Pakatan pledges to leave no stone unturned in Scorpene scandal


Malaysia's Scorpene-class diesel-electric submarine, "KD Tunku Abdul Rahman", docks in Port Klang outside Kuala Lumpur in this September 3, 2009 record photo. Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun twenty-seven Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers have vowed to go upon hounding the Najib administration department with the Scorpene submarine scandal, suggesting currently that the government was hiding during the back of the contribution final night when it denied knowledge of the alleged sale of Malaysia's naval secrets to the French.
The lawmakers pronounced that if the allegations were proven true, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi could be cited for contempt for creation the claim in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday while the Hong Kong-based company owned by Abdul Razak Baginda, that was suggested in an ongoing French exploration as the organisation that sold the secrets, c! ould be charged with treason.
Abdul Razak, the political researcher investigated in the murder of Mongolian indication Altantuya Shaariibuu, has often been pronounced to be the close join forces with of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Najib was counterclaim minister during the time when the RM7 billion Scorpene submarines were purchased in 2002 but he has given denied allegations of having perceived hefty commissions in the argumentative purchase.
There has been no justification linking him without delay to crime in the deal as well as his supporters have accused the federal antithesis of reviving the issue to tarnish his certification forward of the general choosing that must be called soon.
PAS MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad told the press discussion currently that notwithstanding Ahmad Zahid's rejection yesterday, the matter could not usually be laid to rest as well as should be investigated to the really end.
"This is not usually about mi! sleading Parliament. This is treason.
"We cannot put it to rest until as well as unless the proof is all uncovered. So we must leave no mill unturned," the Kuala Selangor MP said.
In his reply to an demurral speech by Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar yesterday, Ahmad Zahid had insisted that no information was leaked regarding the evaluation of the Scorpene submarines, notwithstanding justice papers from the ongoing French exploration claiming the contrary.
"To the most appropriate knowledge of the ministry, up to now there is no information detected to have been taken out of Malaysia.
"The Defence Ministry has no information upon the allegations of so-called secre! t docume nts sold by Terasasi (Hong Kong) to Thint Middle East (Thales International) pronounced to be value 36 million (RM142 million)," he had said.
He additionally denied any knowledge of exchange in in in between the dual companies, the latter having shaped the joint-venture with French counterclaim giant DCNS to set up the dual vessels, as the government had no exchange with either company in the purchase.
But PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang furnished an additional justice document today, that he claims proves the government had lied in its denial.
"The government says that they do not know about Terasasi's existence as well as they definitely denied that Terasasi has sold secret Malaysian naval papers to France.
"But yesterday we suggested the annual earnings that showed that Terasasi's owners are usually dual Abdul Razak as well as his father, the same owners of Perimekar," he said, indicating out that Putrajaya had formerly i! nsisted that it had signed the stipulate with Perimekar for "coordination as well as await services".
"So if the government claims that they do not know, it means that Abdul Razak was dishonest in his stipulate since he not usually perceived payments from the government, the stipulate was additionally signed in in in b! etween T erasasi as well as Thompson, that after became (French shipmaker) DCNS," he said.
The Batu MP additionally cited the French justice document available online upon Middle East Sentinel, where Abdul Razak was mentioned as the party to the argumentative Scorpene submarine purchase.
Chua singled out Document 136, that was translated from French, that sum the talk in in in between the French military as well as DCNS' financial controller, Gerard-Philippe Menayas.
The document, distributed to the media today, was of Menayas' reason to the military of how the organisation had to use other join forces with companies to have payments to Abd! ul Razak 's Terasasi.
Even some-more important from the document, pronounced Chua, was Menayas' transparent mention of Altantuya as Abdul Razak's "interpreter".
"So the government cannot deny the link," he said.
Malaysia paid RM6.7 billion in 2009 for the dual submarines of that RM574 million was earmarked for co-ordination as well as await services for Perimekar Sdn Bhd, owned by Abdul Razak.
Abdul Razak is being sought as the witness in the French case.
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