French Scorpene probe points fingers at Malaysian officials, says Suaram



By Clara Chooi
Apr 20, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr twenty French prosecutors have uncovered justification to infer a impasse of Malaysian officials in multimillion ringgit worth of elect as kickbacks for a sale of dual Scorpene submarines to Malaysia, Suaram suggested today.
Malaysia paid RM6.7 billion in 2009 for a dual submarines of which RM574 million was earmarked for co-ordination as well as await services for Perimekar Sdn Bhd, owned by Prime Minister Najib Razak's close associate Abdul Razak Baginda. Abdul Razak is being sought as a witness in a French case.
A Scorpene upon patrol. Picture courtesy of shaktiraj25.blogspot.com
"Investigations upon a French side so far have provided enough justification to point fingers during specific Malaysian officials' impasse in a Scorpene commissions," a human rights group's counsel Joseph Breham pronounced in a make a difference here.
"For us to arrive during this stage of a discussion is a enormous step in a pursuit of a Scorpene commissions, a single of a biggest crime scandals in Malaysia in new years."
The organisation pronounced a members successfully filed a formal censure with a Paris judiciary yesterday opposite Malaysia's disaster to address a critical allegations of kickbacks involving a government, suggesting a deliberate termination of report to keep a issue under wraps.
Suaram board member Dr Kua Kia Soong, who is among dual alternative members right away in Paris for a matter, told a judiciary which a hopes of Malaysians right away rest upon a discussion in France as all alternative avenues in Malaysia have been exhausted.
Among others, Dr Kua listed a attempted murder trial of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu, a "ineffectual" Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commi! ssion as well as a "lack of transparency" in parliamentary replies over a purported Scorpene commissions.
"But from what has been done available to Suaram right away as a complainant in this case, enough justification is right away available to inculpate specified Malaysian officials," a organisation said.
During a meeting during a Tribunal Grande instance de Paris during 3pm French time yesterday, inquisitive decider Roger Le loire had asked Suaram for a list of potential witnesses as a box proceeds.
Among others, Suaram due Abdul Razak, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, Altantuya's father Dr Setev Shaariibuu, Jasbir Singh Chahl, Tan Sri Lodin as well as Mazlinda.
Abdul Razak was purported to be Altantuya's one-time lover. During her attempted murder trial, he was acquitted of a charge of abetting dual Special Action Squad members Azilah Hadri as well as Sirul Azhar Umar to commit a attempted murder in 2006.
Last week, Setev Shaariibuu told a press discussion in Petaling Jaya which he had offered himself as a witness in a Scorpene submarine probe, claiming which his testimony would be able to "connect a dots" in between her death as well as a Scorpene" case.
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