{"id":2902,"date":"2010-07-15T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/07\/interview-of-mr-balasubramanian\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T07:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T23:23:43","slug":"interview-of-mr-balasubramanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/interview-of-mr-balasubramanian\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview of Mr. Balasubramanian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whodunit2motiv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/whodunit2motiv.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><strong>&#8211; By French Police\/French Lawyer<\/strong><br \/>The French investigator appeared to be very  familiar with the events in Malaysia relating to the Altantunya murder.  The interview however centered on the scorpene submarine deal and the  alleged commission paid in connection with that.<\/div>\n<div>Police Interview<br \/>Date of interview: 12.7.2010<br \/>Time  of interview: 2 pm. Interview took 3 hours.<br \/>Place of interview:  Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciare DNIF, Nanterre, Paris<br \/>Interviewed  by Mr. M. Ryckewaert assisted by English interpreter and another lady  officer. Interview conducted in French through English interpreter.<br \/>Observation:  The French investigator appeared to be very familiar with the events in  Malaysia relating to the Altantunya murder. The interview however  centered on the scorpene submarine deal and the alleged commission paid  in connection with that.<\/div>\n<div>The following  were the areas covered in the interview.<br \/>1. My background [including  date and place of birth] and my occupation ranging from time I was with  Malaysian police to time when I became a private investigator in 1998.<br \/>2.  The validity of my PI license.<br \/>3. The whole story as to how I was  recruited to do a job for Razak Baginda and my interview before the job  done by Mr. Dhirren Norendra, a lawyer practicing in Kuala Lumpur. I was  questioned about the scope of my assignment, the target and objectives  of my assignment.<br \/>4. The background to the Altantunya murder. I  briefed them of the events 4eading up to and after the murder and also  told them to read my first SD and the Singapore interview. Also the  identity of the two police officers convicted of the murder, who they  worked for as well as the identity of the various other people  identified as being about when Altantunya disappeared and their link to  Baginda and\/or the PM.<br \/>5 . Razak Baginda\u2019s relationship with our  present PM, the information and events narrated to me by Baginda  including the sms sent by the PM to Baginda at the point of his arrest  for the murder of Altantunya.<br \/>6. The Malaysian company, Perimekar,  its ownership, and link to Baginda and his wife. Also nature of business  undertaken by Perimeker. I told them of the presence of army equipment  in Baginda\u2019s office. Information concerning Razak Baginda and his  present whereabouts.<br \/>7. Financial payments by Razak Baginda to  Altantuya including the three US$5K payments by Baginda to Altantunya  including a penalty of US$1K because late banking in. Also the purchase  by Razak Baginda of an apartment in Mongolia for Altantunya. Also the  background to US$500K payment demanded by Altantunya, its background,  how it arose, its link to the Scorpene submarine deal, Altanunya\u2019s  involvement in the negotiations and admission and confirmation by  Baginda that he should have paid Altantunya the money.<br \/>8. How Rosmah  Mansor teamed up with Deepak to exile me from Malaysia, the<br \/>threats  to my family after I signed the first SD as well as the involvement of  the PM\u2019s brother in the events that led to the 2nd SD and my being  smuggled out of Malaysia and asked to stay away till Najib became PM.<br \/>9.  I was asked to retrace the events in Rawang coffee house where Deepak,  Dinesh and ASP Suresh were present.<br \/>10. The length and time I have in  exile.<br \/>11. Details concerning Altantunya\u2019s cousin. Ammy, who had  knowledge of the Paris<br \/>dinner where the PM and Razak Baginda were  present with Altantunya.<br \/>12. The identity of French individuals  involved in the Scorpene deal.<br \/>13. My knowledge of any payments by  the French to Perimekar and information given to me by Altantunya that  her US$500K was because of the successful deal concerning the Scorpene  submarine transaction.<br \/>14. The identity, background and involvement  of two Malaysians identified as Major Rahim and Abdul Rahim bin Saad.<br \/>15.  Altantuya\u2019s family background.<br \/>16. My links with Suaram, if any.<br \/>17.  The need for justice to be served for the Altantunya murder and the  truth to be told concerning the Scorpene deal.<br \/>I signed the statement  that the French officer recorded.<br \/>Meeting with the French Lawyer<br \/>I  also met with Mr. Joseph Breham, a French lawyer acting for Suaram, on  13.7.2010 at 10 a.m. at his office at Cabinet Bourdon-Voituriez-Burget,  156 Rue e Rivoli, Paris. 15\/07\/10 &#8211; malaysianindian1.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bala and the wider French probe into DCN<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Officers of the National Financial Investigation Division (DNIF) of France are responsible for probing into the conditions of sale of submarines to Malaysia, especially a related 114 million euro payment, a French website has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The DNIF is a divison of the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) based in Nanterre near Paris. This was where Bala was questioned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The DCPJ is the national authority of the criminal division of the French police tasked with leading and coordinating the actions of law enforcement forces (Police Nationale and Gendarmerie Nationale) against organised crime (either criminal or financial activities). In carrying out its investigations, the DCPJ works with other institutions such as the Customs and Revenue Service, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of the DCN investigation are serious: the bribery of foreign public officials is punishable in France since June 2000 with ten years\u2019 imprisonment and a 150,000-euro fine, said the Liberation website.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the weapons consortium have already come under two financial investigations. Since February 2008, investigative judges Francoise Desset and Jean-Christophe Hullin have been looking into \u201cbribery and corruption\u201d involving DCN deals. Earlier this year, a preliminary investigation was opened into an attack in Karachi linked to the sale of Agosta submarines to Pakistan in 1994, reported Liberation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several officials have already been placed under investigation in the wider DCN affair involving deals with other countries, noted the respected French media group Le Monde with AFP on 29 June:<\/p>\n<p><em>Jean-Marie Boivin, the representative of the Luxembourg company Eurolux, and whose name is cited in the case of the attack in Karachi in 2002, was placed under investigation Monday, June 28 by the judges Francoise Desset and Jean-Christophe Hullin in another investigation of the former Department of Naval Construction (DCN) for espionage and corruption\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Marie Boivin had already been summoned by the magistrates on June 16 but he did not attend the meeting. He was finally indicted on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have been indicted in this case: Claude Thevenet, consultant and former member of the management of the Territorial Surveillance (DST cons-espionage), Gerard Philippe Menayas, a former executive of DCN, and Jean Peter Dentel, a tax auditor for the national division of tax investigations.<\/em><br \/><strong><br \/>BOIVIN CITED IN SURVEY KARACHI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The name of Jean-Marie Boivin appears in the investigation into the attack in Karachi (Pakistan) in 2002. Commissions paid on the sale of submarines to Pakistan in 1994 were handled by a company called Heine, whose representative Mr. Boivin was created with the support of Nicolas Sarkozy when he was budget minister in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen people, including eleven employees of DCN working on the construction of submarines, died in the attack in May 2002: French antiterrorist judges suspect that it was in retaliation for the arrest of payment of these commissions to the Pakistani army. &#8211; annilnetto.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; By French Police\/French LawyerThe French investigator appeared to be very familiar with the events in Malaysia relating to the Altantunya murder. The interview however centered on the scorpene submarine deal and the alleged commission paid in connection with that. Police InterviewDate of interview: 12.7.2010Time of interview: 2 pm. 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