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 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.
28.6 That 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
For those curious of the gruesome murder of the mysterious
Mongolian girl Altantuyaa, the first statutory declaration of private
investigator Subramaniam is an interesting reading.
Although the court had found Policemen Sirul Azahar and Azilah guilty
for the murder of Altantuya, many believe that they were mere scapegoats. The real masterminds remain at large.
