Lawyer Arulampalam Mariampillai says his client’s first statutory declaration was made under duress

KUALA LUMPUR: Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam will not be let off so easily, after making bombshell claims on Thursday and then withdrawing them less than 24 hours later.

Police have now got into the act and are investigating both his statutory [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The lawyer who had taken down the statutory declaration by private investigator P. Balasubramaniam said it was done voluntarily.

Americk Singh Sidhu claimed Balasubramaniam had been “intimidated” to change his story within 24 hours.
He said at a press conference he first met Balasubramaniam two months ago where he was asked for assistance in preparing [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth will counter every accusation against party leaders by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, its chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said.

In a statement yesterday, Hishammuddin said Umno had had enough of Anwar’s “lies, accusations and nonsense” and would not stand idly by as he slandered party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and [...]

(From left) Gurbachan Singh says a statutory declaration is made under oath; Mohamad Ramli Abdul Manan says one of Balasubramaniam’s SDs is definitely false; and Karpal Singh says Balasubramaniam should be probed under the Penal Code

KUALA LUMPUR: Criminal lawyers said private investigator P. Balasubramaniam has committed an offence for making conflicting statutory declarations [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: A statutory declaration (SD) can be tendered as evidence in court in the absence of the maker.

Kuala Lumpur Bar criminal practice committee chairman N. Sivananthan said this could happen if the maker was dead or could not be found.
Hovever, Sivananthan said the weight to be given to a SD was up to the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The statutory declaration made by private investigator P. Balasubramaniam linking Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak with Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, cannot be withdrawn, says Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan.

She said the statutory declaration was made in accordance with the procedure and sealed by a Commissioner for Oaths.
“A statutory declaration is a [...]

Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s house in Rawang appears deserted.
RAWANG: All is quiet at the home of private investigator P. Balasubramaniam.

Checks yesterday afternoon revealed there was no one at home, except for two ferocious dogs left inside cages in the porch of the single-storey extensively-renovated terrace house. The dogs were each left with a [...]

Lt-Gen Datuk Mohd Salleh Ismail says Anwar may have other sources of information

KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s military intelligence yesterday denied it had been a source of information for Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim concerning threats to his safety and that of his family members.

Its director, Lt-Gen Datuk Mohd [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda’s private investigator P. Balasubramaniam on Friday retracted the statutory declaration which he made less than 24 hours ago.
In a startling turn of events Balasubramaniam revealed in a second statutory declaration that he wished “to retract the entire contents of my statutory declaration dated July 1 2008. I was [...]

POKOK SENA: Tindakan penyiasat persendirian P. Balasubramaniam menarik balik tuduhan terhadap Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak setelah mendakwa Timbalan Perdana Menteri itu mempunyai hubungan dengan wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibuu dalam akuan bersumpahnya membuktikan konspirasi untuk menjatuhkan pemimpin Umno itu gagal.
Naib Ketua Pemuda Umno, Khairy Jamaluddin berkata, pengakuan tersebut jelas merupakan satu perkara yang direka cipta oleh [...]