul Razak Baginda then let me listen to some voice messages on his
handphone asking him to pay what was due otherwise he would be harmed and his
daughter harassed.
12. I was therefore supposed to protect his daughter Rowena as well.
13. On the 09.10.2006 I received a phone call from Abdul Razak Baginda at about
9.30 a.m. informing me that Altantuya was in his office and he wanted me there
immediately. As I was in the midst of a surveillance, I sent my assistant Suras
to Abdul Razak Baginda’s office and I followed a little later. Suras managed to
control the situation and had persuaded Altantuya and her two friends to leave
the premises. However Altantuya left a note written on some Hotel Malaya note
paper, in English, asking Abdul Razak Baginda to call her on her handphone
(number given) and wrote down her room number as well.
14. Altantuya had introduced herself to Suras as ‘Aminah’ and had informed
Suras she was there to see her boyfriend Abdul Razak Baginda.
15. These 3 Mongolian girls however returned to Abdul Razak Baginda’s office at
the Bangunan Getah Asli, Jalan Ampang again, the next day at about 12.00 noon.
They did not enter the building but again informed Suras that they wanted to
meet Aminah’s boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda.
16. On the 11.10.2006, Aminah returned to Abdul Razak Baginda’s office on her
own and gave me a note to pass to him, which I did. Abdul Razak Baginda showed
me the note which basically asked him to call her urgently.
17. I suggested to Abdul Razak Baginda that perhaps it may be wise to arrange
for Aminah to be arrested if she harassed him further, but he declined as he
felt she would have to return to Mongolia as soon as her cash ran out.
18. In the meantime I had arranged for Suras to perform surveillance on Hotel
Malaya to monitor the movements of these 3 Mongolian girls, but they recognized
him. Apparently they become friends with Suras after that and he ended up
spending a few nights in their hotel room.
19. When Abdul Razak Baginda discovered Suras was becoming close to Aminah he
asked me to pull him out from Hotel Malaya.
20. On the 14.10.2006, Aminah turned up at Abdul Razak Baginda’s house in
Damansara Heights when I was not there. Abdul Razak Baginda called me on my
handphone to inform me of this so I rushed back to his house. As I arrived, I
noticed Aminah outside the front gates shouting “Razak, bastard, come out from
the house”. I tried to calm her down but couldn’t so I called the police who
arrived in 2 patrol cars. I explained the situation to the police, who took her
away to the Brickfields police station.
21. I followed the patrol cars to Brickfields police station in a taxi. I
called Abdul Razak Baginda and his lawyer Dirren to lodge a police report but
they refused.
22. When I was at the Brickfields police station, Aminah’s own Private
Investigator, one Mr. Ang arrived and we had a discussion. I was told to
deliver a demand to Abdul Razak Baginda for USD$500,000.00 and 3 tickets to
Mongolia, apparently as commission owed to Aminah from a deal in Paris.
23. As Aminah had calmed down at this stage, a policewoman at the Brickfields
police station advised me to leave and settle the matter amicably.
24. I duly informed Abdul Razak Baginda of the demands Aminah had made and told
him I was disappointed that no one wanted to back me up in lodging a police
report. We had a long discussion about the situation when I expressed a desire
to pull out of this assignment.
25. During this discussion and in an attempt to persuade me to continue my
employment with him, Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that :-
25.1 He had been introduced to Aminah by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at a
diamond exhibition in Singapore.
25.2 Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak informed Abdul Razak Baginda that he had a
sexual relationship with Aminah and that she was susceptible to anal
intercourse.
25.3 Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wanted Abdul Razak Baginda to look after Aminah
as he did not want her to harass him since he was now the Deputy Prime
Minister.
25.4 Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Abdul Razak Baginda and Aminah had all been
together at a dinner in Paris.
25.5 Aminah wanted money from him as she felt she was entitled to a
USD$500,000.00 commission on a submarine deal she assisted with in Paris.
26. On the 19.10.2006, I arrived at Abdul Razak Baginda’s house in Damansara
Heights to begin my night duty. I had parked my car outside as usual. I saw a
yellow proton perdana taxi pass by with 3 ladies inside, one of whom was
Aminah. The taxi did a U-turn and stopped in front of the house where these
ladies rolled down the window and wished me ‘Happy Deepavali’. The taxi then
left.
27. About 20 minutes later the taxi returned with only Aminah in it. She got
out of the taxi and walked towards me and started talking to me. I sent an SMS
to Abdul Razak Baginda informing him “Aminah was here”. I received an SMS from
Razak instructing me “To delay her until my man comes”.
28. Whist I was talking to Aminah, she informed me of the following :-
28.1 That she met Abdul Razak Baginda in Singapore with Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak.
28.2 That she had also met Abdul Razak Baginda and Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
at a dinner in Paris.
28.3 That she was promised a sum of USD$500,000.00 as commission for assisting
in a Submarine deal in Paris.
28.4 That Abdul Razak Baginda had bought her a house in Mongolia but her
brother had refinanced it and she needed money to redeem it.
28.5 That her mother was ill and she needed money to pay for her treatment.
28.6That Abdul Razak Baginda had married her in Korea as her mother is Korean
whilst her father was a Mongolian/Chinese mix.
28.7 That if I wouldn’t allow her to see Abdul Razak Baginda, would I be able
to arrange for her to see Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
29. After talking to Aminah for about 15 minutes, a red proton aeroback arrived
with a woman and two men. I now know the woman to be Lance Corporal Rohaniza
and the men, Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azahar. They were all in plain clothes.
Azilah walked towards me while the other two stayed in the car.
30. Azilah asked me whether the woman was Aminah and I said ‘Yes’. He then
walked off and made a few calls on his handphone. After 10 minutes another
vehicle, a blue proton saga, driven by a Malay man, passed by slowly. The
drivers window had been wound down and the driver was looking at us.
31. Azilah then informed me they would be taking Aminah away. I informed Aminah
they were arresting her. The other two persons then got out of the red proton
and exchanged seats so that Lance Corporal Rohaniza and Aminah were in the back
while the two men were in the front. They drove off and that is the last I ever
saw of Aminah.
32. Abdul Razak Baginda was not at home when all this occurred.
33. After the 19.10.2006, I continued to work for Abdul Razak Baginda at his
house in Damansara Heights from 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 a.m. the next morning, as he
had been receiving threatening text messages from a woman called ‘Amy’ who was
apparently ‘Aminah’s’ cousin in Mongolia.
34. On the night of the 20.10.2006, both of Aminah’s girl friends turned up at
Abdul Razak Baginda’s house enquiring where Aminah was. I informed them she had
been arrested the night before.
35. A couple of nights later, these two Mongolian girls, Mr. Ang and another
Mongolian girl called ‘Amy’ turned up at Abdul Razak Baginda’s house looking
for Aminah as they appeared to be convinced she was being held in the house.
36. A commotion began so I called the police who arrived shortly thereafter in
a patrol car. Another patrol car arrived a short while later in which was the
investigating officer from the Dang Wangi Police Station who was in charge of
the missing persons report lodged by one of the Mongolians girls, I believe was
Amy.
37. I called Abdul Razak Baginda who was at home to inform him of the events
taking place at his front gate. He then called DSP Musa Safri and called me
back informing me that Musa Safri would be calling handphone and I was to pass
the phone to the Inspector from Dang Wangi Police Station.
38. I then received a call on my handphone from Musa Safri and duly handed the
phone to the Dang Wangi Inspector. The conversation lasted 3 - 4 minutes after
which he told the girls to disperse and to go to see him the next day.
39. On or about the 24.10.2006, Abdul Razak Baginda instructed me to accompany
him to the Brickfields police station as he had been advised to lodge a police
report about the harassment he was receiving from these Mongolian girls.
40. Before this, Amy had sent me an SMS informing me she was going to Thailand
to lodge a report with the Mongolian consulate there regarding Aminah’s
disappearance. Apparently she had sent the same SMS to Abdul Razak Baginda.
This is why he told me he had been advised to lodge a police report.
41. Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that DPS Musa Safri had introduced him to
one DSP Idris, the head of the Criminal division, Brickfields police station,
and that Idris had referred him to ASP Tonny.
42. When Abdul Razak Baginda had lodged his police report at Brickfields police
station, in front of ASP Tonny, he was asked to make a statement but he refused
as he said he was leaving for overseas. He did however promise to prepare a
statement and hand ASP Tonny a thumb drive. I know that this was not done as
ASP Tonny told me.
43. However ASP Tonny asked me the next day to provide my statement instead and
so I did.
44. I stopped working for Abdul Razak Baginda on the 26.10.2006 as this was the
day he left for Hong Kong on his own.
45. In mid November 2006, I received a phone call from ASP Tonny from the IPK
Jalan Hang Tuah asking me to see him regarding Aminah’s case. When I arrived
there I was immediately arrested under S.506 of the Penal Code for Criminal
intimidation.
46. I was then placed in the lock up and remanded for 5 days. On the third day
I was released on police bail.
47. At the end of November 2006, the D9 department of the IPK sent a detective
to my house to escort me to the IPK Jalan Hang Tuah. When I arrived, I was told
I was being arrested under S.302 of the Penal Code for murder. I was put in the
lock up and remanded for 7 days.
48. I was transported to Bukit Aman where I was interrogated and questioned
about an SMS I had received from Abdul Razak Baginda on the 19.10.2006 which
read “delay her until my man arrives”. They had apparently retrieved this
message from Abdul Razak Baginda’s handphone.
49. They then proceeded to record my statement from 8.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
everyday for 7 consecutive days. I told them all I knew including everything
Abdul Razak Baginda and Aminah had told me about their relationships with Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak but when I came to sign my statement, these details had
been left out.
50. I have given evidence in the trial of Azilah, Sirul and Abdul Razak Baginda
at the Shah Alam High Court. The prosecutor did not ask me any questions in
respect of Aminah’s relationship with Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak or of the
phone call I received from DSP Musa Safri, whom I believe was the ADC for Datuk
Seri Najib Razak and/or his wife.
51. On the day Abdul Razak Baginda was arrested, I was with him at his lawyers
office at 6.30 a.m. Abdul Razak Baginda informed us that he had sent Datuk Seri
Najib Tun Razak an SMS the evening before as he refused to believe he was to be
arrested, but had not received a response.
52. Shortly thereafter, at about 7.30 a.m., Abdul Razak Baginda received an SMS
from Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and showed, this message to both myself and his
lawyer. This message read as follows :- ” I am seeing IGP at 11.00 a.m. today
…… matter will be solved … be cool”.
53. I have been made to understand that Abdul Razak Baginda was arrested the
same morning at his office in the Bangunan Getah Asli, Jalan Ampang.
54. The purpose of this Statutory declaration is to :-
54.1 State my disappointment at the standard of investigations conducted by the
authorities into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Altantuya
Shaaribuu.
54.2 Bring to the notice of the relevant authorities the strong possibility
that there are individuals other than the 3 accused who must have played a role
in the murder of Altantuya Shaaribuu.
54.3 Persuade the relevant authorities to reopen their investigations into this
case immediately so that any fresh evidence may be presented to the Court prior
to submissions at the end of the prosecutions case.
54.4 Emphasize the fact that having been a member of the Royal Malaysian Police
Force for 17 years I am absolutely certain no police officer would shoot
someone in the head and blow up their body without receiving specific
instructions from their superiors first.
54.5. Express my concern that should the defence not be called in the said
murder trial, the accused, Azilah and Sirul will not have to swear on oath and
testify as to the instructions they received and from whom they were given.
55. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same be
true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act 1960.
SUBCRIBED and solemnly )
declared by the abovenamed )
Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal ]
this day of 2008 )
Before me,
………………………………….
Commissioner for Oath
Kuala Lumpur
03 July 2008
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