By Debra Chong
April 23, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 For rights group Suaram, uncovering the law is its own prerogative even though the perpetrators of the crime have been not brought to book.
The non-profit organization formally filed the complaint with the Paris polite court final Thursday over the multimillion Scorpene submarine sale to Putrajaya, despite meaningful the French have no power to act upon Malaysians outward Europe as it has no mutual legal benefit treaty.
"We have been wakeful which the supervision might hedge the court process, however we hold which there is the still probability for us to expose the law as there have been alternative witnesses who will come brazen to testify," pronounced Fadiah Nadwa Fikri.
File photo of the yellow submarine cake which was auctioned during the Scorpene fundraising cooking in Petaling Jaya final year.
Her alternative dual teammates were Suaram executive Kua Kia Soong as well as secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel.
Suaram has accused Putrajaya of unwell to residence the critical allegations of multimillion ringgit kickbacks involving high-ranking supervision officials, suggesting the deliberate termination of report to keep the issue under wraps.
Malaysia paid RM6.7 billion in 2009 for the dual submarines of which RM574 million was earmarked for co-ordination as well as support services for Perimekar Sdn Bhd, ! owned by domestic analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.
Abdul Razak, his mother Mazlinda Makhzan, the executive in the company, as well as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak tip the list of witnesses submitted by Suaram, Fadiah said. Najib was counterclaim apportion when the RM7.3 billion understanding was inked.
She pronounced the French investigators have nonetheless to finalise the witnesses to be called, as well as which even those declared might challenge the summons to attest though legislation forcing them to comply.
She clicked her tongue when recounting reading news reports which Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had refused to attest in the Paris exploration which started final week. She pronounced she remembered him volunteering for it final year.
PM Najib has declined to criticism upon the make the difference when pointedly asked if he would attend the exploration if subpoenaed.
"I do not need to comment... I do not want to comment, thank you," Najib was quoted as observant yesterday whilst upon the day-trip to Penang to galvanize his Barisan Nasional (BN) belligerent troops forward of national polls approaching soon.
Fadiah pronounced Suaram chose to file the box in France because it was left with no redress with authorities here.
The French prosecutors' decision to open the books upon its counterclaim hulk DCNS's international business exchange was "an opportunity for Suaram as well as Malaysian taxpayers to find the law based upon the review finished upon both French as well as Malaysian side."
"This is the resource which can be used to disciple burden in cases associated to the crime of corruption.
"Only by this exploration all facts will be free in the court of law for Malaysian taxpayers to answers as to what essentially transpired," she said.
She added: "It is to be remarkable which the single of Suaram's charge is to disciple burden as well as good! governa nce."
Human rights groups as well as opposition parties have linked the submarine squeeze to the 2006 murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu, the one-time lover to Abdul Razak.
The former domestic analyst, who headed think-tank Malaysian Strategic Research, was acquitted of the charge of aiding dual Special Action Squad members Azilah Hadri as well as Sirul Azhar Umar to dedicate the murder in 2006.
Earlier this month, Altantuya's father Dr Setev Shaariibuu told the press conference in Petaling Jaya which he had offered himself as the witness in the Scorpene submarine probe, claiming which his testimony would be able to "connect the dots" between her death as well as the Scorpene" case.
Fadiah pronounced the tribunal was currently investigating the make the difference as the polite box though which Suaram's French counsel had told them the prosecutors might be filing rapist charges soon.
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