MI : PKR Youth chief to help MACC find PI Bala

By Neville Spykerman PUTRAJAYA, Dec 4 — PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin has promised the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) that he will help the agency find P. Balasubramaniam to investigate the private investigator's claims of pay-offs related to the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case. Shamsul gave his word to help the anti-graft authorities when they interviewed him today over his report about Bala's claims that Datuk Seri Najib Razak knew murdered Mongolian model Altantuya and the private investigator was paid to retract statements to that effect. "The prime minister can no longer remain silent on these allegations and should come forward to clear his name," Shamsul told reporters after the interview at the MACC headquarters here. He had lodged a report with the MACC on Wednesday against architect Nazim Razak and a businessman called Deepak, who were implicated by Bala as those who told him to overturn his first statutory declaration made in July 2008. Nazim is Najib's brother. Deepak was repeatedly named during the series of interviews published by the Malaysia-Today news portal recently and was painted as a key go-between in getting Bala to recant his initial claims which linked Najib to Altantuya. He also allegedly arranged a meeting between Bala and Nazim prior to the private investigator's sudden disappearance after issuing a second statutory declaration that repudiated the first one.