(Malaysiakini,
2nd August 2012) -- Private eye P Balasubramaniam has emerged from
hiding to drop yet another bombshell - that there was a second attempt
to bribe him when he was in exile in India, this time to smear PKR de
facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Speaking to
Malaysiakini in
an interview in Kuala Lumpur last month, Balasubramaniam claimed that
he was approached about a week before the Sarawak state election in
April last year.

"You
know these guys, they already got ‘good news' from Perth and they
needed more ‘good news' from India," said Balasubramaniam cryptically,
though he declined to elaborate further.
At the time, the
campaign machineries of both sides of the political divide had been in
high gear as every and all possible means were being used to woo voters
in the crucial state election.
It was also around this time Raja Petra Kamarudin's
interview with TV3, which was done during the controversial blogger's visit to Australia, hit the airwaves.
In the interview which was also carried by the mainstream TV
stations, Raja Petra disavowed his statutory declaration (SD) linking
Prime Minister Najib Razak's wife Rosmah Mansor to the Altantuya
Shaariibuu murder case.
Raja Petra, who is in self-imposed
exile in United Kingdom, alluded that his SD was based on information
‘planted' by PKR leaders desperate to prevent Najib, who was then deputy
prime minister, from succeeding Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Bala keeps lawyer in the loopIn Balasubramaniam's case, the private eye claimed he was asked to implicate Anwar and PKR leaders of paying him to
commit perjury in his 2008 SD
linking Najib with murdered Mongolian national Altantuya.

He
said he was approached by the same people who had threatened and
subsequently paid him a substantial amount to sign a second SD to say
that his first sworn statement was made
'under duress' - businessman Deepak Jaikishan (
right) and a police officer by the name of Suresh.
A
key figure in the controversy surrounding the murder of Altantuya,
Balasubramaniam fled to India with his family after signing the second
SD.
Apparently promised RM5 million for his about-turn,
Balasubramaniam said he received a total of RM700,000, in instalments,
before the payments eventually stopped.
According to the
private investigator, he was contacted by Deepak and Suresh through a
mutual friend, Siva, about one week before the Sarawak election.
Siva,
a businessman, had called Balasubramaiam's wife at their home in India
as the private investigator was at the time taking a former staff on a
temple tour in northern India.
Balasubramaniam's wife was told that Suresh and Deepak wanted to speak to him and she relayed the message to him.
"I told my wife I didn't want to speak to anyone."
After she conveyed his response to Siva, Suresh subsequently called her repeatedly on the phone.
"They were ‘torturing' my wife like hell. My wife could not take the pressure."
To
spare his wife the harassment by Suresh, Balasubramaniam said he
finally agreed to speak with Suresh and Deepak, but only after seeking
advice from Americk Sidhu, his Malaysian lawyer.
Video recording was to tarnish AnwarAmerick told him to play along, and to document the events as they took place.
"Speak to them, get whatever evidence... it's for your ‘insurance'," Balasubramaniam said his lawyer told him.
Suresh then contacted him directly, after his wife gave his phone number to the police officer.
He
said Suresh told him: "This is the deal: RM200,000 cash and a condo in
Berjaya Times Square and after this, after everything is okay, I'll
let you come back, and then maybe we will give you a project."
When
Balasubramaniam asked Suresh what they wanted in return, Suresh told
him that they wanted him to read out a statement they had prepared and
for this to be recorded on video.

Asked what the statement was about, Balasubramaniam described it as "tarnishing PKR number one (Anwar)".
Part
of the statement that was given to Balasubramaniam states: "I had to
change my second SD because I was approached by Anwar who convinced me
that he will become the new prime minister very shortly."
It also says that Anwar gave him RM200,000 "in a bag" and that RM50,000 would be banked into his account monthly.
The
statement adds that both Balasubramaiam and Padang Serai MP N
Gobalakrishnan would be made senators "to safeguard the rights of the
Indians", and that the private eye had finally decided to come out with
the "truth" because Anwar had betrayed the Indian community.
Initially
Balasubramaniam refused to record the video on his own. He asked
Deepak and Suresh to fly to India together with TV3 and
Utusan Malaysia journalists, and he would do as they asked.
However,
after a whole day had passed and further negotiations took place -
this time with Deepak himself - Balasubramaniam finally agreed to make
the video recording after it was stressed upon him that they needed the
footage urgently.
Suresh then banked in RM100,000 into an
account in the name of Balasubramaniam's wife. Then, through Siva,
Deepak and Suresh handed over a copy of a sale-and-purchase agreement
for the Berjaya Times Square condominium.
However, Balasubramaniam said he played his trump card after leading both Deepak and Suresh on.
'Deepak's furious call recorded' "It
(the video) was ready, already keyed in, I just (needed to) mail it.
What I did was to mail it to my lawyer. When Deepak called, I told him I
was sorry, I pressed the wrong button and mailed it to my lawyer
instead."
On hearing this, Deepak was livid with anger.
"He was shouting at me like hell - that recording is with my lawyer - our last telephone communication, (and) I recorded it."
Asked if this was his intention right from the beginning, Balasubramaniam said "yes" and gave a hearty laugh.

"You
know, this was the best opportunity I had. I did not come to ask (him
for) money, I did an (first) SD, (and they) all came and jumped (on me)
and sent my whole family (away to India).
"I lost my mother, I lost everything, what is left? I am sitting in Malaysia, my wife is sitting in India."
According
to Balasubramaniam, his mother died when he was in hiding in India. It
was only later, after Najib became prime minister, that he was able to
make secret trips to Malaysia.
The private eye said he
transferred the RM100,000 Suresh put in his wife's bank account to his
lawyer's client account, and asked it to be returned to Deepak, who has
a carpet business and is a
close friend of PM's wife, Rosmah. The sale-and-purchase agreement of the condominium is also with his lawyer.
Balasubramaniam
disclosed that he had recorded some of the conversations he had with
Deepak and kept a logbook detailing everything that took place.
The evidence, he said, was being kept for his protection.
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